Sorry it's been sooo long!

 It's been soo long since I last blogged!Life has been so hectic of late I really haven't had the time.So here is a little of what we've been up to!Alice had her halloween disco at the end of october DH was responsible for the face painting which I might add said on the box washable with warm soapy water and I can inform you it was not and Alice went round for 2 day's after with a green tinge to her face . . . . . .so tesco thank you very much for dying my little witch green.

 I was left to carve the pumpkin this year as the washing machine decided to stop working and eject all it's water all over the kitchen floor not once but 3 or 4 times,nevermind I now have a new toy lol!

 But not in time for this mess!Hamish started pre-school in september and on this particular occassion they played with flour and water what a mess!

 And autumn is well and truly here with the leaves dropping from the tree's and the day's a little chillier of late these are the last of DH's summer dahlia's.We've been lucky enough not to have to light the fire until quite recently as it's been quite mild for the time of year.

And a very small make one of my crochet brooch's for the school pfta fundraiser.I have got a few WIP which will very shortly be finished and I shall post very soon.I hope you are all well in which ever part of the world you are and thank you to my patient reader's for hanging in there. ;-)

Growing up!

 My,my how time fly's?Hamish recently started pre-school and next year he will be at school full-time,my baby is growing up too fast!Here he is already for his first day.

 And this is Hamish all covered in flour and water from a morning at pre-school and oh-boy did he have a good time I can you tell?

 And very recently my little girl celebrated her 6th birthday,she got a couple of craft tub's among other thing's and decided she wanted to try her hand at a little sewing,with a little help from mummy she made this little felt purse which she has since decorated with glitter so I shall have to up-date the photo for you all to see!

And she insisted this year on a bright pink cake!Not much crafting from my neck of the wood's for sometime I'm ashamed to admit . . . . .  . . .or shall I say plenty of WIP but no finish's to show you as yet,progress is very slow and there just doesn't seem to be enough hour's in the day.I'm sure most of you will know what I mean,sometime's when I do find a little time for myself I'm just too tired to do anything.And now I'm thinking about christmas and gift making and that it isn't really that far away,there's a place not far from us that sell's free range turkey's and they have a sign out on the road side counting down the day's to christmas I went past about a week ago and to my horror it read only 85 day's to go!I thought to myself surely that can't be right,can it??

WIP's and some pretty flowers!

 I have 2 project's on the go at the moment and seeing as progress is rather slow I thought I'd show you what I've done so far.First of all is my night time project when the light isn't too good,my crochet blanket,my second crochet blanket the first one was a doll's blanket last christmas for Alice,not sure if that one count's or not?

 And then my project for day time is this tractor panel that I got from Louise at sew scrumptious when we did a FQ swap.She sent me this lovely panel as an extra gift for Hamish.It was 4 tractor's in a row but I cut it in half and then stitched it back together to make a cushion panel which I am hand quilting.

 And just a few of the lovely flower's growing in the garden this summer.Before of course thing's start to die off for the winter.This week has been alot cooler and wetter.

I wonder what everyone else is working on at the moment?

A little space to call my own!

 Finally I have been evicted from the kitchen table and after 4 long year's I have a place to call my own.My very own creative space for sewing and crafting.

 I'm soo excited I've got all sort's of great idea's of the thing's I want to make for my new creative space and in a flash of creative inspiration I have decided what I'm going to do with the jelly roll my mum bought for me 2 year's ago for my birthday,but more about that later.

 Now all I need to make my little corner complete is some shelving for my ever growing fabric stash and a lovely little CK set of mini storage drawers that I've seen on her website.

 And in between sorting out my little sewing corner I even managed to fit in some bread making,I recently started making a cheese top loaf on a regular basis even though the kid's don't like it.I love it and it mean's I get it all to myself!Very naughty I know . . . . . . but nice very,very nice ;-) Mmmm!

And Alice wanted me to show you this a banofee pie she made with just a little grown up help and delicious it was too!

Oooh how I love Cath Kidston!

 I just adore just about everything Cath Kidston and when I saw this sewing tin going for a fairly reasonable price I knew then and there whether I needed it or not I wanted it real bad and I just had to have it!

 And this morning I rather impatiently paced up and down for the second morning in a row waiting for the postman and I was thrilled I have to say when he handed me not one but two parcel's.

 And this is what was in the second one a rather lovely colourful owl pattern fabric for a project I have planned for Alice for christmas.More about that one later.

 And later by courier arrived these adorable matching mummy and daughter slipper's!

Well I couldn't see Hamish go without so I got him some hairy monster feet with claw's,the claw's being the important bit,he was really taken with the claw's infact it was the first thing he noticed.

Out for a stroll

 I spent this morning baking!Homemade chocolate chip cookies,flap jacks and bread.Once finished the kid's and I went for a little stroll and a picnic.I shall let the picture's do the talking.

 Alice and Hamish taking a little break!

Homegrown sunflowers!

A beautiful bunch of home grown sunflowers,picked fresh this morning by DH.Aren't they just stunning!I had to share them with you and also the exciting new's that Alice discovered last night that she has her first loose tooth and she has been wiggling it ever since hoping that it will drop out very soon!She just can't wait for the tooth fairy to come and make a deposit under her pillow not quite sure what she intend's to spend it on.But all she has done since she woke up this morning is go on and on about her tooth.When she first realised it was loose last night she gave a loud shreak of excitement that nearly made us fall off the sofa!