yarn ...

This lovely lap blanket perfectly reflects the fresh colours I used for my sofa curshions, and was sent to me as a Pay-It-Forward gift ... did you visit my facebook page and enter mine? I am going to give away 5 gifts this week!


Today, I made blind chickens see!

Sushi platters!

We made sushi platters at pottery, and this is Matty's - the Potter's name is on it too!



Mary had great fun making hers, and adding all the different glazes, using a brush...



Daisy incorporated the edge design demonstrated by the potter!


And as for me, my platter needs to be fired! But why not head over to The Raggy Rat Facebook Page, where i will be hosting a 'Pay It Forward' give-away tomorrow!

Car seat recovering ...

Today I decided that Matty's old seat had the better clips and adjusters, even though the cover was in poor shape, thinning and with small tears!



I took it to pieces, put the straps in water to clean them and washed the seat frame of its grime and sand! Then flatten out the old cover by removing the elastic edge, and use it to make a pattern for a new seat! It looks much to big spread out like this!




and here we have Mary's soft new cover, complete with the 'seatbelt snugglies' she requested!

Flock!

working on a secret ...

which I did not want to share with you today, and so here is a bit of a project which is getting closer and closer to being in my hands, as we speak!


It's my dear Crabby, in that lovely stash book we are all waiting for!

Car seats and a little thank you!

After some grunting and talking to myself today, the three seats in my car all match, and I have 2 9m+ car seats to release into the local community via freecycle! Matty and Daisy have moved up to back-and-booster seats and Mary is in Daisy's which I shared the recovering of on my blog, sometime ago!



And this little chicken is another thank you gift - quite fond of chickens these days!

Cold day!

It was a cold day today, with frozen bird-baths and chicken drinkers ...



but some of us still went outside to do fun things on our bikes that it says not to, in the instructions!



And some of us stayed inside, where it was much warmer ...



there were curved seems and there were ... even wibblier ones!



And then there was a rat named Agent, to go with toffee!