I don’t often make bags with metal frames but I’ve succumbed. What do you think? This is a brooch …. It’s been lousy light for photographing today – but if I wait for sunshine (or even daylight) it could be next spring before I get to share anything. This is made using Lacework and the [...]
Goodness. I always intended to have a giveaway when I reached 50 posts. A nice sort of milestone I thought and then what happens I’m so busy chatting about this and that, I missed it. Anyway what do you think of Hilda? I’m not quite sure what kind of thing she is but she makes [...]
Just in case you’ve lain awake at night wondering what a pile of thirty-ish yo-yo’s looks like. It looks like this… … tiny… tiny .. made the old fashioned way using a tin lid as a pattern. And then I didn’t have enough so I had to make even more…. bit of a miscalculation. Note [...]
In this part of the world it’s depressingly dark this morning. It’s raining the kind of rain that drenches you to the very bones and the leaves that aren’t superglued to the pavements and verges are being whipped up by the wind, curling and spiralling around and basically smacking you in the face. Yuk! Folk [...]
Look I won a giveaway .. Pretty, don’t you think. I won it from Christine Sews blog. She has just taken that brave step into selling her bag creations on her own website. Go take a look. The bag is made out of gorgeous upholstery weight fabrics which compliment each other perfectly. It’s lined with [...]
This is the boy, Arthur Raymond Peacock, who signed up for the Northamptonshire Reserves on his eighteenth birthday, 6th January, 1909, to serve his King and country. Certified copy of attestation – joining the Reserves for six years service. Arthur Edward Raymond Peacock This is the friend who had fun with his mates…. “we have [...]
Dearest husband does occasionally bring me presents….. little gifts of tenderness … an odd plum… a few grapes and his latest is this; Any ideas? It isn’t one of these lovely little lavender bags from here and it isn’t part of these fascinating kitchen diaries many of you are participating in at the moment. No. [...]
I’ve decided to extend the fabric sale for now and I’ve added other Rowan and Freespirit fabrics, which includes designers such as; Amy Butler, Kaffe Fassett, Valori Wells, Martha Negley, Joel Dewberry and others. I’ve also been busy adding some new patterns to the shop . .. there are these and these…. These patterns are [...]
Do you remember this ? Well, after I’d added all the names into the ‘bowl of possibility’, this is what popped out… So, congratualtions Andrea . It you e-mail me your address, I’ll get this sent off to you. … I really enjoyed this little swap so thanks for joining in and I know it’s [...]
