slaters, billy-bakers, - what do you call yours?

i think our garden might be missing a few woodlice now, the girls play with them the moment they get outside, and you know how playthings get lost ...

bill over the road calls them billy-bakers, and when i lived in scotland the twins sean and dan called them slaters, and found me some very impressive ones, back when i hated touching them and pretended that i didn't!

the other day daisy saw one that she thought was doing a pooh, and shouted with glee, "he's doing a poooo! he's making compost!"
so, they have been listening when we chat about the garden!

WIP painting progress - mostly collage ....

you can see my fox front feet peeping out from under the death of marat !

did i tell you i joined the etsy plush team this january?

i am having a great time over there .... here is the plush team blog if you wish to follow it, there is a fun competition going on at the moment ... and pop over to the plush team etsy shop too. i will list my version of stichy there soon, and some tweed hamsters there, on monday !

ok here is stichy ... in the plush team shop

another blog post ....

last night i popped Glazed Pork, the tweed pig, and Haris the dog into my etsy shop ...

here is a post on the etsy plus team blog about GP, and about my entry for the current plush team challenge ... i'm quite pleased with the post so pop over and have a read ... http://www.plushteam.com/2009/05/iron-chef-challenge-mirrors.html

i have ben working on some tweed hamsters, who will be listed in the plush team etsy shop for a bargain price next monday as part of a plush raiser ... every monday in june http://www.plushteam.etsy.com ...

celebrating blog readers ... for NN, and "Pat, who likes rats" ....

i just clicked the ramdom number generator thingy and it came up with post number three, which is by NN, so use get in touch NN and i will send you some cards. (cathy at raggyrat dot co dot uk will do :-)

the picture is a phone doodle, a rat i worked into the other day while discussing things with a few local HEing folk ... the original pencil sketch i created on the back of the girls art pad, while watching them to some drawings ... i think he's quite sweet, if a little sad ...

thank you for coming to my blog folks ... more sewn rats, soon ... and more work with scraps and offcuts, and bits and bobs !

art in progress ....

here are some sketches on canvas of some well known art works ... i wonder what they will look like when i have finished with them ?

i will do the draw for my giveaway on sunday, thanks for commenting xxx

giveaway ....

here are 10 cards printed with two kinds of artwork by me, and i promise to send them anywhere in the world, but not into outer space ...

if you want to enter a draw to win these, just let me know
1 - how you found the raggy rat blog ...
2 - do you come here regularly?
3 - whats your favourate thing to see on blogs that you regularly follow or visit?

hugs
now wish me luck
i am making one of the twin girls go cold turkey - i have taken her out of nappies this morning!