Arrgghh!!

Busy, busy, busy - I'll be back with a proper post soon I promise!!

Bit and bobs!

Now when I opened this window to write a post I had a wonderful idea for what I was going to write - now I've completely forgotten!! That's what waking up at 6.15am does for you - not voluntarily I hasten to add!

Well I'll have to see if I remember and if not then I will add the other little bits I'd thought of. Here's a prototype chicken Christmas decoration I have made. I'm not sure if I will use the same fabric but the size is about right for what I want. And they are quite easy to make too although a little fiddly!

I'm also thinking of joining in with crafting 365. This is where (can you guess!) you craft everyday and take a photo of what you have made that day and then you can upload your photo's to the flickr group and if you have one, post details on your blog. I was inspired by Bugs and Fishes and I think Bombus has started to do it too! So I would be in good company! I'm not going to start yet though as I need to crack on with some stuff that isn't very interesting and I'm away for a couple of days so no photographs! I think it would be good though as I would have the motivation to do something everyday as I can't be posting shabby photos can I?

Oh I was also featured in another Etsy treasury the other day - this one was for recycled gifts and I was in good company!

My egg box sewing kit was included and is second row down in the middle. The photo underneath is of a birdhouse made from children's old shoes - how fab is that!! If you want to see who made them then a few are in my favourites over on my etsy shop. And of course my treasury can be seen over in my Etsy Treasury Screenshots on Flickr!

Well I can't remember what I was originally going to blog about so there may well be another post later today although I do need to make part of my mum's birthday pressie!

Especially for Samuel!

This post is just for Samuel - although anyone else can comment of course!

Ducks in Centre Parcs, Cumbria


More ducks from Cumbria

These are exotic ducks from Hawaii. We took this photo when we were there a couple of years ago.

Hope you enjoy Samuel :)

Lazy day!

Well we have had the laziest Sunday ever!! We had a bit of a lie in this morning til 7.15 - so not much but others with children will probably relate! Matt cooked a delicious breakfast for us - sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, baked beans and toast - yum yum! We played with the girls this morning and I listed some more things on Etsy. A couple more knitting needle bracelets are up there and a new paperweight chicken.

I also updated the items I have on Dawanda and have added listings in both French and German. My knowledge of German is none existent and I know a little bit of French - enough to know if the sentence look like it is making sense anyway! I used babelfish to translate the listings so I hope they make sense! I wasn't sure that translating my listings would help but the one I translated a couple of months ago has had lots more views than the ones I hadn't. I've decided that when I make things I will make 2 of everything (if that's possible) so that I have one for Etsy and one for Dawanda.

I managed to make two commissioned chickens (apart from the zips and eyes!) - one as a birthday present for a very cute baby who will be 1 and one for a Christmas present for someone! Pictures once the recipients have seen them!

Oh and the reason it has been a very lazy day is that we are all still in our pajama's!! The girls are going in the bath in a minute and getting into clean pajama's before tea and then Matt and me will go in the shower later.

Have a nice rest of Sunday everybody!

Tired, tired,tired!

I was just getting into the swing of posting regularly on here and now I'm getting that 'plurgh' blogging feeling! I think it's because I am tired - the girls have been waking up often in the night and very early in the morning - little minx's! So I'm leaving you here with a big shout out for the England Rugby team - and as a tribute I have created an Etsy Treasury specially.

The link is here just in case you want to see it in all it's glory too. I'm not too sure how long it stays live after the treasury has finished so I will have to check back and make sure it doesn't take you to a dead page!

I have a couple of custom orders to do this week so hopefully I will back with those soon.

Corners of my house

I've been meaning to show off my downstairs loo for a while now and I got round to taking some photo's the other day. When we moved in it was quite a dark area and very boring - most loo's are! So we decided to brighten it up by following the lead of my friend Jennie who has postcards in her loo - we decided to ask people to send the tackiest postcard they could find though so it's turned into a kitsch downstairs loo!

Also resident in our downstairs loo is this lovely lady! She guards our toilet roll! I spotted her at a car boot sale and just had to have her - Matt doesn't like her but I do. I'll have to try and find one for the bathroom soon!!

