Mary, Louise, Daisy and Evil Matty!

Four daughters on one bench, Christchurch, Dorset ....

four in one place!

Mary likes to do scrunchy faces and funny breathing at the moment.
did you watch little dorrit? Steve is calling Mary Panks, much to daisy' and Matty's disgust!

Gina the giraffe shown to scale on right of pic.

we live at number 1 :-)

we live at number 1 :-)
Originally uploaded by RaggyRat

a fabric collage and machine embroidery number for our numberless house ... louise drew a big number 1 and coloured it in, and also designed a border and then traced it onto muslin for some sticking of different colours and textrues of fabrics ... i machined all over it then cute out round louises lines and machined to some cream fabric ... (the muslin we worked on get puckered)

we might take commisions .... :-)

i can't put my clay 'number 1' that i made while pg with the girls on the house, as the pointing needs doing soon - sea winds and all that .....

Oh Blogger - I've Been Tagged!

but as i am always running around trying to catch up with things i am not going to do it, but feel free to read connie's (clothmatters), who tagged me, and do one your self if you like ... it just takes me ages to do a nice hot link, imagine pasting and fiddling with 5 friends!

and in the middle of making that lobster costume i got tagged by caroline of uniqart to do the '8 things' thing, and i loved the way she did hers with a blog entry and pic for each thing. my favorate was a lovely pic of her daughter. but of course in the middle of the lobster costume it was all sew, sew, sew followed by looking after my babies, and i hadly answered any emails and posted just enough so you wouldn't forget me!

anyway - in the spirit at least of being tagged - thanks connie and caroline for picking me ... anyway - im just going off to upload 8 pictures which will also be a bit of a 'round up', since after finnishing that lobster i 'crashed' and have felt rather ill ...

said good bye to my L reg fiesta at the end of last month ... we covered many hundered miles together and i will miss her. she was the first car bought just for me !!! and no - i didn't break it ....

a canadian fan of my work - i am soon about to make something really special for him, guy named chris :-)

a rat bag that was delayed by sea creatures got a lovely unique lining the other week, before being sent off in the mail ...

i make all my children help me with house work ... daisy is fond of putting knickers on her head even tho i say they are knickers, and not a hat ....

three blank canvases i need to get painted and collaged for phil in london .... soon ...

some ceramic painting i did with louise - she gave the striped mug to grandad-gerald for his borthday and he said he liked it ... we even have to fire them in the oven 24 hours after painting and it came out nice and shiney not brown and burned like i thought it would ...
the babies watching a man take down the corner post, and re-build it, to make my driveway wider for a newer car, last week ....
some goregous girls that arrived in the post last week - i swopped with tantehilde - aren't they sweet and summery? like the summer we havent had ....

louise's new lampshade

louise's new lampshade, originally uploaded by RaggyRat.

sometimes you can't do the big jobs, and there are some things you cant do while sitting with the children, but fiddly winding and hand sewing are easy to tote round ... louise chose some of the colours for the fluted edge bit ...

i raided my MIL's collection of old lampshades and stole 2, one for the babies' room and this one for louise. i got the idea looking at a trendy wire one over at my friend sarah's house and finally got around to making it! just tear off the dusty fabric and pick off the glue and away you go. it looks great with the light on but not shot with daylight camera's though.

materials - old lamp shade, scoubie-doo thingies
method - tie on forst scoobie and get winding - tie on scoubies as you go, the knots look like beads - honest !
then tie off the last one .... TA DAAAH !