bags of fun

EEK! my fabrics arrived last week from spoonflower, and I am really pleased with how they turned out.

I have been really busy turning them into bags ready for the craft fair. Here are the results...










I finished my collection of ten individual canvases for my stall for the craft-candy craft fair. Each one is a little hand painted doozer on a white A5 sized canvas.











The allotment has provided some tasty treats this week. We got rained on while we were there, but it was so much fun picking all the berries hanging like little glistening jewels.
We dug up our first few potato plants and harvested some more broad beans, both of which have provided part of our teas twice this week. There are plans a foot for the black currants which are going to be made into home-made Ribena(yum), and black currant jam. The red currants have already been made into red currant jelly. It's like brambley hedge at our house!







We got another Guinea Pig on Saturday to join our lonely boy, who was left on his own due to his pal going to Guinea heaven. We have two others but they bullied him, so now he has a brand new friend. We got him from a great guy at PETe and PETs http://peteandpets.webs.com/. If anyone ever wants a Guinea Pig you should go to him. He is a lovely man who takes in un wanted Guinea pigs as well as breeding them and offers them for re-homing for a small donation to his sanctuary. He is based in Hackenthorpe Sheffield. There were so many little cuties there I could have scooped them all up and taken them home!

this week

I have been working away on some little chaps who are greetings cards, for my stall..



I love it when the allotment starts to produce it's tasty treats, and it is time to start harvesting. It makes all the effort of the winter months digging and clearing worth it. This week we have had, Broad beans, black currants, red currants, gooseberries, raspberries and the most delicious strawberries I have ever tasted!

fun stuff

This week I have been off work and it has been so so nice to be away from that place let me tell you. I have had time to be myself and get some crafting done.
I have been making some larger sized noobs, and i like how they have turned out, i have put a normal sized one in the photo to show a sense of scale of the new guys.



some little pictures i have painted for my stall too






I went round some charity shops the other day, while out with my mum and saw this bed frame which made me smile.

The girl who used to have it, has written stuff on the underneath (i think it must have been a bunk bed she shared with her sister) and it reminded me of the sort of stuff i used to write down in anger in my diary when i was a moody teenager.



It seems she hates winter/christmas time.........

......oh and hates summer too!

yep sounds exactly like how i used to be.....and still am sometimes!

new additions

Here are a couple more creatures I have made, and an example of a lil painting, I am hoping to do a few of these for my stall too at the Candy floss craft fair on 18th July, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield 10am-4pm. I've still got a lot to do, but these guys have settled in nicely with their friends, while awaiting their new homes!
Started work on some cushions, bags,purses,phone holders,cards ans pictures....so much to do!

crafting fun

I have been working away, creating things for my little craft stall, i have sent of for some of my designs to be made into fabrics thanks to spoonflower. I am going to make bags and purses out of them, I do hope the fabric turns out ok.
In the meantime I have been focusing on Noobs and doozers, here's some pics of the ones I've made so far...







I also made a simple card for my mum's birthday, she liked it...

hello i am still here

hello again, It's a fresh start now, I have decided. I am going to be a frequent blogger. I know you have heard it all before but it's true. I am doing a craft fair in July so i want to do regular posts of my progress. In the meantime here is some of the things i've done in between working my shit job.












and there has been months of allotment harvesting to catch up on


as well as last years pumpkins, and my snow squirrel i built when i was snowed in and couldn't go to work (yey! the best)







and i made gingerbread men