Fabulous!

I have had a wonderful day today. I have been out with my dear friend Gil, we went to a nearby town to check out a fabric shop that had been recommended by a woman in B&Q (of all places). We were not disappointed. I bought these beautiful bright cottons (more smocking planned) there is a metre of each on the left and 3 metres of the one on the right;


I found this amazing fabric for a boy project I have planned;



And this;

I got a whole bag of goodies for only £17!! And I was very pleased because I saw several fabrics that I have had from SAMS (in my £5 basket) that are priced between £18.99 and £22 a metre!!

I also recieved a parcel in the post today from the wonderful Emma;

This is a terrible picture of the bag (am sure Emma will have taken some better ones). It is absolutely beautiful. It is purple and it has buttons so is perfect for little old me!

There were fabulous specially picked goodies inside too.

This little felt purse;

Some beautiful ribbons and papers and a little trinket box full of sparkles;

Thank you so much Emma, I hope your swap arrives soon and makes you as happy as you have made me!

There were also lots of charity shop finds but I'll share them with you tomorrow.

The may fayre is tomorrow from 3.30 til 5.30 at Ightenhill Primary School, Alder Street, Burnley if anyone is near and fancies coming and saying hi?

Do hope I have enough stock!!

Daisie xxx

Just Call Me The Smocking Queen!

Here is Elizabeth in her finished smocked top;

It is slightly longer than I had planned as she was in bed when I finished it last night and I just guessed the length! She loves it though and came upstairs wearing it over her pyjamas to show me while I was showering at half six this morning!!

I have two more cut out and ready to go, one for Elizabeth's friend Myah (bit of an advertising exercise) and one for Nathaniel's friend Erin (as a small thank you for the buttons and an advertising exercise)!

Today has been wonderful. The made to measure custom pine blinds we ordered for our bedroom arived, I managed to put two more coats of varnish on our new skirting boards (hopefully get them all fitted tomorrow), I played with my boy at tumble tots, helped a lovely lady out with her ribbon crisis and went shopping with Swirly!

We both got some lovely bargains and it was great to just catch up. Since my small girl and her big girl started school we really don't see enough of each other. I bought some wool (£1 for 4 50g balls) and some fabby chunky wooden needles (50p) and a few books for Elizabeth and some pink sparkly treasures for Francesca and some amazing froggy trousers for Nathaniel (a whole pound!) and a smashing new cardigan for myself! No pics of my finds tonight as I thought you'd have enough with the super model Elizabeth above!!

A weekend of bedroom sorting planned; touching up paint work, fitting skirting, varnishing arcitrave and generally lugging stuff from A to B and seeing whether or not our new bed arrives (long story). Hope so as I had set my heart on being in a bed on Sunday night............ maybe next week..........

Daisie xxx

A New Hybrid

My mate Lynsey made me (no, I think I remember offering) punch lots of little swirls from her business cards. The reason for this will become clear if you take a look at her blog. She's giving some away but I grabbed the ones I'd punched!

And this is what I made, a true craft hybrid, it's a Swirly Daisie!!!!



We spent today at the in-laws as Simon was fixing Grumpy's computer (not being a bad daughter-in-law, that's what we really call him) we did the rounds of the charity shops there but I came home with exactly nothing! Not happy! Am trying to talk Simon into a car boot tomorrow, provided it's not too cold or wet!

The children were given biscuits by Granny, that is what they're for after all, and here is Nathaniel with his little pinky up!! He must have known we were visiting the posh side of the family!!



And here's a pic to illustrate the point that you're never to young to start to nurture your creative flair;

Daisie xxx

Look What I got!!!

Hello, been into town with my friend Mick who's down from Aberdeen for the weekend. We did all the charity/cheap shops and look what I got;



Thank you to Francesca for taking a photo of me in my new skirt. It's a PER UNA one, ooh posh! And it's knitted!!! I just love it, it has a thick sage green cord waist band that fastens with lovely silver shiny buttons. The best bit is that it only cost me £6.50, alot for a charity shop spend but I just love it so and it's only a fraction of what it would have cost new, or that's what I keep telling myself. Here's a close up;




And as a bit of a thank you to Mick for making me go shopping on a Monday morning when normally I would be changing beds and doing the weekend's ironing I made a card for him to give to his friend who is boat mad and emigrating next week, here it is;





Am going to fondle my new skirt, Daisie xxx