Something soft and squidgy and an out of focus necklace

Netting necklace - doesn't lie as flat around the neck as it could do....

....but here's a close up and it looks very lovely!

Bought this tray in a charity shop - not my normal 1960s collecting stuff; but that is mainly because it is 1970s - I think there is a matching chopping board at my parents' house.

Crochet cushion

and another....

and another.....

the back of the first one!

A little wardrobe card I made to remind me of how I made one for a friend in April, but I think it's a bit different

Inside...

Front detail

and the other side!

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!

Glass beads

Well I never thought I'd ever actually MAKE a glass bead.... how cute are these??

The four beads I made

...and the same four beads from a different angle!

I made the black and white stringer, but had trouble making a bigger bead, so my friend took over!!

Made another staircase spiral necklace with black, turquoise and red beads.

close up

ditto

And for my Uncle who is 80 - a special golf ball card!

Lariat for a rock chick

ha ha....

Bought some cute beads in Leeds yesterday - love the metal guitar

And a ring to attach the lariat

And here it all is... hope you can't see the bit of thread I forgot to finish off before I took the photo!

Knitting Natterers Coffee Morning

That will be tomorrow at the Blue Boar 11.30am until 3.30pm.  We have all been busy knitting for charity and the charity we are supporting this year is Martin House Childrens' Hospice.

Lots of little Christmas pudding tree decorations filled with a certain round shaped chocolate that seems to be on sale everywhere during the festive season!

Knitted (obviously) gadget holders - put your phone or camera or anything else in one of these.

These are the little puds before stuffing and adding holly.

Tissue holders - remember the things granny make for bazaars

close up

back

This is the pud I bought (from a charity stall) - they have used a card holly leaf with red glitter glue - I thought this would be SO appropriate to knit our charity event - so I blantantly copied it - well not quite..... check out the next photo

I cut out (with my tiny scissors) tiny felt holly leaves and sewed red seed beads on.

Taught my friend how to make this staircase necklace a couple of weeks ago...

...... look how fabulous it looks close up - I love the RED beads in the centre which are just showing through.

Today's beading class

Details showing the fastening of todays bracelet - I tied a large knot and used an old boy scout trick of whipping the ends with fireline to hold in place and neaten.  I was about to use the pink beads that I had bought at the weekend - when Dot noticed they were plastic and not glass!  She came to the rescue with these ones.

A close up of the 6mm grey pearls that I eventually used for this bracelet.

Twice around the wrist makes a bracelet, and once around the neck makes a choker!

This is a netted necklace that I started last week and only just finished.  It is #11 seed beads and a silver coloured toggle fastening.

 Jackdaw Diaries.....

This little chap has been hanging round my garden since Saturday afternoon.  He flies a bit, but not very well - he likes eating, drinking, hopping on the logs and strutting about.  Looking at his eye on this photo he could possible be blind in at least one eye.  His behaviour is certainly very strange for a Jackdaw.

He does like the sunshine.  He has been seen on the roof of my house and the house opposite.  Yesterday he flew into my kitchen window twice (unfortunately for him it was closed)  and I feared the worst - but he picked himself up, shook his feathers and trotted off.  Today my neighbour said he was around most of the day and flew into my kitchen window another three times.