Are you feeling lucky?

This is my 300th official post (that excludes the odd deleted one LOL) so if you're feeling lucky leave a comment and introduce yourself especially if you've never done so before. Who knows you may be the recipient of my 300th post giveaway. I have decided not to show what the prize will be as it will be a sort of colour co-ordinated 'lucky dip' LOL. Let me know what colours you like and why and that's what colour the prize may be... It will be a bag of some sort like a tote bag, evening bag, sling bag etc filled like a 'lucky dip' with some quilty or crafty goodness...

Lately, I have been helping a friend with her sewing which has inspired me to be more creative in my own sewing...



So I made these pencil cases/cosmetic purses using an assortment of trims that I have been collecting for some time now. Christmas is coming (Ho Ho Ho) and I'd like it to be a crafty one. I was telling another friend that I may make her something for Christmas and she replied "Yes, I like the whole Mother Earth thing". Mother Earth!! Huh! An apron for her then!!!

I have also made a little girl's birthday present:



A gift for a new baby boy in the village:



And I have also been working on my hexagons again.

I always seem to work on them after a hospital visit or whenever I get new rose fabrics in the mail. This time it was a combination of both.

On the house front, DH got the floor up, so that we could get a new floor down (long story!) Hopefully completed kitchen pictures to follow!!



And look at the leaves around here... the seasons are changing - such a metaphor for life, eh?

All hail the humble tote

I entered some of my 'handicraft' into the village show... I wasn't going to after I heard a story on the radio the other day of a lady who entered her Victoria Sponge cake into the local show and even though she was the only entrant she came second!.... but I thought maybe this would be an opportunity to meet more crafters and it's just a bit of fun anyway.

The results...
In the 'handbag' section...

I was really surprised that my lowly tote won a first.


In the 'sewn item' section...

this little wallhanging came second
and my patchwork puzzle balls came third




I also managed to sell 'the cube' (which I didn't enter) to one of the organisers,

so not a bad day all in all LOL

Balls, balls

Finished 2 more balls. Love doing them, but they sure do take a long time. I have to hide them from the kids as they seem to like them. Did some pinning of swapped blocks and will lay them next to my machine for enders and headers and then hopefully I'll be a little bit further to assembling my picnic blanket (for this summer) out of the scrapbuster swap blocks and another smilie quilt made out of 6.5 inch snowball in boy's novelty fabrics.

How to start...

I thought I'd hop on the bandwagon, yet again! and start a blog in order to motivate myself to finish some of my UFO's and because I do get stuff done in the few hours I have when the kids have gone to bed! really I do LOL, not a lot I admit, but it's better than nothing.

Recently I've made a patchwork puzzle ball (and started a few others to sell), opened an ETSY shop, made an African Block for Kate and sorted out my sewing room (a bit).