More Corsages.........

I have spent the weekend resting watching films and nursing a very sore stiff neck which when I went to the doctors last Monday found it had a very long name but cannot for the life of me remember what she said!  Its still very sore, and for a week been sleeping sitting upright in bed because that is the only position I can get comfortable.  This is the third week.......... From Tuesday will be the fourth week eeeekk!   I just wish it would go quietly like it appeared all of a sudden!  I cannot bend down or move my head from side-to-side without swearing and the words are not at all ladylike! 

The flowers can be found here

Bloggers are so kind!

I would like to say thank you to........

Simone for this pretty bracelet I won on her giveaway.

and..............

Gill for sending me this magazine after reading my previous post.

So a big thank you to you both 

600th Post

My 600th post! 

I wanted to celebrate this post with something else, but that will have to stay a mystery for a while longer!  Here are a some pics of my other makes!

Well I didn't make this!  I found it basking in the winter sunshine on one of my towels.  If anybody knows what it is please tell..........

I made this Apple Crumble with apples I was given.

I use butter and demerara sugar for the crumble it gives a shorbread taste!

I made these brooches

I made these Vintage Style Wash Cloths

and these Christmas items

Bead Threading

Day 10 Felicity's Challenge.
I absolutely love beads and buttons. I find them very tactile. If there is an opportunity to repair necklaces I'm there! Many many years I was taught how to re-string Pearls, I now use the instructions for any beads, and I thought I would share the instructions with you.

First of all if the beads are of a complicated design draw the design or take a photograph, cut the thread. I always wash glass beads in hot soapy water, for this I use a cereal bowl. Swirl them around with your fingers then leave them to soak for a least an hour or better still overnight. When ready to start re-stringing tip the beads into a fine sieve and drain, tip out on to a towel and rub gently with the towel to dry Trust me they are much nicer to handle when washed!

Lay the beads out as they were originally

Take the thread and cut a piece four times the length of the laid out beads.
Knot and place a safety pin (an important piece of equpment for all beaders!)
at the knot, if you don't you will be forever threading beads
because they have fallen off the end!

String the first few beads

Then add a knot cover finding and a seed bead

Go on a return journey

but do not go through the seed bead.

Pull gently till the thread is tidy.

Pick up the rest of the beads and repeat with the

knot cover and seed bead, then go on a

return journey till you get back to the safety pin

pulling gently to tighten the thread.

Don't cut the thread.

Remove the safety pin and tie the ends together

Thread through the ends through a few beads and

carefully cut the thread

Squash the knot cover over the seed bead and add clasp.

I was requested to use a magnetic clasp, but please

remember to check with the owner of the beads that

they do not have a heart pacemaker, these clasps cannot

be used by these people.

Cake, Catch-up, Frustration and Other Things.....

It has taken me nearly two hours to upload all my images! And three hours to do this blog it has crashed twice! I am quite glad it somehow saves what you have done. So I am very frustrated, the phone has rung at least six times, but despite everything I did manage to multitask while doing so. In the days since finishing the quilt for Denise, I have been catching up on the little tasks that I keep putting to one side to do later. You know mending etc.

I have put the bells back onto the Alex's Christmas socks.

Now they can be put away for the next ten months

Repaired this necklace for one of the customers in the shop

I'm still waiting for the the lady to collect.

Restrung these for another customer The red beads are a nut of some kind and when they are stacked on to of one another they make the nut the large black beads are a seed of some kind. The necklace itself is very very light and very fascinating wondering what the seeds are.

Darned Alex's jumper.

There were fours holes in all I hope the moth

had indigestion after eating this!

Made up these cards for shop display

As you see I am not much of a paper crafter

give me a needle and thread and material any day!

While I was waiting for the pictures to upload I extended my husbands pockets in his trousers I made a bit of a mess of them so now I have to reinforce them with some hand sewing. Why can't they make trouser pockets deeper! Now the "cleaning lady" loses out of the few pennies found down the side of the chair ;~( !

About eighteen months ago I repaired this

the same lady came into the shop with this

hoping I can do something

with it - her dog chewed it........

After making Caitlin's blanket I thought we would like one.

I thought I would do it in the Ripple Pattern which seems quite popular.

I kept doing it wrong but eventually got it sussed!

The pattern can be found here

I have used King Cole "Splash"

756 Summer Fruits, 811 Apricot, 812 Lemon & Lime

I want to finish this and stitch all the clothing and hair

securely to the doll before tomorrow

as Caitlin's daddy is staying overnight.

I gave these as presents for Christmas, I thought they were a present that will last for a while after Christmas and brighten up dull days, well..........I only planted my at the end of January because I forgot it, this is what it should look like by now!

Now I have caught up I am going to try and get some more of these done! Oh and while I was multitasking I made one of these, but cannot eat it till tomorrow!

Do you share our sense of humour and

find this article very funny?

Alex and I did!