Spring .....

..... makes me sing.  Well, those of you who have heard me actually sing will be relieved to know that it doesn't really but that I entered the Spring Makes Me Sing swap.

My swap partner was Gill from Dosie Rosie and here are the lovely, lovely goodies that she sent me:

 A chicken .... cute eh?  now hanging next to the bird house by my craft room window.

Ribbon and trimming .... I've got just the project for the pink lace edging.

Fabrics .... love them.  I think I shall be saving these for something special.

Buttons ..... I especially love the dog ones, I feel another Stanley coming on!

A tray cloth with appliqued bunting ..... too nice to use! 

There was chocoate too ..... but you know how it is, it didn't hang around long enough for the photo shoot.  And I'm sorry I can't show you how beautifully wrapped this was but I was having some work done upstairs and I couldn't get to my camera so given the choice of waiting and unwrapping, I choose unwrapping!

Thank you Gill :-)  I really do love it all!!

These are a few .....

..... of my favourite things:

vintage fabric .... waiting for projects (and a quick run over with the iron!)

"accessory friday" at work ..... a new, weekly challenge to wear/bring/make an accessory .....home made corsages this week

Mo Manning digi art ..... printed out, ready to colour

buttons ..... sorted by colour, ready for the choosing!

things in rows, all lined up ..... is that a little odd?

stripes ..... and Otis (of course!)

and last, but not least, pink ..... and not just the colour ..... my favourite song just now ..... raise your glass

a week of .....

..... craft loveliness :-)

well, you know what it's like, I've spent a fortune over the past few weeks on things that I really didn't need ..... but, of course, had to have.  I've been beavering away in my craft room making stuff to sell so that I can (begin to) justify the amount of money that I've spent. 

I'm particularly pleased with these:

I made the pattern for these"magazine files" so that they would hold 2 spiral bound notebooks.  I recovered the notebooks by unwinding the sprial using the original cover as a template to make new ones.

I used by craftrobo to cut the cupcakes which I bought a while ago from one of my favourite sites, MyScrapchick.  I've had several sets from here and have been really pleased with them, I should use my craftrobo more but we have an on off relationship .....

I'm in the middle of making some gift bags, rather lazy of me but I bought a set of Paper Purses from K&Company and have been pressing them out and making them up:

And I got carried away with making laminated bookmarks:

Lots of shopping on the interweb means lots of good post days .... have a look at these buttons, all ready to be sorted into colour order to join the jars on my windowsill:

I've got four craft fairs and a house party lined up for the next month .... so much to make, so little time ;-)

snow days ....

.... and birthdays. Yesterday was Jack Devin's 12th birthday. Now, I might be horrified that my baby is growing up but he of course is mightily pleased! More so because it snowed so much that he had the day off school, his dad had the day off work and his brother had the day off college ..... I only work a short walk away from home so I missed out on a day off! Still, my boys made a snowman while I was at work and sent me some pictures.

I tried not to mind too much that they used some of my buttons for Mr Snowman's eyes. Of course, it was easy for them to choose just the right colour buttons as I have been industriously sorting my buttons into glass jars. I love having them on my window sill all ripe for the picking!! I'm not terribly happy with having to use coffee jars, but it's nothing that a trip to Ikea won't put right.

I've finally got back into my "craft groove" and have made a new bag book. It's called "Purple Funky" and will be available to buy from my MISI shop here.

I've also been making some bracelets with beads I got from ArtyMiss. I love the coloured pearls, they have an almost Victorian feel to them and I can't wait to get some more!!