we know our onions!

This is our dining room at the moment, you'll be lucky if you can sit at the table as the floor has been commandeered by our haul of red onions, shallots and garlic from the allotment. They need to stay here and dry in the sun for a while, then it will be my job to plait them together ready to hang in the shed for use over the next few months. Next up to pick are the broad beans, and we have lots of courgettes on the way. Yum!! And I couldn't resist a green home for pins, which I have just listed in my shop. I'm off to tidy my big box of felt now (trust me it really need a good tidy up!) in an attempt to keep things straight in between sewing items. Wish me luck! : )

thank you!

Firstly, here is my newest pincushion, which I will be putting in the shop a little later on, just in time for the weekend. And, I need to say a great big thank you today to the lovely Shayla for passing this wonderful blog award on to me. What a wonderful surprise. Head over to Shayla's blog to see her fantastic works of art, created with an amazing array of mediums, they are breathtaking. Now I am sorry but I am going to break the rules on this one, and not nominate seven others as the rules state, purely because I have done a couple of these recently and don't want people to get fed up with them. I hope you understand! Happy weekend everyone : )

the pins have a home at last

At last the first new 'home for pins' is done and ready to put in my shop in a little while. It was hard to cut into my new piece of pink 'coriander' fabric for this one but I'm glad I did, I am pleased with how it turned out. Hopefully I will have some others to join this one very soon! And today I discovered I am in a treasury, thanks to byemmajo ! : )

bits

This blurred, not very good photo is me trying to show you part of a new project without giving too much away! Hopefully now that I am getting a bit more back on track I will have something more concrete to show soon. And I am hoping to finish some 'homes for pins' tonight ready to put in my shop tomorrow, I have had fun choosing colours and fabrics and even managed to cut into one of my favourite Amy Butler coriander prints. It has been very wet here today and I am still drying out from cycling home from work and then walking to get Holly from school, she has had a wonderful day today on her first school trip to London Aquarium, I have one tired little girl here! : )

nobody mention migraines

Ok, so my weekend was officially a washout, after not one but two mean old migraines on saturday. But enough of them, I am starting to feel a bit like myself again and am hoping I won't see another one for a good long while! This little box will be making its way into the shop a little bit later, and as well as my new projects I need to concentrate on getting some new 'homes for pins' made as I am now down to the last one. : )

the weekend!

It's been a bit of a stressful week for me at work, which culminated in another migraine yesterday which because of deadlines I had to work through, then ended up at the doctors and coming home early from work today. Am I glad it is the weekend! I am being whisked away by my sister-in-law later hopefully for a nice restful weekend, I hope you all have a good one. I'm sorry I've been light on posts this week, I hope for an improvement next week! ***So I am away from my shop from now, (Friday 4th July 5pm uk time) until sunday evening, any purchases will not be delayed at all and will be posted on monday.*** : )

a big smile...

...because look at all the wonderful fabric that arrived for me! I have cut into it already and finished a couple of new things, but I won't be showing any here for a little while longer, I have more sewing to do and photographs to take. But I am quite excited by them, pictures soon! : )