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My Creative Space

I stocked up on some yarn in colours I like but wouldn’t usually pick for the house. Usually I’d go with teals, blues and purples, not add the yellows and corals into the mix. I’m planning to  ...

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Sewing and Craft

Circle Scarves

Yesterday I actually sewed something! Three scarves in fact!   I got this knit fabric a while ago from spotlight knowing that it would become a scarf at some stage. There was enough for two  ...

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Sewing and Craft

eek!

Bub’s due in a week or so and it’s suddenly dawned on me that I have lots of piles of fabric and wool but not a lot of actual baby things to show for them! Time to get cracking. This is just a  ...

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Needle felting

Needle felting wasn’t something I’d given much thought to trying until Two Cheese Please released her gorgeous toadstool terrarium kits last year. I snapped one up at the Stitches and Craft Show,  ...

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Our Home

Baby room – in progress

I’ve been very slack updating since Easter. There’s a lot going on here at present: I have three weeks to go with my pregnancy, have finished up work and are now anxious to get the house in order  ...

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Life and Outings

Easter break

image courtesy of jules:stonesoup Have a lovely Easter break no matter how you celebrate. I hope to blog about some happenings here before the long weekend is out. We’ll be painting the nursery  ...

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Sewing and Craft

Baby Lamp

A few weeks ago Ink and Spindle posted about their new fabrics and suggested how great they’d be for a lamp in a kids room. I was completely taken with Pirates and Sea Creatures in Sage and had  ...

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Sewing and Craft

Fascinator

I’m off to a horse racing themed 30th tonight. Given my lack of wardrobe that fits right now I thought I’d make something for my head to distract from the rest of me! Behold in all my make-up  ...

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