Craigandrewan's Ramblings

The lights are on!

Yay, Christmas has arrived - tree is up, cards are written (okay - not posted yet!) and there are enough lights in the house so Santa can see us from space.

The kids only have 4 more days at school, which means a VERY long week next week, until the big day - who decided that was a good idea.  The only saving grace is hubby stops work on Friday too for 2 weeks so it might not be all that bad.

Managed to finish a little gift for my youngest boy's teacher, who is leaving at Christmas - she was there as maternity cover, but she has seen the wee ones through most of Primary one and two, and she will be really missed. As she is moving on to a new school, I made her a cute pencil roll, in chalkboard type fabric, with bright, brushed cotton on the inside.

   

Have just actually recovered from the girls Christmas night out - I think I am officially too old for partying hard!

This is some of the bunch dressed up as cartoon characters, I am the one standing in the middle -supposed to be Jessica Rabbit, but I think my wig had slipped a bit!

  

This is obviously a wee bit later in the evening - but if you look on the table you can still see my bag I made on Friday!

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It's amazing what you an do in an hour

......and a bit ;-)

Okay, I SHOULD have been doing housework, but afer the kids had gone to bed tonight I decided I was going to use some of my lovely fabric - you know the kind, the ones you don't want to cut, the ones you just look at and touch.  I think the patchwork fabric is Kona Bay and the floral fabric was part of a stash I got as a prize from the lovely Lisa at www.uhandbag.com I needed a new bag for Saturday night, okay, not needed ,wanted, same difference, so decided I would run one up as I had seen this gorgeous pattern for free from www.LazyGirlDesigns.com its the Noriko handbag, very Japanese in inspiration, so I used my Japenese fabric from my stash.

I started with this 

Then in an hour - and a wee bit, had managed to finish this   

She stands up all by herself, and theres no interfacing, just the clever shape, and when your not using her she can do this! 

Love It! 

Twinkle Twinkle

I found this site for a sweet little pressie for someone.

You can name a star for free - other companies can charge £20 or so for this.  You can dedicate a star to someone special and then print out a certificate with the positioning of it.  This is the free option, which will have the website address at the top banner, if you want a different message on the banner it is $2, which you can pay by paypal.

I got one for my youngests teacher, printed it out and laminated it to put in her Christmas/Leaving basket gift

This is the website http://www.freenameastar.com/

Just a quick mention - thers a lovely wee giveaway on Em's blog http://emsscrapbag.blogspot.com/ for her 100th post - nip over and take a look!

Another lovely giveaway, a beautiful bag made from scrummy Moda fabric on Sherie's blog at http://sherimhoward.blogspot.com/

All these giveaways - I must make something speial for one soon!

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I have the attention span of a goldfish....

I cannot settle on one thing to do at a time, why is that?

I really must stay of the internet, whilst, ahem, cough, browsing I seem to have ordered this book from Amazon

Along with 10 metres of water soluble stabiliser, on my previous wanderings i had stumbled across a striking scarf made with fabric scraps, wool and ribbons and this stabiliser.  Stupid me, who is normally favouriting everything so as not to lose it must have forgot and can't find it again.  I am hoping there are some nice projects in the book, that I can use up my wool stash, from a previous fad!  Maybe sewing wool together will result in quicker completed projects than my knitting.  I am ashamed to say I still have a half finished baby's romper suit I started when my first son was born 15 and a half years ago at 9 weeks early and I couldn't get clothes to fit him........it was dragged out for my second son, 10 years ago, also nine weeks early, think I may have added a leg at that time, and by the time my youngest was born, 6 years ago(6 weeks prem) Mothercare was the only stop for me!

Grrrrr.......lots of sweary words!?*&£$*+%$£

We have been attempting to decorate our entire house since the spring after we had a bit of building work done, it has been going on FOREVER!!

We have FINALLY managed to get our huge floor tiles down in the kitchen/dining room area this weekend and now not one, but two of them have cracked! Very visibly, I could cry, really I could, they were a mammoth pain in the bum to cut and lay as they were so heavy and now the swines have gone and cracked on me, I suspect that this wont be the only two either! I can see us covering the whole lot over with vinyl flooring.

If you will excuse me - I am off for a sulk and to eat some chocolate, purely for medicinal, mood changing properties obviously

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