The week

The van went to it's new owner.

My eldest asked me to.......

...cut his hair.

We had to have our eldest cat (the black and white one) put to sleep. That now leaves two. We also lost a chicken the next morning.

I bought more hand spun wool.

I prepped strawberries for jam.

I also had my first driving lesson, but ssshhhh, it's a secret.

Not sure all these ups and downs are good!

New Card

New card completed yesterday - in the shop along with the brown cat cards (finally ;o) )

10/10/10

My darling Hubby's birthday is today - 10/10/10, what a date! I am so, so happy with his card. The campervan is the exact colour of our van...and I made it so he can use it as a badge too :o). Piccie of his cake - organic except for the sprinkles, as I didn't have 37 candles in the house. I love how the organic icing sugar makes this gorgeous pale gold colour - lovely (although extremely sickly).

I had some yogurt and some coconut milk that needed using up so I mixed them together with a little sugar and made ice-cream.

I've just finished a felt food order, so thought I'd finish these cards too. I'll get these in the shop tomorrow as the light isn't good enough to get a decent photo.

I've been struggling this last week with my mood/anger. I frightens me some times the anger that seems to build inside me so I've been trying to write things down in my journal. It seems to help for a little but I think I need to work through quite a few things which seem to bubble to the surface. I have been brave though and posted my cheque for the green parent weekend.

Wow....

....I know I had the kids today, but I've managed to get loads done. I normally have to send hubby out with them for the day when I want to do this much, but I've just plodded on, while making lunch/tea, painting, inspecting lego pieces, looking at scripts, doing the loo run, checking out the artwork, etc. Above a set of 4 mini halloween bags that I made with a fat quarter that I've had for years waiting for me to do something with it. Not much point in it sitting there so bags it is.

Two more lots of bunting. Purply colours and black and white above.

Two fabric trees (one still inside out and one half way between). I'll attach felt leaves to these to make my autumn trees.



The inners for the san pro order I have at the minute. Just need to put the poppers on them now and then I can get them sent off.



Three beetles cut out ready to make some more bags with. I even had the iron out to iron the bunting so all the little bags got ironed as well!!! (I don't iron clothes so it's a rarity that it's out).

Paper bags ready for the craft fair at the end of the month. I'd like a Handmade Haven rubber stamp eventually, so I can stamp the bags.

And, just because we're VW mad in this house - a little treat with my earnings (how nice it is to say that too). While we were out yesterday I managed to crochet 2 head bands while hubby was driving.

Hope you all managed to do something you enjoy today, too.

Felt and buttons and bits

I made the green keyring last night - I just love all those buttons. It should go in the Misi/Etsy shops - think I'll have to do it straight after I've finished here otherwise it will end up on my keys.

Anyway, before hubby went to work he asked me to make him a felt bag/case for his phone. He wants an iron cross on the front and a drawstring top. I've made the bag part but I'm going to get him to draw me the iron cross bit as I'd hate to get it wrong (he's very big into old VWs and this is one of the prominent symbols) so I'll hopefully show you that tomorrow.

This evening I've also made the CND symbol keyring (after checking whether it is copyrighted) and I've started another button thing - not sure whether this one will be a brooch or a keyring. I'lll definitely be making the CND bit into brooches as well as I'm really pleased with how the first one turned out. I'm going to do different colours as well as I didn't just want to do the black/white one.