• WIPS and UFOs

    ~ Printed hands quilt for local playgroup ~ Wrap around skirt (waiting for the right fabric) ~ Ear flap hat (knitted) ~ Umpteen cross stitch projects ~ Sleepy Sarah Amigirumi (from Owlishly) ~ Horse plushy ~ Entrelac scarf ~ Bird Deco for Nervousness ~ Rabbit plushy
  • Things I want to do but haven’t started

    ~ Ragged Squares Quilt ~ Boxes made out of old drinks cans

29 year itch

Yesterday was a tough day for me for one reason or another and as I went to bed (earlyish) I found myself wondering what it was that I did with my time before children and renovations took over it.  In fairness Alasdair does more renovating than I, but there’s still an awful lot of discussion [...]

moo-baa

They say a woman’s work is never done and this last week I would have had to agree.  It seemed like I was never going to get these costumes finished in time for the local Gala Day Parade…I spent every night sewing and I still wasn’t really finished come Saturday morning…luckily the kids weren’t too [...]

nfh #2

(continued from nfh #1) 
 
If the only thing you knew about our ex-neighbours was what I have written thus far, you could be forgiven for thinking that we were overreacting and being a bit rash in our decision to sell up and get the hell away from them.  Unfortunately for us this was the icing on [...]

nice buns!

I meant to write about this on Sunday night but I’ve been very busy sewing a sheep and a cow…more about that next week when I’m finished.
On Sunday David and I spent some quality time together while Alasdair and Iona took a trip to have a look around our nearest ‘town’.  I had promised David we [...]

ch-ch-ch-changes

I’ve been noticing some of the benefits of a primarily raw food diet over the past week or two and I wanted to share them so that others could see the potential benefits.  Not that I’m trying to preach or tell people how they should or shouldn’t eat but I think it’s worth sharing for [...]

like my new cloak?

My blog has had yet another makeover.
Two reasons:
First I was sick of seeing the old style on every blog I visited.  It’s like Ikea furniture…sorry if you have that style and actually like it, I did too once but I like to be a bit different.
Second, it didn’t allow me to have three columns.  This [...]

should everyone give money to charity?

 WTF!? This sort of thing makes me glad I no longer finance the BBC.  They have actually paid somebody to think up and type this question into their poll software.
What I find even more worrying is that 25% of the respondents seem to have forgotten that there are seriously poor people who can’t afford to [...]

why won’t kids eat green food?

I’m sure there are children up and down the country who would prefer to hack off their tongue than do it the disservice of having to taste a piece of spinach or broccoli…certainly David would.
This morning for breakfast I had a green smoothie.  The ingredients are 2 cups of orange juice, 1 banana, and a [...]

this work is copyrighted

I have added a new page for those people in cyberspace who cannot abide by the rules of common decency…please take note.

it was right under my nose

I read somewhere a couple of days ago that when you detox things become clearer in your head and it’s easier to figure out what it is you want in life.  It must be something to do with the cloud of toxins lifting from my head (perhaps due to me not having had any caffeine for the [...]