Here's a close up of some of the photo's. My sister brought the one of King Kong back from her trip round the US. The donkey's kissing came back from Cyprus with us a few years ago. And I'll bet you can guess where the surfing kangaroo is from! Again my sister brought it back from her travels.

Bits and bobs

I'm busy at the moment working on a wholesale order - nearly half done and it needs to be sent off at the end of this week/start of next. I'm hoping that the postal strikes aren't going to happen again this week although I do have the option of delivering it myself if it comes to that! I'm going upstairs in a sec to sew some more and I'm hoping that Tara likes being up there - tough if not really!!

Here's a couple of exciting things that happened at the weekend - we went out to lunch at Pizza Hut! Not superbly exciting but it was nice to go out, and of course I got dressed up! I've joined a group on Flickr called 100% Thrifted and as you might be able to guess from the title, your outfit for the day has got to be 100% thrifted - apart from underwear and socks/tights. I can't really do it during the week because I am rubbish at taking photo's of myself with timers or in mirrors etc so it's going to have to be left to the weekends when Matt can take photo's. So anyway here is my 100% thrifted outfit!

The dress is from a charity shop in town called Only Foals and Horses - I saw it on the rack and squealed out loud. And it was only £2! The jacket was given to me by one of my housemates at uni - she was throwing it out but I wouldn't let her! The shoes were from my friend Jennie and they used to belong to her mum. Her mum wore them to a garden party at Buckingham Palace so my shoes have been in the presence of the Queen!

My second bit of exciting news is that I got into another treasury over on Etsy! It was a thank you treasury done by Shunklies - I bought one of her items in the past year. It was actually my first item purchased on Etsy! Here is a screenshot I captured and of course it has gone into my Etsy treasury group on Flickr!!

Did you spot the chicken?? Off to sew now so hopefully there will be some pictures of finished stuff soon!

New things on Etsy

Well yesterday it seemed that I took about 400 photo's of the stuff I had made for the craft fair that isn't yet in my shop. Some of it has slowly been trickling up onto Etsy so here is what's new over there.

One of my chicken paperweights - more are being uploaded this afternoon and I will be making more from new fabrics soon. I like making these as they don't have zips and are easy to finish off while watching tv. I quite like this photo too.

Here's a collection of knitting needle bracelets that are all ready to go up onto Etsy - only the red one that's at the start of this post is up on there at the moment but again more are coming soon!

I've also uploaded a few more of my egg box sewing kits. I love these as they are so much fun to make and I love choosing which little sewing bits to go into each one.

Goodies!

Now I know I promised a post about Ikea goodies but I'm afraid that will have to wait as when we got back from Ikea there was a parcel waiting for me on the doorstep (stupid postman but that's another post.) Anyway I had a quick peek and it was my secret swap parcel!!!!!! I'd joined a secret swap over on Etsy and I've just posted mine out to my swapee this week. Anyway - I got a gorgeous, fabulous bag from lovealittle. These aren't my pictures - Jane from lovealittle took them and I'm glad as the ones I took in my kitchen were too dark and I just had to show off the bag. It's got a little owl on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I really didn't think it was possible to be in love with a bag but I am - just got to think of what to call the owl now! So a big thank you to Jane - it's fab!

Ok - you can have a little bit of Ikea stuff then! I bought lots of fabric (would you believe!) and I also got some great wrapping paper with gnomes on it! I like gnomes as well as birds! One day I'll have to take photo's of the ones in my garden.

Here's some photo's of the girls on their new chairs. My mum bought a chair for Anya but it has been climbed on and dragged round and it finally decided last week that it's leg wasn't going to stay on this time so it's gone to bin heaven!

I think Tara is pleased with her chair! Her sister, on the other hand is much more refined!

It's obviously a 'I'm nearly 4' pose!

And here's the picture that we had to take of the chairs on their own - they are quite bright and I'm not sure they will go in our Victorian house but nothing else does so why worry!

Off to do some crafting now!

Ikea!

Off to Ikea this afternoon!! Enough said!!

There will be a proper post later showing off the things I bought!! Meanwhile here's a picture of Anya wearing a very cute headband that I made for her from an old pillowcase! Well the edge part of the pillowcase to be precise!

Big Bo is wearing a headband made from the hem of a vintage dress! He has to be fashionable too!