And then there was one....

Do you remember this pic?

Well they were still sitting there yesterday morning but then we had little visitors [and a few big ones too]...

Little Lulu just loves her Uncle Mark especially at story time.

Phoebe is a jigsaw whizz kid and just loves doing a big floor puzzle to impress her Aunty Gina.

Here's the latest pic of 'little' Steve with Amy.  I'm sure she must have developed extra muscles since she had him.  Amy is back to a size 8 now and must feel pretty clever at 'making' that little man and feeding him til now on just breast milk!  He is such a good baby too.

The little dolls were a huge success.  Even though Nanny Annie had intended keeping them here for all our Grandbabies to play with they were so well loved that two had to go home with two little girls  :-)

They are just the perfect size to be dangled by the hand and cuddled  :-)  There were tears at the thought of leaving them here [what a huge compliment] so Nanny will make some more now :-)......I know, I'm just a big softie but that's what Grandbabies are for....spoiling  :-)

My family is growing...

I try to find a picture every Friday to put smiles on faces ready for the weekend.  I'm not sure this one will do it for you but it makes me smile  :-)

You will have seen that I have been making dollies and that I had bought material to make covers for our two new 'V' cushions for the Grandbabies to use.  Here is how my table is looking this morning....

The covers are made and you can see the 3 dollies I have now made have made themselves at home here  :-)

My latest Doll is a little boy one as you can see and I think he's rather cute.  I'm planning to possibly make a few dollies to go in our blog shop so if you are interested in buying one I would be happy to make you one to order.

I do hope my pic has made you smile and that you all have a super weekend.  Stay warm and well.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW.....

These weeks are flying by and here we are at another fun Wednesday link up with over 100 crafters who expose their messy desks creative spaces to all who call by.  I love Wednesdays.

This week has seen a house move for our daughter A, her hubby and their lovely family....long may they be happy in their new home [It's a rather gorgeous house they have moved to  :-) ].  We had a lovely time Sunday helping them set up with a telly wall bracket, window blinds, plumbing in and setting up of washing machine and and tumble dryer......it's what Dads do  :-) [Whilst I helped make lunch and played with my gorgeous grandchildren  :-) ].

Monday morning was totally wasted spent measuring curtain fabric for one of my customers to finally decide that we couldn't do what was wanted with the material she had brought.....big repeat of pattern, 2 pieces of same fabric but both different so patterns didn't match, insufficient fabric to match patterns to make double width curtains out of......yes, a nightmare!!  An hour plus wasted and still nothing!!  Guess customer won't want to pay for our wasted time.  Now you can see why we don't like making curtains.

We did make up for it though and had another fun afternoon with our friend T.  Thanks for the scrummy cake Jo.  Both Jo and T created little characters with socks and I started to make another little rag doll.

Here you can see the chaos on my table this morning.

• 1 finished doll
• 1 new doll in the making.....blue/yellow fabric this time.
• 2 packs of Pro Markers used for doll face details [never used for card making though  :-) ]
• 2 new pieces material [1 blue and 1 pink with teddies on] to cover 2 new 'V' cushions to be used for grandbabies.
• 2 pair of pink snippers [I'm never satisfied with just one :-) ...in fact I have them by every machine I use normally! ] , scissors, piece of tailors chalk.
• ball of wool used for doll hair.

I put curly hair on my little finished dolly but my girls didn't like it [comments about short curly hair were chuckled about!].....so I took it off.

Here she is with her new hair style and I have to agree with my girls that she looks much nicer now.......what do you think?

This week I've also made pockets for more little African dresses.  I've now sewn them on and nearly made the next 7 dresses .

Here you can see that I'm hoping to sew the last of the bias strips in place today on 4 of the latest little dresses.

Well that's about all I've got to share with you today.  I hope you've all had a creative week....I shall do my best to call by to see what you've all been up to but if I fail hopelessly then please forgive me cos life here does get rather hectic at times......hmmmm actually quiet moments are rather rare  :-)

Please leave me a little 'hello' comment before popping over to visit our wonderful organiser, Julia.

Hugs for you all,

Annie x

Your Friday's smile.......

I bet you're smiling now  :-)  Here is the twins having some tummy time.  What a lovely age they are now.....lots of chuckles and they only get a little grumpy when they are tired or hungry.  Such happy babies......long may it last.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW.....

Good morning to all who pass by here  :-)  Brrrrrrrrr it's a cold one.  I hope you're all tucked up in the warm today and all those that have been feeling poorly are now feeling much better.

I have a few pics today to show you what has been going on in the world of Annie this week...

Monday was another fab fun day with, much older sister, Jo and our friend T.  Jo and I set to in the morning and cut out another 14 dresses with the latest donated bedding parcels.....Jo has already made loads from the 88 dresses we cut out from the Saturday mammoth cutting session that featured in my celebration fun quiz [alas my work load has been manic the last two weeks so I haven't manage to make even one little dress].....

