Free Tote Bag Pattern at Sew Prim Khris blog

My friend Khris has put up a free tutorial for the below tote bag - its really lovely and I cant wait to make it, hop on over to her blog and get it.

Whats on my design wall

Well its been a while again LOL but there you go that's what happens when you work full time.  Today I have been sewing - Yayyyy - feels great as well.   My good friend Khris made a quilt recently and it really appealed to me as it looked so nice and crisp, well Khris has decided to make a pattern out of it and she is letting me test the pattern so I made a start on it today.   I have broken out my jelly roll and charm squares I got for my birthday and they are so nice and bright I love this range.   Hope you like it so far I sure do.

Sewing People Clothes

I have been sewing what I call " people clothes" LOL....... meaning for myself which is something that never seems to work out for me....... but I needed some warm tops for the winter for wearing over comfy tights at home and couldn't find anything the right length etc in the shops so decided to make something for myself.  So yesterday I made two tops which will do nicely to keep me warm and comfy with winter soon to make an appearance here.  Sorry for the quality of the pics but my bedroom is extremely dark and the only place with a mirror that would work LOL

A Surprise Parcel - yipeeeeee

Yipeee I got a parcel in the mail yesterday and waited till this morning to unwrap so I could take pictures of the goodies, Naomi  says it is a belated Xmas and birthday pressie, how cool to get something unexpected in the mail.  I have been really busy at work and getting home late at night so this was a great feel good boost, I love it all.

Parcel hehe

All beautifully wrapped in lime green how cool is that

Lovely decoration its purple (of course)

and look at this lot the wee purse is just awesome and I have wanted the marking pencils for a long time but cant get them here

THANKS SO MUCH NAOMI IT IS AWESOME

Really Really Bad Eyeballs

So great title eh....... I have been mucking about with some clay eyeballs today and decided to paint them, well the below tells the sorry story, I nearly didn't post them but heck got to show warts and all and these are really bad...... but was fun 

Might actually make a goblin type thingy from clay and have opposing eyes just for fun........hehe.........

THE EYEBALLS FROM HELL    

Doll Club

Last weekend was our monthly meeting, I didnt attend the last one and didnt really have much to take to do this time but took some crocheting that I am attempting.  I also decided to take the laptop to show the ladies the blog and a few sites of interest etc as most dont have broadband internet etc.

Here we are setting up - I cut up a whole heap of 5 inch charm squares ready to help one of the ladies make a bag next month - so we picked colours and showed her how to cut with the rotary cutter and get everything square etc

My friend doing some cross-stitch

Rose was doing a long stitch embroidery

A panel that made up into a book

Dont remember what these two were laughing about but its a good picture LOL

Pets

A couple of pics of the pets of the household.  The innocent looking "cat from hell" in the below photo is not showing her true nature LOL.....   Part of the reason for having little sleep is that this cat keeps bringing in her "catches" late at night and eating them under my bed which results in me getting up to dispose of the leftovers in the early hours of the morning - you would think after being chased regularly with the broom she would get the idea.....   and then of course there's our wee doggie who is nearly 15 years old now and having a few neurological problems but still pretty sprightly and still loving chasing the ball, as you can see there's a wee ball tucked into the picture, they are never far from her sight.

Wii Fit results

 

Well managed to get the wii fit plus setup up and got through the start   MY AGE ON THEIR WAS  57  OMG mind could have been worse could have been 70 eh........ROFLMAO

MY BMI was in the high ideal range so interesting indeed.

Now all is setup I need to decide on a personal training thing....... will look at that later and decide which things I want to do.  This is going to be very interesting indeed but looks fun and doesn't look like it will be as boring as riding a stationary bike etc............

Hi out there sorry to not post for a while

Yep this is going to have to be my motto at this time

 

Hi, sorry for not posting for a bit, life gets in the way every now and again - sod it LOL

I NEED SLEEP is my new saying for this month LOL - Seems since I hit the big 50 a month or so ago EEEEEEKKK   that my body decided - OK you are 50 now so lets get some serious life stuff going on here.   So unfortunate us women have to go through this nasty menopause shite thing - but we all have to deal with it at some stage  no getting away from it at all.  (apart from my 73 year old neighbor who tells me all the time she didn't have anything and glided through.  She actually smiles when she tells me that, boy if she only knew how good I am getting at the boxing game on the wii  he-he)

 I have started a granny square which I think I will just keep adding to, something to do while sitting in the lounge at night and it is crafting at least LOL...... am hoping that a few nights sleep will get me all sorted again and raring to get out in that craft room of mine and finish my quilt and start  new stuff. 

I did go and buy a wii this weekend so am hoping that the wii fit thingy will give me some enjoyable exercise which cant hurt can it LOL........ I'm not really a great exerciser, mind I do get plenty in my job as I am up and down stairs all day so get a reasonable workout during the week.

OK of to have a play with this wii thingy and see if I can sort it out.......... I know it gives you your real age at the beginning when it scans you - I think I might be horrified at what that will be LOL but I shall update with what it says..........

New Material and Table Runner

Phew had some busy times the last couple of weeks - a bit of family stuff that took a bit of time and of course my full time job.  I wanted to show some pictures of material that has arrived here for me recently, some really yummy stuff which I am dying to get into.  BUT BUT ........ still have the quilt to finish before I can go wild with these so best get stuck into it again shortly.  

This lot of material I actually brought back in November from an Etsy seller and it never arrived, I was a bit gutted as I wanted it to finish the wallhanging that I have started.  I contacted the seller after Christmas to advise that it still hadnt turned up so thought someone else had a nice Christmas present on me the sods.  Anyways the nice lady sent me some more fabric and this arrived in 7 days so I was really really stoked to get it.

 

  

Now this lovely lovely lot below is my birthday present from the girls at CRAFT group, man I always wanted a jelly roll, now I have two of them to play with, I can see a quilt for my bed out of these in my future.

 

  

And finally today I made up a quick table runner for the dining room, I have changed things in there to make it a second sort of sitting room which is handy.  We had visitors at our place last Wednesday night and I notice they all ended up sitting in the dining room on the couches chatting while I was making coffee etc, was really cosy.  Sorry not great pics as the room is a bit hard to take pics in, its not a dark room so not sure what happens there but there you go LOL