in my dining room ...

a red themed 'art for the hands' mat ...



a nice cheerful blue one ...



wait a minute, whats that on the calendar?



The little-misses-february, it's us!

these two mats are ready to meet the public at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition at the library for easter week ...

WIP - Art For The Hands ...

do you use your ironing board as a table ?


wow, neat writing on the blackboard, i could have been a teacher! haha ... the girls like my writing and point out how steve's is a bit wrong sometimes e.g. r's with flat tops instead of nice curves ...

mary can count to three, so she enjoyed these three shiney buttons ...



you can see this mat, and another to go with it at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition next month.

cat themed art for the hands mat ....

this is tactile mat number 4, another one for june ...
i hope her friend likes it ....

another 'art for the hands' ....

this one is being enjoyed by audrey, i hope it helps her with her busy hands when she feel anxious ...

art for the hands, again ...!

another tactile mat has been created ...


i wanted to put bright colours and contrasts in this for some one with poorer sight ...



"Hi Cat,

The Tactile toy just arrived and we ripped open the pack in our eagerness to have a look. It's SO GORGEOUS!

My daughter and I particularly love the purple satin back as that is one of our favourite colours. My husband noticed how that dinky lace pocket is in just the right spot for him Mum to slip her right hand into when the toy is on her lap. The bell is nice, too, just a sweet little tinkle of sound.

And it is so well made both in terms of being sturdy and being elegant and neat. Never in a million years could I have pulled that off.

Thank you for all your loving attention and skill.

I'll try to get a photo of the mother in law with it in the home and e-mail it to you. We were going to visit her today but it's snowing heavily there so we didn't go. Not sure if we will make it before Christmas now..."


so we will see if Audrey likes it perhaps sometime after christmas ...

an evenings work ... for busy hands ...

a friend wanted something for her nan, i had just had some freecycled fabric offered to me, but it was grubby and needing a wash. i pulled out some older stuff, with
a few textures and colours and some ribbon, and some 4 hole buttons ...

my sister is staying and she got out some knitting about 6 o clock when dinner was done and i started to cut squares. then the chids left the lap top, and came to
see what i was doing, daddy read to them and we put them to bed ...

at some point i called june to let her know she would have something fast, hubby put on batman and i flitten between floor and sewing machine and ironing board!
then i hand-sewed some buttons and backed the piece, pressed it and went to bed !

the next morning the kids loved it and i had lent my camera to a friend so all i had was my phone, but i took some pics of it before making a parcel. i knew i was going on a parcel run anyway ....



after the post office we took the girls to the park, and then came home for
lunch