Nearly Forgot!

I nearly forgot to blog today!!! So would have failed my self imposed 30 day blog challenge. Been rather busy. Can't say what but it was to do with Christmas & Presents!!!

Anyway I have come up with a few more designs





plus I have a few more different ideas in the design book.

Over at the Potting Shed we are approaching our Autumn Swap opening day, I recieved my pressie in the post today, but I have to be good and wait!!!!!

Alone!

I sometimes get fed up of being alone. Don't get me wrong I enjoy my own company but I love to chat too. Being a weekend you would expect (hope) people would be around but nope! Hubby has had to go into work, again. He is so overworked its not true. I would never complain, as he is the man who earns the "Crusty Bread" but sometimes I worry as he works exceptionally long days. The company he works for has a new man at its head, he was an accountant and we all know what accountants always see....... the bottom line, not so much the care of the work force!

Tori is busy doing her homework in her room, she is quite motivated after getting a 'B' for her last assignment. All I can hear is the tap of the keyboard and 'Disney songs', she does love disney!!Lol!

So I have to keep out of mischief!!!!

So out came my bag of materials and with a cut, cut here and a snip, snip there



I made another chicken



this is for a friend, who I know does not read my blog, but has been going through a rough period having lost her job .



Looks good in a frame. They are quite fiddly to do so keep me occupied. I love them cos they seem to have a personality once put together! They make me laugh!

I want to do a cat, but I can't seem to get it right! I like the shape of this one



but it needed layers so I added the stripes, but I can't get the face right, in fact the more I look at it the less character it has. To be honest it has to many 'little' bits which means it takes an age to put together and now I've seen it on my blog I don't like it!!!
So my crafting friends, suggestions please. I love cats and would love a patchwork cat, with character, I need to simplify it, I think!

Knitting & Crocheting with a Difference

I was pretty bushed after yesterday's drive so after going out this morning and doing everything I had too, I came back and fiddled!
I have been trying a bit of jewellery making and I adore the effect that knitting and crocheting wire creates. The end results are very delicate. Please excuse the old and wrinkly hand as neither of my daughters where about to use as hand models!! I also use an old card table with a green baize top which has seen better days, but I can use it by the computer where the better light is!

I thought I would have a go at a ring

first you do a few chain and some single crochets,



looks a right mess! Then you do some more



until its long enough to go round your finger



pull prod, squash and pinch until your happy with the shape and then join up to make a ring!



this actually makes a nice thumb ring, but couldn't get a good enough pic. I then decided to add some beads to the next one.



Ta da!

The bracelets I have been making for awhile now, I do like them.



I have been trying out something with this, but I may tell you about that another day!

Purple Chicken!

Having spent hours and hours (yes I really did) doing housework, it had got in a bit of a state and I needed to move stuff (furniture) around, I decided I wanted to 'play'!

So got this



and created this



I have a chicken again lol!

Stash!

Living in an 180yr old cottage there is very little storage room, (well people didn't own much all those years ago) you have to create your own, build cupboards under stairs, add cupboards etc. etc. Bearing this in mind my lounge which was once two rooms and is now one, measures 13ft wide (at its widest) and 22ft 6inches long. Has a large fireplace in it, a large sofa and two chairs, a old fashioned pine computer desk a filing cabinet and these.....



a large cupboard under the stairs, full to the brim of 'stuff' I made the cupboard doors with assistance from K, you can tell can't you!



this holds all our games and puzzles and was picked up for a bargain at a barn sale!



My mum let me have this, it is mine and my sisters old toy cupboard and now holds all the computer stuff, family bibles, paper etc etc.and a teeny weeny bit of craft stuff!

Then there is this...



from good old IKEA, you get an idea whats in it by the stuff on top! Then you open the already bulging doors to this




the red box at the bottom is full of toys for when my friend pops round with her daughter, the exercising thingy is just there! The boxes are full of magazines and things then when you pull out the bags you get lots and lots of this



now what do you do with all the left over bits of wool? Shall I tell you? You visit this blog and make a scrap scarf!

Cool huh!!!

Lights, Craft & Tango!

Lots going on today so I have to make this a quickish post!
K is coming home from Uni for the night for mothers day! Which is super, I always look forward to seeing her! My old friend C, is coming to stay for the night with her family, you may remember her from the wedding back in May last year!


The equestrian lights have become an issue again! I can't believe this is happening, since they angled the lights down they have been alot better, and although we don't like them we could live with them.
These are the lights angled down


Suddenly this last week up they went and we are bathed in a sea of light again!!
Angled up.

