No need to send out a search party...life is just completely bonkers at the minute ;o). I thought learning to drive would make my life easier and give me more time, but in reality it's opened up so many doors for me that I actually have no time to waste any more. It's fab I tell you...just fab!
The adventures then. The first two pictures are from our few days at Center Parcs. We had a very full week, with ducks, moorhens, pheasants, squirrels, great tits and pidgeons visiting us at the door in a morning. The squirrels used to listen for the door opening and then come and stand on it's back legs with its front feet up on the glass if there was no food. They move too fast when you want a picture, hence the photo from a distance ;o). We were back on the Friday ready for my first ever craft fair on the saturday.
Here's a piccie of my stall. I need to get some proper stands to hang things on now, as I've got at least 4 more fairs in the next few months.
And just because I'm British, here's the obligatory snow picture for you. Not a patch on last year, but now I'm driving I don't think I'm that bothered to be honest ;o).
Hopefully it won't be as long before I'm sharing more adventures with you all.
Very busy at the minute but in a lovely way (even enjoying some housework, sshhh). The stress of having the builders in was far greater than I realised, but they are gone now and everything else is great. The above are the two snugglies I had an order for. All posted now.
I made these felt tin covers last night - just need another tin for the green one!
After a quick look in a charity shop today I came away with these three doilies for 50p - fabulous. This is what they look like now......
Definitely enjoying getting ready for this craft fair - far more than I thought I would. June is a month of birthdays, so I need to be fairly organised (hehehe) so I'm not making cards at the last minute because of stocking up on pieces for the fair. I can live in hope ;-).
17 peace/cnd felt brooches.
21 button brooches
1 felt tin
I could really do with a few more hours each day, but anyway......Here's some scotch eggs that I made - some of them split but they still tasted ok.
And here's the "experiment" that JJ made while I was making said scotch eggs (egg shells, beaten egg, flour, breadcrumbs and some orange peel he took out of my little compost pot, just in case you wanted the recipe ;-) ).
Trying out flatbreads on my new griddle. Also great for mini pancakes.
More brooches for the craft fair. I've got a huge list of things I want to make, definitely need more hours. It's been a busy week - the builders are now gone, yay, so we've got Aaron and Nathan in their rooms now, which meant a trip to Ikea on Thursday. Remember the Ikea advert on the TV with the car overloaded with stuff - well imagine that with a campervan ;-). We drove home very carefully. The house is in desparate need of sorting out but I don't have the motivation as I just don't know where to start (although the wardrobe and chest of drawers are now out of the kitchen!). The garden needs sorting too.......
I have just finished the handmade soap tutorial (next post down) - hopefully I remembered everything! It took so long as the soap took 4 days to set. Hope it's ok for you all. Above is some treasures I got on our first bootsale of the year. We also managed to find a proper typewriter for the kids to use for £4!!!! Best buy of the day in my opinion.
Busy making stock for the craft fair - also got red and purple of these nearly finished, then a huge list of things that I would like to get done.
