Best Wishes for Christmas & New Year

I hope you had a lovely Christmas, and will have a Happy New Year.

We had a lovely time.  Mary and I made some biscuits on Christmas eve

and I had just enough icing sugar to decorate those meant for Father Christmas.

Our presents awaiting us on Christmas Day.

On Thursday 27th, we went to London to see Shrek the Musical which was brilliant, and even though we were on the very highest scary balcony seats it did not  diminish it. 

We also popped into Hamley's and Mary spent her Christmas money on a Build-a-Bear tiger. Back home our cardboard-box-loving-cat tried unsuccessfully to get into the tiger's box. She was so annoyed when she couldn't get through the small window.

 

 

 

Annoyed cat.

In Hamley's they have very impressive Lego statues and here is Mary and the Queen.

 

Beautiful Skies at Sunset

Saturday afternoon about 4pm, I was making mud pie in the kitchen (truthfully I was mixing Lush's Caca Rouge henna hair dye - you can see why it has that name.  In real life it is not as bad. Blame the flash for  bringing out all the most horrible in it). Don't worry - there are some nice photos after this yucky one.

I was there some time, and out of the window I had a lovely view of the changing skies as the sun set.

So I thought I would share with you.

There you see, I told you they would be nice.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday Sale

Pop over to my etsy shop where I am having a massive sale for Black Friday all though to Cyber Monday.

You can get a whopping 25% off everything. Just remember to quote BLACKCYBER when checking out.

Here are a few of the pieces you could be buying.

Having Fun With A Dog

I was very happy to be asked to try out some stamps from Stamps Direct.  Looking at the many wonderful stamps on their website, I thought it would be fun to have a stamp made for my daughter.

She loves dogs and so I drew a dog and Stamps Direct made it into a stamp.  So Mary and I could play.

We coloured in a few bits and added a smiley stamp to make a name tag.

 

Of course the dog doesn't have to be white. Here is is a spotty dog on a birthday card.

I used the stamp and normal pad to make a simple hanging ornament. For Christmas I might embroider in a Christmas hat and hang it on the tree.

 

I also used the stamp on a calico bag.  As this might want to be washed I used fabric paint.

  

We did have lots of fun and every time we use it more ideas come into our head.  I am planning to use the stamp again on fabric, perhaps on a cushion cover, and maybe embroider over it completely or pick out small details.

So pop over to Stamps Direct and see what you can find. 

What a Run! The 5k Run

Waiting...

Running

Finishing

Hugs at the end

Victorious!

Pigs in Tweed

In my last post you saw one of my new pocket pigs, so tiny they sit happily on top of a cotton reel, or in your pocket. Here are all of them, so far:

They are all made from the same pattern (my own) but due the the different fabrics and their own innate pigginess, they have different looks and character.

Green pig is quite slim and perky.

As the oldest, Brown and Mustard Pig is a bit wise.

Purple Pig is a bit plump and frivolous.

All pigs are available now in my etsy shop.  

Same but Different

I was lucky enough to be given some tweed and there were two colours that I love working with. So much so that I have made different things out of them:

Available from my etsy shop now.