Soggibottom Giveaway!!!!!

My friend Soggibottom is having a giveaway of two of her adorable Dartmoor Hares......

Picture stolen from Soggibottom

The giveaway it up until June 1st, 2013 so go over and take a wee peek:)

I've also put a button on my sidebar just as a reminder.

Take care:)

Chuckie is back:)

I'm very happy to see my old friend Chuckie the woodchuck back again this year.

He does such an excellent job eating up all the fruit that those nasty squirrels pick and drop from our apple and pear trees.

Here he is visiting our next door neighbour's garden today. As you can see he's not much bothered by the fact that four people are standing there looking at him......he's keeping an eye on us though:)

He's about the size of our female cat Deva but a lot more heavier I'm sure. 

Spring must be here finally:)

Here's a really lovely black and white picture my son took of Deva recently.....she is a diva.

Take care.

Another Giveaway Win.....

I mentioned a while back that I had won another blog giveaway and it arrived today!!!!!

It's from Alix who has a lovely blog called "Used-to-Bees". 

I love redwork embroidery and when I saw this giveaway I had to put my name down.


A lovely little pocket sized book full of simple easy motifs...very sweet:)

A French needlecraft magazine full of some absolutely gorgeous projects for cross stitch and embroidery......it has charts, patterns and even full size iron on transfers inside.

 

And, as an extra special surprise treat......the most adorable needle case made by the very talented Alix......it is so lovely:)

Big Ben. the London Eye and a London double decker bus:)

The front is a piece of very fine linen and look at the fabric she used on the back.....I love it:)

 

 

Am I lucky or what?...and spoiled....LOL

I must go make myself a cup of tea now and take a good look at my new magazine:)

Take care. 

Happy Mother's Day!

To all of my Bloggy friends who celebrate Mother's Day today:)

I have only two or three pictures of me and my mum.  I think I'm about 2 1/2  in this picture. It  was taken in Streatham, London, England.

I always wore red shoes when I was little:)

My mum lived to be 90 and passed away very suddenly on December 30, 2003. I wonder what she would have thought about blogging. I know she would have loved Pinterest:)

Take care.

I Won A Giveaway.....

I was very lucky to win some lovely hand dyed threads from Lorraine Stobie over at Creative Daily,

I used my Ott-Lite to take a picture as it is bucketing rain here at the moment:)

way too dark:(

I really couldn't get a good picture of the colour mixes....go over here...you can really see the lovely colours much better. 

This was a very timely win as I'm just starting to learn how to do Crazy Quilting and I'm also taking a course with Sharon Boggon of Pintangle.com called "Sumptuous Surface Embroidery".

The thing is though.....they are so pretty so I may just look at them for awhile before I use them....LOL

I'm really having a lucky streak at the moment. I also won another lovely giveaway but I'll save that for another day:)

Take care. 

I bought a new book....

I've decided that I know absolutely zero about crazy quilting. I have looked at various blogs and videos and such but I still think that maybe I need a bit more help...so I bought this.....

Allie Aller's "Crazy Quilting"

Amazon.ca

Specially if I was going to do this doll any justice......

Source

I have moved bits of fabric around here and there and yuck....I have definitely missed the plot somewhere...LOL  I hate wasting lovely fabrics so I decided that before I do it anymore I needed to get more help.

I had seen Allie's work in the past and liked what I saw and then I found her blog......Allie's In Stitches.

It would be fun to take a workshop with her but the book looks pretty good too.

It arrived today:)

It's a very wet day....April showers....a perfect day to cuddle up with a lovely new book.

WIP.....

I have just finished this bed for a doll class I'm taking called The Princess and the Pea.......

Now to make the Princess.

Take care:)

Hello!!!!!

I know.......I haven't been here for awhile.  I have been busy making dolls though.

I managed to get this ridiculous flu/cold thingy that went on and on and on. I have finally stopped coughing most of the time. I've gone for a couple of days now without much hacking and I'm sleeping again at night.

I emailed someone recently and she wanted to know why I was sending her mail at 3 o'clock in the morning. Well if you cough and cough and can't sleep what else is there to do?

Silly woman.....sheesh.

So......hello again and some news:)

Recently I was looking for some fabric to make this doll for an on line class called "Abundance" with the talented Angela Jarecki. As you can see she has a crazy quilted jacket....that's actually what attracted me most. I've always enjoyed embroidery and I've wanted to try crazy quilting so I figured why not:)

This is what I hope mine will look like......

Source: Whimsy Moon

So I went looking for fabric at various stores on Etsy and bought some from Dianem's Etsy Shop as she had some very nice crazy quilting bundles on sale that I thought I could use for this doll.

I'm also a follower of her blog and went over to see what was up and lo and behold she had a giveaway for a crazy quilting selection and guess what.......I won more FABRIC!!!!!!

I really couldn't believe it as I was the last person to put a comment.  I know I've said this before but I should really start buying lottery tickets.

So I received the package today and I thought maybe I'd share what I'd won......lots of pretties to play with........

That last piece is so beautifully crafted.......really lovely.

Take care:)

New sewing box...

I have a new sewing box....

It doesn't hold much though....it's only little:) I made it from a kit.

The kit came with all the material to make it.....

 

and, even an itty bitty pin cushion.

Cute:)

The Pony Dance