For those that haven't already seen....Crafty Womble was the lucky winner and these little parcels are now winging their way to her.  Thanks to all that joined in the fun.

We had a fun afternoon catching up with news, giggling and crafting [drinking coffee and eating chocolate!].

I cut out and started to sew a little dolly made using an 'Oh Sew Dollin' pattern that I bought in 2009 and hadn't got round to using.  I love dolly making and really enjoyed making the latest Mr Tumble lookie likey so thought I'd give my new pattern a go.  My  youngest daughter A bought me the gorgeous tiny print fabric pack to dress the little dollies in so here you can see the pretty pink one I've chosen for my first dolly.  She is a bit fiddly when it comes to the stuffing and I still have to give her a character with her facial features and hair etc so she has still to grow on me.  I shall be adapting the pattern so she is suitable to be played with and not just a collectible because I know that certain little people in my life just may want a play with her.    Speaking of which.......

This is how we finished off a wonderful Monday.  My two gorgeous girls, Brent and my 5 very special little people came to spend the evening with us.  Our room was filled with fun, laughter and lots and lots of love. [from the left the babies are Sam [twin], Steve [youngest], Phoebe [eldest], Louise and Lexi [twin].  This picture really makes me smile.....I'm such a proud mum and nanny and I really love my family times.

Most of you have left me lovely comments about the baby blanket I've been knitting so here is a quick update on it's progress.....

I finished knitting the 30 squares and laid them out on my table to space out the colours. [sorry about the poor lighting]

I stitched the squares into rows and then the rows of squares together in my chosen pattern.

I have since spent my evenings crocheting the border round the outside.....I like to do 2 rows of each colour in double crochet to give a nice wide band and as you can see last night I finished it  :-)  I'm so thrilled with the finished result too.  Can't you just see a summer baby wrapped in those sherbety colours?











I hope you will all leave me a little 'hello' comment before popping over to see Julia and link yourselves in to the fun.  I hope each and every one of you will stay warm and well and have a wonderfully creative week.

Hugs,

Annie x

And the winner is......

As promised I am here today to announce the winner of my celebration fun quiz.  It took a while for you girls to raise your numbers to be close to just how many this Scissor Sister's team can cut out in probably no more than 5 hours....the rest was spent drinking coffee and laughing  :-)

We work like clockwork when we get together and can usually know exactly what the other one needs doing next to get the job done.  Quilt covers get spread out on my table and very quickly we decide whether to make lots of little dresses or a few less of rather larger dresses....we aim to make dresses of all sizes so that all girls can have a special dress.  We have plain fabrics and patterned and do our best to team up the colours so that each dress makes the little girls feel special.  We also cut out all our own bias strips from the sheeting because it is softer and nicer to wear than the bought stuff.  We give each one a pocket or two....just because we can plus all little girls like a pocket and you will have seen the latest ones Jo has appliqued on her blog [I think we have made so many dresses now that it makes them more fun for us to make if we use our skills to make them all a bit different].

Right, enough waffling.  I guess what you really came here for is to find out who won.  Well.....

The actual number of cut out dress packs you could see on that table was....

88

So the winner is.....drum roll please......

Crafty Womble

Well done to you.  Can you please email me your snail mail addy and I will get a little something in the post to you asap.

Thank you to all who joined in the fun.

Hugs to you all,

Annie x

Mr Tumble is finished...

You will have seen on my Wednesday's post that I had another order for one of my Mr Tumble lookie likey dolls.  

Well, here he is finished.  I promised to put a pic up to show his new owner before I send her an invoice so I really hope she is pleased with him.  :-)

You can see I have put felt 'buttons' on the front because he is for a 2 year old little girl. 

Getting closer but not there yet and a smile or two.....

I think my yesterday's clue helped a few.  We have a guess or two in the right area now but still no correct answer as yet.

Today's Clues.....In this decade dolls came from the vegetable patch, a dividing line fell in a European country and music was being made by Duran Duran, Dire Straits, Genesis and Queen to name but a few.

Good luck folks x

 I missed to post my 'make you smile' post last Friday so to make up for it I have a couple of snaps to make you smile today.

'What a mum will do to amuse two babies at once'

.....M was definitely not going to let the twins watch Mr Tumble but it seems that needs must and in fact they certainly seem to be loving all the bright colours.....I can see orders for two more Mr Tumble dolls coming next can't you?

I know this one will cause a few Awwwwws.  It came via text to my phone with the caption....

'I'm in love with my beautiful boy'

....and who can blame her?  A says Steve is the easiest of her three babies to care for.  I have to agree with her cos he eats and sleeps and smiles and makes gorgeous noises when he's awake. 

I hope these have put a smile on your faces for the weekend and that you will all have another guess in my celebration quiz.  I will be back Monday to name the winner......good luck x

Hugs,

Annie x