May i introduce to you......

Baby Mia, weighing in at a rather large 10lb 12oz

born 5.03pm tuesday 10th august
by C section after a (well i have lost count how long )very long labour!
but Mia is being a very good girl for her poorly mummy

and jakey is being a very good boy for his nanna, well he is a big brother now.

Whoops i did it again!!

couldnt resist the many fabulous fabrics i saw today and if it wasnt for DH texting me on how long i was taking i would have been much longer and spent much much more money,
so a good thing realy,
but i did buy lots.....
halloween fabrics for some projects i have in mindfabric for a custom quilt i need to make , fabric for two custom cushions i have on order, plus lots more, and i just realised i have missed some of it off the pics

so lots to keep me busy....
maybe it was a good job he dragged me out of the shop!

Busy Sunday.....

We had a great day yesterday, firstly Alex and i went off to one of the local car boot sales and came away with some great bargain, a few items of clothing and two great bargains for my soon to be Victorian themed bed room!

let me tell you how it came about.....
we took our jakey off to the seaside last Sunday and while there visited a very crammed antique shop and bought a new bed frame, it is a black and gold metal bed frame in a Victorian style, my bedroom is in great need of a decorate and as i love anything Victorian i decided that this is the way to go with the bedroom, starting with the bed, i am going to make throws, bolsters and cushions, the walls are going to be just a plane colour and i am going to bring in the colour with the fabrics, while at the carboot i found a brand new pair of curtains, fully lined and just the perfect colourways, in deep red, browns and gold,£4
i then found a piece of fabric about 2m again perfect for the victorian theme,
deep reds, brown and green, perfect for some cushions and maybe to cover a foot stool and blanket box i have!£3
we then went off to pick the bed frame up and have a better look around the antique shop
(we couldnt with jake and his little fingers last week)
and this is what i came away with.....
i am now on the lookout for a victorian wash stand or dressing table, a fireplace, and lots of little bits a pieces, an oil lamp, more fabrics etc etc, this is so going to be fun lol

Stitching mojo.....

Has returned with a passion lol, and i am in halloween mode for some reason, just finished stitching on this LK piece, but cant decide how to "finish" it off,
any suggestions?
now to decide what to stitch next, another halloween or something else mmmmmmm let me think!

More exchanges.....

So now everything has been received i can show you the rest,

firstly look at this little beauty i received from Melanie,
i dont know Melanie but if your looking thankyou so much i adore it!then i can show you my little creation for Maddy in the exchange heaven christmas in july exchange, realy enjoyed stitching this and making it up, hope you like it Maddy!
so now i have my stitching bug back i am off to stitch for 10 minutes before work, i am in the mood for halloween!!

BBD exchange

I can now show you this as it has been received by Michelle, this is what i made for her, glad she likes it, hard to part with cause i like it too lol
still waiting for mine to arrive, cant wait! i will take a pic as soon as it arrives.

Back on line....

(thought i did this post yesterday!)

anyway after being off line since last Thursday,phone line bought down by a crane apparently! i am now back on, feel lost without my pc, but its all working fine again now
i have at last taken part in a couple of exchanges recently, firstly a christmas in july on exchange heaven, which i received this gorgeous little fellow from Maddy, isnt he cute, i cant show you what i have made until i hear it has arrived safely,
i have also taken part in an exchange on Michelles blog its a Black Bird Designs exchange, i am also waiting for mine to arrive in its new home then i will show you, and waiting very excited for mine to arrive...oh oh cant wait!!
the quilts for Mia are happening oh so slowly, just dont know where the time goes,
4 weeks and counting until baby Mia arrives, getting excited now, and we are all thinking she will be arriving early so realy must get my finger out and get them finished,
will be back as soon as i have some thing more to show you.

Carboot find!

