Ta-Da!!

Here it is! This is a baby handbag for a little girl made with the recycled (unravelled and reknitted) yarn that my Mum gave me on Saturday night. It's really fluffy and the plain purple yarn is really velvety to touch, it's rather lovely isn't it?! Am wondering whether I have enough of this yarn left to make a big one for me...


May be back later, am out this afternoon so need to prepare veg for tonight, yawn!

Daisie xxx

Spring!

Well, we all thought spring had sprung but we awoke this morning to flurries of snow. We were all very excited but sadly it didn't stay :-(

The sun has been shining in between snow showers and Francesca and I got a cleaning bug!! She is a domestic goddess in training, and here she is mopping her bedroom floor, what a treasure!


After our lunch yesterday we planted our seeds, Elizabeth is growing Busy Lizzies (well, what else) and Francesca is growing Lobelia and Petunias to fill our hanging baskets in the summer. We keep looking but they are taking ages (so says Francesca) to grow, keep watching there are bound to be more pics of these as time goes on...



And when I cleared a space for them on the kitchen window sill I noticed that my orange tree has some little oranges on it. They're not ripe yet so I suppose technically they are greens, not oranges but am still quite excited!!



Anyway I need to go and do some more of my knitting, it's nearly there and just needs a few more rows and sewing together so hopefully all will be revealed tomorrow.

Daisie xxx

Flowers On My Piano

Happy Mother's Day to all those special women everywhere!

There were flowers delivered to my bedside by the two most beautiful girls in the universe followed by fresh coffee and toast by my wonderful husband. I then lay in bed for an hour with my fabby new book "The Secret Mothers' Club" by Joanne Fedler. It's a must read for any neurotic mother, it's a relief to finally think 'am glad it's not just me that thinks/feels/does that'.

Here are the flowers on my piano;


I also received two beautiful cards from Elizabeth and Francesca, Nathaniel is a little small to be crafting yet but I forgave him when he smiled!!


Fabulous writing with no help; "I didn't even get my name card Mummy!"

And 'joined up' writing from my biggest baby;

I migrated from bed to bath with my book still in tow, love to read in the bath and especially as it was mother's day (or maybe I was just lucky) no one needed to poo while I was soaking. Nathaniel joined me for a while so now smells like a girl! The girls got in when we got out and then we sat on my big bed and painted our toes.

All that and it's only lunch time, we are hoping the weather will stay dry so we can go for an explore in the 'deep dark woods' this afternoon.

There is a piece of pork and some parsnips waiting to be roasted for our evening meal and I feel like the most treasured Mummy in the whole world.

Hope all other Mummy's are being spoiled too!

Daisie xxx

Knitting With Warm Feet

Well the rain has been pouring today and the wind has been blowing and it's been thoroughly miserable out and about.

After Simon's visit to the dentist we went to see the Mother-In-Law and deliver flowers and cards ready for tomorrow, we try to do this now so that I can spend Mother's Day at home just being a Mummy and not having to be a daughter or daughter-in-law. I have been to deliver the same to my Mum this evening, hence the late post!

Mum was given a half completed knitting project by a friend and has not finished it so she passed the yarn on to me, here it is, how fab!? Am very pleased, have unravelled the main part to reuse the yarn, not sure what it'll be yet but keep watching and all will be revealed!


Whilst at Mum's my youngest sister gave me a fabulously fluffy pair of socks, thanks Charlotte!!



And finally today is a special day; my first crafty item has made it onto craftjuice's homepage, take a look at Elezabeth Eliphant in here new home.

Night night Daisie xxx

Edward and Baby Ella

It's been a dark miserable rainy day here so have mostly been a home bird today. Have nearly conquered my ironing pile and have cooked good wholesome food for all my family whilst playing with Nathaniel.

Once they were all in bed tonight I have dragged out my sewing box (even though I just wanted to go to bed) and have completed some more elephants for my herd.

Meet Edward and Baby Ella;

Quite pleased with Baby Ella, she's the same as the 'love my money' purse on the site and I rather like her eye lashes!!

Am off to bed now, my eye lids are a drooping!

Night night, Daisie xxx

More Elephants

Well after a crap morning at kwikfit waiting for yet another new tyre, this really is getting silly, we're thinking of taking out shares in Michelin! I had a rather wonderful afternoon. Lunch made by Lynsey, entertainment by Anya (who modeled my dungarees for me even though she didn't really want to, thanks!), Tara and Francesca. Nathaniel was his usual chilled self on the carpet watching the world go by while I made some more felt elephants, the herd is growing! Lynsey meanwhile was doing a post for cuteable and showing me lots of lovely things!

Here as promised is a photo of Nathaniel in his prototype trousers, they are a little baggy in the leg but are a good length and the body shape is good, ample room for a nappy! Just a little tweaking needed and then we will have the perfect pattern for small boys' leg wear!


He did try and accessorize but Elizabeth managed to talk him out of it!!



Daisie xxx

Nathaniel's Prototype

It was only a matter of time really before he joined his sisters in having all the first runs of good ideas, affectionately called 'prototypes' by Simon. Elizabeth and Francesca have an array of mismatched, cobbled together first attempts at projects and they treasure them so. Very flattering!! Am sure they'll get wise soon and start demanding 'proper' ones!!

So here it is!
Is it Blue Trousers with a check cuff.......



or is it check trousers with a blue cuff?



It's the same pair of trousers inside out!!

Thought it would save work; by having two pairs inside one another there are less raw edges to deal with which is always good! And you get two looks for the price of one, or when you end up wearing the lunch you can take your trousers off, turn them inside out and have a new clean pair. Genius. Am sure I'm not the first person to have thought of this but am quite pleased with the end result. There will be a photo of him wearing them soon.

I also made some beautiful daisy print dungarees in sunshine yellow colours but my girls are too big to model them so am off to borrow a small girl tomorrow, pics will follow.

Early to bed with my knitting tonight, very, very tired!
Daisie xxx