Not the best of days...

Yesterday was a sad day for us.  We not only attended the funeral of a good friend who was usher at our wedding 30 years ago but our little friend Skye had to be put to sleep. The funeral was probably the most beautiful I have even been to.  Our Crematorium was full to the rafters and there were many stood outside. He was carried in in a beautiful wicker coffin, the music was very special and many beautiful words were spoken....he had touched many lives.

Our little friend Skye was 14 1/2 years old and had been a very loyal little friend.  She suddenly became unwell in the morning and just got worse throughout the day.  On examination the vet said she had a heart murmur and a growth in her liver and was obviously in pain so we made the only decision we could make.....you will be missed my little friend.

WOYWW....with body parts

Hello to all my wonderful blogging friends. My friend Mojo is away on her holiday but I am doing my best to manage without her just now.....I'm sure she will come home soon with her batteries recharged and with lots of creative ideas so I'm happy to wait.  :-)

I have a few pics to share with you to show you what I am doing in the mean time....

I've finished my last 'fish and chip' set and now posted it to Dawn ready for them to be shipped out to Africa.....If you still have any waiting to be posted don't forget to get them posted soon cos there is a final deadline coming up.

As you know we were asked not to make them pale colours so I made this one out of some bright random wool I had....fab or what?

Yesterday was a munchkin day so that Mummy could get some school planning done and here they are saying hello to all their blogging Aunties from the reading corner  :-)  They have had high temps this week with a nasty little bug....Lexi had it first and was kind enough to share it with Sam!  Thankfully they are little fighters and seem to be shaking it off now.

At long last I have made a display of all the wonderful ATCs I received in the 3rd birthday WOYWW swap.  I have attached them to 1" wide cotton tape and fixed the tape over the door of one of my wall cupboards....I'm rather pleased with the finished result too and am able to sit and admire all my wonderful talented friend's work while I am here typing at the computer....thank you all so much.

This is what you call perks of the job....these are trimmings off some gorgeous vintage lace I had to use for one of my customers.  He rebuilds and referbs old vintage caravans and I was honoured to be asked to make the curtains and blinds for his latest one.....I'm sure these bits will be put to good use in some creative moment [that is when Mojo gets back from her holidays!].

I can here you all saying..."so where are the body parts Annie?"

Here they are.  You will be pleased to know they are only dolly body parts.  :-)

It's the twins 1st birthday coming up next month....where has that time gone?!!!!.....Their mummy has asked if I will make them each one of my rag dolls so this is the work in progress.

I'm just waiting for a new bag of stuffing to arrive to finish off the bodies.  I promise I will show you more as they progress.  :-)

I hope you have enjoyed your visit today.  If you would like to leave me a little message I will do my best to pay you a return visit in between my sewing jobs today.

Hugs,

Annie x

Friday's smile....

Many of you have asked to see more wedding pics so today I am making you smile by sharing a few of the professional wedding pics with you.

You should be able to click on my collage to enlarge if you'd like a closer look.  As you can see the day was perfect and I have so very much to be proud of.

I also can't resist sharing this painting that Phoebe [only 3 years old!] did yesterday of Bananas in Pyjamas....who else could it be?

I think we have a little artist in the making don't you?

This was Lulu's painting.  A little more in the pointillism style wouldn't you say?  Maybe a budding Van Gogh?

Here is Steve playing in the ball pool celebrating his little friends birthday.

'Didn't realise these balls were quite this deep Nanny'

And finally here is a snap of the twins enjoying their holiday last week with Mummy and Daddy.  :-)

Such happy little munchkins.


I hope you have enjoyed my pics this week and you all have a wonderful weekend.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

Hello fellow WOYWWers.  It was a pretty manic week for me this last week catching up with all my customers sewing jobs but thankfully I'd cleared the decks by Friday and I was ably to chill out and enjoy the Olympics over the weekend....in between napping! [guess it was my body's way of telling me I'd done too much!]