As you know i love to wonder round Carboot sales of a sunday when not busy and this week i found two lovely bargains, the first was an ikea cot, which looks brand new, not a mark on it, worth over £100 so Amee informs me, £5 BARGAIN , so chuffed with that and then i also found this cake stand, love it and only £1.50 so i just had to......

i also want to show you the working on my Hexagon quilt for Mia, its growing slowly but surely, i am realy liking it too,
I dont normaly like having more than one project on the go but at the moment i have 4! my own hehagon quilt which is also growing steadily, not going to show you a pic cause it looks the same as last time just the piles of flowers are bigger lol, not ready to put it together yet still working on the flowers then i have some diamonds to work on for infills cant wait to get the the actual final construction but i must be patient lol
i am working on a second quilt for Mia, (one for my house one for Amees house), it is a squared quilt which will have freehand quilting...possibly , not quite decided yet lol
the last project is a crochet blanket which is going to be a mishmash of different!! cant realy say what cause i am changing it as i go along so we will see how it ends up lol
so busy busy as always ,
these are among all the wood-n-stitches projects i am working on too, aprons, quilts and bags are in the mix at the minute!!

Thank you

To everyone for the support and sponsors, Alex and i did the 10k on sunday in that heat!! it was way too hot and i have the really burnt neck to prove it lol, we finished in 1hour 50 minutes and raised £250 in sponsorship so a big thank you to all

AND its still not too late to donate just go to my page on the last post

many thanks

10K Race for Life

Tomorrow my good friend Alex and i are doing the 10k race for life at Preswold Hall, Loughborough, we would be very grateful for any donations, even £1 would be very welcome,
please go to my page and make a donation....go on you know you want to...

many thanks

Oh Dear- I just couldnt help it!

But buy lots of scrummy fabric, it was calling to me, but i do have plans for it all, along with the wool that i bought on saturday for another baby Mia project!

so in this little lot, there is fabric for a bed set for jake, a quilt for mia, a quilt for me, two halloween quilts, one for jake and one for me, cause i just love halloween, a sun dress, or 2, or 3 for baby Mia, when i work out a pattern that is, got a picture in my mind of what i want, just need to get it to fabric lolMy hexagon quilt is coming along lovely, i think i have worked out the pattern it will finish in, of course that is subject to change when i come to laying it out but i think i have it lol
so where are all those extra hours in the day that i be needing?

Been busy

I have been having some me time this week, firstly playing with hexagons and lots of hand stitching which i am realy enjoying, and nice to be working on something that will take me some time instead of the got to get it done that i am normaly doing, so i can pick it up and put it down when i feel like it

i am also working on a couple of exchanges, first one is a christmas in july exchange which i am making an ornie so cant show too much of that one yet lol but great to be having some stitch time as well

Mmmmm fabric shopping !!

No i couldn't resist a little retail therapy of the fabric variety lol, i

need to reline the baby cradle in readiness for little Mia's arrival so off i went and found this little lot, cant decide quite how to do this, i am thinking of making cot bed sized quilt with these fabrics and with the leftovers lining the little cradle and then crocheting a blanket for the cradle, i remember jake being in the cradle for a short time and for Mia it will be summer so don't think she will be needing a big quilt and by the time we get to winter she will be moving into a cot anyway....well those are my thoughts, may change along the way lol

then i also bought this little lot, i intend on making a hexagon quilt with these, hand sewing the hexagons centre panel then moving onto the machine to do borders etc
now just need to find some time to be able to work on these what with wood-n-stitches keeping me very busy and the busy season upon us....oh well better get on with it then lol

A little bit of knitting!

With baby Mia only 9 weeks away, (although we were in the audience for a physic the other day Amee was told she would come early(we shall see))

Amee said "you haven't done any knitting yet"!

i did some knitting for Jake and although one of the jumpers he wore a lot the other one i never saw again lol,

Amees not really into hand knitting....
but this time with the baby being a girl Amee wants knitting.....so while standing on the market last week,i nipped into the wool shop and in between customers i knitted a plain little cardy
(i did it plain cause i couldn't concentrate on the pattern with people stopping me all the time lol)
so here is my first little cardy for baby Mia....right where are all my patterns, what shall i do next??

Too chilly for the beach......

So when it is too chilly and windy to go to the beach what do you do on a bank holiday weekend, you buy a lovely new sandpit and sand and of course some toys and you set it up in the front room

the next best thing lol and jakey is just loving it