Busy Bee

With Dalby Day fast approaching its busy busy with my Dalby day hat on booking in the stalls for the street market and then with my village hall hat on sorting food lists, shopping and while all that is going on i am trying to sort my own things for my stall on the day, meeting myself coming back!! meetings every night, love it but cant wait for it to be over and to be able to do some designing.

but with all that going on i still have to have time for the normal things so saturday was Dalby crafters, thin on the ground with everyone on holidays but we had a great day, i was to start with sorting some things out for Dalby day but then i got my wheel out!!

and after filling the first two bobbins with single ply it was time to ply them together, i just love how each stage changes the colours, so from a very bright each stage we have changed.

plying these two together to get.....

this!

cant wait to see how much i have when i am finished and then decide what to make from it, something to wear i hope.

then on Sunday it was a quick walk round the car boot before back to being busy again and i just had to laugh when Ben bought Loki an ice cream, just look at the state of him, but he loved it lol

he go covered and a kind man off one of the stalls gave me a pack of tissues, by the time he had finished i need that full pack to clean him up....so funny.

just love this boy he makes me laugh every time i am with him.

Spin Spin Spin

I have so much i enjoy doing and spinning is one of them, so therapeutic and calming for everyone else too apparently lol, the dull hum  of the wheel can send people to sleep !

i just get lost in it and can end up for hours and get one well exercised ankle lol, i have tried changing feet but i just cant get the same rhythm going, two feet together works though, well for a short time anyway.

wow that looks a busy picture with my quilt and rug in the back ground!

my Ashford traditional wheel works like a dream and produces a very consistent spin

notice the bright bag of fibre i am spinning, you just cant go on the start colour as it can change so much

look what it turns into, and when i have plied it together it will change again,

 its going to look amazing, 

mmmm what to make with it!!

Stampin Up !!

Oh so happy to have this back in my life.......already added to my very full book case of stamps and have the all new ink pad colour range,

YUMMY

lots of ideas going round in my head and every time i pick up the book and have a flick through my head is full of , ooooh i could do thiiiiis, i could do thaaaat !!

its all just so gorgeous and top quality products that last a life time, i have stamps been sat on my shelf for the past 4 or so years and they are still as good as the day i bought them.

so what to do first??

buy more stash me thinks lol

then have a play and see where it gets me

watch this space.

Best Of Friends

Is it possible to set the clock to run fast??......is that a thing??

 i'm sure it is in my world, i'm sure my clock is going way too fast !! 

i just don't seem to have the time to do anything,

 i wake up at the weekend thinking i have two days to get stuff done, hours to spend creating..... but it never happens, i get lost in time talking to rabbits, rescuing cats out of trees, calling cats who think i have deserted them and left the country just because i am out of sight, wondering round the garden taking great delight in looking at beautiful flowers, and finding little shoots and flower buds i didn't see the day before oh and watering them all......mmmmmm actually that's all not too bad, apart from rescuing cats from trees bit , she will get it one day lol

its actually quite nice doing all those things, wish i had more time for that lot too lol, 

but i sure wish i had more time to create!!

saying that i have managed a little bit of creating this weekend

another of the wedding picture, this time no ink or paint involved, hand made flowers of course and title cut from the Cricut

hexagons, they appear in my scrapping and my sewing a lot, such a lovely shape and allow you to add lots of different patterned paper without it becoming too busy

a butterfly cause i just feel the need to add them at the minute !!

and playing with different fonts, always good to mix them up a bit , 

adds a bit of interest to the page, feels odd not having ink or paint anywhere , i could have added them but wanted to see if i could manage without them and i could lol, but if you wanted to add a bit of another colour or shading that would work well too.

         

Into August......

We go!!

 where is this year going, another roller coaster of a year, but I have seen the summer, well still seeing it, another beautiful day today.

 looking forward to the weekend with nothing to do except a birthday BBQ

Still sorting things out, trying to clear so that my spare time is my spare time rather than jobs time......if you get what I mean!

I have  things I want to do .....weaving , spinning, dying, would like to get back into my cross stitch, sewing, so much to do so little time as the saying goes lol but need to make the space for these things, to be able to sit in comfort without feeling guilty that I really need to be sorting this or that!

But I have managed another page, another from the wedding.....

A bit of a rustic page with hessian (that featured a lot in the wedding) some stamping, pearl drops, inking , painting , they normally feature some where! Hand made paper flowers.

The lovely little willow heart was just perfect to add and fits perfect with the theme of the wedding.

 

I will be making a wedding album, in a project life style once I have gathered all the bits and printed all the photos but would like some 12x12 layouts too of some of the really special moments captured on the day, too many to scrap mind you.