WOYWW....

I'm glad you've called in cos I have something to share with you.

It was my birthday yesterday and I would really love it if you would all enjoy a glass with me to celebrate.

I have put a few pics below of the cards I've been making this week.

I finished off and mounted the little Christmas trees you saw last week to make one batch of cards and then set to to design a few more....

I had an idea in mind so I made a pattern first....can you see what it is yet?

I cut the bodies out from some brown woollen fabric I'd cut off when shortening the hem on a skirt...waste not want not eh? Then I cut out bright red hearts and bond a webbed them to the fronts.

I mounted these on some ivory linen fabric thet I picked up from the card boot sale a few weeks back....another bargain

A bit of machine embroidery later.....

...A yellow beak, white eyelets and black seeding beads for eyes and hey presto...

...that's another 10 cards made  :-)

I now struggle to hand write my Christmas cards because of my arthritis but I do my best to hand make them all to make up for it.  :-)

I hope you've enjoyed a glass of wine with me today and enjoyed seeing my first 2 batches of Christmas cards.  The other thing I thought you'd like to see was a little of the magic of nature this week.

Jack frost had been out dusting the cobwebs that the friendly spiders had spun.....magical or what?

Have a great week.  Leave me a little message and I will do my best to call by to say hello.....hic hic

Hugs,

Annie x

I'm sharing a first...

As some of will have noticed on Jo's blog, I had an annual event yesterday  :-)  I have to say it was up there with the best too.  Jo popped down at morning coffee time with a bag full off goodies and I feel the need to share a couple of them with you cos I was so blown away by them.

This was the birthday card she made for me.  It's all machine embroidered and of course is meant to be me with my, now, 5 little grandchildren.  I love it.  Isn't she just so clever?

 This is the other pic that I want to share with you. It's well worth clicking on it to enlarge it cor a closer look. She has done us one of her amazing collage pics of the front of our house.  She has chosen the fabrics to perfection and done a truly amazing job of it.  There is just no doubt of where it is a pic of and it will be framed up to take pride of place in our home.  Thank you so much Jo.  You really are so talented.
If anyone wants one of their home then do let her know.




The only thing I ever really ask for on my birthday is to get all my family together and we have often all gone out for a meal but as you can imagine it's not so easy with 3 new little family members so this year I decided to celebrate by having everyone here for a buffet tea.  It's my son Mark's birthday on 25th too so we always have a party at some point.  

So, my first is that it was the first time all my 5 little grandchildren were together since the latest arrived.  Jo had big ideas that I would be able to get a photo of me with all 5 but it's just not that easy....one being a little shy with all the people around, one not sitting still for more than a few minutes and any one of the other three needing feeding :-)  So I just snapped away and have put them all together as best as I could  :-)

Hope you have enjoyed my celebration post as much as I have  :-)

WOYWW....

Hello my blogging friends.  I have been away for a few days well earned rest and to celebrate my Birthday but am back today.  We had a lovely few days in a cottage near Skipton with some very special Dutch friends.  We met them on a campsite in France in 2000 and vowed to meet up at least once every year.  Good friends should be treasured and although we have only a short time with them each year it's like we have never been apart and share lots of fun and laughter together....just what the Dr ordered  :-)

So for whats on my work desk this morning ....

.....I only have one item on my 'to do' rail so far.  It's a skiing jacket that needs a new open-ended zip.  It has lots of top stitching to unpick before I can replace the zip so it will take me a while.  I have now got 1034 customers so doubt my rail will stay so empty for long  :-)

.....I have just got my Christmas materials out for some inspiration as to what I am going to do for my Christmas cards this year.  I have such a lot of lovely materials but so far I'm not feeling very inspired....any ideas girls?

That's all from me today girls so if you want to pop over to Julia's blog you can have a snoop at lots of other crafter's desks and catch up with what they have been up to this week.

WOYWW.....

Good morning to all my blogging friends.  I'm pleased to say at last I'm feeling a bit better.  Think it was rather more than a head cold cos it really sapped all my energy and that of course wasn't helped by my huge sewing mountain that needed doing.  I have a feeling I know what brought all that sewing to my door last week too....I'd been to our local material shop and bought enough material to make me two new tops. 

Here is a quick snap of my fabric but needless to say I've only got it out of the bag to show you!  It's like the old saying...'A cobbler's wife walks barefoot'.   They will get made some time but I doubt they won't be finished any time soon.

But I will say this is what my 'to do' rail looked like at the end of my busy week.  :-)

Twiglet came down Monday morning and we actually got out our embellishers to play.  It's been ages since we used them but it was like riding a bike....you never forget how [except when it comes to riding a bike I never really learned  :-) ].  We got out all the boxes of yummy fabrics and yarns hoping for inspiration.  

I'm not sure the session was really successful for me but I did make a strip of tat dumfling yumminess and cut it up to make Christmas trees with.....Yes I have actually been thinking CHRISTMAS!  A bit of stitching and a few beads and I think I've cracked it  :-)

I thought I'd also show you what my eldest daughter has bought me.  She likes to find me crafty bits and has certainly come up trumps with this selection.  It was an early birthday pressie and she insisted I opened it so she could see my reaction  :-)  As you can imagine I was thrilled....Thank you M and B xx

Now if you are all wondering what my desk looks like today....who cares  :-)  I'm not in my sewing room cos I have my two gorgeous little friends here for another play day with Nanny so the sewing can wait  :-)  My desk for today will be covered with toys, jigsaws, books etc and I know we will have just the best of fun.

If you want to see more crafting desks then pop over to Julia's blog and if you haven't joined in before why not take the plunge....It's a really lovely group of crafters and everyone is welcome.