Making and creating

I haven't been very inspired to make anything lately. Having a craft stall at the Horsebridge last Saturday (which I forgot to take my camera to!) did start to pull me out of my crafty drought and having lots of lovely cushion pads thanks to my fantastic mum and dad (and a trip they went on to IKEA!) has also inspired me so I have managed to get quite creative this week...finally. It has taken long enough, I can tell you!

Cushions have been my main thing this week! I was quite pleased with these stylised Union Jack cushions. I took these into Taking the Plunge in Whitstable and one of them sold the same day!  I am hoping to make more of these and put them in my Folksy shop, which is looking in need of a little update (there are a few sale items in there in case you are interested before I add some new things!).

I have also been making card holders....

Cheque book covers...

handmade cards....

And these beach hut cushions, which were an order for a friend of mine. Fingers crossed she likes them!!

Shadows, shells and stripy clouds

It has yet again been ages, yet again since I blogged. Life just keeps getting in the way!

We've had a lovely Easter holidays so far - me and the kids went to stay with my parents for a few days last week, which was really nice and relaxing - they always look after us so well! We had to leave poor L behind to go to work, which I always feel guilty about and we all miss him! But they love seeing their grandparents and my sister lives close by so they got to play with their cousins every day as well!

I took part in the Horsebridge Open Day on Saturday, I had a craft stall which was fun.  I had to rush the stuff on my stall together as we were at my parents until Friday so I didn't have too much to sell, but did ok in the end and had fun! Plus I also bumped into Kirsty, who was having a day out with her sister - but I am sure she will tell you all about that on her blog!

This week we have been lazy - apart from a massive clean and washing day on Monday. Today the kids lounged around in PJ's until far too late and then we went to the beach for a walk and an ice-cream.

We were a little windswept, but it was lovely and sunny and I took lots of pictures of the kids, shadows, shells and lovely stripy clouds.

Hope you are enjoying your Easter holidays too!

Inspiration

I haven't been very inspired lately, as you may have gathered. Then today I walked into The Horsebridge (a gallery and event venue in Whitstable) and saw an exhibiton that included work by ...
Katharine Love
Wow.
I want. I want. I want.....

Feel free to comment!

Just a very quick post - yeah, I know it has been ages since I last blogged but I'm struggling a bit with the old blogging at the mo. It was supposed to be about things I have made and second-hand lovelies that I have found and errr...I haven't really made anything lately and I haven't brought any lovely second-hand things. I can't seem to find the motivation to get sewing or blogging lately...

I have been reading though. It's like an obsession at the moment. I have to have a book to read or I feel a bit twitchy. I have also really enjoyed writing lately - just not on my blog!
Oh and re this blog, I have had to change my comments settings. I keep getting weird Japanese/Chinese (I aplogise for not knowing which!) comments - are they spam comments? I haven't a clue, but they were getting on my nerves, so now I am going to have to approve comments before they are posted.
Please don't be put off!
Hopefully I will be back here soon, but I wouldn't hold your breathe!

Making and giving

I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front.   I just don't know where time seems to go!
I've been a bit quiet on the making front too and haven't really made anything since the baby quilt from my last post(thanks for all the nice comments on this by the way).
I did get the sewing machine out for a couple of orders for these name signs at Taking the Plunge in Whitstable, where I sell some of my stuff.

On a completley different note, my very good friend and neighbour Vicki, has recently started writing a blog Vicki's Resolution,which follows her quest to raise money for a couple of charities.  In her latest post she also mentions, Stella a little girl who lives locally in Canterbury. Stella has gone to America for life-saving, but jaw-droppingly expensive treatment. Her family are trying to raise funds towards the money they borrowed for her treatment.
Please take a look at Vicki's blog for info on the charities she is supporting and also for the link to Stella's fundraising site.

Thank you  and I will try not to leave as long between blogging next time!

Feeling patchy!

I had an order from a friend the other day to make one of these pram patchwork quilts for a new baby due soon in their family.  I have made a few of these as orders as they seem to be a nice new baby present.

They do take a while to make and I am sure the patchwork police would look at them in horror! But I quite enjoy making them (so long as I don't have to make them too often, as then I think I would get bored!) and I hope the new mum will like it!

I enjoy sorting out all the different fabric to use and I especially love the fabric I used for the backing at the moment. It was a vintage sheet that I have ended up using on loads of projects recently.

Hair horrors!

Is it just in our house or does anyone else face such hair horrors in the morning?

This is our daugher D and what her hair normally looks like when she first wakes up!

And this is our son F's hair!

 I swear mornings are a nightmare in our house as we have to allow about half an hour just for hair taming....but we do eventually...This is D when her hair has been tamed some what!

She is modelling a beautiful cardigan made for her by a very clever lady who runs knitting workshops in Whitstable called Knitorama. She asked me to make a plain linen doll for her a few weeks ago and knitted this lovely cardy for D as a swap for the doll! I think I got the better deal!

This half-term we have been mainly filling the house with drawn pictures of Buzz lightyear..

My son is mad on Toy Story at the moment, we have quite a collection now.

But what do you call a group of Buzz Lightyears?

I'm not sure, but I am pretty sure we are going to have an army of them soon at the rate he is going!