FRESH AND FUNKY QUILT BLOCK BEE..JULY..

At last I have finished my blocks for the July Fresh and Funky bee ! I don't know why they have taken me so long as I started making them weeks ago, and then abandoned them in my sewing room where they became hidden under a pile of stuff, only to be unearthed when I finally had a tidy up in there !

* Note to self - Make up and post blocks as soon as you receive them so this does not happen again !

Anyway here they are....

Lynette who's month it was sent us a great selection of fabrics in her chosen colours of pink, turquoise and lime green...

She asked us to make people and house blocks to make up into this 'burbs' quilt..

which is taken from Material Obsession by

Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke..

 

If you would like to see the blocks that the other members of our group have made you can find them on the Fresh and funky bee flickr group

CRAFTY SUNDAY #12

Crafty Sunday this week is a bit of a re-make, I made this play kitchen for Freya almost 10 years ago...

I remember going to B & Q with a rough picture drawn on a scrap of paper and measurements of how big I thought each piece of would need to be.  I managed to persuade the man in the wood cutting department to cut out each piece for me , he had said that he was only meant to make one cut to a piece of wood for you to fit into your car etc not cut out individual pieces for projects, but I think he felt sorry for me when I explained I really wanted to make this for my baby girl !

It is made from MDF, as everything seemed to be at that time, and incredibly heavy !

As you can see it has been well played with over that time and was looking a bit worse for wear...

The doors had fallen off, we had lost a knob and the paint work was in a very sorry state.  I decided that it was time for an overhaul...

I had some lovely duck egg blue paint left over from another project and decided to go with that ...

I still need to put the doors back on and replace the knobs, and I would like to add some sort of 'tap' to the sink unit (which was always my intention, but never happened)..

But I am very pleased with the progress so far and the two little girls (and Freya and Finn, although they would not admit it !)  have played with it all weekend...

A while a go I saw this fabulous play kitchen that a German blogger called Catherine Hug had made for her daughter and posted about on her blog Hyggelig..

Can you believe that she made this from THIS....

Very clever, and isn't this just the sort of cabinet you see outside junk shops ?

Next I intend to recover the girls ironing board, perhaps make them a little peg-bag, oven gloves and aprons to match, oh, and maybe some of the great felt food I have seen around...

SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER...

Well, that's it for another School year and six weeks to enjoy before we have to start it all over again !

I managed to finish off the the little pouches that I made for the children's teachers...

 I hope that they liked them....

I think this Amy Butler fabric one was my favourite...

So, what have I planned for the next few weeks ?..

A bit more of this....

....name tape sewing, I have always used the sew in woven labels, but now having three lots of uniform to sew labels into I am questioning why I have never gone for iron on !...

I need to update my Folksy shop and list some new stock, as well as contacting some 'real' shops that have been expressing an interest in my 'stuff'.

But the best thing is not to be bound by school runs, and not having to be any particular place by any particular time....

CRAFTY SUNDAY #11

This weeks Crafty Sunday items are thank you presents for the children's teachers at both school and nursery..

I wanted something that was relatively quick and easy to make as I have left it (as usual) to the last minute, school finishes on Wednesday...

I went for these easy peasy zippered pouches which can be used for anything from Make-up, pencils, sewing kit etc...

I found the tutorial on Make it perfect blog, and they really are as the title says 'Easy peasy'....

And a great way to use up scraps...

also odd buttons....

These are the fronts ready quilted for the rest of the pouches.

 As I said in my post yesterday I was featured on My passport to style this week, Sharon featured this pump bag (amongst other things) and said she would like one as a wash-bag for when she goes on her Summer camping trip, well, funnily enough the Mum of the little girl I made it for asked if I could make her a wash-bag and also applique her name on to a towel for her take to brownie camp...

I lined the wash-bag with a piece of white shower curtain, which worked really well..

And there will be no chance of this towel going missing..

AS FEATURED ON...

I have been featured on

My passport to style

Sharon who is a style consultant and freelance fashion writer wrote a great post about me and featured some of my items, pump bag, dresses etc...

Its great to see feedback and to know other people like the things I make too...

Another place I received very positive feedback was at the school Summer fair yesterday afternoon, Lots of orders taken and sold out of a lot of the little hairbands, key-rings, slides etc that I had made...

So, off to get all my orders made up now, and I will see you tomorrow for Crafty Sunday...

GRADUATION DAY..

Christopher Anthony Tierney BA (Hons).

Fast forward 11 years !

Congratulations Christopher we are all very very proud of you xx

CRAFTY SUNDAY #10

I have been very busy with my crafting this week, preparing things for the stall I will have at the Children's School Summer Fair that will be held on Friday....

As well as the usual things I make I have tried to keep a large percentage of items under the £10.00 mark as I find that people don't actually take a lot of money to these type of fairs...

I have made a pile of these.....

Great little pencil wallets with coloured pencils and little sketch book....(£7.00)

A few of these denim Union Jack messenger bags...(£10.00)...

And lots of bits for a few pounds....

Little cotton bags with elastic made to French skipping and Cat's cradle lengths...(very popular)...(£3.00)..

Cotton head bands.....(£3.00)

Felt bead jewellery.... (£2.50)....

These 'Flower power' headbands on elastic that the older girls all seem to like.....(£3.00)...

And button hair slides... (£3.00)

THE ENVELOPE PROJECT UPDATE.....

I had a lovely surprise when catching up on blogs this morning, Hebe's envelope for the Meet me at Mikes envelope project has arrived at the Meet me at Mikes shop in Australia !

Pip who owns Meet me at Mikes empties the envelopes contents, photos the envelopes and puts them in her shop window...

The picture Hebe drew on the back of her envelope is on Pip's blog HERE

This is Hebe's envelope here in the UK...

And here it is in Australia ! How cool is that ?............

Photo taken from the Meet me at Mikes blog...

Can not wait to show Hebe when she comes home from nursery at lunchtime...

The winning envelope will be chosen at random on 2nd August, so if you get a envelope there by then you can still take part.....

WE ALL WENT TO THE ZOO TODAY...............

It was Hebe's pre-school trip this morning, the trip is the same every year, they always go to Blackpool Zoo.  I must have done this trip about five times over the last seven years as Freya and Finn both went to the same nursery....

Younger brothers or sisters can come too, and it is very exciting, going there on a coach...

Spotting the animals...

Playing on the playground.....

And seeing lots of sleepy animals....

A lovely morning spent with friends, but two very tired little girls when we got back home.....