Nearer to being finished!

 I "coloured in" the anchor...looks OK but I don't think I would sew it again...just not as appealing as the swallow   . 
Added light pink highlights onto the rose- cuckoo,    you were right about the pink!( cannot get this text next to the rose pic- I make things, excuse the techno idiocy!)

 Made some bracelets for my sister...well made the ones on the right for her birthday, and repaired the ones on the left cos she is rough with them!lol

 Carved beads- perhaps cinnabar beads- given to me (in a bag of broken bits and bobs) by a lovely neighbour. I needed a plain red necklace for wearing with red and navy clothes- I like it and that it is recycled.

 Rather a treat to have these fab softly faceted BIG tiger eye beads to reuse( given by my best friend) . I am not one for fussing with natural beauty, so a few frosted glass seed beads and I was done. Might wear it with a plain dark brown dress I have( £2.50 from a charity shop- result!)

More pearls for my pearl obsessed sister- just basic stringing but it was what she wanted...the customer is always right- especially when you are related!





I am working on some new ideas for potentially selling at a local shop- might go quiet until they are ready.TTFN

Wow busy busy

I love my volunteer roles, I really do...but sometimes there is a chunk of reading to do!

But there has been lots of crafting..in fact here is finished jewellery making, next to abandoned embroidery , and cards made into gift boxes!

Oh and cake of course! My new colours- they said to use 1g for a 1kg cake...how do you measure 1g of thick syrupy food colouring? Well clearly I didn't, but it is less than a blob on the handle of a teaspoon! ha ha

Stitched tattoos

I fancy a tattoo update- mine is 17odd years old and looking a bit tired, but finances can't justify it at the moment so what is a girl to do? STITCH ONE! OK on fabric, not me but still- this is ongoing but a peak now is called for I think.

 I am most pleased with the swallow- it did take most of the day though

I am going to add some white ...or maybe pink as highlights for the rose- what do you think?

Hyperbolic crochet

Sounds medical doesn't it? It is rather therapeutic! I am sure you will find it if you do a search but basically you do 2 (UK)dc's into every stitch after starting a crochet circle. I didn't understand the instructions- thought something was missed out- but watch how it grows!

This picture shows the crochet (straining to see/guess) about 4 rows in- just about starting to curl at the edges.

 These next ones are just one more row each- hard to believe and a tad hard on your fingers towards the end!

 I stopped there but you can stop where you like


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I made a little brooch out of embroidery thread to go with an outfit- dark brown in the middle, and teal just on the last row.

I completely love it- I mean the technique not my own work!

PS my "h" key is sticking- sorry for any mistakes and how do I fix it??

My plants don't know it is December!

OK, I am sure it must be mid December; I mean my living room looked like this( above)

Now it looks like this!
BUT my garden seems to disagree-

 Lettuces?? I mean, they did nothing all summer- why now?

 Sweet peas still in full growing mode- even got a ( admittedly singular) flower from it.

Yet parts of the garden are dying down enough for the annual ball retrieval exercise!

Yet a few days later and I believe it is December! ha ha . My new camera has this cool panoramic thing- good job it is point and click... I am not so technical!

Tree make

It is not what I would call a tutorial- just a simple thing I made , partly because I have bought the world's biggest bag of mixed sequins, but also because we have had a winter vomiting bug, so I needed something to do between boys being sick, yet nothing in any way taxing, due to lack of sleep!

Cut out 2 trees from felt, gather thread, sequins( baubles) and eyelash yarn( tinsel).

Couch( sew on yarn with fine thread ) on the eyelash yarn- I put mine zigzagged across like tinsel. I feel sure you could hot glue this on too.

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Sew on sequins as baubles- beads would work too- whatever is to hand. Once again hot glueable I feel sure.

And repeat on the other tree.You could be clever and couch the yarn so it matches up each side to look like it is continuous...or not like me!

 I used fairly uneven running stitch round the edge because I had not had enough sleep to bother with blanket stitch! I was awake enough to remember to leave a gap for the stuffing though.

And stuff- did you see that stage coming? I think I gave it away after the previous pic!

Sew up the left-open-for-stuffing edge. Oh ,I sewed a star( sequin) at the top once it was together- this makes it easier when you are sewing round the edges.I also sewed on a loop at the top for hanging, red yarn was to hand, but ribbon or whatever you fancy/suits your colour scheme would work

DONE- easy huh? I reckon not too young kids would be able to manage this too.

Cooeeeey!

Well here I am again, because I have a new camera! OK that is out of my system, I will show you what I have been doing , through the language of pictures from my new camera( did I mention that already? lol)

 Quiche! The filling was delicious -if I say so myself- but the pastry- eurgh! I just can't get the hang of wheat free pastry .

 So my daughter put me straight as to why gingerbread man (R) is wrong...they don't have waists...I should have just asked her rather than ransacking my biscuit cutters!

 Fun little tree decoration using felt, sequins and eyelash yarn- show you more another day.

Gingerbread man decoration ,buttons felt and embroidery thread...and I did trim that wonky hand bit- just not before I took the picture!