Knitting Katie, WIP day and Gifted Gorgeousness (a little late!)

Good Morning!

Well the sun seems to have his hat on and spring seems to be springing!!  All great stuff!!

I was going though my photos for my gifted Gorgeousness photos and i came across this photo taken the other week, of Katie, at the school knitting club :D  She certainly is very 'crafty'!!  :D

Katie at Knitting Club at school
this was taken on mad hair day which
is why her hair is a 'funny' colour!!  

After a good few days of a serious spring clean ... honestly where does all the 'junk' come from as we have only been here since October?!!  lol ... I forgot to post my Gifted Gorgeousness post so here is a photo of a few gifts that went to mine and Katie's pen pals!

A few gifts for our Pen-pals

After all my heard work of a total de-clutter and clean up (along with tons of washing and drying as I stripped down all the beds ... I never though of the washing and drying at the time lol) I am now going to have a lazy day on my bottom and stitch on this Joan Elliott SAL which Joan Elliott herself organised, designed and re-charted the charts to fit the boxes :D 

Joan Elliott Mystery Faces SAL

I hope you all have a great day!

Bye for now

Hugs Heather

xoxoxox

Sewing Machine Creations

Hello there,

I hope you are all well :D  I have Cara off school all this week as she has a 'virus' of some sort and it knocked her 'for six' Sunday and Monday and now she has a cough like that of a 100 a day smoker!! It's nasty :(  Poor wee thing xoxox 

At the moment she is still fast asleep!  I'm just glad James is home from Uni early as I was able to leave her sleeping. Normally she is up at about 6am but today (now 9.30am) she is still snoring her head off!!  

I was spoilt on Mother's Day :D 

Handmade at school :D

Lots of gifts from all the kiddies :D

I really do love the handmade cards and pictures that are done at school.  This year Cara's class even made keyrings! I will treasure them all forever :D 

Yesterday I got out my sewing machine and stitched together some stitching I have had sitting about for a while!  So much stuff stitch and just piled into a box as I didn't know what to do with them!! 

Once I am a bit more confident I will machine sew the Round Robins that I did a year or ago over on June's blog

I do miss doing Round Robins and Exchanges!  I use to join them all the time, or even run them ... maybe i might go looking for some to join or even brave it and run some of my own again!  I really do love Round Robins :D 

Anyway ... back to the title topic lol  Here are the pieces I machine sewn yesterday :D

Vase of hearts by Michael Powell

Lizzie*Kate design 'Wear A Smile'

I must say I am pleased with myself :D

I will have a route throw my stitched collection an see what I can stitch together next lol  As they say "Practice makes perfect"

Bye for now,

Hugs

Heather

xoxoxox

Happy Mother's Day to all you yummy mummys

Have a Great Day 

The past week or so I have been organising and stitching for school!!  I am on Parent's Council at Conor, Mark, Katie and Cara's school and we had organised a Fitness for Fun Fundraiser.  One of the other parents is mad about Zumba dancing so we had her in to do Zumba with the kiddies and it was fantastic!  400 odd kids coming into the school hall over two mornings to do Zumba was amazing!  I have never seen so many happy kiddies in one place at the same time!

Then on Thursday we did Cupcake decorating!  Between 9am and 12 noon we had 400 odd kiddies come into the hall, get a plain cupcake then decorate it! We had a blast!! Great fun! Here are Mark, Katie and Cara with their buns! I have a photo of Conor somewhere on my camera or the Headmasters camera!!  I may have to go bug him for photos!  

Mark

Cara

Katie

Me and Cara

Then on Friday it was Mad Hair Day and own clothes day!  I love non-uniform days on a Friday because I can get the uniform washed and dried early lol 

It was Integration week and I stitched this hanger for the school as a surprise!  The Headmaster loves it :D 

Katie and Cara with stitched hanger

Mark, Conor, Katie and Cara

Katie

Cara

Conor

They had pink, green and blue in their hair topped with glitter hairspray lol  They looked a treat!! Shame it does not really show up on the photos! When I sprayed the glitter on I made them stand outside lol We must of looked a little silly if the neighbours saw us haha  Oh well, never mind!

Have a great day everyone.  I am off to do a bit of letter writing and stitching :D 

Hugs

Me

xoxox

Happy Leap Year!

Hello there!

I hope you all enjoyed or are still enjoying the extra day in this year!!

I have been super busy with all kinds of things and most of this week I am helping out at school!! Tomorrow we start our 2 days of fitness!!  oh heck!! lol

I have stitched and finished (and posted!!) a hanger for a pen-pal :D

Front!

