3 more days!

Only three days left at work, then I'm off for the summer! Please could I have 28 hour days, cos I've got so much planned!!!! I promise to take loads of photos and be a really good blogger!! (Hmmmmm!!)

Oh my!!!

Goodness me, where oh where did June go??

I have nine days left at work! Gulp! but I am SOOOOO looking forward to the holidays!! I have so much planned but I bet we do less than half of it!! I cannot wait to get back to my sewing machine! (hmmm, sez she who don't sew!!) I am bursting with ideas! Well, thats now of course, just wait til I have some free time, ho ho!! OK, onward and upward, how many hours is nine days?????? ;-)

Here is a LO I did at last weeks crop using Mays bloom kit from Crafty feeling. I've managed to upload it at last!!!

OK, so its been a few days!! I still have no time at all, but I have been moving my craft room and although I cannot find a single thing at the moment, it will be so nice to have a place for everything!! It may even encourage me to get on and actually do something for a change!!! If the weather at the weekend is as bad as forecasted, it might even get finished, so I will defo post some piccies!! Hey, a challenge for me!! LOL!! One I should be able to manage.

Hiya

Hey, I'm back again, still with nothing exciting to say, but I'm here!!! LOL!!

Back to work this week, ho hum, even less time to spare again, but the girls are enjoying going to the childminders, much more fun than boring old mum!!! (Much more expensive too!!)

At least the weather has been wonderful, I saw the bottom of my washing basket for the first time in months this weekend, didn't last long tho'! Its so much easier to fling your clothes in the basket than fold and put away isn't it!! Kids, huh!!

Well, I'll try to get some creating done, you never know, I might even get some photos in the next few days. Don't hold your breath !!! :)

Yayhay

Well, I've made it back today, whoopee!!! Not done much today, just finishing off the girls "Big Bedroom Tidy" almost done, as least you can see the floor now!! LOL!! I'm going to go & do a scrapbook layout now, I have spent enough time doing things for everyone else, so a spot of Me time is in order!!

Oh my!!!

How can five months have gone by, surely there must be some kind of mistake!!! Where did Christmas go? and is it spring already??

On a more serious note, my Nan died just after Christmas and so we have been doing a lot of sorting out and work has been just crazy! I do not have two minutes together, I seem to be running to keep up with myself and just want to sit and veg at the end of the day!!! No good at all and totally not me.

Well, I don't promise to keep up with my blogging, but it won't be five months again, promise!!:)

More sewing

Well, I've recovered from the weekend and all that scrapping! I'm now sewing like mad for a Christmas Fayre next Sunday! I've made three hats today, (how I don't know - amazing what you can do in ten minutes here and there when you try!!) so I'm really chuffed. Onward and upward, I'm just cutting out some different fleece to make two more, but I really must get on with some bags. I have to say, bags are hard going at the mo!, but who knows what tomorrow will bring!!!

On that note, I'm off, see you soon!

Hmm

I'm way too tired to work out why those pics are hanging off the edge, so I'll just load them again!!



















The only problem is where to put all these LOs, I've run out of album space! Santa, are you listening??!!

Cyber crop

My DD recovered and went to school (not without protest!) so I didn't get my day, but this weekend has been the Wicked cyber crop on UKS, based on the Wizard of Oz. I am extremely proud of myself 'cos I did most of the challenges and several classes. I have made 12 LOs altogether AND a fantastic mini book from a class by Annette (Voodoo Vixon)!

(Jayne'll kill me for using that photo!!! LOL)

I am so completely scrapped out for now, but I've had a really good weekend!! Many thanks to my family for behaving and for feeding me (for a change!) Love ya!!!!

Not much news.

Well, I've made some stone chip bracelets but have not finished the beaded bauble! (no surprise there!) but I do have the excuse that I ran out of thread!

One of my daughters is poorly this evening, and I have the horrible feeling that I'm not going to make it to work tomorrow, which I have to say is quite disappointing (I am beginning to love my job - there is never a dull moment and time flies! The only down side is not having enough time for doing "my things!") You never know, there could be a silver lining, I might get something done tomorrow.

Watch this space!!! Ha ha!

November already!!

Oh no, again, I can't believe time is passing sooooo quickly, November already!!

Well, I have settled into my job and I'm just beginning to start to make things again, even tho it is very slow!!! I have actually managed to complete a scrap page this month and today I have started to make a beaded bauble for Christmas. (Only because a friend phoned me to ask if I'd like to share a table with her at a Christmas Fayre!!! Whoops, I've not much to sell!!!) Anyway, my craft room is finished and I now have a clear table on which I can leave things to complete when I have five minutes!!

I will try to be a better blogger in future and attempt to update more regularly, not leave it for another month!!!

Oh no!!!!

I cannot believe that I've been so lax!!! No blogs since the beginning of October!!

Well, I've found a part time job but it is more or less school hours, so I've no free "me " time anymore!!! Hopefully when I get back in the swing of things I'll start sewing again, I miss it so much!!! (Ha ha, for one that doesn't do sewing !!!)

And........

.....another cushion cover! This one has the same fake suede on the back and a dolphin fat quarter that I bought AGES ago to make Katie a cushion cover!!! Yay, done it at last!!!! (How many years did it take?!?!)

Teddy one!!

A teddy keyring made for a birthday pressie!! Hope she likes it, took longer to sew than a big bear!!!! Very fiddly but very sweet!

Here is a LO made with Jaynes fabulous kit, love it this month although I'd never think to put these colours together, they really work well!
The journalling reads "Every year we plant pumpkin seeds, just for Halloween Jack O'lanterns. Last year was awful, the plants did not grow at all. This year, although the little things took a while to get started, at least we will have some "mini" jacks for the front doorstep."





I really must get on and do some more sewing; there is a purse and a tote bag to be made by Thursday and the material is sitting behind me waiting to be cut!! I'm also going to hook out some old teddy pattern books and see if I can adapt some patterns for material, not fur! Don't think my lovely machine would be very happy to sew fur fabric at the moment - I'll need to treat it to bigger needles I think!!

More pencil cases.

I've had some requests for boys pencil cases, so here we are!!

Navy Seal, Desert Storm and Camo, no less!! (Good old Fabricland!) One problem, they need edging by the zip, so I've hooked out some twill ribbon. I think I need bias binding, but I've NO idea how to use it!!

I also found some gorgeous fake tiger skin, so that one is in the process of being made!! Pics to follow when its complete, of course!

Look what I've made!!

I'm feeling very chuffed today, I've figured out how to make a zipped purse! - Pics at the bottom. (Recognise the material Jayne?)

Here are some pictures of some bags I've made recently, too! The blue one is reversable. (Thank you Olive, for showing me how!!)

Right, back to the machine to make some more purses, whoopee!!!

Phew!!

I'm here!!! After a weekend of decorating and having the living room (and house) in turmoil, we are actually getting somewhere and starting to get things back in their right places. We had no intention of starting the painting just yet, but, so typically of our family, dashed straight ahead. I have to say, it does look great and so very clean and its only taken us four years to get around to!!!

Apart from that, although I seem to have had a chaotic week, I've got nothing done, so a very boring blog, I'm afraid!! Hopefully next week, I'll be back to normal and will have more news!!!

A catch up.

Two layouts using Jayne's September kit (www.craftyfeeling.co.uk).

Ah, phone call catch ups and general tidying today, booo-rrrring, but necessary! (Might sneak off later to make another cushion cover, though!)