A promising post....

I hear you saying....Why is this 'A promising post'?    What is she promising now?  :-)

Well I have started my day off well this morning and hoped to share a few positive thoughts with you.  I opened my curtains to see a slight blanket of white on the ground in the churchyard opposite our house and just has to go and investigate.  This is what I found...

Go on click on the picture for a closer look cos there really is so much promise just in that one picture.  I have then snapped just a few of the clumps that were out slightly further.

Aren't they so pretty ?  .....and each one comes full of promise of warmer weather on its way.....yes, Spring really is just around the corner.  Yahoooooo

Then as I walked back up our front garden I spotted yet more promise.

These are Bluebells shooting skyward......

....and Tulips emerging from their wintry home.....

......and Daffodil bulbs making steady progress upwards.

Oh and the promise doesn't stop there for me  :-)  

 This is my 'to do' rail first thing this morning.  Shhhhh don't tell anyone 'cos they will all come running to fill it for me.  Do you think it means I will have time to 'play ' today?  Would be nice.

S from Snaps and Snippets asked to see the posh floaty dress I was working on yesterday so here is a quick snap of it.  It''s an evening dress but would make a really pretty Wedding dress too.

So my friends,  a post full of promise to share with you all today.  Hope you have a great day and come back soon.

WOYWW....

Happy February to one and all.  Where do these weeks go?.....answers on a post card please.

Here we are on the best day of the week where we can link up with fellow bloggers all round the world thanks to our Queen of snoop, Julia.  She really started something didn't she?  Last week was another record for numbers and it is now getting so big that, unless you have many hours spare it is impossible to get round everyone.  Alas I only managed the first 100 last week so many apologies to those I missed.  I do try to pop in on as many as possible every week and to welcome as many new members I can find.  I have to say I am hooked on the Wednesday activities and really love seeing what you're all up to each week.  There really are very many really talented folk out there.

Now onto what you've really come here for....What IS on my work desk today?.....

This is the latest poppy pic I started on our Funday Monday...still got to finish dumfing and then bead the middles of the flowers before mounting it but I rather like how it's going.

My 'to do' rail is full with skirts and trousers all needing taking in cos this customer has lost weight and none of them fit her. 

I have just finished altering this dress....it had far too much material in the skirt and too many gathers so I've had to detach the skirt from the bodice, remove 10" of fabric and regather the skirt and then reattach it to the bodice....it looks much better now so hope she likes it.

My WIP for today is a really beautiful floaty dress.....I'm having to take it up on the shoulders, take it in on the sides of the bodice [including realigning a concealed zip] and sew up the front so it isn't quite so revealing.  It has several layers of fabric so it's pretty tricky to keep it all lying flat but I love a challenge  :-)  This lady runs a charity dance every year so I usually alter a posh frock for her for the event....this year she bought her dress in the sale.....too big but she knows I can make it fit her  :-)

Thanks for calling in and for all your lovely comments.  Hope I can find time to call back to see what you're up to....I will do my best I promise.

Happy Monday to you all...

I am starting my week off with another Funday Monday.  It really does start the week off well and I think it should be made compulsory for all  :-)  Twiglet will be down this morning and our friend  T will be joining us for the afternoon of fun and laughter.  This morning Twiglet and I intend revamping our blog shop so do keep a look out for some changes in there.

 

I've spent my weekend finishing putting together my Pay if Forward gifts and they are all lined up and ready to take to the post office this morning....so keep a look out for those postmen girls  :-)

If you haven't joined in the 'spreading of love' activity yet and would like to join in then please pop over to Delena's blog because she is still looking for kind bloggers to leave her comments.

The other thing I want to show you this morning is my new little friend....

This is Sid the Punk Rocking frog with attitude.  My daughter M made him for me on Friday and he will surely feature on my blog from time to time because he seems to have decided he is here to stay and has already pulled himself up a deck chair on the back of my sewing machine table so he can keep an eye on me while I'm working....in fact I have a feeling he is working for my other half as a spy to make sure I don't slack  :-)  Watch this space as they say.

A little bird by M!

Hello this is M, A's daughter!

Mum has asked me to add a picture of my sock bird for you all to see. 

She has now found me some green socks and wants me to attempt a frog.......watch this space!

I am having another day at mum's...........she'll be sick of the sight of me before I go back to school (teacher not pupil) and there will be no socks left in the house!

M x

The Love blog award.....

The lovely Cardarian from

Cardarian´s happy place

has given me an award.

Thank you so much.  I feel very special.

There are a couple of conditions for the award

You have been TAGGED and want to participate?

Then create a post where you post the 'LOVE BLOG' image.

You should also blog the persons link that gave you the award and inform her/him that you accept the award.

You can then choose 3 - 5 favourite blogs which you also link in your post, then each blogger will inform you that they have been tagged.

Dear bloggers:
The aim of this action is that we bring unknown, good blogs to light, so I would ask you not to blog fellow bloggers that already have 3,000 followers.As always, the hardest part is to pick who to pass this on to, there are so many bloggers I could give it to but I pick these...

• As it is a Love blog of course the top of my list has to be my [much older] sister Twiglet .  There is no doubt that she spreads love everwhere she goes.

The others are just a few of the very many I could choose and they are in no particular order...there really is so much love out there amongst all the wonderful blogs I read regularly.

