Crop sunday

It was our monthly crop on sunday and we had a great day as we always do and i had a busy one too, i managed to make 3 lots of bunting and an advent calender for the shop
www.wood-n-stitches.co.uk
I also managed to make this advent calender for jake, i bought it with the intention of making it last year but it never happened, well it has now lol, now to find lots of little goodies to put in the pockets

next months crop is our christmas party CHRISTMAS when did that creep up on us!!!
best get some shopping done!

Weekend away...

Back to work this morning after a lovely weekend away, we spent the weekend with Jo and Ian in Stratford upon Avon,
on friday night we met up with Jak and Debs, Tony and Dave and went on a ghost walk round a very dark and old house, then we went for a meal which was gorgeous,
We stayed in the Shakespear hotel which was very old and creaky but perfect

after sleeping off our meal and topping up with a full english for breakfast on saturday we spent the day wondering round Stratford,
and relaxing in the hotel, which was just gorgeous, bagging the seats in front of this gorgeous open fire

there were so many places to sit and relax and open fires all over the place,
the atmosphere in the hotel was lovely and the staff very attentive,
definately a hotel to revisit

Vampire Jake

just have to show you this,
Jake 's nursery were dressing up for the day for halloween on friday ,
this is jake as a vampire, firstly with just the clothes on....

then with his makeup and hair done....

and 5 minutes later lol, boy does he look grown up with his hair lol

and then onto what i have been upto,
i have decided that i am working far too much although i am enjoying it greatly i am also missing doing my own thing so have decided sunday evenings is my time, my stitching time, so i started last week and i am working on "the sheltering tree", one colour nothing to taxing lol.....so we shall see how much i get done tonight, i am off to stitch now lol

Its almost Halloween...

And here are a few of our offerings for the season,
i love halloween, so much fun
all hand painted by the fantastic Cara

£6 each for the canvases that come with their own stands and £2.75 for the hanging words

Day 2-Crafty Weekend

Mssing people today but we still managed to have a great day, we even, for the last time this year i am sure managed to sit outside for lunch which was just lovely.

there was a little more productivity today....but not much lol
here is Ann doing some quilting.

Lyn has been busy paintingwe were very busy playing with the camera lol

Jo was trying to avoid the camera....gotcha!!

Colly was looking puzzled about something!!

and here are some of the brilliant exchanges received this time, this one is Jos received from Ann who is very new to quilting but managed to sew this fantastic bow onto jo's towel , it is gorgeous, well done Ann.

This is Polly's scarf and choccies received from Tammy, polly didn't take it off all weekend lol

This is Chris's received from Jo

and this is mine from Sandra, Sandra was playing with her new toy, a free hand quilting table.
so another weekend done, shattered now but cant wait till we can do it all again.

Crafty weekend- day 1

well that was day one over in a flash, blink and you missed it.....i wish you could slow down time for these things
lots of laughter as always and i think a little bit of crafting was done...maybe lol
we did have a friendly sheep as a visitor first thing, employed to cut the grass but he was too interested in joining in the fun so had to go cut someone elses grass for a while lol

here is Lyn receiving a very early christmas exchange...lol
and sporting the very brief briefs on her head.......no Lyn.......oh i will explain later lol


well i will take more pics later of some of the exchanges received
but as for day one ....great day and a lovely meal in the local brewery in the evening too,
here we go for day two.....

Halloween's a comin !!

if you love halloween you will love these, hand cut and hand painted....
"Scaredy Cat"
with fimo detail.

and "Cat tales"

New Quilts and Cushion

Its very hard to get things onto the website when they are ones off's like the quilts and cushions, no sooner are they made and on the stall when they are gone! very good i know but i would love to be able to show you more of them like the alphabet with bright yellow and purple gingham baby quilts gorgeous but no sooner made they are gone, here are a few we have at the minute.......
a single bed quilt, lovely and bright, great for any childs bedroom or play room

and these gorgeous "baby" baby quilts lol so much fun.

and the A for aeroplane and R for rocket applique cushions,
just love them.

Ragdolls and Parties

Ragdolls....and lots of them, well not so many now as these are flying out of the door,
just a small selection of what we have on offer....aren't they just gorgeous

TOY PARTY
if you would like us to bring along our selection of toys and gifts to your house for a toy and gift party then just get in touch, you could be earning yourself some good commission.... great for all that christmas shopping.

what i have been doing...

well apart from my sewing machine working overtime as usual, poor thing just keeps going for me lol, not that i have done much sewing this week, well not as much as usual, i have been busy with other things, vouchers to go in goodie bags for a health and beauty fair we are doing on sunday in nottingham, i have also been working on an order of personalised aprons for the staff of a local cafe, then sorting through all the boxes that keep arriving at the house, a ton of body shop goodies, and this lot, well the ragdolls have been here a week or so, but the jigs arrived yesterday....
chunky alphabet and number jigsaws......

just a few of all the gorgeous ragdolls, all varying sizes, arent they just gorgeous?

and some fantastic nursery picture frames, just love these little cuties...

well best go get ready for the day job lol
watch this space though lots more to show you
and its crafty weekend next weekend and i am in the middle of sorting out the menu for the weekend, busy busy!!!
please leave a comment and say hi

what to say.......

