Picking me up off the ground

Thank you Julie!



This is what I found in my postbox on Saturday. Julie made it and sent it to me because I blatantly cyber-drooled all over it. I love it!! And it was a real pick me up as the day before I had been (stupidly) washing my car and tripped over some scaffolding, bruising my leg, cutting my hand and winding myself. I staggered in the house and shouted:
"Mark move that scaffolding!!!"
"I have!!"
"What do you mean you have???"
"I moved it next to your car!"

So, thank you Julie! Because, this is what I have to deal with while we renovate the entire house!!



We went for a walk trying to find the perfect place to photograph it...

(Some people had to see what was over the wall that was so interesting...)




And the boys found the perfect place to paddle...

Garden Friends

I found some more entries for the Village show today - in the garden...

There's a pincushion section so I made LadyB:



And there's a section for handicraft not mentioned in any other section...
Ted has volunteered to go for me:


I made Ted quite some time ago, when I was recovering from a second bout of corrective surgery on my femur.

I broke my femur when I had a bicycle accident in Germany. An unsuccessful surgical procedure by an inexperienced doctor left me with a shorter, oddly angled leg! I had to wait 6 months after the initial botched surgery for the leg to be unpinned, the knee had to be operated on at the same time to correct the angle. 18 months later the knee plate was removed and the leg was lengthened at the top of the femur. After that second operation I spent some weeks recuperating at an othopaedic rehabilitation centre in in the Black Forest in Germany. My days were filled with physio, swimming, massage for pain relief etc and in the evenings you could do craft. I signed up for Teddy Bear making. I made Ted and then when I went home I made another bear for my friend's daughter, Skye. After that I made 2 more and then that was it... no more bears :-(

Kerry who gives teddy bear classes asked me to show Ted, and this week was quite fitting to remember making him as I saw a specialist yesterday about trying to relieve some of the pain I still feel in my leg. We shall see how things progress on that...


BTW My pie has just come out of the oven for tomorrow, I went a little OTT decorating it LOL - nerves I tell you!!

Sticking my cart before the horse!

This is the Carol Doak August Block of the Month. Carol posted it early as she will be away travelling. I know, I know, I haven't done July yet, but this is a challenging block with many setting possibilities that I may even make another one (after I make my July block of course!)

I may need to visit the dentist very soon, I am actually embarrassed to say, but I chipped my front tooth making a pincushion LOL.

I couldn't get the needle through! I am so stupid and now I have a rough edge on my tooth :-(
Oh well, you live and learn, you live and learn!

Pincushion perfection!

Thank you Caryn for my wonderful pincushion parcel received yesterday (in the hugest box ever LOL).



Caryn was my secret swap partner and she excelled herself in the pincushion stakes!!
Look at this beautiful pear!



Now how am I supposed to stick pins in this??!!!



But that wasn't all, Caryn also made me this yummy pincushion...


Good enough to eat! I love the little seed beads all over it. Gorgeous!

Still that wasn't all, Caryn had been lurking on my blog (as I had done on my partner's blog) and sent me these wonderful rose fabrics for my hexagon rose project.


They are super.

Thanks also to Linda who hosted this well-organised swap. I enjoyed both sending and receiving as well as meeting fun new to me bloggers!

The pincushion has landed!

I signed up for a great swap hosted by Linda which involved making a secret pincushion for a mysterious person.
My partner has such a great name: Ginger Patches!
And Tammy a.k.a. Ginger Patches likes cats so it was obvious what kind of pincushion I should custom make for her...



On the back I sewed some 'Ginger Patches' too...



If you want to see it on her blog you better be quick because I believe her kitty really likes it too LOL

Pretty pink pincushion post

This little lovely deserves a post of it's own...

I got it in the post from Anne.
It's really lovely and is going straight down to my sewing room. What do they say you can never have enough pincushions (or is that pins? LOL) Thank you Anne!