Hello all. We are here to catch up with the smiles from the previous week and although I've had lots of smiles I don't have a lot I can share with you. I've had a really busy week with sewing and have shortened 6 bridesmaids dresses and much much more.
We had a lovely weekend with the boys. I treated them to some Paint pencils and put the easel up outside so they could enjoy some creative fun.
Louie drew a lovely reindeer on the top of his paper and Theo drew a hill and rainbow...they were lovely pens to use.
That just leaves me a few funnies to share with you. I hope you find something to make you smile and you will link up to your own smiles below.
Another week of self isolation has passed and we have been enjoying some really lovely sunny days in the garden. No weed has felt safe in our because the minute he pops his head up he's pulled out....our garden has never looked better :-)
I've moved a lot of the fabric off my desk and have even put some of it away to make room for the activities of the moment.....
I know it's far too early to mention the C word but I decided now would be a good time to do some painting while I can get it all out and leave it on my desk until I've finished what I'm doing with having no customers to disturb me. At the begining of the year I ordered some wood slices to make some tree decorations with so that's what I have been up to. It's something that I will enjoy dipping in and out of over the next couple of weeks.
I have also been sewing but as they are for birthday presents later in the year I can't share those with you yet and we have both enjoyed a few baking/cooking sessions together....
...fruity flapjacks and naan breads this week. I think like most of you we are using up things from the store cupboard and finding recipes to adapt if we don't have all that's needed. The naan breads were made without yeast as we didn't have any. We found a recipe using baking powder instead and I have to say they were really yummy....and what we didn't eat were frozen and are ready for the next curry we make.....it's surprising what you can do when you try eh?
That's all from me for today. I hope you are all staying home and are well and happy.
I was missing in action last week....I was here but I was busy catching up on my holiday washing and my sewing room had a good clean and dust so I had nothing to share with you of interest. Since our hols it's been pretty quiet on the work front [I guess all my customers are enjoying their hols too] so I have been finishing the batch of charity bags for Margaret that I had already cut out .....
....all 46 bags are now finished and boxed up ready to take with me to the crop.... and I will await Margaret's instructions now for when they need more.
So what's on my desk today?...
The drawers filled with my acrylic paints are out and so are my Promarkers and permanent felt pens.
What am I busy making?....
Little Theo has a 2nd birthday up and coming [where has that time gone?!!] and his mummy has asked me to make him some little peg people for part of his birthday present.....and you just know how much I love making those so here's 20 in different stages of being made.
If I remember I will take a photo when I've finished them but as I like to make them in stages giving paint time to dry before painting the next colour it may be a while.
So that's all from me for today....a little more interesting than just a rail full of sewing eh? Please leave me a little message so I know you've called in and I will do my best to call by at yours to see what you're up to this week.
Here we are at another catch up with our crafty friends all round the world....I love my Wednesdays.
On my desk today is.....
The latest completed pile of bags for Margaret's charity.....they are all different cos even if the outsides are using the same fabric the lining and machine embroidered top stitching is different so that each child has a different bag.
I've also got a pile of the next batch of bags cut out ready to make when I have a gap in my sewing time.
I've got a memory bear coming today and another one Thursday plus from the order I made for the 3 children from the school in Jordon I have another order for two bears from the same school....it's so exciting.
I'm adding this photo just to make you smile. It's little Theo crafting and creating....start them young I say. It looks like there's nearly as much paint on his legs as on the paper but doesn't it look like he's having fun?
Thanks for popping over to say hello today. I will do my best to pay you a return visit as soon as I'm able.
How these weeks fly by lately. There are never two days the same here and this week I'm sharing the same desk as always but with something very different on it today....
Before Christmas I ordered some new wooden peg dolls to decorate for the grandchildren to play with here. On Monday I got them out and painted the faces ready to clothe them but I remembered I had used all my fabric glue so couldn't dress them with fabric so for a change I atacked them with my acrylic paints.
I decided to make three different sets so all could enjoy them.....
Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and Piglet.
A set of Disney Princesses.
And a few superheros. I hope there are some you might recognise amongst them....I know some special little people in my life that will know if they are painted right.
Hope you like my desk with a difference this week.
