Hello February and hello little signs of Spring! I'm loving seeing the daffodil bulbs poking through as well as the snowdrops!
I did manage to finish a kit I got for Christmas, work on a bit of patchwork and made a Robin bird for my Seasonal Tree ... it didn't turn out quite how I wanted it to, but I think the problem was I sewed it with the sewing machine and I needed to have hand sewn it to get a more exact shape. I have also started on a blue tit, but undone the machine sewing and will re-hand sew it. I painted them on calico and have sewn on little eyes. Also with the Robin I should have done some stitching to show the wing and feathers better. I have seen some lovely pictures of friends and family creations in the last week and I am so inspired by them all.
What have you been making or finished so far this year? Please share, I'd love to see!
The boys are back at school today and the Easter holidays are over! I’m always sad when they head back, the house feels empty but I have a lot to catch up with and that is always easier when they are not around!
I haven’t been online much over the last couple of weeks so here is a little we have been up to … I have made a glasses case and some sweet bird hanging decorations.
Billy turned 10 on Easter Day!
We had a bit of a scare with our old boy… Timbers back is full of arthritis but he’s on medication to help with the pain and is almost back to his old self.
We managed a day by the sea that included fish & chips and ice cream.
Lots of Lego and Paw Patrol toys were played with.
… and I had a lovely weekend with my best friend at Wonderwool and made some cute bird decorations!
What have you been up to the last couple of weeks?
Hello, come in! Kettles on ... I am just giving the house a bit of a blitz before the weekend. Can you believe it's at last the end of January, I’m sure there have been about 63 days in January so far!!
Have you managed to start any of your 2025 projects? In recent years I’ve not been big on making New Years resolutions ... with kids still home for the the holidays, the 1st seems like a really bad time to start ... I much prefer a slow relaxed start to the year and instead have a few weeks after the boys go back to school to get myself acquainted with the new year and decide what we are going to achieve together then! This year I really want to focus on finishing off projects that I started and never finished! That includes crafts, decorating and the garden!!
Some of my half done crafts include a 2024 embroidery journal, a painting by numbers of birds, patchwork quilt for our bed, a knitted scarf, and hooking picture of sheep and a few cross stitch samplers.
I have finished the painting by numbers ... my first ever go at one, I thought it was cheating a bit at first but it was so relaxing to do, I really enjoyed it! I do feel like it needs more finishing detail, but the end is in sight so not bad for month one!!What are you making or planning in 2025?Hows it going? Please share and inspire us all x
Hi, come in ... stews on the stove if your feeling pecky ... smells good doesn’t it! I am just taking a few minutes to relax before picking up the boys later. I was wanting to share a really inspiring post for my first proper one since coming back to this space, but I have had quite a headache today and so I am just going to ask you to share what you have been up to in your home recently!
Our conservatory that we built about 6 years ago now, (I will show you it properly sometime ... We built it from a facebook marketplace find of a hexagon conservatory, but it has a solid ceiling) for a few years didnt have any curtains, then when my Gran died we inherited some that didn’t quite meet as there are some big windows!! ... About 4 years ago we bought the beautiful fabric, lining and curtain tape for me to make them ... I have made most of the curtains in our home (my mum made a couple of pairs) but making about 10+ large curtains seemed like such a big job to start that I just never did ... Until this last November ... I bit the bullet made a start ... 4 are competed and up and the rest are cut out and the tops done ... I put them away when we got the tree and decorations up for Christmas, but I really must get them back out and finish them!
So tell me and please share below the last thing you made for your home x
Anyone who knows me, knows I love my stationary and have always been a bit of a filofax girl!
A few years ago when Timber was a naughty puppy, he got hold of my home filofax and ripped off the band that went around it and left a few teeth marks. I always meant to replace it at some point, but they are not cheap, even second hand and so never got round to it.
On Sunday we had a quiet, cozy, snuggle up on the sofa kinda day and I managed to get a little sewing done and made a new slip on cover for it :)
I made a double sided strip and folded the 2 ends over to make pockets for the filofax cover to slip into.
I am loving it, it feels like a brand new filofax!!
a few years ago I made us a stocking each ...
his had dark green ribbon (above) and mine the same only with dark red ... well now billy-boy is here I have made him one too ... only his is grey and cream with little polar bears on it and I love it! I hope when he grows up, he will love it too :)
it has a narrower band at the top than ours and not so much frill, but perfect for a little boy!
just hope its big enough for all Father Christmas is going to bring tonight!!
liking everything to be pretty, I really didn't like the car seat cover that came with the pram we got ... it was a stiff waterproof material ... which I know a lot would say is very practical, but sometimes prettyness has to come before practicality!! (trust me it does!)
so I figured I would have a go at making a new cover ... I took the old cover off and made a pattern from it (a little fiddly as I decided not to take it apart to do it)
I picked greens and browns as the pram is brown and I love the soft green (my mum pointed out that the green spotty is just like my kitchen table cloth ... yes it is! what can I say, I love it!)
I am really pleased how it turned out and even used his other car seat to make a pattern for the head rest as this one didn't have one.
and of course I had to make a little blanket for it! nice chunky wool so it grew quickly!
its a friends little girls 1st birthday and when I asked what she would like, she said she was getting her a little pram and would love a blanket for it ... well that is right up my street ... so I had lots of fun making these ...
I love doing a bit of hand sewing and patchwork is always so pretty to do
and being in Wales, she would need a blanket as it can get pretty cold!
I then thought I needed to make a pillow for her teddy, so did a little double sided one so she can choose what colour she would like ...
I hope she liked it!
We had quite a few kids at our wedding and didn't want them to be bored, so made up some activity bags for them!
First I saved all the sandwich paste jars that Steves has in his lunch ...
I then cut out cellophane
got lots of bags of dolly-mixture and evenly divided them between all the jars ...
with elastic bands I secured the cellophane disks
I cut out lots of different fabric disks with pinking-scissors that matched the bunting and tied them on with cream ribbon
I made colouring books with a few puzzles in too. I made a few extra so if any of the adults wanted to have a go they could too!
We had pink bags for girls and green for boys ... each bag was made by my mum to save me some time and I individually packed them with the sweetie jars, pens, crayons, card games, stickers, clay models to make, jig-saws, toy cars and tractors and the colouring books
It was lovely to see the kids open them and they were all really well behaved!
