Recovering...

my chairs needed some TLC...

a carver fit for a princess!

I had fun choosing different cheerful fabrics ...

this one is particularly bright!

Another Good-Book in need of a facelift!

This one had a spine but missed a back cover, so i have 2 new covers and then covered in some chef's trousers!

All finished and perhaps quite hard wearing too! Saved from further wear and restored to the owner ...

Did you guess?

I was making Rocky Road - i make mine with philly cheese instead of butter or marge! This happened the first time when i had planned to make it but Mr RaggyRat had eaten all the latter, and I was forced to try it having promised the small people! It's really nice and fudgy!

And of course, you remember my sweet little sofa ...

I covered the new cushion, and now no small things slip down the gap, or feel the sprung-ridge on their tender parts!

Book Keeping!

Another tatty book, well loved and in need of some TLC. This is a bible lacking a complete cover, never mind the spine like my last book project! Bibles get very personalised with notes and highlights, so it can be a blessing to find a way to keep yours a bit longer ...

Looking good with a Hard cover again, but pages also need to be uncurled!

And finally, the book's owner said they would be pleased with 'blue fabric' and I think this looks very smart! I am just going to put it under a weight to help flatten some of those corners ...

Book ...

This poor book was in need of some TLC, and is very well used as well as being a gift ...  I got the job of giving it a makeover, the spine of the book is already long gone!

So I used thick, stiff card to make a new spine and carefully sandwiched it between fabric hinges ...

finally I sewed the cover, using a little bit of fun, musical fabric and a lot of plain black, so the book can still look smart, esp if used at weddings and funerals ...

rat's the way we like it ...

our rat, sweetie, has recently had surgery to remove a lump, and altho i at first thought it was growing back, it doesnt appear to be ...
here she is, sniffing daisy's little hand ...



mary is very confident around animals ...



matty is reaching out to be sniffed, you can see the fur on sweetie's left-hand-side growing back already ...



matty and daisy love the camera ...