Seen as i can talk for england why am i sat here fingers at the ready thinking, what can i say??
something i dont normaly have trouble with lol but today!!!
so what can i tell you, realy busy with wood n stitches, its going fantastic and is keeping me realy busy which is great but very tiring, realised i haven't had a day off in many many weeks, no wonder i am tired, and i realise also that i am missing jakey time,
he is always over one night at the weekend but is asleep for most of that, so i get to play for a couple of hours then its to bed than in the morning i get an hour or so and i'm off to market or a craft fair, another two weekends working then i think on the third i might have a sunday off lol cant wait for jakey day, it is lovely though that i do get to see him, lots of nipping in and out and a couple of phone calls a day, he takes the phone to his mum and says "nanna", and gets quite upset until mummy rings me ,how sweet is that, we have some lovely little chats, he tells me about rory(whoever that is) and igglgiggle, as he calls him lol a lot of it i have no idea what he is saying lol but i just love our chats
here is our cheeky little monkey, realy do need to have some time with him and the camera, he is growing so fast!
he will be 2 a couple of days before christmas, where does the time go??
there you go i am all dried up now i have waffled for a minute or two!

please feel free to leave a comment, i would love you to!

Wood-N-Stitches are busy busy......

We are very busy of late, introducing new products, watch this space very soon for that, very exciting it is too,

we are also out again this weekend, actualy we are out every weekend until christmas
this weekend 11th 12th sept we can be found at...
HICKLING SCARECROWS
Hickling leicestershire
http://www.hicklingvillage.org.uk/ look here to see more about the event,
come along and have a wonder and see all the wonderful creations, its all fantastic and so much work has gone into the scarecrows, lots of other attractions too, street market, craft marquee, bands and other attractions.

Exchange finish...

i just want to show you what i made for jane in the recent exchange for "exchange heaven", the theme was thread bobbin, which is just a decorative item to go with your current project to help keep all your threads together
thanks to jane for photos as i forgot to take a pic before i sent it out!


and this is the thread bobbin i received from Lynn, isn't it just gorgeous, i hav'nt been stitching much lately but i might just have to sort out my next project so i can use my bobbin, thank you lynn, i think it is gorgeous.

Fantastic Weekend

well that was an adventure lol, Jo and i had a great weekend camping in a park in the middle of nottingham surrounded by a fair and thousands of screaming kids lol
imagine the picture ...a huge slide on one side ,a football penalty game on the other, jo and i in a little tent in the middle in bed with thousands of screaming kids having fun all around and if you cant get out to go home what do you do? you just take the barriers down lol
yes we were at the Riverside festival in nottingham, it was great fun but very tiring with trading up until 11pm friday and saturday and then 6pm sunday, forgot to take pictures of the campsite but i do have one of the stall before trading on sunday


we met lovely people again, Toniann who was on the toy stall next to us and very helpful.
i am now busy loading lots of goodies to the website, got so much to do and so many new things in the production stage....so had better get back to it.

plesase leave a comment and say Hi x

lorna x

What a week!!

well no pics this time, i have an awful week and not got anything done that i should have, my car broke down a few weeks ago and has been playing up ever since, think you have fixed it ....then nope its off again, well last week we decided enough was enough, it was an oldie and didnt owe us anything so time for a new car,
found what we wanted but that fell through with some work that needed doing to it, so found another...this week it has just been s o o o s l o w in getting it sorted and so frustrating, have had to make a trip to the dealers every day after work which is the other side of nottingham in rush hour traffic on a motorbike...not funny!
told him i realy realy needed it by last night but nope we are picking it up this morning, back to other side of nottingham through early morning rush hour traffic on the bike....of what fun...not
then it is quick run round asda then home and pack the car cause Wood-n-stitches if off to THE RIVERSIDE festival in nottingham at lunchtime
talk about by the skin of your teeth lol

so i had all these plans for things to get done this week and none of it has happened, and i just have one big headache lol
but realy looking forward to the weekend, hoping the weather is ok as we are camping there !!!

i will take lots of pics hopefuly
have a great weekend all.