Pincushion Swap part 1

I entered a pincushion swap organised by Claire the other week and my swap parcel arrived on Saturday :) I was partnered with Lisa and I love the goodies I got.

First up is this very cute mouse pincushion - the girls have already tried to claim it but I said no! He is quite small and so is the perfect size for living in my sewing box :)

Lisa likes quilting (check out some fab work on her blog) and so she has passed this pattern onto me. I don't really like patterns (I find most of them tricky to follow) and have never made a 'proper' quilt before but this pattern looks like it might be fairly easy to follow. I also like that it is scrap friendly :)

Some yummy ribbon that will come in very handy - check out the cute frogs!

A set of alphabet stamps. I have some already that I use quite a lot and these ones are different so will get used lots too :)

And I needn't say more really need I? Those girl ones in the middle are going to be saved for something special.

Thanks Lisa and thanks Claire for organising it! I have sent my return parcel to Lisa but I sent it a day late and now it will be caught up in flights delayed by the volcano - it is on it's way Lisa I promise. I'll show off what I sent when I know it has arrived.

Remember the chickens?

The ones from my creative space on Thursday? I got most of them done :)

I couldn't finish them all - I need to keep some in my sewing box for when I go to my friends for cups of tea and chats. Can't have idle hands now can I? :)

Colourful

We like colour in this house and our trip to the post office the other day was no exception. I wish I had asked the girls to move the pushchairs so you could see the colourful tights and shoes but you will just have to imagine purple, green, white, pink and yellow tights with pink and silver shoes.


And of course I had to get in with the action :)

Vote for me!

Yep it's another of those 'please vote for me' blog posts - look away now if you don't like them! I am a member of the Crafting In Colour team and every month they have a themed challenge - this month it was pastels. You can make something special for it or use something that is already in your Etsy shop - I chose the latter.

I entered one of my egg box sewing kits - in pastel colours naturally! You can vote for me here - I'm number 9 :D

Creative Space

My creative space today is all about my sewing box.

I sorted it out and tidied it up while I was at my mums (I even hoovered the bits of fluff and thread out of it!)

I counted and I have 3 chicken doorstops that need zips sewing in and 11 chicken pincushions which need filling with rice and sewing up (3 of those need eyes too) So no prizes for guessing what I will be doing today :)

Go and check out what other creative spacers are doing over at Kootoyoo.

Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep!

We had a fun time today when we went to visit Nana (my mum) at work just before she finished for the day. She had told the girls that there were some chicks (1 week old) that we could look at and here they are.

They are now too big for the box they are in and were due to be moved to the farm so we got there just in time to see them. Cue much excitement from the girls when Nana said that they could hold a couple too :)

We also got to see some large aquariums that were full of fish so the girls were very happy :) My mum works in a care home btw - just in case you were wondering!

Some new stickers

Two new sets of stickers in my Etsy shop. Both recycled of course :)

A set for someone who likes quilts - I had great fun going through my extensive lot of books for this set!

And a set of London underground stickers. More to come soon once I have edited the photographs!

Mega chicken sale!!

I have reduced my clearance chickens to a very low $9 - that's less than half price folks! They are all one off chicken doorstops and there are only 6 to choose from so get over to my Etsy shop quick smart!

Here are 3 of the chickens :)

Craft Matters

New banner alert on my side bar! If you want to make Craft Count then head over here for your own banner and read up about what the crafts council are doing. Lets make Craft Matter.

Seen over on Perri Lewis' blog.

What do you get?

When you cross a bottle of glue with two tubs of glitter?
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A very messy girl!