How much longer?

Don't think I can wait any longer, the green parent forum has been offline all afternoon for maintenance - starting to have palpatations waiting for it to come back online.

Bead Angel

Look what arrived in the post today - all the way from Portugal. Another wonderful mama from the LETS scheme on the Green Parent forum has been busy making these gorgeous bead Angels. Thank you so much L she is beautiful.

Beeswax and soft toffee

I ordered some beeswax off ebay 2 days ago and it arrived this morning. It smells absolutely gorgeous. Hopefully I'll have a recipe for some olive oil and beeswax lipbalm from the GP forum, and I would like to make some walnut candles with the kids that we saw in the Living Crafts magazine.

Here's a photo of the soft toffee that we made earlier. It was really easy but it's not really a toffee texture - not sure we'll make this one again (although I might have a fight with the rest of the family about that).

Cards and Scarf

We've had a busy day today. We were supposed to go swimming but the weather was so miserable we didn't fancy it, so instead we made cream toffee, I made 14 Christmas cards and then this evening I finished the scarf (they'll be a photo of that tomorrow as ds1 took it to bed with him). Now ds2 would like a scarf too - this is great as he isn't usually bothered by things I make at all. The kids also want to make some different sweets to give as presents so that's another one for the list.

Also, one of the lovely mamas off the Green Parent forum has posted a recipe for bath melts (with coca butter) so I might just have to add them to the list too.

More food, oven gloves and advent calendars

These are the play oven gloves ready for ds3 for Christmas. Very simple but hopefully effective.

This is the advent calendar I made for ds3 for Christmas last year. I bought the panel off Ebay and then sewed it together. My other boys have fabric advent calendars made by my Mum.

We now have another 2 bits of ravioli and a fried egg! Would like to do some more fruit/veggies but not sure how as these have all been made without patterns. We do have 3 strawberries that were knitted by a lovely mama on the GP forum.

Hat finished

Well I actually had enough wool to finish the hat I started yesterday...and it still doesn't fit me. I added extra stitches and adjusted the pattern slightly but I'm just not destined to have one in this gorgeous wool. Never mind - it just means that ds3 has the next size hat when the other green one is too small ;-).

I also finished the latest toadstool fairy order at the weekend - that's no. 11. And I think I've finally decided what I'm making for the Green Parent Forum season table swap as well.

Ordered More Wool

I love the freedom spirit wool so much I searched the internet last night, when I should have been going to bed, and found a few websites that stock it. I ordered some more of the green (or nature 514 as it is called) and some air 506 from oh sew simple. I thought they were very reasonably priced as well - £2.69 per 50g ball plus £1.30 p&p (for 4 balls). Lets hope they deliver quickly as I've started another hat (for me this time, so I've had to make it slightly bigger as I'm using this wool again).

Other projects I've got on the go are:-

• Christmas stocking for my unborn nephew
• Advent calendar for my unborn nephew
• Dressing up cloak for one of my son's friends
• Dressing up mask for another of my son's friends
• Season table swap gift for a member of the Green Parent Forum

I'd also like to make my youngest some oven gloves to go with his Christmas present, and we shall be making some handmade cards (blank inside so they can be sent) as a Christmas present for my wonderful Nan. There will be loads of other things in the run up to Christmas as well, but I'll talk about them as we go.

My first blog (eek!)

Well I have taken the plunge and decided to create a blog of my own. I frequent the Green Parent Forum where loads of the ladies on there have created their own blogs, so I finally plucked up the courage to give it a go. I have decided to keep it for the things I craft at the minute as the rest of my days are taken up with the boys, the hubby and the animals/house, and I would like this to be just for me. It may change in the future - we'll see how it goes.

http://thegreenparent.co.uk/forum