photos as promised

as promised here are the photos,
Ist one is the finished pram, I changed my mind about putting a bag on the handle and instead made a carrier for underneath the pram, this I filled with baby bits

the next is a white wire bed, I hand stitched the covers,

ready for dinner

cot



more bedding


these items are now on ebay for sale

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the above dogs are my new foster boys, let me introduce you,

Alfie is a 4 year old long haired curly daschound,

Roger is a bit of a mix and is an old man of 14

the Yorkie is my Freebie, she is 2 years old and I am sure she is the ring leader,

we have all just come back from a walk, so hopefully now they will have a little sleep and I can get on with some work.

thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy my blog, please feel free to add comments, they are always welcome

what a week

What a week it has been,
Thank you for my new follower, now have 28, that's great that you think I am worth reading,
Have been busy making my miniatures, they will be going on eBay this Sunday, so far I have made
Pram
Cot
Bed
Have more to do, last week I had my 2 foster dogs turn up, My friend is away for 2 months and I am looking after her dogs, so I now have 3 dogs, easy I thought, they will play together and I will get more time to do my work, how wrong was I, they all get on very well, but they all require walking, this takes at least 10 mins to get them harnessed, before I even get out of the door, then, making sure I have doggy bags, tissues,  of we go, now walking 3 dogs on 3 separate leads is fun, get the picture, I seem to end up doing this funny dance while I try to untangle myself, once I get to the open area I can let 2 of them off the lead, the other one Roger, no way he will run, so of we all go, back home, another 10mins getting their leads of, watering, treats, then they hopefully will have a sleep, who am I trying to kid, my little dog always thinks its fun, emptying my bin in my work room, now don't tell me dogs do not communicate, now all 3 enjoy emptying my bin, playing with the rubbish, anything I put down disappears, finally came up with a solution, when I am in my work room, I have blocked the door way, I can still see them, but the work room and my bin is safe, so i get down to work, after a while I think its quiet, so I go exploring, they had found the local newspaper, see where I am going here, it was all over, they had shredded it, so I now had 3 little dogs looking very innocent, you know it was not me type of look, so cleared that up, back to work room, the next thing was one of them comes in with muddy paws, they had now discovered my flower beds and all my spring bulbs are now lying on my lawn, this is fun!! good job I love animals and they do make me laugh, when I go to bed, at some time during the night I will wake to find 2 dogs with their heads on the pillow, asleep and another one at my feet, have given up trying to get them to sleep in their beds, but I did manage to get some work done, today will be spent taking photos, will also take some of the dogs, and will put these on later.
managed also to get some gardening done this week, how come flowers will not grow during the winter but weeds do, this year I am planning to redo the garden, it is an empty plot with just a lawn with a small flower bed, so a chance to completely redesign, really looking forward to that, my son has part of the garden, he will be growing the vegetables,
well i have chatted on and I better get going so I can do all that I want to do today, as long as the dogs let me,
see you all later

new projects for ebay plus tutorial for a pram

still waiting for the work room to be started, and now that is going to happen I have thought of a few more things I would like to buy, so decided to get going on some miniatures to sell on eBay, I have started with a pram, it was black metal and really quite plain, so i have changed it.
here is how I did it

the pram, I started by painting the wheel spokes in gold paint, I also did the pram handles, when this was dry, i repainted the wheels black.

I drew round the pram, selected the material I would use, and using the templates I had made cut them out.

this is the pattern I would be using for a little carrier on the front of the pram, I first cut it out in card, covered with pretty paper, covered in the same fabric as the pram, glued together to form the box shape.

this shows the fabric glued into place on the pram

pram covered, I have also added a trim, this helps to cover the join lines, added some jewellery findings to the body for decoration,

front view of the pram, showing the cover in place.

I  still have the small box to add to the front of the pram, and make the little tray, that rests on the base of the pram, I have made a small pram cover and pillow for the pram and will add more photos later.


