Very busy couple of days...
Yesterday (Friday) we got the keys to our lovely new house... so excited about moving in, it's just fabulous. So was doing a lot of phoning around sorting things out... but to be honest on a single track road with lots of snow and thick ice, it wasn't much fun trying to get to the house, and especially wasn't nice having to push the car out, but hey ho onwards and upwards.
I couldn't get on yesterday as the internet was down, so couldn't get pictures uploaded of my little creations, which is rather annoying, so I'll have to wait until I get my camera back to upload some proper pictures.
Today, I finished off the scarf I started for my niece, and the eyelash wool I was going to get rid of, came in very handy for fringing, so I think I shall be keeping that after all thanking you very much. The colours have bamboozled me since I started the scarf, I wanted to know where I'd seen them and why they looked so familiar, it was only when I was eating my cadbury's caramel, I realised it was the caramel bunny's colours - only a lighter shade of purple, so no wonder my little niece loves these colours so much it reminds her of some choccie - she's definately a girl after my own heart. hehe.
Anyways, will keep you updated about the housemove, and also get some piccies up and running.
Stay safe in this made freeze we are having.
Love emmy xx
Saturday 9 January 2010
Thursday 7 January 2010
Finally - I'm in!
oOo, I've finally taken the plunge into this blogging malarky. I guess it's all the lovely ladies on MSE that have inspired me to take the steps - thanking you.
I would like to say i'll have lots of lovely things to show you here, but 9 times out of 10 my crafting goes wrong lol. But hey i'm a tryer not a quiter.
I'll post up as much of my crafts as possible to show off, but I'll no doubt just pop by and blog my thoughts and ideas of the day :)
I supose a good place to start would be today..
I finished off a 1000 piece jigsaw for my brother last night, I bought it for him for xmas, but he has no patience so asked me to do it. Just have to glue it for him, and then he can frame it, as he knows how he wants it himself. Dad wants me to do the 2 he has so will no doubt get started on them asap.
I also started to knit my niece a scarf. I had some lovely fluffy yellow and purple wool left over, was a little worried that it might not look right, but actually it's coming on quite nice, and anyways they are her favourite colours so that's just fine by me. I was going to knit with eyelash wook but it was just so difficult that I scrapped that idea, to be honest i'm getting fed up with it I might just give it to mum to see what she can do with it.
On the path of crafting, I did sign up to do the year long project of cooking 1 recipe each week and making a little gift out of it in the form of a recipe box with the recipe and some photos.... This is a challenge which was brought up on MSE, and I thought it would be good to pass on to my niece next year in a possible baking hamper for christmas. So I was supposed to make a recipe box, and there was clear instructions posted by Debbie on her blog Country Heart And Home but I don't have any 12x12 cardstock, only some lovely A4 card which I bought from ebay sometime last year. Debbie did come to my rescue though and pointed me in the right direction to a lovely notelet box which she had instructions for on her blog also. I did have a little mishap while making the box and glued it the wrong way *mental note - buy some double sided sticky tape* but i've managed to salvage it, and I'm very happy with the outcome...
So all in all had a couple of cracking crafty days ... all thanks to being snowed in and inspired by the lovely ladies on the MSE pages.
I would like to say i'll have lots of lovely things to show you here, but 9 times out of 10 my crafting goes wrong lol. But hey i'm a tryer not a quiter.
I'll post up as much of my crafts as possible to show off, but I'll no doubt just pop by and blog my thoughts and ideas of the day :)
I supose a good place to start would be today..
I finished off a 1000 piece jigsaw for my brother last night, I bought it for him for xmas, but he has no patience so asked me to do it. Just have to glue it for him, and then he can frame it, as he knows how he wants it himself. Dad wants me to do the 2 he has so will no doubt get started on them asap.
I also started to knit my niece a scarf. I had some lovely fluffy yellow and purple wool left over, was a little worried that it might not look right, but actually it's coming on quite nice, and anyways they are her favourite colours so that's just fine by me. I was going to knit with eyelash wook but it was just so difficult that I scrapped that idea, to be honest i'm getting fed up with it I might just give it to mum to see what she can do with it.
On the path of crafting, I did sign up to do the year long project of cooking 1 recipe each week and making a little gift out of it in the form of a recipe box with the recipe and some photos.... This is a challenge which was brought up on MSE, and I thought it would be good to pass on to my niece next year in a possible baking hamper for christmas. So I was supposed to make a recipe box, and there was clear instructions posted by Debbie on her blog Country Heart And Home but I don't have any 12x12 cardstock, only some lovely A4 card which I bought from ebay sometime last year. Debbie did come to my rescue though and pointed me in the right direction to a lovely notelet box which she had instructions for on her blog also. I did have a little mishap while making the box and glued it the wrong way *mental note - buy some double sided sticky tape* but i've managed to salvage it, and I'm very happy with the outcome...
So all in all had a couple of cracking crafty days ... all thanks to being snowed in and inspired by the lovely ladies on the MSE pages.
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