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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

Christmas has hit the house

A while ago i read one of Anna’s fantastic tutorials which can be found here and thought what a fabulous thing to do with the children.  As you can tell from the link it is for making Christmas baubles; i immediately set out and bought the polystyrene balls, wire and wallpaper paste, knowing that in [...]

On my to do list

I am sure you have all heard of / read Ali’s fab blog Domesticali.  One of her more recent posts listed her mental to do list for September 2008.  Those of you with children of a school age know that this starts to feel like the perfect time of year to start new things.  In [...]

Just keep running……….

Yep completed the Race for lIfe run on Sunday all 5km of it.  I was a bit disappointed that i had to walk some of it but as they had just cut the grass my hayfever was triggered off and by the 3km point i realised that my inhaler was empty dur!!!.  So i walked [...]