*** I will be away on Saturday 11th July. Orders placed will not be held up, they will be acknowledged on Sunday and posted on Monday.***

Keyring trial

I have started experimenting with a new keyring design, this one is a work in progress that I am not entirely happy with but it has been a good starting point. The pictures aren't great as I missed the best of the light, but hey, they are better then nothing. Sometimes I find I have to just start making something, even if I know it isn’t quite right, so that I can work through what it needs to make it right. So this is stage one, hopefully I will be more happy with stage two!

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summer showers

It’s been a wet couple of day here and I’ve got soaked a few times on my bike going to and from work. I don’t really mind when I’m coming home, but I do think that it is the reason why I now seem to have a summer cold, hopefully it won’t last long.


Time at the moment seems to be filled with home things, but I have just listed the first of a brand new size notebook in my etsy shop. This one is larger, it is approximately 17.5 x 25.0 cm and is just waiting to be filled with all your notes.
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dust

It's a lovely sunny sunday evening and I am certainly ready for a sit down with my needle and sewing. Not yet though, and I'm not sure I'll be able to keep my eyes open for long! Here are some of the things we have been up to this weekend, my brain isn't working properly enough to put much more than a list:
- spent a lot of saturday at Holly's school summer fair, we were helping on the cake and ice-lolly stall (yes we did help out even more by buying and eating some!)
- Knocked the plaster off two walls on our landing, filling the whole house with dust despite all the doors being closed
- ripped out the first of three door frames and put in a new one (this part was stuart not me)
- did my four mile run
- and my newest little notebook made it into a treasury, thanks woowootwo!
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new skirt

Do you remember this post from a couple of weeks ago where I showed you some new bargain fabric that I was intending on making into a skirt? Well here it is! All done and finished and I've even worn it a few times already, I've just been rubbish at taking photos. (Holly took these!)

It is a very simple skirt with a gathered waistband, so it wasn't too hard to make although there were a couple of constraints that the fabric itself threw up. One of these was the pattern repeat, I wanted the back seam to match up so the width of my skirt had to fit in with this but luckily it was in a workable place so that was ok. The other one was that because the pattern on this fabric was a border, I had to work from the bottom up and do the hem first rather than last otherwise I would have ended up cutting off a lot of the pattern.

I am pleased with how this turned out, and as I didn't need to cut the fabric into lots of pieces, it means that when I'm bored of it I can cut it up and make it into something else! Not bad for a total cost of around £2.00!

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A scorcher!

We are in the middle of a heatwave here in London, it is lovely to be seeing so much of the sun and I only wish I wasn’t indoors at work for most of the day.

This new notebook has now been listed, I’m quite excited about this little experiment and love how the denim texture fits with the print of my artwork. Other new items are still stuck inside my head trying to get out, but I’m fending them off at the moment as I’m continuing to sew the top of Holly’s quilt. So far she loves it, and has helped me by following the pattern and finding the next pieces for me to sew.

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new

It's 8pm here and still blisteringly hot, we have had a great weekend of weather. This is partly why I haven't managed to post until now, we have been out enjoying the sunshine. Holly and I mixed walking (and scooting) along the river Thames with a spot of shopping and a picnic lunch yesterday, oh and of course an ice-cream came into the equation too! Poor Stuart was working so missed out, but we have made up for that today and spent lots of time in the garden. Holly had fun bathing her polly pocket dolls in a lasagne dish, while I tackled the hedges and flowerbeds. We ended the day with a dinner that included fresh lettuce and the first peas from the allotment. And now Holly is in bed, and I have managed to list these two new notebooks, not before time as my shop quantity had diminished to a single lonely one. I hope you have all had a great weekend too
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