Craft fair!

Quick one this morning as I need to get organised! If you are in the Halifax area of the UK today then feel free to pop in and see me at the craft fair at Crossley Heath School.The address is The Crossley Heath School, Savile Park, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX3 OHG. The lovely Ruth of Tip Top Toppers will be there too :) I'll let you know how it goes later x

Hmmmmmm!

Well tonights post was going to include a treasury that I was going to get entitled A Riot Of Colour but it didn't happen as the treasuries went 20 mins earlier than they should have done due to people deleting their lists - boo. Ah well! I'm pretty much organised for the craft fair apart from a bit of tying off of threads on peg bags and maybe some chicken doorstops but we will see. Just printing off some lables as we speak (well I suppose you are listening but you know what I mean!)

No photographs today but I will treat you to another owl video :)

On my desk....on a Wednesday

I'm busy making things for the craft fair on Saturday but strangely I'm not at all stressed about it at the moment. I did however want to make sure I made some peg bags to take with me as lots of people have asked if I made them before at fairs. I'll bet no one wants one this time around!

That is them half made in the foreground of the picture - my dodgy sewing machine is in the background!

Some are vintage fabrics and some are reclaimed from the scrapstore - none are made from new fabrics :)

For more on my desk fun head over to see Kirsty.

Happy Birthday Anya!

Anya is 5 today!! It's hard to believe that we have gone from this when she was a few hours old,

To this

Happy Birthday gorgeous girl :)

Sorry - busy busy!

Really busy this week preparing for the craft fair so any crafty posts over here will be limited. I will however still be posting things so come back each day to see what other weird and wonderful things I have found for you!

Treasury

This is one I have made rather than one I have been featured in! I grabbed it this morning but have only had the chance to post it up tonight!

It's here if you would like to give it some love! Oh and if anyone reading this knows me in real life then I grabbed these things out of my favourites list - just in case you are looking for Christmas presents :)

Party girl!

Anya turns 5 on Tuesday but is having her parties this weekend as I have a craft fair next weekend :) Here she is dancing in her new fairy dress - it's blurry on purpose, honest guv ;)

And yes she is eating a lollipop.

I didn't really get time to take photo's during the party but I did get a couple at the end. I was too busy being the hostess (i.e. faffing around!)

This little chappie loved this costume ever so much - he tried to be scary but you can see one of his eyes peeping out. It's hard to be scary with eyes that cute.

Anya and Jacob - Ruth's younger son.

Anya and Samuel - Ruth's elder son.

And I would love to know what Samuel had just said to Anya - whatever it was it was funny!!

1 party down, 1 to go! At least tomorrows party is grandparents and aunties and uncles so hopefully not much spilt food on the floor for me to hoover up :)

Owl video

No time really to post properly today so here is another one of those funny owl clips! This one had me laughing for ages :)

The Scavenger Project!!

Eeeek - I'm excited about my new project! I have submitted some artwork to this project in America and one of my pieces (or at least one) will be published in a book!! You basically got a list of things and had to come up with something to represent the things on the list. My eyes lit up when I spotted number 24 - chicken!! This is what I submitted for that one.

You also had to email a random photo to them so I sent in this one.

One of the things on the list was 'In my past life I was' so I had to include 'Pretty In Blue'.


And the last thing I sent in (there were 24 things you could send in but I ran out of time!) was for the theme 'Childhood Memories'. It's a really gorgeous photo of the girls sitting on a tree stump enjoying a snack after a long walk in the woods when we were camping. Unfortunately I can't show it to you at the mo as it's in Matt's Flickr and I don't know the password!

On my desk....on a Wednesday

My desk today should have been the kitchen table that you can see here. I say should have been because I didn't actually do any of the work I'd intended as I spent most of the day sorting in the front room to get it ready for the weekend when Anya is having 2 birthday parties. Also Matt was feeling a bit better today so he sat in the front room and read the news stories out to me from BBC news whilst I was tidying. Yes we do know how to live!!!

So I was planning to turn that pile of cardboard into the backs for my gift tags and this was actually done whilst I was cooking tea - good multi-tasker me!

These gift tags need photographing and stringing but this didn't get done today.

My paper trimmer needs fixing and then those lovely pages of nursery rhymes can be turned into envelopes - again that didn't happen today but I'm hopeful for sometime this week. Although I'm sure on Friday they will be bundled into a box and hidden from guests view in our bedroom!!

Find more lovely 'on my desk' players over here.