Here is the card that my mum got. It was made by Ruth and I love that you can just give her a rough outline of what your recipient likes (in my mums case charity shops and beer!) and she comes up with fabulous, fabulous cards. Thanks Ruth - my mum loved it and so do I!
We made up this mosaic and had it printed on a large canvas for my mums birthday as she is a big family person and loves her grandaughters (and daughters!) to pieces. She has just got to decide where to hang it :)
This is the slide which looks to be very popular!
The caterpillar see saw looks fairly popular too! Apparently it is going very quickly as you can see by the peoples hair :)
And finally we have the ladybird ride.
If you look at the first picture you can see the carrot swing off to the right hand side - she'd eaten carrots for lunch! All I can say is that she has a vivid imagination!
One set is on Folksy, one set is on Etsy and one set is due to go on Dawanda soon!
This one is called Blue Cats and Their Friend - can you guess who their friend might be? Yep - a cheeky chicken! This treasury was curated by Linda Boucher.
So a big thanks must go to Granny's Table - who also masquerades as I Sew Cute!
First up this red, black and white ones that was made by Nicky Bee Shop. You can see my Cheeky Chicken gift tags in there.
And then this pink one is by Fuzzy Dragons. My 60's flower power chicken doorstop is up at the top!
And then this yummy yellow treasury has been made by Tweed Delights. My Lego gift tags are at the bottom right.
I also managed to grab a treasury myself and I knew it had to be a crafting in colour team one as I have received a lot of love from the team recently. It's a spooky themed treasury :) And yes I am in it but only because I could only find 11 spooky things to put in it!
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All the elements of this are recycled/repurposed or somehow second hand (of course!). It's 12 cm x 12 cm so a fairly small piece although I am currently working on another larger piece. Here are some close ups of The Boy and His Dog.
It's currently on Etsy so go and take a peek for me :) And I would love to know what you think too.
Sorry for the very dodgy photo but it's late and I wanted to take a pic before they go off to the recipients tomorrow.
And as you can see I am featured in yet another treasury! Yeah!! Thanks to Always Amy :) The crocheted coasters are mine.
It's Anya's birthday on the 11th Nov so I am busy making invitations for it. She wanted fairies for the girls invites and pirates for the boys invites. Well fairies I can do easily as you can see and I do have some lovely pirate die cuts from this lovely lady but they are earmarked for boys birthday cards so she couldn't have any of them! I rummaged around and came up with cars but she didn't like them and then eventually I found some bats. Haven't got the foggiest idea what I am going to do with the bats but I'd better get my thinking cap on as one needs to go out tonight to the aforementioned lovely lady :)
This one features my electric blue chicken doorstop and was made by I Heart That! Dance.
And this one features Psychedelic chicken! It was made by Linda Boucher.
She was quite adamant that she wanted to wear a headscarf but wanted one of my brightly coloured 70's ones - I persuaded her to go for the brown one instead. She then picked up my basket , which lives in the kitchen, and said that because they wouldn't have had supermarkets, the ladies will have had to go to the market and that's what she was doing! And I'll bet she was glad of the headscarf this morning as there was an icy wind blowing on the way up to school this morning - brrrrrrr.
and The Shawshank Redemption.
And I have just watched Gallipoli whilst writing this.
Here are the girls with the big box full - they are looking quite scared for some reason!
And here is a peek inside the box - lots of yummy colours there and all sizes too. The lady I collected them from works for a card distributor and they pulp the cards after each season (Valentines, Christmas etc) and they were going to pulp the envelopes but they were saved - phew!!
*Edited on Sat morning.* Yeah - the pictures have come out now!! So this is what I will be sewing today although the in laws are popping over for a visit tomorrow so I might be tidying instead :)
First up my alien gift tags are in an alien themed treasury and you may notice that I am in good company :)
And then my striped cheeky chicken appears in a Crafting In Colour team treasury - yeah!! You may have guessed I have joined a new Etsy team. I'll be posting more about it soon. Back with peg bags tomorrow - if I get some sewing done tonight that is!
Did you spot Bandit Chicken lurking in there - she's trying hard to blend in but her yellow stripes are a bit of a giveaway!!
Chocolate swirly cupcakes and white swirly cupcakes - I'm famous at last!! And as the best before date is the 31st of Oct I really think I should get cracking on them just in case they start to go nasty - just in case though. It's for the cakes good really!!
And here's the link if anyone wants to know how to make a star!
This was the sneaky peek from the other day - a fab dress. It looks a little shapeless on the hanger but fits really well and has really cool sleeves. Perfect for doing the Birdie Song too! (N.B. the Birdie Song came on when we were in one of the charity shops and me and Daisie were trying desperately not to dance and we succeeded until we got back and I tried on this dress)
I also bought a cardi (surely not!) and it's really beautiful - the buttons are even covered in fine crochet too. And I fell in love with the tag too - Jupiter!
I also found this gorgeous blouse (it's my favourite thing from this trip). It's very swingy and I'll have to be careful to wear it with tighter fitting clothes on my bottom half otherwise I will look like a tent! It came with a matching skirt which will be worn in the summer time with a simple white vest I think! Even though I don't like wasps I really love the print on this top. The only problem is that it will need ironing and I don't iron at all :)
Although you can't see it very clearly in the photo, this dress is made of velvet and is fitted perfectly for my hourglass figure (well it's a pear shaped figure but hourglass sounds better!). The only problem with it is that hideous lace collar which will be coming off straight away. Also - it stinks! It came from one of the smaller charity shops (incidentally where I got my huge button stash from) and I don't think they have the resources (or money) to clean everything before it goes out. It's been through the wash once and is back in again as it still smells - not as badly but still a bit stinky!
