not much sewing going on around here ....

... i am recovering from surgery, but my busy children are as creative as ever ... painting, drawing and writing for me, done by matty. it even includes a cut-out hello kitty!



and this lively set of creatures by daisy ...



i love the use of so much vibrant colour (they got berol felt pens for their 4th birthday last year)



they even have their own dinners!

Have a Heart!

No one loves you like your teddy ... so for the current 'plush team' challenge, I made this sweet little bear who wears his heart like a button joint, two little red bells and a sweet ribbon ...

i also used a lovely vintage woven-backed faux fur, in a warm soft shade ...bear is fully jointed and about 25cm tall ...

the eyes are glass and the button is hand made ceramic

http://raggyrat.etsy.com

"Plush Team Has Heart" is a fundraiser to benefit the International Children's Heart Foundation, an organization that works to bring aid to children in developing countries with congenital heart conditions. 100% of these sales will be donated to the ICHF.

Thanks to all the Plushteam members who are participating in this charity, we hope for it to be a huge success. All of the other items can be found at http://plushteam.etsy.com.



Should you want more information about the ICHF their website is here: http://www.babyheart.org/


and here is their rating on Charity Navigator: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11172

a collaboration ....

These lovely plastic buttons were given to daisy by one of our home ed friends, Mya. Daisy asked me for some fabric and i showed her how to sew on buttons with a few stitches in one place. I think she did really well!

Spitfire, the mini-lamb ...

Spring time is just around the corner ... and with it this years batch of lambs, which made me want to paint a picture of one of last springs cutest!



Spitfire, photographed by Ivan. I began to get to work with coloured pencils and a few pastel sticks, remembering a little runt that died suddenly, last September.



and suddenly, there he was, with his distinctive ears glowing in the sunshine!



and Daisy was inspired to recreate Spitfire too, and here is he being sniffed by three rats!

Rat-Hat ... the one with ears!

This hat is too big for me ...



This hat is too boring ...



This hat makes me look like fun ...



How do you wear yours?

Bear got a new face ...

He came from a loft, in a stash of crafting goodies, and he had no face, so i gave him one. We think it suits him, and he joins in our games!

birds of a kind ....

one of our chickenpants, by matty ...



and a lovely barn owl, by daisy ...



we have been doing some thank you letters, they do a line of writing and draw some lovely pictures!