Another project almost there!

Morning all! I awoke this morning to glorious sunshine! after the last few days of gales and rain it was a wonderful feeling, added to that a chance to get all my washing on the line at last.
As I have mentioned before I am determined to complete ALL my unfinished projects before starting the huge list of what I really want to make, so the last few days I have been frantically knitting away little decorations from this pattern.



It is from http://www.alandart.co.uk/products/product/53
I have had this pattern since early last year! and have been dipping in and out of it for an age! I finally finished the last decoration a polar bear yesterday and just have to attach cords to all 25 of them and decorate the box. Alan Dart patterns have a cult following over on Ravelery and command a small fortune on ebay which I personally would never pay! I highly recommend theses patterns for any knitters out there that are looking for a small project that can be completed in a few days. If you can knit and purl increase and decrease you will have no difficulty with these patterns. I hope to post a Ta-Dah picture later this week when I have completed the finishing touches! Hope you all have a wonderful day.

A Finished Project at last!

Well I can hardly believe it! I have finally finished this little Amigurumi crochet Nativity. I started this project last Autumn thinking it would be a quick little project but as usual I got rather distracted with other things to do and make! so it sat looking rather neglected in the bottom of my knitting bag until I finally decided I could leave it no longer. I bought the pattern from ebay but I know you can purchase from www.gourmetcrochet.com they do lovely little designs and they are really quite easy to do if you can do a single crochet etc. I have had a job keeping out of my little ones hands as she wants to play with it now but I have convinced her that it is for Christmas and she seems content to wait, especially as she asked whether Santa would be watching! bless her!

We spent a wonderful afternoon on Sunday celebrating little ones Birthday at Build a Bear, we had arranged a party as my eldest had one in July and it was a great success! Mia had the best time ever and told me she wants to celebrate every birthday there from now on! yikes! not sure about that. I cannot recommend them highly enough the staff are brilliant with the children and really make the Birthday Girl/Boy feel special, they put Mia up on the counter and invited the entire shop of customers to sing happy birthday to her! she was so delighted and so was I.  xxx

Autumnal Welcome

Today was the first day I felt like it was time to sort out my display area near the patio doors. I like to have a seasonal display there throughout the year as we can see it from the comfort of our sofa and it gives the girls an extra area to display all there little treasures they have collected on our walks through the local park.

I saw that good old Lidl had some Heathers and Chrysanthemum's on offer last week so off I dashed to grab a few before they flew out the store. My chrysanthemums  are looking a bit sorry for themselves at the moment but I am hopeful that they will recover!

I have also set myself  a challenge of completing a crochet project that I started last year, hopefully in time for this Christmas!

I am nearly there and hope to reveal it next week. I don't want to think about christmas but if I don't finish these projects now they will be waiting in my basket forever and a day!
I must say I feel slightly strange speaking to this blog of mine after all this time but I am sure I will get into the swing of things soon.  Have a wonderful weekend! xx

a sheepish return to blogging!

As my title states I am attempting to return to this very little blog of mine which brought me many hours of pleasure and at times feelings of guilt! I have for a long time now continued to drop in and out of blog world and wished that I could muster up the creativity to write a few lines but for so many reasons I felt I could not. I really do not wish to dwell on the whys and if's of my muddled head suffice to say that I am back! and rearing to go.


I love love love this time of year! Autumn for me reminds me of all the festivities I loved as a child and still do, returning to a new year at school, the beautiful changes in the climate well beautiful to me anyhow, conkers, glorious coloured leaves, bonfire smoke in the air! My two girls have definitely inherited my love of all things Autumnal and especially love Halloween!. I love to decorate my house for Halloween and have had many a goulish party in honour of the Day! This year I have started to make a few things for my Halloween/Autumn mantelpiece and have just finished a couple of Primitive style rag dolls. One is a rather lovely Witch named Betty! of all names and the other is "Cooper" the scarecrow.





I thoroughly enjoyed making these two little dolls, it was rather nice to work with fabric and lovely smelling spices for a change as I usually knit or crochet. As usual my head is full to bursting with ideas and I suspect I will be frantically finished things the night before Halloween as I always commit to too many makes! But that is the way my muddled mind works lol! My two girls are now back at school and the youngest has just started Nursery and celebrated her 4th Birthday on the same day! she is the oldest in her Nursery but also the smallest which is quite funny.


I have arranged a Build a Bear Party for her this weekend! another bear for each of the girls and no room on their beds to fit them all!!! well I shall sign off for now as I am sure to ramble on and on. xx

Another lovely Swap!

Hello all just wanted to let you all see the lovely things I received from Sophie over at Chez Sophie for the "Good enough to eat" swap organised by Emma.


A lovely box full of delicious treats such as some strawberry shower gel, lip balm and body butter, this really does smell good enough to eat! all inside a cute little handmade bag with strawberries all over it.

A beautifully made pin cushion and tissue holder.

A notebook and a little cupcake bookmark.

A cupcake plate.

And also a lovely handmade scented strawberry and some fairtrade chocolate. All beautifully presented in a box with strawberries on the front as well. Sophie gave me a recipe for some vanilla cupcakes which I will attempt to make this weekend with my two girls! Thank you so much Sophie for this lovely parcel I had so much fun taking part in this swap! Hope you like your parcel as much! Big thank you also to Emma for organising this swap. Have a lovely weekend! Lisa x

Spring/Easter Swap

Hello all!
just wanted to share with you the wonderful goodies I received for the Spring/Easter Swap organised by Molly Cupcakes. Pixie from Farie Nuff was my swap partner and here is what she sent me:
A Beautiful picture of a Tilda Style Scarecrow which I love love love!


Some Sweet Pea and Sunflower seeds, along with some Tilda Bookmarks.

Some Tida Seed packets to store any seeds I have left over, a really clever idea!

A lovely scented cushion with my favourite flower faires on!

A gorgeous wall plaque which will be taking pride of place on my kitchen wall.

There was also a box of choccies but as usual my children got them first! before I had a chance to take a photo, all these lovelys were beautifully wrapped and I so wanted to take a photo but with two very excited children drooling over my pressies it was a case of opening as fast as possible before they got in first! Thanks so much to Pixie she is such a talented lady and I hope she likes her goodies too!
Bye for now. xxx

My Bike adventure

Hello all! just a quick post today, I wanted to mention my little jaunt on the Bristol to Bath Cycle path on Thursday. I had a wonderful day although as usual forgot my camera so no pics to accompany this post! I did quite well and managed to cycle 11 miles which for me is amazing! More impressive to me though, was my 7 year old who has only been riding a bike for a few months who left me behind and did the whole journey with ease! I was sat on my bike thinking "How did that happen?" You see in my mind I am the same person I was 20 years ago still able to do all the things I did then with ease, and now, I find I can't actually do all those things so well! How ridiculous is that! Well I am determined to address this imbalance and sort myself out! My husband told me not to be so stupid! and accept the fact that I am hitting the big 40 this year, so things are bound to slow down! He is a so and so! he loves to wind me up about things like this lol. I did despite my little trip down memory lane really enjoy the ride and can't wait to go back again! Hopefully next time I will be able to see my daughter in the distance rather then having to yell out loud for her to stop hoping my voice carries on the wind! he he! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! Lisa x