Pretty Things!

Here are a couple more presents I've made recently:

A linen pouch for my mum for her birthday:

A Christmas Mugrug set for a friend who LOVES Christmas!

Thank you for all your lovely comments encouraging me to take time out to notice lovely things around me.

Here are 2 pics which brought a smile to my face yesterday.

Our garden at this time of year looks pretty sad as everything seems to be dying back & mulching down.  But there is one wee splash of colour still hanging on among all the drab browns!

And my youngest made me laugh yesterday when she got changed after school into an outfit which almost exactly matched mine (even down to the hair clip)!

I hope you notice some lovely things today!

A Few More Ticks!

The ticks I'm referring to aren't the nervous kind of twitches (which I'm not a million miles away from developing!).

Amongst the endless (& continuing) saga of boiler repairs, over sensitive electrical trip switches (no kettle now!), getting an iron that actually works, and now a sick child, I somehow managed a few Christmas finishes this week!

These are for 2 of my nephews:  First for the rugby player, made in his team colours:

Next the nephew who got the matching colour brick quilt from me in June this year:

Also, some mugrug sets (can't mention who they're for! Sssshhhh!):

I got my secret santa pressie finished for a lovely Brit Bee lady, but not allowed to show you that yet!

And talking of the Brit Bee, it's my turn next, as Miss January, to set the other 11 gals to work on a block of my choosing!

The parcels are all made up and ready to be posted!

So watch out girls for Mr Postie!

And I'll leave you with my amazing Oasis Ladies, who this term made a stunning sampler quilt and matching cushion, which will be raffled off to raise funds for the charity.

Well done girls!

Judith xo

I Don't Believe It!!

If Victor Meldrew had been in my house, he would have projected this statement more than once today!

It's been one of those days!

The edited version is that Boiler Man no.4 will be coming tomorrow (sometime!) to maybe hopefully fix the boiler.  I sent the kids down to a friends house this afternoon to get showered! 

Sorting the boiler issues took up much of the day.  When I finally snatched half an hour to sew in my ice-box sewing room, my iron kept throwing the electrical trip switch.

So after tea, I nipped down to church to pick up one of my other irons (that I store down there for classes), brought it back, plugged it in, and ..................

NOTHING!

It didn't work, at all!   Aaaarggghhh!

What makes this even more frustrating is that I'm tantilisingly close to finishing Sophie!  Baby is due any day now and I just need to get the binding ironed and attached and I'm done!

So tomorrow it will be off down to Tescos again to quickly get a new iron before the Boiler man decides to call/not call.

The only other thing I managed to get done today was a quick mugrug present for a male relative.

So I'm off now to wash in cold water, before filling my hot water bottle & layering up for bed (and a wee hot port might just make an appearance too!).

Hope you've had a more productive day!

Judith xo