Today I made a pile of presents!

After bedtime and ready for tomorrow morning...two very special girls will be 6 years old!



And I also worked on some hamsters, ready for all the events I have got lined up!

Happy Mother's Day!

My girls make me cards and presents at Rainbow guides! Hope you have a lovely day xxx

my lovely birthday present, and the bag i made for her to live in ...

this year on my trip to scotland i fell in love with a stringed instrument. i couldnt put my friend davie's crafter down, even when my fingers were grooved and sore ... so i knew what i wanted for my birthday this year and let me say, its much more fun than chocolate or soap!
after messing around on ebay i followed a UK forums advice to contact the acoustic music compnay (TAMCO), and they made a reccomendation which i also followed ... after michael played some mandolins to me on the phone.
funny thing about the bag tho, you know how i love to sew and when i was looking on ebay i thought yeah, i can make a bag for it etc etc ...
then michael at TAMCO said 'sorry, we dont have any gig bags, we got sent banjo bags by mistake!'
imagine my joy as i ran to my fabric stash to plan some patchwork!
the bag is lined with some almost-hideous-but-soft-and-woolly vintage rug fabric, from jean down the road ...

three little chickens ...

the bigger chicken is my child friendly dining room doorstop - all these 1950's self-closing hinges would trap little people - and the two smaller softie chickens are presents...

i know that steve craves three chickens of his own, but for now, we just have chicken art ... and our pet rats of course!

presents for friends ....

this bird sits in Davies window, at Camden Street Studios ... he is made from part of a vintage printed skirt, and the pattern is symetrical which suited thwe bird well ...



i made this Cat for Ally, who engineered my trip and put me up after the gig on saturday night. Her cat Ellie was very taken with me ...perhaps because i am a raggy-rat lady?

liberating giraffes from christmas paper ...

i made two giraffes from some amazing freecycled vintage fabric, for matty and daisy, using the pattern from SOFT ANIMALS A TO Z ... carolyn vosburg hall.

i wont forget daisy's squeal of delight when she realised what was inside the package!

hope you had a lovely time! xxx

Thank You Julie ....

another surprise package for me and dear mary, contained among other things, this really cute gnome hat.

its from julie, here is her shop ... http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=4442

doesn't mary look great in it?

a happy christmas !

thanks to all my new friends in blog land and over on flickr, for your friendly support and encouragement over the past year .... hugs !

3 large chickens will be unwrapped by my girls today ....