I think you can see the difference, even though they are not good pics!
Hubby went down and had a chat and apparently the light bulbs keep blowing! When they got the 'cherrypicker' in (cost £500, each time) they angled the lights up to change the bulb and loads of water came out, so this is why they are angled up again!! Hubby said to them had they got a specialist in, in the first place they wouldn't be having this problem, they sort of agreed!! The ironic thing is I contacted the Equestrian Lighting specialist, told him what had been happening and he roared laughing and said it made 'good bedtime reading' and is prpared to visit if they wish!

I have been crafting,





but what will it make, well I'm sorry you will have to wait and see!!

Finally I ordered some Cards from Joanna Twinn at Higgledy Piggledy. I have had some before and love them. They are great to jot a note on and post.





I am convinced she modelled these on my Tango!

Hrmph!

Having been so positive about my last op,my positive vibes are rapidly running out! I sadly have still got the lower abdominal pain which at times can be unbearable, then bearable, due to the policy that runs at my GP surgery it is nigh on impossible to see the same GP each time I go, so we are having 'communication' and 'understanding' problems anyway I have at long last managed to get an appointment for next Monday with 'MY' GP! It will be interesting to see what he says!!!

Anyway on a positive note of other things going on around my house..... I have been spending money! Well what better way to perk you up!


This book cost me 1p plus postage from Amazon Marketplace. I bought it specifically for one item that I saw inside it, but, when I had a good look through I found quite a few other things I liked, especially one in particular which I have to keep secret!

Then yesterday I recieved another parcel in the post full of



Red Banana's!
As my greenhouse had been hit so badly by the cold especially as the heaters had decided not to work! I treated myself to some new plants, but of course they have been in the post during this very cold spell. Although they looked good and healthy and had a good root ball, I was a bit concerned, but I warmed up the soil watered with warm water and kept them in the house and this morning they look alot better

They shall be staying inside with me!
The greenhouse heaters, are, after much monitering doing the job I bought them for. The frost stat setting was a load of rubbish, for 2 very cold nights starting at 6pm I went down and adjusted the setting to get the temp in the greenhouse I required. I went down again at 7pm, then 8pm and finally 9pm each night re-adjusting as necessary. I think we have cracked it as so far the temps are holding at about 5C.

Mud, mud, glorious mud!

I just thought I would show you the mess the electicity company made of our road.


Because they had their lorries parked at varying places down the road all the other traffic had to go around them. This made tractors horseboxes etc etc cut huge grooves into our verges.


So what, you may think, well, when this drys out and because there will be no grass left people consider this the road, so the road widens and the verge gets smaller. Which is fairly obvious in the picture just above.You can see where the new grooves have been cut and how hard a flat it is by the red car (mine). When we first moved here we could park with the front door in line with the telegraph pole, now as you see we can't!!!

A few wet days and the cats go stir crazy and start being very mischievious!



But hopefully with lighter mornings and eventually warmer days spring is just around the corner, well the crocus think it is!


Now what do you think I have planned for this?


If it works I will show you!

Time to Blog!

Have actually been doing a little bit and actually felt like blogging today.

So even though I haven't been well I have still been knitting, sewing and otherthings. So what do you do with pompoms?



You make them into decorations, a snowman and a robin!




aren't they cute!

The linen , thread and sequins are being turned into Christmas cards....



the only problem is I have run out of linen so until I feel up to driving that far they are on hold!!!!

I started yesterday going out for a little walk, up to the phonebox and back, takes me about 20 mins. By the time I got back my chest was killing me, but its not this morning, so will go for a walk again in a mo, if my chest is bad again when I get back I will dispatch myself to the Docs!

Back in a day or two!

Pegged out on the Sofa!!!!!

Remember these



well they have arrived at there destination so I can now show you what I did....



all those beads where hand sewn as I had millions of them thanks to a parcel from Mrs Nesbit a while back!

Sew! I thought I would make another little lady and send it too the person closest to 9000 who comments in the chat box on the side, further down the page. So keep an eye on what number you are then tell me in the chat box, please!

The specialist has now put me on the largest dose of antibiotics I have ever been on in my life!!! I have to take 2 horse pills, 3 times a day for 2 weeks plus anti-inflammatory tablets !!!!!!!!! He believes I have an infection of Diverticulitis I have taken one full day and feel awful, so maybe good verses evil inside my body is beginning, I know one thing I will have no stomach or bowel lining left at the end of it. Anyway if the pain doesn't go, then I have to see him before my due October appointment, probably in 2 weeks time at the end of my course of tablets unless the pain gets worse.

The weather has been lovely and I have wandered down the garden a couple of times but find it too, uncomfortable to stand for too long, I even don't feel up to 'doing' anything outside which is probably just as well so I am working my way through our DVD collection, I think I have watched all the period dramas I own, and all the 'Catherine Cookson' DVD's I have which is 6, I shall have to work through all the rest now. I am knitting and will show you what in a short while! Off to curl up on the sofa again!