• My next is Keryn over on Poppy Dog...she would love to have 5 bloggers to do a 'pass it forward' to as her way of spreading a little love on to others [please pop over there if you haven't already joined in the fun].

• My next is Gez over at Gezzyb's Jots....she has followed my blog for ages now and is always one of the first to support and offer help when asked for.

• My next is Karen over at Karen's Carry Ons .....there are very few of my posts that she fails to leave me really lovely kind comments and she certainly knows what spreading a little love is all about.

• My last is Di over at Pixie's Crafty Workshop ....she is fairly new to blogging but when I asked for bloggers to join in the pass it forward fun she jumped at the chance and living half way round the world it means the love has the chance to spread rather further  :-) Thank you Di

Consider yourself tagged girls.....now go and spread some love and tag a few more.
Of course there are many many others but I am sure the love will spread like roots of a tree and they will very soon be tagged by others.

WOYWW......

Funday Monday was just that........fun fun fun........not the depressing day promised in the news!....I have blogged it in the last post if you'd like to see what we got up to.  I'm sure when they say these things in the news if affects how people think so it would be really lovely if just once they said ....."and today it known the be the happiest day in the year when everyone smiles and does good for the people they meet".  :-)

My Pass it forward gifts are in the making and of course I won't be able to share these with you until they have had them....I notice Keryn over on Poppy Dog is looking for folk to pass hers on to so if there are still some kind generous people who would like to join in spreading a little happiness around the world then please pop over to her blog and join in the fun.  I know for sure that every time I give something away I get it back ten fold in one way or other so please sign up to share some love.

On my desk [ and floor] today is.......  

A whole lot of wools, beads, yarns, fabrics and a whole lot of scrummy things I can't show you [they are under the fabric at the back of the table]......oh what a tease I am.  

I will take pictures of all the hidden things and will share them when I can but for now you will have to just snoop through the materials I play with  :-)

For those of you wondering what my daughter M has been up to since she left here with her pile of sock on Monday.  Here is the gorgeous Penguin and Cat she has made yesterday....she really does take a new learnt skill and fly with it  :-)  In fact she was sat teaching my son's girlfriend how to make them last night  :-) Aren't they gorgeous?



Now girls please pop over to our host blog....Julia the Queen of snoop....and join in the fun of sharing your creative space with others.

If you haven't already checked out the sale bargains in our blog shop then it's worth popping over to check them out.  This is the last week of the sale so don't forget to grab a bargain or two    :-)

 

This week's Day of fun...

Yesterday's Funday Monday ranks up there with the best.  Twiglet and I were joined by our friend T and my eldest daughter M and my little sewing room sang with creativity and fun. 

 

It's what Mondays are made for.  I've heard it said that it was one of the most depressing days of the year but certainly not here at sewing by Annie's.

We extended my table and filled it with socks, beads, buttons, wools, fabrics and much much more.....and the floor held  even more  :-)

Not sure what Twiglet had in mind here but I have to say what these went towards making is really special.....I'm sure she will appear on her blog soon  :-)     [I'm not giving away her secrets]

T made a start at making her Pepsy Pig .....and finished her off beautifully at home later  :-)

Meet Maisie Rabbit....this was the gorgeous little rabbit M made during her afternoon of fun.  We called in at our local supermarket when we took her home later and picked up more socks....she is hooked with the sock dolly making now and being her usual artistic self I'm sure she will be creating all sorts of wonderful critters now  :-)

These are the socks we picked up for her so watch this space....she text me later that evening with a photo of a nearly finished little penguin  :-)

We always did a lot of crafting while my family were growing up and I really love the way she has used what she has been taught but now flies with her ability and goes well beyond anything I ever taught her.  She is really creative and has a more artistic eye than me so I love to watch her create.

Thank you girls for joining me and for all the fun and laughter we had.  It's what days are made of.  Here's to many more.

What a special day...

This has just become a very special day for me and I wanted to share it with you all.......

..........And it's all down to Jen from http://jennyflowerblue.blogspot.com/.  A little while ago she had a gift draw for her 300th post and I was the lucky winner.  I had to say in my comment that if I was a biscuit what biscuit I would be.  I struggled a bit to think what biscuit I would be so asked my darling hubby....He said that I would be a hobnob cos I was good for dunking!.....please don't ask what he meant but I didn't realise being a hobnob would bring me so much good luck [and he can dunk me any day  :-)  ].

Well, this morning my postman brought a huge box to my door. 

This is it girls.  It was addressed to little old me and it felt like Christmas.

Out of the box came a large parcel and a beautifully made card.

She had sent me the most gorgeous biscuit barrel and even that was filled with yet more little parcels.

Here are all the wonderful things she has sent me...A beautiful book, a bag of sequins, a bar of chocolate, some really gorgeous wool [I may have to stroke this for a while before using it], a little packet of tissues [already opened cos I am an emotional old thing] and the rest are really special things she has made for me...see below

This heart is stunning.  What a talented lady she is.

A beautiful knitted brooch in my fav colours. [how did you know Jen?]

And two more tiny treasures.  I love them all.

My parcel is full of love and she has really made me feel very special today.  Thank you Jen so much for starting my Saturday off so well.