Showing posts with label gift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gift. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Three faces of the season.

How cute is this little girl? She's carefully cleaning her paw. Or is she? Caption competition?

 

Sometimes I have to wait to after Christmas to share what I have been up to with some furry friends. Such is the case with these three lovelies. 

So good to be asked to do a rat again. I will always love rats and value them as pets as well as subjects!

 

A girl Yorkie and a boy with the best nose ever are this years delightful dogs. 

 

I can't wait for the new year to begin. It's going to be a good one. I think 2016 held a lot of challenges. How was it for you? 

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

A Picture For Oscar ....

A friend shared this pic with me. Her friend had spotted it during a visit to Cornwall and they would have bought it to remember their son but the shop was closed.
My friend asked me if I could help get something like this in the Mum's hands and I said, buy some canvas! 


Measuring the canvas by drawing around it, i sketched out the elements of the composition ...


I used my sketch to cut pieces of fabric out ... 



When all the pieces were cut out it was time to iron them all flat and make them adhesive shapes using iron on interfacing.
 — at The Raggy Rat.


All the fabric got fixed in place with careful ironing and I threaded my machine with navy thread. I thought that it would be nicer than black. 



I used the thread to draw just inside each shape and draw in some of the details like posts and the lighthouse window.
 



Mike helped me staple the back. Then I tucked inside some of my cards and added my label too


Here it is finished. I really enjoyed the sewing part, and also hunting for just the right fabrics too. My friend loves it and the mum who received it was over the moon! — at The Raggy Rat.






Wednesday, 8 February 2012

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!

Friday, 9 January 2009

a gift arrived, for a new baby boy ...


pop over to tantehilde's blog, link below, its not me who had a baby boy, but dear hilde, and i hurried to try and get a gift to her even tho it was christmas time and my family was ill.

i dont make presents for new babys untill they are actually born, i am funny like that!

i have also stolen hilde's pic of the doggery-dog, as in all the fluffles i forgot to take one!
http://www.tantehilde.be/wrdprss/?p=150

hilde makes really great dolls and toys, is very imaginative and crafty, and has 5 gorgeous children, her son has even made some wonderful softies too.