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Hickory Dickory Dock…

Goodness gracious… can it really be Sunday evening again?  This last week has galloped by with so much going on, but it’s had a great finale with a delicious Mothering Sunday lunch with a lovely son!

Between the grey clouds and drizzle over the last few days (there’s nothing like a drought warning to bring the rain on) I captured a little springtime loveliness in the garden…

I’ve enjoyed getting to know a few of you a little better over the last week through the Planet Penny Cotton Club emails.  As the pink parcels have been arriving at their destinations I’ve been getting great feedback and I’m really looking forward to seeing some of your creations. Don’t forget to link up your blog if you have one via the PPCC page, and if you don’t there is a Flickr Group where you can upload photos.  I’ve been wondering about a Ravelry Group too, but I think I need to get together with a couple of other members to set one up, let me know what you think.  It might be a good way for people to contact one another…

Anyway, it’s not too late to join in and get your own ‘pink parcel’.  All the details are here, and do email me with any queries, I try to respond as soon as possible.

The Rainbow Mice have proved enormously popular.  I put the picture from this post on my UKHandmade page and UKHandmade put it on their Facebook page where it was the first picture ever to get over 100 likes!  I’ve been puzzling over the best way to display them and last week bought a wire wreath base from the florists.  I covered the wire with crochet because it was a bit shiny and noticeable and then attached the mice all round and hung it on the wall…

…but then I had another thought, went off to the studio and found my very cheap Ikea clock and Hey Presto!…

…don’t know what’s going to happen at one o’clock though!

It’s time to wend my way to Wendy now, over on 1st Unique Gifts where she is hosting this week’s Handmade Monday.  Do follow the link to find out what every one else has been up to over the last few days.

I’ll be back soon! xxx

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The Importance of Stuff

These days we all seem to have ‘stuff’, and mostly far too much of it.  But the stuff that drives me mad are all the little bits and bobs which accumulate in small piles and clutter up random bowls and baskets because they don’t have an immediate home as we dash about doing everything else.  You know, the things we can’t throw away, like till receipts, business cards, the top to the pen that we can’t put our hands on just at that moment (note to self – clear out handbag) and things which will probably ‘come in’, elastic bands from the mail, paper clips, buttons and safety pins.

So the plan is to have a designated place, and a promise to sort it out on a regular basis. (It’s now down in black and white, that promise!) So the cogs have been spinning in the brain…where to put the stuff…

…stuff….snuff….where did they keep Snuff?

In a JAR!

And what have I been collecting over the year because ‘they are just too useful to throw away’?

Coffee Jars!

I’ve got them tucked away in the studio holding craft materials, and on the mantlepiece filled with Mother of Pearl buttons, and sea shells…

But I keep drinking coffee, and I keep collecting jars!

And then there is my basket of gorgeous rainbow yarn…

And so I’ve made a STUFF Jar!  Would you like to see?

But you’ll have to excuse me now, I’ll have to go and empty out all those random places full of little bits of Stuff…

And I’ve just thought of something else I want to make!

See you soon x

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Love Birds and Hearts for Handmade Monday

Hello, It’s Handmade Monday time again!  Doesn’t it come round quickly?  It very good for concentrating the mind though, otherwise SO much time could be wasted on Pinterest, purely for research purposes of course!

I would like to say thank you to every one who left such kind comments on last week’s Handmade Monday post about my exciting trip to the hospital.  I’m still absolutely fine, but I really appreciated your concern, thanks so much …

I’ve been busy making, but plotting too, so I’m going to run my latest plan by you as it may be something you would like to join in with.  A while ago I had two beautiful raised beds put in the vegetable area of the garden.  They have lovely chunky railway sleepers which you can sit on, and metal bars over which I can put a polythene cover to make them into mini poly tunnels.  (If you’ve been visiting for a while, you’ll know they have featured on several occasions in Higgins type incidences and if  you put ”raised beds’ in the search box you will find plenty to have a giggle at, too many for me to add individual links to here!) 

Last year I got so tied up with the Open Studio plans that nothing really got started, so I decided that this year, I will get to grips with the whole thing, and see how much I can produce using the two raised beds and some containers.  I’m going back to basics, and I will be picking the brains of my friend Gaynor, who lives in the next village.  Gaynor is one half of Home Grown Revolution, who specialise in raised beds, and one of her New Year’s resolutions was to get out from the office and to get her hands dirty in the veg garden.  As the other one was to start a blog, we are going to be helping each other along, so watch this space, I hope it’s going to be fun!

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching I’ve been turning my thoughts to something new to needlefelt, and so we have the Love Bird…

He’s just 2 to 3 inches tall, but he has some smaller little friends too, who have come to roost in little woolly hearts…

and they’ll be for sale in the Folksy shop very soon.

I’ve been playing around in the button box again…

…and I’ve tried, but not quite managed to produce a crochet square a night with my lovely New Zealand wool…

…if only there were more hours in the day!

With that in mind I will step away from the computer, and leave you to pop over to 1st Unique Gifts where Wendy is hosting the Handmade Monday Linky to find out just what everyone else has been up to over the past week.

See you soon …x

 

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Silent Sunday

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