little dress

The loverly louise over at sewscrumptious is cordinating the collection of dresses for the 'dressing a girl around the world' charity (cos every little girl deserves a dress of her own).
Heres my one, although i may get round to some more!

And yes this really is a pillow case dress as i used an old pillow cse to make it!

An end

The we are birmingham shop, which i sell some of the things i make in, is to close. Not completely but i'll no longer have an outlet for my small scale sewing, Its annoying too cos i've just made some things to go in the store

Yes, that 2 wrap skirts (a large and a medium) 3 pairs of shorts, 2 reverable dresses, 2 of those pretty baby bonnets (a 0-3month and a 3-12 month) and a pile of fortune cookies that don't have a home, as well as a pile of baby cardigans my mum knitted!.
Also there is probably somethings at the shop which i'll have to collect as well!

So the big question is, should i open a folksy shop. Do you think the things would sell ok? or should i just stock pile it all till my hubby goes insane! your thoughs would be very welcome.

And the winner is....

Last night before bed and after making cake we chopped up lots of little bits of paper with numbers on,

 then they swirled the papers

and with eyes closed a number was picked

Try as i might i failed to get the number in focus -
So the winner is number 36 - Yorkie mom.
Then my lad said it was only fiar if his little sister got to pick one and that we NEEEEEEEEEEEEEDED a runner up so she selected number 147 - Lynn, for whom i'll sort out a smaller but equally 'interesting' (note the quotation marks indicating the word interesting being used in its widest way!) fabric pile.
A big sorry to all the losers, hope you enjoyed visiting and hope to see you again.
Heres the cakes by the way!

the gallery - my backyard

hi,
 time for the gallery again (if your looking for my giveaway go here), if your new to the gallery all is explained here
Anyway my picture this week is as follows.

 yes, the grass is long and covered in toys and the rabbits take up half of it but its ours.

Mayday giveaway

Well its giveaway day, Heres what you could gain for your stash

 Its the same pile in each photo, i just moved the camera about abit so you could see it all.

There is some ribbon, needles, silver pegs, beads and fabric

The fabric, most of which is about a quater of a meter (mostly long quaters but i've not measured them so they are not exact) include some micheal miller truck stuff, pink/orangy flowery stuff. Some cath kidson boat fabric. Some dancing skeleton fabric, some cherrys i picked up in barcelona, some other flowery stuff and a grey leafy bit from ikea. There is also some icecream and dinosaur flannels. 

So thats 9 bits in total (YES 9)!!!!!!!!!

Also poped in a homemade head band, a little knitted flower and am going to pop it into a homemade bag to keep it all safe! (the red hippoy thing)

So if you fancy winning this do any  the following:

A) leave me a comment saying something nice!

B) Tweet this give away mentioning @neutronel and comment saying you have

(seperate comment please, makes it easier for me)

C) mention this on your blog and then come back and tell me you have.

It'll leave this open till 6pm (BST) may 25th (my birthday by the way!) and get my random number generator (AKA my son, kids are as random as you get!) to select one before bedtime to be announced on the 27th. Please come back and check or make sure i can contact you.

Do go an visit the others joining in at sewmamasew

Cheers

Shareing my loot

well i've discovered that may the 23rd is

Organised by sewmamasew lots of people gave giveaways on the same day so you get a chance to rush around lots of blogs entering and finding new blogs to read and follow.
As the giveaways end on the 25th (which is my birthday) I've decided to join in. Not quite decided what i'll be giving away (need to have a hunt through my stash) but come back on manday and see whats on offer.
x

The gallery - Mustachioed.

Here is my thoughts on this weeks gallery