Half Term Hint

I found this recipe as i find most brilliant things via Ali’s blog.  Follow the links, they are just amazing and so easy to make.  I agree with Ali re the Nigella recipe for a similar bun.  These are much easier, make a portion for one family and so no wastage.  The only tip i [...]

Chillis when its chilly

Hello, cor where have i been.  Very busy time really, new years resolution of keeping a tidy house seems to take all of my time especially when my two year old follows me around like a little destructer droid! I honestly have never seen anything so little be capable of such chaos.  My sewing/writing room [...]

Check this out

I am a newbie to Twitter but having followed links found this charity event called Twitchiker.  How fab is that.  Twitter is a very strange thing but let me know if you become a Tweeter or Twitterer and i will add you to my list.

I dont think to blog unless….

…I have made something in which case i take photos and write a post.  But this evening after putting the children to bed, i started looking back into my old posts and was surprised to find it really interesting.  Things from last year that i had forgotton about, i then found myself reading about.  Marvellous.  [...]

In the end i am pleased

sorry about the lack of light and the odd stray thread.

Do you ever get the feeling that…….

some bags just do not want to be made??
The bag order i am currently working on should have been straight forward and simple.  Let me tell you, if it could have gone wrong it has gone wrong.  Primarily because i just went sailing through with it and actually ended up sewing the bag to the [...]

Thanks to Ali

I have just ordered this, as i feel i simply HAVE to make the corset Ali speaks about in her post.  I love the idea of making beautiful things and not being hunched over my sewing machine constantly.
Anyway, hoping to have the latest bag order out by Friday, even if I did make a gigantic mistake [...]

Happy new year to you all

Hello
I really hope you survived the holiday period.  well actually I hope you did more than survive it, I hope you had a bloody good time. We did.  Although to start off with it looked like it could all be over before it started as along with the rest of the country the children were [...]

Happy CHristmas

Happy Christmas to blog land I hope you all have a fantastic holiday

First Sale

Well i have had my first sale from Folksy albeit a small one.  I have sold this hair slide.

So, i figured that i should make a little gift box for it following the marvellous tutorial from the one and only Lisa .  Obviously, after my lack of success with Etsy i didn’t expect to sell anything [...]