The other miniature I have redesigned  keeping in with the baby scene, I have redone a cot

cot before

new top made, using white silk and lace

cot after, I made a matching cot cover and pillow

cot in all its glory

still have some more pieces to do, will add more as I do them, I hope you like what I have done so far, and I welcome your comments,
now its time for walking the dog and cooking tea, see all you later

news

Good morning all
well I have not started work room, have now put everything back, my friend is not able to start for a few weeks, he has a big job on, so I have got to wait, so hopefully as soon as I get sorted I can get back to working on my 40's house, will take pictures today so you can see the progress and have some tutorials to show you, so after walking the dog, doing the house work, thats the morning gone, will be in the work room, so keep looking goodies coming soon

up date of work room

its been a while now since I have written so I thought I would update you on the progress of the refurbishment of my workroom, well I got it all cleared out, boxes everywhere for me to trip over, cannot find anything and guess what got to wait another couple of weeks as my friend has had to work on another project before he can get to mine,  still smiling, but I can't do anything as it is all packed away, so today went and brought some Aida material as I thought at least I can start making the mats, its so frustrating,

other news to tell you, I am going to America for 2 weeks in September to stay with my friend from School, we also done our nurse training together and I have not seen her for about 20 years, so excited about it, will be ticking of the days, 2 weeks of sun and so much to catch up on, we will be talking non stop.

Found a picture of a French shop that I did some time ago, this was sold to a lady in France, I made all the hats, bags and jewellery, I sprayed the furniture gold and added decorations, the hat stands are made from golf tees and beads, sprayed,  a lot of work went into this and I will admit I was reluctant to sell it, but I can't keep all my work would not have any room, hope you like it

This next lot of pictures is a church I made for my Aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary,

it took me a long time, they were very surprised, I made all the furniture, clothing, flowers, cards and cross stitched the tiny church kneelers, the pictures around the church were members of my aunts family, her mum and dad plus brother and sisters, some of them had died but I wanted to seem like her family was present, she has it in pride of place in her house and everyone who sees it comments on it, the pictures really do not show it at its best but I am very proud of it,

the columns are cake stands sprayed grey, what do you think of it ?

great news

Great news, finally I am getting my work room sorted,  it needs insulating, shelving, lights,
will put on a before picture and after for you to see, so this weekend will have to pack every thing up and clear it out, just as I am really getting on with my little house, but it will be worth it I can get so organised and not sit there with the electric fire going and a blanket over my knees, so excited, for years i have wanted a proper work room and now its going to happen,  how lucky am I.
the other news is as if I need this I am going to foster 2 dogs for 4 weeks, my friend goes aboard at times during the year to rescue and treat abused animals so I have agreed to look after her dogs how chaotic it will be next week 3 dogs, a workman me and my son, heaven help me, but I am just a girl that cannot say no, forgot to say as well as all that had a assessment from the occupational therapist and I am having grab rails put up, a bath hoist and a bed riser how exciting to have a disability never new there was so much on offer,  you would think that with all I have I would not want anymore, staying in as well this weekend as I have to use my frame, yes frame to walk with and no way would I go out using that too much pride bur then to are some things are sent to try us and i hope i rise to the challenge well i have nattered to much so of i go to start to sort out my work room, glad my son is here to help me, see you all soon

At last I can start

At last I have finished the painting, I did not put on photos for this bit as I thought I was bored watching paint dry so I would not inflict it on you.
anyway where are we up to,
I have done the floors, I used floor boards for the attic and second floor, which I painted brown and then I took a wet wipe and took some of the colour off, these will have rugs over them,
The bottom floor has lino for flooring, this was done by using some flooring i downloaded from the net and then put it through the laminated,
now I have to start putting it together, but first I have got to wall paper the rooms, 
so that's how far I have got, I had hoped that I would of done more, but I have had a bit of a bad week with my pain syndrome, so I have had to sit a lot and not done much, feeling much better today. well enough of that,
once I have got the house back together I will add the photos for your to see
now its back to work