crafts & knitting

calling all softie makers!

Did you know that the 2nd annual softie awards have just started taking entries?

It’s not too late to get softie making and enter your own (closing date is April 18th). Full details can be found here on Softies Central but in short there are 5 categories and anyone can enter an originally designed softie. I’ve started thinking about mine and have a few works in progress that I hope to have finished over the coming week.

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Why not take a look at the entries so far and get making yours? Good luck everyone and have fun softie making!

crafts & knitting

a wedding!

It’s still chaos here but the school Easter hols are nearly over and we’re all still smiling (just!)

For a while now I’ve been meaning to share this fabulous creation that was sent to me by Kim. It’s a wedding albumn showing the marriage of Dougie and Blueberry. The detail is breathtaking with each page beautifully composed and it truly is something I will treasure forever along with her previous wonders here and here !

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Kim, you really are incredibly talented and I’m so grateful for this wonderful gift. Thank you x

general stuff

mess!

At the moment I can’t think straight as our house is a tip. Our sun room is being gutted so is out of bounds, our dining room has disappeared under stacks of books and there are piles of homeless stuff everywhere.

Mess

I know it’ll be worth it in the end though and I am very grateful to
have a ‘good-with-his-hands’ husband – I’m just wishing we hadn’t
picked the school holidays to get started on this! Roll on next monday!