Back!

Close up of the lovely thread colour!! 

I haven't really done much that I could chat about other than run about like a mad fool haha!!

So, I will be back soon!

Hugs
Heather
xxxx

Gifted Gorgeousness, A Finish (yay!!) and lots of post

Hello there everyone,

Well, this week I worked away on Cara's Mermaid, designed by Joan Elliott!  She is such a slave driver lol  

After deciding she wanted beads and sparkle (just like mummy's Summer Fairy) I managed to complete her Mermaid for her!  I felt so bad that she has had to wait so long for it!  However she was totally delighted with the results :D

Cara's Mermaid
Finished 15 February 2016

Mermaid with beads and sparkle!

For this months Gifted Gorgeousness (sorry the posting is a little late!), hosted by Serendipitous Stitching, along with the Mermaid stitching for Cara ... I'm sure this will count as a gift :D ... I started a chart that I bought with a gift voucher, for Sew and So, which James and the kiddies gave me for Christmas.  I bought :-

My goodies I bought with my voucher

The start of my gifted chart

I cannot wait to get a bit more done on this chart as I love cross stitching and I am just getting started on my sewing machine, so its 2 crafts all rolled into one ... perfect!!

Here is a clear photo of the stitched gift I did for one of Katie's penpals ... I did the stitching in January during DUCJFC2016, then stitched it onto fabric using my sewing machine :D  Great fun!!

Gifted flower hanger
Plus handmade pom-poms for Katie and Cara's hair :D

I have also started a birthday gift for a pen-pal but I will not show it off until March!  Just in case she sees it on her first!!  

Last but not least, Katie and I spent all day yesterday writing letters to our penpals and we produced this pile of mail, which I will go and post off shortly :D  

Huge pile of letters!

That's it really, we have had a few lovely days off school due to mid-term break.  So we chilled out and relaxed and didn't really do much at all!  everyone did what they pretty much wanted which was excellent!  Also meant I could get Car's mermaid finished!!  No doubt there will be more requests coming my way soon lol

Have a great day all, and keep safe out there!

With love and hugs

Heather

xxxxx

Busy Busy Busy lol

Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening (depending on where you are!)

Hope everyone is well today and the weather is being kind to you!

I have had a rather a busy week!  My poor shoes are a little tired now lol  This week looks like it will be pretty much the same, roll on school holidays this Friday until Wednesday! That's all I can say!!  

Last week I battled with my sewing skills on my sewing machine and came up with ...

Red bags and a little cross stitched flower
machine sewn into a hanger.  Plus,
handmade PomPoms

I made these for the British Heart Foundation's Wear it Beat it day which was Friday 5th February. The school had a 'Red Day' in aid to raise some funds.  Of course with Katie having a heart condition we wanted to support the cause.  So these red bag were for Katie and Cara's red fruit break snack. The pompoms were for the girls hair ...

Katie, modelling the homemade
pompoms in her hair

The kiddies wore red ...  Well, the boys just wanted red t-shirts but as you can see the girls are near enough head to toe in red!!

Front of the Monkeys

Back of the Monkeys

The kiddies could also take a packed lunch that was red! Oh mine love this and we made heart shaped jam sandwiches (which I forgot to take a photo of!!)  ... Cara won the Lunch box Competition :D  So I should be able to get a photo of her, with her lunch, from the school (I hope) I am totally delighted that mine and Katie's 40 minute sandwich making gain some recognition lol 

This week sees school plays and alot of running about!!  I have nearly finished Cara's mermaid too :D I hope to get it finished this week!!  

Anyway, I had better go and get Conor and mark sorted for their school performance tonight at 7pm!

Bye for now

Hugs Heather

DUCJFC2016 up to date at the end of January

Good Evening everyone,

It's the end of January ... How did that happen?!!!  I have done Debbie's Ultimate Crazy January February Challenge all month. Here's my update ...

Day 23-29
Butterflies (well sort of!)

Day 30
(The blue blob of a bird)

Day 31
Something for meeeee! 

For February I am going to work on WIP's all month :-

1) Mermaid for Cara

2) Joan Elliott Faces SAL

3) HAED Fireside Fairy Tales

4) Charlie Bear Alphabet

I was going to carry on with new starts but I think I have enough to be going on with lol

Also during February I am joining in the Letters of the Month Challenge, were I need to post a piece of mail (letter or card) everyday except Sundays through out February! I'm looking forward to receiving lovely post too ... Fingers crossed :)

Have a lovely Sunday Evening

Hugs

Heather

xoxo