Shoes Shoes and more Shoes (grin)

This is a post for all those serious shoe lovers hehe...........I received a letter in the mail on Friday from a shoe retailer here in New Zealand, AND I won a competition that was run in one of our magazines.......... The prize was $3000.00 yes you read that right............ worth of shoes to be brought over the next twelve months...... mind boggling, especially as right at this moment they are having buy two get one free (BIG GRIN).......Sooo hubby and myself took ourselves of to the shoe shop today to do a small bit of damage, we got 6 pairs of shoes each - so 12 pairs of shoes and got 4 of them free, well actually we got them all free, but 4 of them didnt come of my amount of credit at the shop.........

Sooo heres my purchases, still will go back in a couple of months and get kitted out for summer..

these two are very comfy with a solid heel great for under my longer jeans

a lighter weight slipper and very soft

the black ones have some serious long pointy toes going on LOL cant see them in this picture but they are seriously long and pointly

Now these were a purchase that I dont know if I will be able to wear, but they were comfy and they looked fantastic on, quite a few women grabbed some when they saw me wearing them in the shop - I couldnt not get them.

And my favorite purchases CROC gumboots....... I love them - seriously expensive for gumboots but they will last me forever and such great colours as well.................

Freebie sign up at Cathron Country Designs

Cath at http://cathroncountrydesigns.typepad.com/cathron_country_designs/ is offering Freebie Stitcheries on her site, all you have to do is email her to be put on the list to receive the little stitcheries - 26 in all to be made into a wallhanging.............so pop on over to the blog and get signed up she does wonderfully cute stitcheries and paintings, the one on my previous post was one of Caths and its soo cute.

First Day Working In The New "Studio"

Well today was the first day I have had a chance to really get out into the "studio" and play about to see how it all works. I am pleased to say that it works really well, having the table in the middle of the room is fantastic as it doesnt matter where I sit at the bench or the desk, the table is within reach to swing the chair about to so gives me an extra area close by. I love being able to get right around the table to cut as well, this works really well. What didnt work was trying to get some "stuff" ironed so I decided to make myself an ironing station out of a bit of board I had handy......... turned out pretty good if I say so myself - love using the staple gun hehe.

Also finished off my first stitchery and decided to make it into a small wall hanging......Eeek, well it got unpicked multiple times and in the end I just decided to finish the blighter (a quilter I am not) anyways she looks ok on the wall even though there are lots of wobbly bits and it certainly can not be called square by any stretch of the imagination. I figure I will leave her on the wall as she is cute and when (if) I get any better at this quilting lark I can look back to see from whence I came ...............

Doll Club Day

I forgot to put up the picks of our last doll club day so here they are .......most of the girls dont have internet so dont get to see these LOL....... I do tell them that their pictures are up on the blog for the world to see.......hmm I wonder if they realise really .....hehe.........still they are a fun bunch and we have a great time, I look forward to seeing the girls once a month to chat about dolls and sewing and whatever takes our fancy, and also have subway for lunch.

Do you think we look cold, woolly hats and coats on - that was the day it snowed basically here - first time that I can ever remember and boy were we rugged up for the day...

Have a look at the beautiful bags that Gwen brought along. She had knitted them with beads and they were simply beautiful, she had also made the most fantastic little boxes to put them into so they were a whole gorgeous package.

(click on the pics for a larger view)

Ive been drawing and look what Hubby brought me

Woohoo I have been having small play with my pencils, these will be looking out a small window for a wee wall hanging quilt..........AND look what I got this afternoon, my husband came back from town not with the elcheapo little oven I sent him off for but the super deluxe model wohoooo, this is for me to try doing some clay in.......all in all a good day

FINISHED.......WOOOHOOOOO

Finally finished the rooms, phew a marathon effort but its all done, dont you just love the cerise pink blinds I dooo - have made the pics small as there will be lots of them so click on them for the bigger pictures. I hope you enjoy looking around the room as much as I will enjoy being in there. I hope I havent lost my sewing mojo its been soooo long since I have been able to make anything. Also have to do a few more things like finish the false fireplace and paint the coffee table, but that will be enjoyable to do later on as a craft project LOL

Nearly Finished the "studio"

Ok its been slow going recently but have had the nose to the grindstone finishing off the rooms, nearly there, one more coat of paint on the kitchen floor and I will be starting to move stuff in. Was a huge job, much bigger than I anticipated, but all worth it in the end to have a nice light and airy space to work in, and a small area for a couch for relaxing to read mags LOL....

I am going to refresh your memory on the before photos so you can get an idea of how far I have come, (good for me to remember as well YUK LOL)

Eeek look at the state of this room, just disgusting

Look at it now...........



Remember this horror..............

Here it is....................first pic of floor unpainted - I have some scrummy material which I am going to put on the front of that closed in fireplace. This is where the couch will go, coffee table and of course mat to cover the bits in the middle which are a bit lumpy LOL you will never know.

A small picture of a Felwyn pin done for a swap

I forgot to pop a picture of a wee Felwyn head I did up as a pin for a Friendship swap recently - so here he is

Doll Club Meeting

Hello everyone, no pictures of the craft room this week as no progress to show, back to the patching etc ready for painting in the second room. BUT I did go to doll club on Saturday so I thought you might all enjoy some pics ...........

Heres another Frumpy Granny or Frumpy Grumpie LOL LOL I still think they are just awesome.

Here are some of my goodies, not made by myself but I took them to skite and tell to show off - these were made by my friend Sharon and I love them

Are these not the cutest ever

Heres two stitcheries I have been doing while waiting to get back to my sewing room - no sewing until the new craft room is done as I have a huge mess in the old room EEEk. These are stitcheries from Cath Walker another awesome friend of mine, cripes I am sooo lucky doncha think.

First coat of paint on walls Yipeeeee

Yipeee got the first coat of paint on the walls in the old kitchen area today, was going to get it done yesterday but ended up having to clean the walls off and put an undercoat over a lot of ugly bits. Here are some pics as you can see the paint is still wet, mammoth effort today to get it done. If you look at the first picture, that is where that old coal range used to be hubby has made it like a false fireplace/chimney and he did a good job of it..... will make a feature out of it and cover it with some yummy material.

neat little alcove just ready for a doll to call it home hehe