Christmas cards

I thought I'd get stuck into some Christmas cards tonight and this is what I came up with.

What do you think?

( sorry about the dark picture's It's rather late. You can click on the pictures to make them bigger)

and the answer is.......

Well I must say that I'm surprised at just how many of you knew what it was and for those of you that didn't know .................



It is a knitting machine of course
I couple of week's ago I was having a flick around ebay looking into how much a second hand knitting machine was going to set me back. It's something I remember playing with as a child at my nan's house, she used to help us to make our own scarfs etc.
Anyway hubby mentioned this to his mum and she said " we'll I'm sure I've got one in the loft I'll post it down for you" and so here it is. I'm not sure exactly how old it is but the instruction booklets date between 1980 and 83 so It's about the same age as me.
I did atempt to have a play with it last night but unfortunatly I didn't get very far. most of the needle's have rusted to some degree and the top plate keep's sticking. I'm hoping that with a little bit of TLC I'll be able to get it working but for now it'll have to be packed away until I have a bit more time.

So there we have it...........
Hope you all have a lovely weekend
((((hugs)))


Ps I have been making things this week but unfortunatly It's all for christmas swap's so I really can't show you

I've got a new toy!!

Can you guess what it is?



How about now? Anyone?



Ok ok I'll tell you the story..........


TOMORROW HEHEHE

have a lovely evening everyone.

It's beginning to look a lot like ....

new Christmas Dec's and ribbons bought at our local garden center



Bit's n pieces cut up ready to make Christmas cards and tags


A few parcels ready to go into Christmas swap parcels.



A touch of light bedtime reading.

If your visiting our house tonight ......

If your visiting our house tonight


And fancy a treat ...


You'll have to get past the monster first lol.




Happy halloween every one.

peep peep thomas

Todays baking session with river

And the winner is ........

Hiya
how are we all today? Are we all surviving the half term week OK so far lol?
Right firstly I would like to do a few thankyou's. Firstly for all of you who left birthday wishes for river, that was very sweet of you and second a big thank you for everyone who entered into my little giveaway. Oh and a big hello there to all of you newbies you are of course very welcome guests.
eh?...... What do ya mean get on with it........ oh OK then......

Well I haven't got a pretty vintage tin or a hat so will a pretty pink bowl do....

... Yep.. ok then so we did all the writing of names, and folding of paper....

........ And gave it a bit of a stir............


.... And ......





......... and the winner is .........



And for those of you that can't see through Grubby boy fingers lol....

THE WINNER IS ......MADE WITH LOVE.......
Well done hunni If you could email me your snail mail address I'll send him packing as soon as possible.

OK I'm off to put somebody to bed now, I'll speak to you all again soon

Happy birthday !!!!

Birthday presents!!!

yep!!

Balloons!!!

yep!!!

Scary monster cake!!!

Yep!!!

Happy birthday baby boy!!!

Show us your cath

Oh goodness me look at the time...


I'm sorry i'm a tad late I've been out in the gardens with the chickens....

... And I must say I really needed one of these.....


Perhaps we should go inside and have a cup of tea....


I'm awfully sorry but The cakes are all gone...




Oh that reminds me I must get those letters written ....



and some housework done .....


Or should I take a seat and get stuck into some sewing...




.... or maybe I could just sneak into the bedroom .......


And take a quick nap....





Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the rest of the cath party.
And a big thankyou to lissy lou for orgainsing this cath party

*****Giveaway ******

Hello my name is ..... well I haven't got a name and what's even worse than that is I Haven't got a home either !!

If you think you can provide a loving home for me the here's what you have to do.
Post my picture on the sidebar of your blog with the heading " help find bunny a home" and link it back to my blog. Once you've done that come back and leave me a comment. Then on Wednesday the 28Th October we will pull a name out of the hat. It's as simple as that.

Thanks for looking
XXXX BUNNY XXXX

I did my bit...

I just thought I'd show you my little effort for the innocent smoothie campaign "THE BIG KNIT" did anyone else have a go? I'd love to see some pic's.