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a touch of the good life

Hiya, how are we all today?

We've had a bit of an action packed afternoon and I remembered to take my camera so In an effort to keep up with the blogging I thought i'd share some of the pic's with you.
A few day's ago one of hubby's customers had mentioned a place he knew not to far away from us (within walking distance) that was packed full of berries ready to be picked. So today after work we dug out our wellies and wandered up the road armed with half a dosen plastic containers and a couple of carrier bags and well... I'll show you ....






And what we returned home with.....
.... Blackberries....


........sloeberries......



And ..... elderberries.....



The kitchen has already been a hive of activity.....


River helped me to make 3 dozen jam tarts ( that are disappearing fast)
And hubby got busy with his jam making...


At this point I left him to it ( our kitchen aint big enough for the both of us hehehe) and went to have a play with my sewing machine.
The other week when we were in belgium I bought myself a few meters of fabric (naturally hehehe) one of wich had a camoflage pattern. I bought it with the intentions of having a go at making river some pyjama bottoms.
Unfortunatly he's in bed now so there's no pic's yet of him wearing them but ... well ...here they are ...



Along with two tissue holder I made with the scraps to go in his school bag.



So That is what we got up to today. All that remains now is... well ....




.......THE DISHES .....
(and yes Kim he did leave me a big mess)

Hopefully we'll be spending the day tomorrow doing a bit of much needed tidying up in the garden, weather permitting of course. So i'll try and remember to get the camera out.
Speak to you all again soon
(((hugs))))

Remember me ???

I hope your all well. I'm sorry for the rather long and unintentional blogging break. My sister in law kindly reminded me during her recent visit that my last blog post was back in april ( not that she ever leaves me a comment hint hint) so I thought i'd better get my backside in gear hehehe.
So What's been going on here? well not a lot really just your normal eveyday sort of things,a bit of crafting, a bit of shopping a bit of bakeing and a couple of holidays. We had a bit of rethink about our holidaying habbits and decided that european city breaks really aren't a 3 year old's idea of a great holiday. So we took the plunge and bought ourselves a caravan ( Sorry No pic's yet I promise to take a few for you next time we go out) We've had three short breaks in it now and have all thoroughly enjoyed it despite the good old english weather but hey that's what welly's are for right!!!

You'll be pleased to hear that my creativity has not lapsed as much as my blogging so I thought I'd leave you just now with some pic's of a few of the thing's I have made over the last few months. You should be able to click on each pictureto make them bigger if you want to.





A few bit's to add to my tilda collection



Two new rectangular cushions for the bed


A newly knitted popcorn bear



Hubby and I bought this chair back at the beginning of the boot sale season. We payed just £3 for it however it was rather shabby looking with dark brown wood, broken fret work and without it's cushions. Hubby sanded it down and fixed the fret work and I painted it and made up some cushions to fit and now it's sitting pretty in our newly decorated bedroom ( I'll show you more of our bedroom in another post if you like).


A crochet rose


A new bag with some bargain £ 3.50 a meter fabric


You saw the beginning of this blanket a few months ago, well here it is all finished and I must say I really enjoyed making it, so much so that I have already started another.

A new hamma bead creation for river's bedroom




And some birthday cards and my first batch of christmas cards.

Oooops sorry I think I got a bit carried away with the photo's there hehehe.
River is back to pre school tomorrow so I'll try my best to catch up with all your blog's over the next couple of day's. Bye for now (((((hugs))))

Candles, tilda's, cath kidston, crochet and basically playing catchup

Hiya
Sorry my posts seem to be few and far between at the moment I've been doing a bit of voluntary work for my son's pre school of late namely making cakes, cleaning toy's and crafting with the children.

I bought this box of dolls home to clean up before we go back to school in two week's I wasn't planning on doing it straight away however river had other idea's so they were cleaned and dressed that afternoon. He thoroughly enjoyed himself playing with the doll's ( shhhh don't tell daddy hehehe)Although he was a little baffled as to why they didn't all have willies lol.

Anyway I promised to show you what I've been making over the last few week's and in a huge effort to use up some of my stash instead of just buying more here's what I came up with...

Candles


I bought these tea cups in the sale a few week's back (not that we use or are ever likely to use tea cups but I just liked them) anyway whilst I was being made to sort out my craft stash I came across a little candle making kit and so hubby and I ( yes he does like to join in ocasionally lol) set to it and our little tea cup candle's were born. They now sit looking pretty in my kitchen.

Tilda's
Do you remember my naked little bunny rabbit I showed you a few posts back. well here she is with her new dress.


This however started me off on a tilda addiction. Have we all seen the tilda book's? If not go and find out about them now lol. So now I have a little collection growing...



and I have another few tilda projects on my to do list so watch this space lol

Cath kidston

I got this cath kidston cowboy print fabric because.... well because I fell in love with it and thought it'd look great in river's room so here's what I've done with it so far...




I also made a small laundry bag (which river has decided is actually for keeping his favorite toy's in lol) and a small lavender hangy thingy for him to hand on his bedside cabinet both of which I forgot to take photo's of.
I still have approx half a meter of this fabric left has anyone got any ideas of what I could make with it please?

crochet

Anyone that has known me and read my blog for a while now will now how often I have moaned about being unable to crochet well you'll never guess what .....





Thanks to lucy over at attic 24


her inspirational blog and her very simple to understand tutorials I have now mastered the art of crochet yipeeee!!!
so we now have one crochet pot holder, one crochet blanket ( although a little bit wobbly in places lol) for river's bed and the start of another blanket.

Hama beads

Hubby and I sat for a few hours last night ( well maybe more like 3/4 hours lol) playing with the hama beads our aim was to make a picture placemat to fit on top of rivers bedside cabinet and well .....
Tadaaaa lol


And for my next trick ...

Mother bought some spiderman curtains at her local car boot sale for my nephew they were the right width but too long so she had them taken up and well....
" Please karen can you make something for him with the leftovers"
.... of course I can mum so the other day she traveled down with my little sister and gave me this ...



Two 16" x 67" pieces. I have thought of the usual coshions and laundry bag type ideas and I do have a nice plain red cotton fabric in my stash that I can mix with it but once again please does anyone have any thoughts on what else I could do with it?
Anyway I have probably bored you enough now. It's past 12 oclock and hubby has gone to bed without me so I'll say goodnight and will try harder to post a bit more often ( although it is the easter holidays and river is off school for two whole weeks lol)
Hope you are all well
speak to you soon

Think springtime .....

Think flowers.....


Think Easter eggs ....



Think Easter bonnets ....



Just a few things I have been making with river over the last few days.

Sorry about the lack of posts of late. I have been busy and have got Lot's to show you very soon.