Photo a day

Bit more of my daily life...

Jan 25; baking ready to take out tomorrow to a crafty day. I got a baking book so I elected to be the first to bake. These Cornish Fairings turned out just like the picture in the book!

Jan 26; the crafty day at Gillys. Gilly is at the head of the table with Charlotte and Deborah either side. Sharon and Helly were there too but they were this end of the table! We all used to scrapbook together but as you see on this day we were mostly knitting/crochet-ing (is that a word?)

Jan 27; having taught myself the pattern I started on  Ripple Wave cushion(sorry I know this is a repeat pic!)

Jan 28; really frosty morning and this is my car windscreen covered in the beautiful patterns! Never managed to get them to show up in  photo before.

Jan 29; an awful, awful day at school and the last thing I wanted to do was go out to Guides in the evening. But I am glad I did because I was presented with my 5 year badge, a complete surprise!

Jan 30; last minute panic to make Mums birthday card

Jan 31; Mums birthday. She wanted a Smash book among other bits. We managed to dash in and see her for about 15 mins before school!

Feb 1; Jasper was off on a night hike as training for the anuual Overland competition that his Scout team came second in last year
There another week flown by! Quite a creative one it would appear.

Ripple cushion

I think you have all realised that my new favourite hobby is crochet. When I saw an amazing ripple wave throw over on Attic 24 blog I just HAD to learn the pattern. The instructions are so clear that I found it very easy indeed.

So in the spirit of re-using I searched out my leftovers of wool for some colours to appeal to my daughter at Uni. Her bedding and bits and bobs are red and white so I knew she would like this. And I could only find a few teeny scraps of red! Off I went....

...and after 3 evenings I had done enough to cover a small cushion. It joined together beautifully and now I just want to do more of this lovely pattern!

Christmas Journal

For the last four years I have taken part in  Shimelle class called Journal Your Christmas. Inevitably I end up terribly behind and somewhat stressed so this year I decided to just take part in her photo prompt version.I figured I would be able to at least take a photo of my Christmas in 2012!
Well I managed it although not necessarily on the correct days and I have now printed the pictures ready to scrap them into a journal. I really want this to be a quick, no stress exercise so I have just a few supplies and one font for all the titles. I have a lovely book from Seawhite to do it in and finally I have made a start.
Here are the first 2 pages....

The titles are the photo prompts for the days and I have just added some journalling to explain the photo.
"My hands have been kept busy this year making lotsof my gifts. I have knitted and crocheted for several people"

A Tree (not your own). "Trees always start going up in public buildingsway before we even think about ours. We went to a concert in Brighton where we saw this first one of the year up close".

More of my life....

Ok, some more pics of my Photo a Day.

Jan 16; my friend Alison's birthday and we all went to the pub....yes on a SCHOOL night! 

Jan 17; I had a party bag from said aforementioned party and in it was a pot of bubbles. My dogs go MAD for bubbles so Eliza was playing with them.

Jan 18: finally we got our promised snow. It was forecast to come in the morning rush hour. I drove to school, it started at about 9 and so the Head sent all the children back home as they arrived. My children had an INSET day already so they got out the Scrabble. I won't play it....too much hanging about for me. I find it the most tedious game imaginable!

Jan 19; went to build a snowman. After Derek that we built 2 years ago we fancied a challenge so meet Daphne Dalek. Sadly some yob kicked her head off just the next day and althought we re built her they came back and tipped her completely over. Much anger in our household over that.

Jan 20; It snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed all day long! This is the tree in my garden by the end of the day.

Jan 21; another snowday! This time we took the dogs for a walk and Katy decided this fresh untouched snow was just too tempting for words!

Jan 22. Back to school and we took the children outside to make snow domes and then did some clearing of the playground.

Jan 23; rather uneventful but I continued to crochet a rainbow blanket I started at the end of November and I moved from blue to indigo!

Jan 24; after a break of I don't know how long I did some scrapbooking again. I started my Christmas Journal.
There you go, I am all caught up so I shall just add them once a week now.

Pot holder.

This is my potholder....

....I keep burning it in my gas cooker so I keep thinking it is about time I had a new one but as usual never get round to it. Well as we had another snow day I FINALLY got my bum in gear.

My motto for the year is "Re-use, Recycle" so I went to my stash of trousers in the loft and found some brown cords and some children's trousers with this flower pabel. Whizzed it all together with a plain brown back and quilted it with red thread. Finally the binding is some ribbon that came round a fleece blanket I bought from Primark! New pot holder for nothing and my first recycled project!

Knitted Cowl

No cards for ages and then two come along at once! It was my friend Alison's birthday last week so I made her a quick card....

..and to go with it a cowl with a flower corsage.

She was chuffed to bits with it and I even saw her wearing it in the snow in some photos she posted on Facebook!!
Dead easy; might make one for myself!

Some rare cards!

As you know I have little or no mojo for making cards but sometimes it just has to be done. I got so many lovely presents from all the children at school (and staff!) that I felt a handmade card was the only way. So I made a whole parliament of owls!

Katy was feeling poorly and trying to stay awake so she did all the colouring in for me! 

And  the stamps were freebies from the Craftstamper magazine I used to get.