is it a bird? is it a plane? no, it's needlewoman!

Remember this book I got a few weeks ago? Care for a nosey inside?


You know you are on to a winner when this is the first page...


I want to be this little girl!


Or maybe I'd rather be this vampy lady


I quite fancy making this tea cosy


or I could knock up a pair of 'evening mitts'


I love these little pixies too


And if anyone ever gets the urge to crochet their own brassiere let me know, I can sent you the instructions!

pimp my blackboard

Take one blackboard that you never really liked...


Get out the ol' badge maker and knock up a few magnets...


And a bit of goldilocks cutting and pasting later...


Ta-da!


I'm going to sit it under my 'new' table to cover all the uglyful cables and plug sockets

feeling a teensy bit naughty

I did something today that felt so wrong but so right at the same time...


I cut up two of my ladybird books! Although to be fair they are ones I have plenty of copies of, one of them was falling apart, and I have several crafty projects planned for them


I made a set of goldilocks badges and a set of rapunzel badges. They look really cute, the photos don't quite do them justice!

Bedspiration

My latest mission is to re-vamp by bedding, as I seem to have 'acquired' random douvet covers over the years rather than picking out things I love, and I am sick of the sight of a couple of my patterned sets

Presenting my new bedspiration -



Just at all those deliciously mismatched dots and stripes...


And having been ispired by some of you clever crafty blog ladies, guess what I did last night?




Ta da! My very first knitted square... I am rather ambitiously planning a knitted square double bed sized blanket as my first ever knitting project. So far so good - only a million more to go!

Knitted by Nuns

I spent most of today a little hungover doing a few crafty bits and bobs, like making this farthing & pom-pom pendant, which really reminds me of a christmas pudding


and making this russian doll and tape measure necklace


and pimping my new knitted teddy with buttons and bows


I forgot to take a before photo, but I can assure you he is 20x cuter now!


I got him yesterday for 10p at a summer fair at a nunnery, of all places. My mum swears that he whispered in her ear and said that he was 'knitted by a nun called Sister Mary'...