BOO!

halloween display

ditto

and a scary black cat for Halloween!

20 October 2012

 RIP Dave - my little brother would have been 58 today.  Here are the two oak trees I planted on his birthday 4 years ago.

And now..... just to get the blog up to date - here we are with projects up to the end of September.....

Started making this shaggy bracelet

close up showing all the lovely beads I am using.....

....... and showing a it more done.

The bathroom used to be pink.....

..... and now it's changing into turquoise, which is the colour it used to be before I painted it pink!

This was part of the Thornton Scarecrow Festival.... he was sitting just by the railings of the cemetery

mmmmmm nice buttons

And some recent pottery purchases

gravy boat

cup and saucer

plate

one of a set of cups, saucers and plates and large serving plate

cute cat...

crochet baby blanket

Grey Dagger Moth caterpillar - sitting on the decking

the start of a crochet cushion

mini book made from exciting Halloween scrapbook card

inside the mini book

another mini book

inside of same

Crochet square

The base for a rather lovely bracelet... more later

New Hello Kitty purse to replace the old Hello Kitty purse which had almost collapsed!

August already!

No blog posts for a while, but I haven't been idle.....

A few little paper flowers - I put glitter on one later and it looks FAB

Here is my latest wooden project.....

...... which was interrupted by Tinkerbell flicking this out from under a planter - poor little toad.  Well, I say 'little' he was ENORMOUS!

And here is my wooden project, its a raised vegetable garden.  Next time its stops raining I'll take a photo of it in situ with, hopefully, some seeds germinating.

My mum liked this wool so much - I made her a cushion with it.

A little knitting at the Bankfield Museum - there is a great exhibition there of a knitted garden.  We also knitted a little sheep, but the lady running the workshop didn't have stuffing or wool sewing needles.  He's still in pieces in my bag, but I did finish this flower.

My meercat is on the right - he's waiting at the bar for some clothes!

I didn't make this, but it is the first Thornton scarecrow I have seen.

Mini book - they were making these on Sunday Scrappers at the weekend.....

and another one....

and another.....

ditto!

Now this is exactly what it looks like!

And two make a pair.  They are educational aids for our student health visitor who qualified this week.  Pattern on Ravelry.

101 uses for a Joanne's bag........

A little crochet practice...

a friend found a link to a tutorial on these crochet celtic knots

and they are just so addictive.  They  measure 3 inches square.

And this one measures 9 inches square - using very very thick yarn.  I am going to felt it at a later date...

Unlucky Friday Thirteenth - I don't think so!

I found both these tea sets on my travels today, and two plates too.

And had a cup of coffee and a chat to a lovely lady in the coffee shop, who asked where I worked and I told her a doctors surgery and she promptly told me about her husbands illnesses. Didn't have the heart to tell her I am admin not medical!

Have been looking for more geometric designs for a while....

...and then find three on the same day!

How cool is this!

 And last week I also found another tea set....

with a milk jug and sugar bowl

and BLACK saucers

and side plates and a sandwich plate!

This is how one of the other beading ladies finished her bracelet!

This is mine finished - with magnetic clasp

Just love the shine on the bugle beads!

Sunday afternoon was spend sorting out space in a cupboard to store all my beads and labelling the boxes.

Tinks found a woolly thing to play with all by herself because I was being BORING and tidying up!

The first fruits from my garden - the black currant bush has tons of fruit again this year, but the gooseberry bush has only produced leaves!

Happy birthday Mummy - only 87 years old......

...... and cake too - lucky mum! (Unfortunately its vegan, but she didn't seem to mind)

Knitting club over the past few weeks has produced this tangle.  When I eventually sew it all together it will be a MEERCAT.... don't believe me?  Watch this space!

A lady came to the wool shop knitting club this morning and showed us a crochet blanket made with sideways crochet, so I had a go this afternoon and apart from the chain at the beginning being a bit too tight, think it is quite lovely.  This will be my next project (after the meercat sewing up - which may take some time,but only because sewing up is boring!)

Jack came back!  And brought his baby!

Sorry its been such a long blog - but I have been busy even though I haven't been blogging for a couple of weeks! Must do better next time!