The gallery - Vintage

Hi all, Today i have 2 pictures for the gallery

First - My cake mixing bowl

It belonged to my Great Auntie Dorry (short for Doris) who was one of my mums mums sisters (nanni was one of 10). Dorry never had any children of her own so my mum and other cousins were always spoiled by her. We used to visit her and stay with her when i was little. When she moved into a home, my dad and i cleared her home, sending vartious bits of furniture off to different relatives who wanted/needed it. I gained this bowl, it may not be that exciting but its fantastic for making cake!

The other picture i have for you is a shot of my special coffee spoons. I aquired them a good few years ago at a church bazeer (sorry if i've spelt that wrong). My mum (and therefore I) would help run the second time around stall and i gained many an interesting item over the years of helping on the stall. These spoons were there one year and i couldn't resist. I've never used them, maybe one day when the kids are older (and have less chance of loosing or eating them) i'll get them out!

They have little red or green coffee beans on the end!

Party

I've been busy making things for the swaps i'm involved with but i don't want to show you until they have been recieved by their new owners (rae and helen moonstruck can i have your addresses please!) 

Instead i'm going to show you tinys friend who she took to her birthday party on saturday.

It may have been a teddy bear adventure but Tiny insisted on taking her ferret! They all had a fab time at the parkridge centre in bruton park solihull. They all went hunting for nice things for their various animals liked to eat and then built shelters for them before a nice birthday tea. I would recomend it to anyone who lives round there who is in need of a kiddies party, something completely different (they do fairy hunts, bug hunts, pond dipping etc partys too!) and Tiny now has an adopted dormouse for the year. She insists that the dormouse is a pink one - obvious really!

Monster bags

Hi chaps,
Well after a weeekedn of making cake (see last post) with icing that kept melting in the heat and going on teddy bear adventures in the woods for tinys birthday party i foolishly showed my lad some 'fluff' i bort on friday. 'Whats it for' he asks. 'I'm going to make you a bag 'said i. Well that was it, i wasn't allowed a moments peace until the bag had been created, and then i had to make a pink one!

They both love them. the idea came from this loverly lady here, can't claim any credit!
I put red inside the lads one, looks like a real mouth inside. Tiny has bunny fabric in hers!

tinys birthday cake - number 1

poorly tiny and some swap stuff

What ho chaps! 

Tiny has been ill this week. She went on her visit to big school (she starts reception next sept) on tuesday am. I dropped her off at nursery afterwards and about an hour later i got the call. She has a temperature and only ate one dinner rather than the usual 2! 

I had yesterday off with her too, no work work got done but i did manage to get on with making some things for the swaps i'm involved with, If you don't want a sneeky peak look away now

In the works of rolf harris - can you tell what it is yet????

Tiny has gone off to stay with my mum and dad for a couple of days to get well before her big birthday party on saturday! (AAAARRRRRGGGGG justrealised i have cake to make!)

Something

Well i've been abit rubbish this week, only one post last monday and then nothing. I usually try and get atleast 2 posts in a week. I've been abit off this last week, very tired, snoring alot (according to hubby!) and feeling generally yuk. Not totally yuk but just a little bit yuk. It means i've been sitting on my backside alot rather than doing anything much. I get like that sometimes, I have a massive pile of things i want to make but there is never enough time, the day job gets in the way rather alot but it does pay the bills and allows me to play with chemicals and blood (add vampire type laugh here!)

Although i say i've been up to nothing i did manage to finish off 2 dresses i made for a friends 2 girls. I don't know if any of you remember (and you probably won't cos you have your own life to be getting on with which are far more exciting) tinys bustle back dress which if you can view if your interested! Afetr seeing it my friend asked if i could make some for her girls, i agreed and set too trying to adjust the pattern, which was approx an aged 3ish pattern, for a 6 year old and a 6month old!!!!!!
Good job the pattern is quite forgiving and her 6 year old is slim. i couldn't get my lad to test this dress for me (not even for sweeties!) which shows just how girly it is!
I'd like to apologies in advance for the photos, i snapped the quickly on my grubby green carpet yesterday before popping them round to my chums house. I really hope they fit!

Pattern testing again

Hi-ya'll

I did another pattern test over the weekend for DMK patterns (i did one before - see here) This time for a little romper suit. I let tiny into the fabric stash and she selected  rfabric for me to make it with. While i was at it i made a smaller one for my friends little girl for her birthday.

The pockets were abit tricky 

But they do look good, as do the little elastic caseings on the legs

This is the finished gift for my friends little girl

And this is the one i made for tiny

Only if i make one again, it will have to be darker as small girls with pale bottoms will always find mud to sit in!!!
Tiny loves it, what do you think? should i make her another one? and what colour should i go for?