Face Fur

Elizabeth played Fagin in a year six final production at school before the summer.

She had an eye-liner beard.

She looked cool!

Together we spent a wet Sunday afternoon during the summer holidays doodling shapes on paper and cutting felt and wrapping wooden kebab skewers in ribbon to create this little amusing set;

British Airman (think 'Allo 'Allo)

Angry Mexican?

May I tickle your fancy?

Apologies for the bad hair and the double chin, as I said, it was a wet Sunday afternoon!!

Daisie x

Apologies To My Biggest Baby

It seems I am unable to take good pictures of this one, sorry Elizabeth!!

She turned 11 a few weeks ago and is now off to the Community College over the road.

She looks so small in her big and hideously shaped blazer.

I text her earlier to tell her how she missed all the excitement (and swearing) when the exhaust fell off the car en route to the primary school. She thought it was rather funny and text me back at lunchtime to express her mirth and to tell me that everyone looks stupid in their new uniform so she's not alone!

Good luck to everyone else out there that starts the exciting and incredibly scary journey through high school!!

Daisie x

School Sewing

The coolest pencil case in Year Seven, nay, Lancashire, nay, the world, nay, the universe!!!!!

I had an idea and Elizabeth liked it muchly.

So yesterday morning I grabbed the fabric she wanted and the iron on interfacing (I hate the stuff) and a zip and started chopping.

I always do that, never really plan, just go from the picture in my head and although I feel I should win awards am very pleased with the zippy pocket it could have been bigger. Not everything she needed to house had room.

So I made a little zippy pouch to keep her colouring pencils safe;

Think I may need one for me too........ Daisie xxx

I Knitted For Me!!

Well, we've had another birthday, Miss Elizabeth is 11;

I am madly knitting like a mad knitty woman for a baby due anyday and to be honest I think he will arrive before I have even got the border picked-up-and-knitted!!

I have felt very down in the dumps lately and was turned down for my dream job (after leaving the interview feeling like the job was mine) which only made me feel worse.

I was inspired by the wonderful Kath over at Juicy Fig when she worte about her knitting and I decided it was about time I broke open a ball band or two of my beautiful Freedom Spirit that has been looking at me daily since last year's Knitting and Stitching show.

It was a joy to knit, even the 633 sticthes for the frill!!

But a beggar to photograph.

Jauntily tied to the side

Splayed out in all it's glory

Happy face when tied to the front (keep that clevage warm)

Draped across back of neck (or nice shot of hair)

Bad pictures but I hope they give you a feel for my beautiful new favourite winter scarf!!

How's it going with you?

Daisie x

Life

Hello, thanks for all the lovely emails and messages I have had recently, I haven't disappeared! Life simply gets in the way sometimes and the urge to blog completely jumps out the window.

So a quick run down of the last few weeks.

Nathaniel had his birthday and is now a 'whole hand'.

 Elizabeth left primary school ready to become year seven at the local community college, very frightening indeed.

Work is, well, one of the reasons I haven't been around work.

Francesca has become a little social goddess and has hundreds of friends calling to play everyday. Which when it's sunny and dry is fine as they can all be outside but when the weather is wet my home looks like some kind of orphanage!!

 Sebastian is so big and funny. His latest obsession is being spiderman and will point at you with his finger outstretched, make a wet whooshy noise and say 'grab on my web Mummy'

We've just spent a glorious week in Wales, we ummed and ahhhed for a week before we were due to go because the weather has been so awful and a week in a tent in wet Wales with four children would have been no fun at all. We decided to bite the bullet and just go and I'm so glad we did. The sun was out everyday, we could see the sea from the front door of the tent, we spent late evenings on the beach paddling and exploring, we visited castles and museums and the Dr Who Experience in Cardiff.

My amazing little sister gave birth to her daughter, Megan, last monday which has made us all very happy indeed.

And there's loads more but that will do for now.

Daisie xxx

This Week.....

I made a faux suede cushion and one in linen with a flock effect pattern and I knitted a front for an old tired cushion cover;


I made two cushions for the bench in the dining room;


I knitted a ruffle scarf;


We spent a day riding steam trains;


I knitted these tiny shoes (I put them on my hand for scale) for a baby girl who is going to arrive long before she is 'cooked' and will be poorly when she gets here. I figure all girls need good shoes for battle;


The girls have suffered 'holiday' lurgy; headache, sore throat general let down and urgh. They are now much better thanks to a pyjama day!

We spent a sunny morning firing rockets into the sky at the park and swinging til we felt sick.

Cakes have been baked.

A good first half of the holidays :)

MIA

Real life is taking over at the mo, seems ages since I've been here!!

I've had a birthday and Sebastian's had a very poorly chest (again) and Francesca's had the dreaded sickie bug from school. I've been knitting for some precious babies that are on their way. We've been enjoying the sunshine and being outdoors after the long winter.

Homework this week (apart fromt he usual maths and reading books) was to create some amazing egg characters for the Easter competition at school. Last year the girls didn't take part as a bit of a protest. The entries that seem to win have sooooo much parental input it's just not fair.

Francesca made a P-egg-uin with a little fishie on a dishie;



Elizabeth made Professor Eggabeth;


The professor is fantastic and she spent ages making her hair just right but the staging is amazing, the professor has a carpeted office with a window and mirror, a desk with an egg-mac laptop, a flip chart for teaching and a detailed egg (Elizabeth's thinking was that lots of mad professors have skeletons in their studies and this professor has an egg 'skeleton');


Nathaniel saw Francesca's Club Penguin P-egg-uin and decided he would make one too. This is a surfer P-egg-uin with a little surfing puffle;



Fantastic eggcellent fun!!