THE NECK OF IT

Back to the sewing machine for this post. I adore this pattern from Tone Finnager, Super Cute don't you think.

 I've been making quite few things recently and my office space is filling up fast.  I need to find new homes for them so I'm going to try my hand at selling them on eBay over the next few weeks.  I've had orders for these and some teddies, pigs and chickens from people at work which is fab so hopefully they'll sell so I can make some more!

 

Working on some chickens now, will share when finished!.

HEART OF THE HOME

Hi

Finally got on line and uploaded some pics today, only took 17 minutes to upload these three!  I purchased some new stamps recently and this is the first chance to try them out.  They are from PTI.  I apologise for the quality of the pictures, the weather is terrible today and its so dark outside.

A few close ups...

 

Hope you're having a great day, nearly the weekend folks!

HELLO

Hi

Its been a long while I know, but I have not had much chance to do anything worthy of a post recently.  My new job is pretty full one at the moment, a lot of new stuff to learn plus my internet is driving me totally nuts!  Its sooooo slow and takes an age to upload anything.  We live in one of many 'forgotten' areas where an ad on the TV banging on about BT Super Fast Fibre Optic Broadband makes you want to throw something at the telly - we can't even get basic, stable broadband let alone superfast fibre optic!

Anyhoo, I hope to be able to get something uploaded soon to share with you.  Please bear with me - I'll be back soon!!

Another card to give me chance to play with some more new stamps I bought.  This one uses one of the many designs in this collection by Clear Dollar Stamps called Home Tweet Home.  There are so many cute images I can't wait to use them all.

I used some patterned papers by s.e.i. and they are embossed and gorgeous to use.  

Twine is from Waltzing Mouse and is a lovely rich brown colour.

Have a great evening.

HEY CHICKIE

A quickie post to share a card I made up this morning using some new stamps and dies I purchased recently.

Stamp images by  Paper Smooches called Chubby Chumbs 

and fence die is by Die-namics and is called Woodgrain fence.

I rubbed over the fence die with some brown chalks to show the grain a bit more and added 

some glitter to the eyes.  Coloured using Copics and Prisma pencils.

Weather here today is fab so intend to make the most of it this afternoon!  Have a good weekend.

ITS BEEN A WHILE BUT...

Sorry its been a while since I last posted.  Its been a little crazy here.  I was at my nieces wedding in Surrey last weekend so was away for a while, then I had a job interview on Tuesday last week, got the job and started Monday this week.  I feel like I'm running a marathon at the mo, I just haven't stopped!

Its all good though but I am finding it hard to make time to do anything remotely crafty soooo,  I am popping in to share a little project I completed a few weeks ago.

 I put this wee lady together using an adapted bit of a Tilda template and a bit of my own template - it was actually supposed to be a sheep but the face element of it (my own pattern) turned out a little too long in the face so I made her a cow instead!  I think it worked :)

The dress was an enlarged Tilda pattern and I just added sleeves to the arms to ring the changes a bit.

These little shoes took me AGES to do and were a bit of pain so I very much doubt 

I will attempt to do them again!

I hope to be able to post something again very soon but I am struggling a bit at the moment to spend any quality time getting things done.  Bear with me - I will be back - soon!

Have a great evening all.

KITCHEN PICS

Nothing creative to share today but I said I would show a few pics of our new kitchen and now that I can upload them, here they are.

The BEFORE shot...  

The kitchen we inherited when we moved in.  Pretty old and falling apart (none of the doors closed properly and I hated the floor and wall tiles!) BUT at least it was clean and tidy.  I painted the walls before any work started, one because originally it was bright, bright yellow and two to hopefully save a bit of time when the new kitchen was fitted..

DURING...

We thought we'd be OK on the electrics front, just a few sockets to be moved but once the kitchen was out, we found wires coming out of everywhere and these all had to be taken sorted.  We needed a few more sockets added and a new lighting fitted so this took a while and slowed things down bit.

THE FINISH ARTICLE...

I wanted a painted wood finish in cream and this one suited perfectly.  

I just LOVE the whole thing, especially my new range cooker. 

My sewing machine got some use too when I made the Roman blind for the kitchen window in material to match wallpaper I am using on one wall in the dining room which opens out from the kitchen so it all ties in together.

Catch up with you soon, thanks for popping in to see me.

CHRISTENING WISHES

I was asked to make up a card for a Christening so here is what I came up with....

It was only after I had finished it did she mention that she is the godmother.  I could not adjust the front of the card without ruining it so I just made mention on the inside instead.

KIDDIE TAGS

Hi All

Finally got my dongle through the other day and after a bit of fiddling about we have got it working and I can now upload some photos.  A bit slow but at least I can do it now.

I am off to London tomorrow for my niece's wedding at the weekend and I wanted to share with you a few of the last bits I have done to take with me.

All the menu's and name cards are done but there are several little ones coming who obviously don't need a menu with their name on it.  My sister has got a load of bags which we're going to fill with little gifts for each child (little colouring books, crayons, juice drink etc) and I decided to make up a little tag for each bag with their names on it.  There are seven in total....

I used the label die from PTI and the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge to make all the little animals.  Some googlie eyes and a bit of glitter really brought them to life.  All ready to be tied to the bags.

My niece wanted to use purple as her colour theme and luckily I had some left over ribbon and card stock from the wedding I did last year who also used purple so I did not have to buy too much more to make up all her invitations.

Here is the table plan now that its all completed.  Butterflies are the other major element of the scheme and each table is named after one...

I used a Spellbinder die for the two butterflies on the top of the plan and mounted each on to a piece of purple vellum using a solid die to match.  The dies are from a collection called Papillions.

I bought the pearl and diamond broaches from a local jewellery makers outlet and used one on the table plan and one on the wedding post box.  These are soooo gorgeous I am going to have to ask for them back once the wedding is over!

Well thats its for now.  As I will be away for a week, I will be scheduling the next few posts until I get back.

Enjoy the bank holiday weekend everyone in the UK.  Here's hoping that we'll get to see some sun for a change!  It has rained every day in Wales for the last 3 weeks (one and off). I am almost transparent I am so pale!

AN UPDATE

Its been a while since I last posted I know.  We are have having terrible problems with our internet connection (its virtually non existent where we live now, the down side of living in the sticks I suppose) and although I can get online, its soooo slow, I am struggling to get pictures uploaded.  We are waiting for a new dongle to arrive (today I hope!) which promises to be better than we have at present so fingers crossed, things will speed up a bit and I can get back to normal.

We've finally got our kitchen fitted and I have my office back (almost).  It was full of boxes and furniture for the fitters to be able to get all the new kitchen bits in.  I'll be back soon with some new posts so please keep checking back.

Hope you all having a great day.

take care