My treats

I treated myself to some books before Christmas  and look forward to doing most of the projects :)

 The patchwork bag book was a Christmas gift from my lovely sister, she knows what I like :)

The cute little tin with doll was in the sale from Elephant in my Handbag http://www.elephantinmyhandbag.com/gifts.php#!/~/category/id=3660080&inview=product30372460&offset=0&sort=priceAsc 

Some beautiful fabric to keep me going when my hand is out of plaster.

I have so many things I want to sew running around my head it's so painful lol

Starting again

I have been so bad and not kept up with my blog but that is going to change in 2014 :)
Not a good start to the new year as I had another op just before Christmas so my hand is in plaster until 22nd of Jan.  My son want to write on my plaster so what did he write but 'James is awesome' :O boy's ! haha.

Although 2013 start so well, my daughter gave birth to my lovely Grandson on the 6th of Jan 2013 and I was there to see him come into the world :)  it then went down hill hence the lack of blogging.

I won't go into too much detail but my daughter is now on her own with my little man but on the good side is she has a house very close to me now :)  My OH lost his job again but is now back in work so I don't have to work all the over time I had to do now.

I have done some sewing and I am selling my bags in my friends fabric shop Buttons and Bow in Belper I also sew for the Derbyshire Air Ambulance charity shop.

I have signed up for Bag of the month club http://www.sewsweetness.com/p/bag-of-month-club.html where each month I get a designer bag pattern.  I signed up in Dec so only paid £21 for the 6 pattern, this months pattern is from http://www.sewsweetness.com/ which I am looking forward to doing as soon as I can.  I have been going through all my fabric and getting everything ready :)  I love this 1st pattern :)

 I have made a big decision to quit working as a cleaner at the school my son goes to and start concentrating on my sewing instead not only because I can earn as much sewing as I can a cleaner but also for the sake of my body, Im not getting any younger lol.

Well I hope to share lots of projects soon and will catch up with all my neglected friends.

Best wishes and Happy New Year xx

Sue

I won a beautiful chair

I entered a compition in the Simply Homemade magazine to win a chair and I won :)

I enter quite a few comps but have never won any thing as nice as this

Faded Grey was giving this to a lucky winner.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Faded-Grey-Home-Interiors/301066683272446

Liz upcycles some wonderful furniture and smaller wooden gifts, please take a look :)

She gives 100% customer service as I had to get her help when the courier let us both down.

I was thrilled to bits when it arrived as it is so much nicer that it looked in the pic's and it is now pride of place at my pc desk as it is so comfi to sit on.

I feel like a Queen :)

I would also like to thank Sarah from the Simply Homemade mag http://www.simplyhomemademag.com/ for all her wonderful help too :)

 

Bedroom swap

I have been busy swapping rooms with my son now my lovely daughter has moved into her new home with her partner.

We live in a small 2 bed cottage so we had put a partition wall in the bedroom for my son and daughter.

This all had to go :)  I luckly kept the pine doors to the wardrobe and they are now back on for me to use, I need them to hide all my mess and clothes lol.

My son has a new bed, he hated his cabin bed.  All that it left to do is decorate but Im not doing it till after christmas so it gives me time to work out what colour to paint my room :) so many idea's in my head :)

start of the bedroom swap

Daughters side

shelves removed

All the mess and carpet to be removed

My bed before the swap

 My bed after, two tone bedroom lol

Wardrobe doors put back on

 Chest of drawers moved into my room

My son making himself comfi on his new bed



 Well here I am again, late as always lol.
I have not been sitting doing nothing just very busy as always, where does the time go :(

 I have been working so much I was thinking of setting my bed up at the school where I work lol.

I have managed some sewing, these are a few of the things I have done (or started and yet to be finished).

I have orders for doll clothes at the moment and this is one of the dresses I remembered to get a pic of.
The back has velcro fastening but I decided to add the little buttons so it looks better :)

My Darling Daughter is going to be a mum :) so these are some bits I have made for her.
A changing mat made with lovely soft fleece backing and a micro-fibre towel sandwiched in the middle, it can be folded into her change bag so my little Prince (yes she is expecting a boy) will not have to lie on those hard change tables when they are out :)  Also made 3 burp clothes and a wash cloth with the sraps left over.
I am helping her move to her new home with her man next week, I will miss her so much as she is moveing to Leicestershire but then it is only 40mins drive so not too far lol.



 

 

 

 

In between work and home I an embroidering this :)  I have to get to the school and hour before I start work or I will have no chance of parking so I take this and do a little every day, I have almost finished the letters then I will do all the green and save my fav part the roses till last :)

Thes are peg bags I made for my lovely daughter-in-law (red with heart lining) and my one day son-in-law (he is a big kid lol) he wanted this dino fabric. The bags can be hung on the line while hanging washing out.

My daughter is very lucky as Ben is very domesticated which is good as she is not lol so I know she will be in very good hands :)

I had a few hrs spare (very rare) so decided to make a wrapping paper roll holder as my other one was too small.  I put a pocket on the front to hold pens and tags.

 

I also had some of these phonebox bits from when I made a bag that I could not throw so I will be making some phone charger bags and phone covers with them but for now this is as far as it got.



bag fronts finished and one phone holder with micro fleece lining done :)

Where does time go?

I am back AGAIN lol.

I have had such a busy few months.

I made this little telephone box cushion cover for my Aunt M in Canada after she saw the one I did for a craft stall.

I used some t-towels I brought from Wilco's

The cushions below are what I made with the others in the pack

Front

Back

No.2 cushion front

Back

Both together :)

My son left junior school so I was very busy making leaving gifts for the teachers, so busy I only just made it up the school to give them to everyone as I was sewing up to the last second lol.

I made the 4 main teachers these lunch bags (I only got a pic of this one) I used Pink Penguins tutorial  http://ayumills.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/tutorial-lunch-bag.html

I also made some these camara cases http://keyka.typepad.com/my_weblog/camera-case-wristlet-pdf-sewing-pattern.html

Then I made some of these from the pattern I brought from Jane's blog http://projectsbyjane.blogspot.co.uk/

As you can see it's been ages since I blogged so this is all over the place, sorry lol.

Hi everyone :) 

This is just a quick note to let you know Im still alive lol.

I have been so busy at work I have not had time to sew much :)
I have now been asked by the head of my son's school to make 30 tote bags with a front pocket so the reception class kiddies can put their work into and hang on their pegs, tey had a revamp in the class so now have no room for drawers to keep their stuff in.
 I have been busy also sewing the year 6 leavers gifts and as my son is going to high school this yr too I am making some gifts for his lovely teachers.  I just glad it is a very small village school so only a few things to make lol.
 I can not post pic's yet as some read my blog :)

I will be back soon to show the tote bags Ive made for the school (just as soon as Ive sewn them up) I have so far cut out 15 bags and waiting on some more fabric to arrive so I can get on with the rest, each bag is different and is a school related i.e. rulers, crayons and drawings :)

Hope to keep up soon xxx

GIVEAWAY WINNER :)

Hi and so sorry for the long delay :(

I have had a pig of a weekend and start to the week but at last I have picked (well little geek did) picked a winner for my giveaway.

Well done Gill http://dosierosie-gillthompson.blogspot.com/

Please email me with your address :)

I have decided to make a little something as a sorry for the delay gift for

Helen4071

Gill

Tammy

Grace

and Claire

Please can you send me your addresses so I can post you your little gifts :)

Thank you so much for your support and I will try to be a better blogger but this time of year always gets me muddled :(

ROLL ON SUMMER  lol. xxx