Hello all. I know you've called by to see what's on my desk this week but I have to say it's been a quiet one there for me with sewing because we have been busy elsewhere :-)
My new sewing room is nearly finished....it just needs skirting boards and a few finishing touches. The carpets will come at a later date. So, I'm guessing you would like a peep at what we've been doing?.....
All the bare plastered walls and ceiling had to have a covering of half/half paint and water first. Then the ceiling had another covering of white paint and....
.....so far the one long wall has had two coats of pale dusky pink paint [crem de la rose] ready to put up my new wall cupboards.
Sunday we payed a visit to Ikea and filled our trolley with new cupboards and work tops to go in my new room.
With a bit of careful loading we managed to get it all in the car. :-)
Sadly when we got it all home we found that two out of the three wall cupboards were faulty and we had to have them replaced yesterday [but when the delivery men arrived with the two new replacement cupboards one of those was also faulty!....thankfully I checked before they left and we were able to swap the faulty side pieces so that we now have two complete cupboards :-) ].
All being well by the time you come back next week there will be new developments in my sewing room and before long I will be able to move in there and get busy creating [I guess there will be lots of boxes/bags emptied and sorted first]. :-) :-) :-)
Thanks for calling by. Leave me a little message and I will pop over to yours ASAP.
A lot of you will know what I mean by WOYWW and for those that don't you can find out all about it here at Julia's blog. This week we all celebrated 6 years of blogging our creative spaces and linking up to folk from all over the world. Thanks to Julia many Wednesdays of linking up our work desks with others has found many friendships being made....some meeting up in real life and others just enjoying the love and support our blogging friends give us in good times and bad from all corners of the world. Each year we make ATCs [artist trading cards] to celebrate and swap them with our friends so each day this week my postman has brought me envelopes full of love.....every one of them making me smile. I plan to snap pics of all I've been sent and will do a show and tell of them on Wednesday so please pop back then to see them.
Thanks to all who joined in our fun here last week again. We all have so much to be thankful for and sharing our smiles makes the world a happier place doesn't it? This week I'm featuring Elizabeth's post from last week. The gorgeous flowers made me smile and her joke of the week really made me chuckle....thanks for sharing it Elizabeth.
This week has been half term holiday so I've not had Nanny school run duties [of course I have still seen them and enjoyed their company :-) ] so my smiles this week are a little different...
I've been playing with some of my favourite fabrics doing a bit more crazy patchwork....these only come out and get used for my special friends :-)
I really love the colours I've been working on here.
This is the next combination of colours I'm going to use for the next piece.
I love sewing in my favourite colours. How about you? What are your favourites and do you tend to work with the colours you love or do you find it easy to work with other colours too?
This is another little project I've been working on. Our garden bench and the two chairs linked with a table in the middle were in need of a lick of stain and thanks to Sam [Hettie] giving us the heads up on the colour she did hers with I have now done the bench.....still needs another coat and haven't started on the other yet.
Isn't it fab.....it makes me smile every time I look at it and will really make our new back garden look lovely when they are both finished.
The other pic I'm sharing with you this week is this one of a flock of starlings on our front lawn. I'm not sure you will be able to see but the majority of the birds are babies and the adults had brought them down to feed on the ?ants in the lawn.
It was something like the film 'The Birds' at the time but to see so many weaning fledglings at once really made us smile.
There you go. That's it from me for today. I hope you have enjoyed my smiles and will link yours up below.
I hope this post makes you smile as much as it did me....
My eldest granddaughter [age 3] and her little sister [age 2 years in just a few days] have been very busy crafting.....It's in their genes :-) :-) They like the little craft kits that you can get from most shops these days and their Mummy likes to send me pics of what they have been up to.
Painting and printing
Working on a masterpiece on their easel while little brother Steve looks on.....do you think he is their art critic?
Some Easter cards they have made.
Wooden spoon fairies in the making.
Amy never fails to amaze me because she often bakes with the girls too during the day and while she is doing that she is also caring for little Steve, cooking, cleaning and running the office side of their Banner business - taking orders, sending bills and even sometimes doing the artwork too etc etc ......I wonder where she gets her ability to 'plate spin' from? :-) :-) :-)
I hope you have enjoyed my little show and tell today and it has made you smile too. Hope you have a great weekend.
