Sewin squeeze please ;O)

Well I'm meeting myself coming back wards with work but have made time for a project! it keeps me sain ;o) I took a pair of shorts (already made from a pair of jeans) and turned them into a skirt, thought that's ok for an evenings worth of faffing but I wanted more. So I took one of my crafting stamps and inspired by the new CK stitch book got stitchin! Basically I used ordinary knitting wool (it's all I had to hand) and went over my stamp (but made each one different) and joined up the butterflies with swirls and there you go a butterfly skirt. I'm off for a flying visit up north tomorrow night (just for one night and day)so thought it would be perfect for pottering around with my family!!! I have been making another outfit a costume for a Dickensian Market I will be working at on Sunday, but this project is all about me not work ;O) My apologies for the upside down pics, i don't know how to change them around.

a mummy's work

I'm taking a couple of days off work yippee! I'd love to get my craft groove on but I have a house that needs cleaning and sorting out first! Have done the inside my lounge windows, some washing, the bathroom. so that leaves putting all the washing away, lounge, kitchen, change beds....better get off the computer and do it!

That's the trouble I'd much rather be here hunting for inspiration or off doing a lovely project but life doesn't have much room for that at the mo :O( But I do have some craft commitments in the form of a couple of swaps! I don't how to put their buttons on here yet, but will learn asap! So I have decided to night is the night for my pillowcase to start to get ready to wing its way off to Natasha in Russia. But before I can do that I've got to get through this house first, but one day this Cinderella is going to her craft ball :O)

busy busy busy

I'm soooooooooo busy with work at the moment, and this is just the start of one of my busy seasons. I work for a church organising the children's stuff at the church, in schools and in the community.
I have been planning Christmas since the summer but now it all needs putting together. I'll love each event as I get to it, its just getting to it that's the issue. I love my job, I get to keep my munchkin with me most of the time (although she has started nursery an experience we are keen to expand!) and I love working with kids, they're amazing!

I'm really into crafts so any opportunity and I'll have em a craftin. This week one of my toddler groups will be making big paper fish and my Sunday infant group will be making star boxes of my design.

Back to the busyness craft wise Christmas will be all about candy canes :O) there's more to meet the eye with them! who knew they could be so meaningful. we will also be making paper Christmas villages, paper Christmas trees and of course nativity scenes. so lots of fun stuff there's loads of other stuff on the boil that's more grown up, training days to plan etc. but for me its all about the kids :O)

I was with a friend last night talking about our craft plans for a craft fair partnership (we have dreams but need to keep time and resource burdens as light as possible), she is a keen machinist, crocheter, knitter and all thing material and sewing :o). I'm much more eclectic, I love to hand sew I make bags and turn pairs of jeans into skirts. but I also like to paint, to work with wire and glass, to paper craft and when time permits scrapbook. I love to draw, I design most of the fun sheets my kids use for work and after a decade of doing them have quite a back catalogue ;O) So if anyones out there what do you like to craft? :O)

I still haven't got the hang of putting pics in the middle of post rather than at the top. Anyhoo that's me with Lilli my little one when she was a baby!(she's nearly 3 now) I'm photographer's wife so just as cobbler's children never have shoes photographer's wives hardly ever have recent pics on their computer's ;O) we're off to the local Michaelmas Fair later will try to get some up to date ones :O)

Mummy are you making a bag?

Mummy are you making a bag? Asks my 2 year old. If I have a needle and thread in hand, that is most likely what I will be doing. I have since my teenage years been into sewing by hand, I'm the daughter of a machinist and pattern cutter. I was given a machine as a child and taught how to use it (mostly forgotten by now) but I just love to sew by hand, its sort of soothing :O)

So here are some pics of my family and sewing, I must add a disclaimer for the hubby who is a professional photographer (an ABIPP so really is proper). He took these pics on his phone in very dodgy light and didn't like doing so as he felt they wouldn't turn out very well, I think they're fine. He can do another proper shoot at a later date or I will finally try my hand at it!

Any how hope this gives an idea of the type of sewing I do :O).

Hello anyone out there? :O)

feel like its crazy to add more stuff for me to do, but have the feeling that this will be healthier than eating tons of chocolate :O)