Our eldest dog has not been doing so well these last few weeks. Weve had yet another trip to the vets - a specialist, this time - and a new set of meds to try. One of the main things is t...
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Lately most of my crafting has been done sitting about in waiting rooms, working on a never-ending crochet project. I think that typing the words "please, please dont make me have to throw ...
Its been a busy few days, what with soccer sign ups, birthday parties, present shopping for the most awkward to buy for child in the world, passport applications etc. so I think that this will be the...
So, I slackened off the pace a bit: had to do some housework, after all... AND book our flights for a trip home!! Yep, just mildly happy about that one (the trip, not the housework...). P...
This was ironed after I made it, I swear. Then, as I was about to take the pictures, I got a phone call - and my daughter disappeared off to play... Oh well, given that she was ...
KCWC got off to a bit of a slow start this morning: it took my going to three stores to find the leftover Easter chocolates that I had been craving. The day is rapidly approaching when all the ...
Yep, another basket. I was rather fond of the first one, plus I did have more scraps of yarn in search of a home. The next step had to be spending a week or so searching for more of the d...
:: Been doing taxes. 70% of that time was spent looking for the paperwork that I had put in a safe place during the previous year. :: Been making window coverings. Decided that shutt...
Despite having accumulated a rather large collection of fabric, almost every fabric piece was bought with a project in mind. Ill sometimes change my mind about the project or the fabric choice,...
Spring is well and truly sprung around here. The daffs bloomed and wilted weeks ago, long before St. Davids day. I did manage to escape the sunshine and squeeze in my snow fix for the yea...
Whenever my kids have scraped their knee at the park there has always been a nearby mum that magically produces a plaster (band-aid) while I am still rummaging in my bag (usually muttering "Im su...
Im busy procrastinating. I have a couple of projects that I want to get done, but it just seems too, well, awkward to finish them right now. It never seems to be the right time to work on them. The t...
So much for my resolution that 2012 would be a more productive year craft-wise. All Ive done so far is sew up the edges of a cushion cover. My offspring have been more productive than their mum: they...
The handmade Christmas presents did get finished on time, even the knitted ones. The late start did mean that I didnt find the colour yarn that I wanted for the hot water bottle cover, but mum didnt ...
Could we just quietly forget that I made any mention of those cushions? I decided to knit a Christmas present and, given my snail-like knitting pace, everything else was put on to the backburner. Sti...
You would be forgiven for thinking that I had given up blogging. Goodness, my posts have been few and far between lately. I have been busy, but thats not much of excuse when the reality is that I hav...
I never did round up the end of KCWC, did I? Like I said, we needed the Halloween costumes ready earlier than expected: my in-laws had invited us to a ranch place and there were going to be some earl...
Well, it ended up taking a week or so for my sewing machine to come out of its summer hibernation: I hurt my back. I suffered several days of walking around looking like I was trying to do the robot....
Thank you ever so much for the advice on which frock to wear to the wedding. I did wear the patterned dress - and felt much more comfy wearing it thanks to your lovely comments. There are no pictures...
Im going to a wedding tomorrow and I dont know what to wear. Most of the friends that I have made here were already married with kids when I met them, so I have only been to a couple of weddings sinc...
This time I did disappear off to foreign climes - I went home to England for a visit. All internet stuff got put on hold, mainly because my parents have a ridiculously slow connection (it reminded me...
Ive been doing lots of the boring type of sewing lately: mending jeans (I should probably accept that my favourite pair might need to be laid to rest soon. Thats a traumatic moment for me, especially...
Warning: long pauses between blogging may be about to occur
2 projects, 2 broken needles and a bent needle - that has to be a new record, even for me. I should probably start at the beginning, though: I am not dead. Im sorry for disappearing on you. I didnt g...
One of the more productive weeks of my year is now over, leaving me wondering why I am not this productive during the rest of the year. It turns out that a shameless procrastinator like me could prob...
My lad lives in t-shirts and shorts, so he misses out a little when it comes to handmade clothes. Its cheaper to find a t-shirt on clearance than to buy the fabric to make one - and a wee bit easier....
Ive finally got my last post back, but not the comments, so well see if Blogger is really back up and running.Day 4: Falling back on what I already know, heres a smocked top to replace the one she ou...
Another quickie - a wee skirt made out of strips of fabric scraps. Then I ended up adding details like topstitching on each side of the joins and lining it. So, it wasnt quite as quick as I had first...
Day 2 of Kids Clothes Week Challenge: Bit of a busy day, so todays effort was something easy that Ive made many times before: a peasant blouse, as modelled by little Miss Fidget:Not that my sewing ma...
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