This week has found me looking to be creative...the first time in ages really!  On my desk this week is some hand dumfing for you to see  :-)  Jo and I saw a wonderful article a while back in her Molly makes magazine written by one of our blogging friends Gretel Parker of Middle of Nowhere blog and of course I just had to have a go.

I chose to use some of the fab wool rovings I'd bought from Sara at Crafts of Texture .  It's a mixed colour rovings and I thought it would add extra character to my little creation.

"Can you tell what it is yet?"  :-)

Here is a basic shape....it reminds me of an early scan of a baby here  :-)

Hmmm yes it has ears.  :-)

Introducing my version of a little doglet.  I hope Gretel approves  :-)  I had so much fun making him so I must say a huge thank you to Gretel for the inspiration as it's been a looooong time since I hand felted anything and I have caught the bug again now.....thinking of a name for him/her now!

How about  Ruby or Rusty or Plum or even Beetroot?  :-)
Ideas on a postcard please  :-)

Now who might this be?  I told you I'd caught the bug didn't I?
My little doglet just needed a little friend didn't he and what a cute little kitty she is too.

Meet Candy the kitty.

Also made with gorgeous mixed coloured rovings bought from Sara.

The other things I wanted to share with you this week are these gorgeous 'fish and chip' jumpers and beanie hats made by one of my customers.  She was needing a bit of occupational therapy whilst poorly.... I just passed on the pattern and some of my odd balls of wool and what a brilliant job she has done with it.

I would like to add that the deadline for getting these jumpers in by is coming up so make sure you get any finished jumpers over to Dawn as soon as possible. Do check out her blog for more details.

Thanks for calling by today.  If you leave me a little hello comment I will do my best to do a return visit.

Have a great week.

Hugs,

Annie x

A few more garden treasures....

I snapped my lavender over the weekend to change my blog appearance but this morning I felt the need to snap a few more of the gorgeous flowers around the garden to share with you.

Aren't they just gorgeous?  Have a happy Funday Monday.  :-)

Blog changes...

I walked out in the garden this morning and noticed my lavender was at it's very best and was alive with bees.

Here you can see one of the busy bees.  I just love the colour of this lavender so of course it was time to change my blog colour scheme.....hope you like it.  Don't forget to check out my Friday's smile post below, that I posted this morning to start your weekend with a grin on your face.

Hugs,
Annie x

The funny side of a beautiful day....

Happy Friday to you all.  I've just a few snaps that I hope will make you smile today.  Even on a perfect day there were moments to cause more than a giggle or two.....

They say 'start them young' but maybe not this young eh?....I will add Sam wasn't actually allowed to drink any even if it was his Mummy and Daddy's wedding!

Here are the twinnies busting some moves on the dance floor with Mummy and Daddy [ in their PJs by this time but too excited to sleep]  :-)  They loved the music and all the sparkly lights.

Even beautiful little flower girls have to take a nap from time to time  :-)

As you can see we had many moments to make us all smile last Saturday...these were just a few of them that I thought you'd like to share.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

Hello to all my wonderful Wednesday blog hoppers.  As you know it's been a really exciting and eventful week for me and I know a lot of you wanted to see a few more snaps of my beautiful daughter's wedding so I've put together a collage of a few of the family's snaps for you to share [if you click on the pic you should be able to look closer if you want to].  It was a perfect day, the sun shone and everything went to plan.....but, of course, rather too quickly.  We won't have professional pics back for a couple of weeks but aren't digital cameras just wonderful?

 

And on my desk today is.....

 [no pics cos it's all pretty boring and I know all you really came to see is the wedding pics  :-) ]

• curtains...needing shortening
• trousers...needing shortening
• tops...needing taking up on the shoulders and taking in at the sides
• a bridesmaids dress... needing major alterations from a size 18 down to about a size 12! [yes, miracles do happen here!]
• and an evening dress....needing shortening

So as you can see life is very quickly back to normal for me and it will all get done....slowly and surely  :-)

Thanks for popping by.  I will do my best to pay you a return visit so please leave me a little 'hello' comment.
Hugs,
Annie x