Welcome to 2017 ... Happy New Year

HAVE A WONDERFUL 2017

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HAVE A GREAT AND WONDERFUL YEAR
EVERYONE

WITH LOTS OF LOVE AND HUGS
HEATHER & KIDDIES
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MAY ALL YOUR CRAFTING
DREAMS COME TRUE!!

Walking foot ... and Happy Travelling into 2017

Good morning all!!

Just a quick post to show you the start of my little project :D It is a quilted fabric trinket bowl :D

The Start

First Side Complete

This is great fun!!!

I hope you all travel well and safely into 2017!

Happy New Year!

Bye for now

Love Me
xxx

Oh what fun ... Christmas and sewing makes!

Good Evening everyone!

I hope you all had a great Christmas!  We had a blast! James' girlfriend, Naomi, is over to stay for a while so it is quite odd having another woman in the house, but it is great! 

Here are a few photos from the day :D 

Presents from James and Naomi

First Christmas together! xxxx

Lovely Cara 

Fun Fun Fun

All my goodies

Goodies from Santa

As you know I was teaching the children at school to sew. Sew ... this is what we made :D  I feel so proud of myself that I taught the children to sew :D  It was such a 'hit' that I have now got a sewing club up and running for January!! I am so so  sew pleased with myself hehe ... excuse the pun!!  

A Christmas Tree hanging ornie

Bag for my Mum

Music Bag for the Music Teacher

Felt Fox Bag

Really, that was Christmas in a nutshell!!  Quiet and nice. Great to chill with the family!

Back to making and creating in the morning I think lol

I hope you all have a great time New Year and travel safely into 2017!  

Love and hugs

Heather

xxxxxx

#SewingMachine

#HandMade

#ProudOfMyself

#HeatherMakes

Christmas is coming ... ahhhhh!!

Good Morning all!

I hope everyone is well and preparation is well under way for the Big Day!

At the weekend we went to visit the main man himself!! The children were totally delighted!!

All kiddies together!

Cara and Katie posting their
letters to Santa

Me!!

Crazy children

Conor, Katie and a penguin! 

We put our Christmas tree up at the weekend too!  I am in the process of putting all my cross stitched ornaments on too!  Here is one that a very good friend of mine stitched for me way back in 2008!!  I must say, its been a very long time since I was in a Round Robin or an Exchange so I think I might sort a few out for 2017!! 

Beautiful!

I have done a few bits of sewing but as they are for gifts I cannot show you!!  I have been teaching the children in Year 5, at the wee ones school, to sew!  That was great fun!!

I am now in the process of setting up a sewing club at the school!  I'm really excited! 

Here is me looking very serious lol

I got my Christmas present early off Laura (my eldest) and her Hubby-To-Be Johnny ....

A craft work space in my bedroom!!

This is totally brilliant!!  Now, I can leave my machine (and mess!!) out and use it when I want too rather than keep moving everything so we can use the dining room table!!  WOW!!  I am totally delighted!!

No other news really!  Just busy busy busy getting organised for Christmas!!

Keep safe and well!!

Hugs

Heather

xoxox

Totally Crazy Busy but I love it!

Good Evening,

Once again it has been a good few weeks since I have posted on here!  I have been so busy having fun that at the end of each day I have just flopped!  

First of all I have actually finished my very first quilt.  I am totally delighted with myself!  Yes it has some flaws and its not perfect but I do not care because I made it! 

Quilt Front

Quilt Back

I am totally delighted and chuffed with myself!!

I am in the process of organising my new craft work space which has been 'installed' in my bedroom :D  Oh my oh my oh my, I am going to have lots of space to make and create, plus a space for writing my pen-pal letters!!  This is my Christmas Present from Laura and her hubby to be!!  I cannot wait to show you!  

The past 2 weeks I have gone into the kiddies school 2 afternoons each week and taught a sewing class :D  It is great fun!!  We are hand sewing a gift for Christmas!  Oh my the children have taken to it like ducks to water!!  I cannot show you any photos yet as I do not want to spoil the surprise for the children's parents!  I made some pin cushions so they would not lose needles!  That was great fun!!  

My box of goodies ready for sewing class

The best thing happened last week ... My parents came over for a week!!!  :D  :D  Brilliant to see them!!  We had a ball!!  We sat and chatted or went out for a short while. Mum took some of the kiddies on the bus into town whilst I entertained dad lol!!  We just had a lovely relaxing time. Cannot wait to do it again :D  #MakingMemories

Abby, Katie, Dad, Cara and me

Everyone!!

Katie and Dad 

Katie and dad again

Well it is late and I need sleep!  Worn out but looking forward to another busy day tomorrow!  I like to be busy :D  

Sewing fun!

Hello there to you all :D

I hope you are all well!  Today is the start of the kiddies Hallowe'en Holidays for the kiddies!

The last week or so we have been busy with our sewing machines :D

Katie made herself a fox bag using felt!  I must say she did a brilliant job!

Making her bag

The end result!

Katie is so pleased with herself and so she should be!

I have made myself a bag :D  The fabric was gorgeous to stitch on and I got it from Sewing-Online. Fantastic online shop with brilliant customer service!  I just loved this fabric and because I used most of it I ordered myself some more!!  Shhhh don't tell my bank manager lol :D

One side done

Finished bag

Lastly I made a doggie for Cara!!  She has been after me making her one for ages!!  So here he is ...

Doggie in the making

One happy Cara

One side of Doggie

The other side of the doggie

The girls went to school, yesterday, dressed up!!

Catty Cara

Devil Angel Katie

Have a great day ... Cara wants the computer lol ... poor me has to clean up :(  haha

Keep safe

Love and hugs Heather

xoxoxoxo

Sewing, 5K and back on the road again!!

Good Morning!

All seems to be getting back to normal here now, thank goodness! We now have a new car so fingers crossed that no one decided to try and 'hitch a ride on the back of our car with theirs!!' 

First off I have to 'brag' about Mark and Katie!!  They did a 5K run/walk with the school a few weekends ago!!  They are so pleased with themselves!  It was totally pouring down with rain too!  They were totally drenched.  Shoes took days to dry out lol I am so proud of them!  Since I could not take part after the accident, one of their school assistants said he would take them with him and his dog!  They were leaving last to make sure all the participants had not got lost or fallen ill during the run/walk!!  Mark and Katie didn't mind knowing they were going to be in last as they really wanted to do the run/walk!  It was a fun run/walk so what did it matter!!  They really had a great time walking the dog too! 

Katie coming 'home'

Mark and Ellie the dog coming 'home'

They did it in an hour and 10 mins as they 'went out'
about 20 mins after everyone else

As you can see they are very wet looking lol!!

Still suffering the effects of the whip lash and cant sit and sew for long like I used too but I am sure things will get better in time! 

I spent a few days making this Jelly Roll quilt!  I am delighted with it.  I didn't have one solid piece large enough for the back so I made my own!!  

Quilt Front

Quilt Back

This weekend we have declared a SAS weekend ... Sit And Sew!!  Lets hope that all goes to plan haha  I hope SEW!!  lol

Bye for now
Take care
Love me
xoxoxox