blog playing up again

Hi All

after getting above myself and saying I had fixed my blog, it crashed, I lost the lot plus other work non my laptop, how fed up was I, I had a very nasty virus, so I had to call in the laptop doctor, lucky for me it was a friend of mind.
He had to revert my laptop back to its factory settings and I got my laptop back. But everything was missing!! then I remembered I backed up my files ect on cloud, this is where my files are floating about somewhere, anyway popped in my password and there was my files and photos. I am now transferring everything back.

I was very worried as I had items on ebay, but my dad lent me his for a few days, so crisis averted. soon be back to blogging.

I have seen the scans

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I am so excited, I have seen the baby scan, it is now 12 weeks old and I could see the baby, they have decided that they do not want to know the sex, but I bet they will change their minds, knowing Amy like I do she will not be able to wait.

So I have been busy looking at patterns to knit and sew, I want to make a shawl and a patchwork cot cover, but every time I think I have found something I like I find another!! have finally narrowed them down to 10 and now I have to make a decision, will let you know when I make my mind up.

My legs remain swollen, if I sit all day with my legs elevated, they are not to bad, but I do not want to sit all day, I think its back to my doctor for a chat.

It has been to cold to sit in my work room so I have been sitting in the kitchen and have had a go at making clothes, as usual I started on a easy pattern, a mans suit!!, I think I used to thick material, but it came out alright, I have a lot of clothes to make for my dolls house shop, finally made my mind up, ground floor will be accessories, perfume and toiletries and make up, 1st floor, handbags, cases and shopping bags, babies wear, 2nd floor ladies and men's clothes, attic, ladies and men's hairdressing salon, I will be present day. I am going to make everything I hope myself. I also want to have on the ground floor a large fancy staircase leading up to the floor above. I have a conservatory, still in its box, I am thinking about this becoming a tearoom to sit along side the big shop.

This will be a keep me,  I cannot wait to get started on it, but until I have got rid of my other 2 dolls houses and made room I have to wait. I even know where it is going to sit, it will go into my front room, but need to made adaptions to my shelving unit. So there you have it my big plan for the year.

I also need to finish my beach shop. Its nearly there, just outside to paint and roofing to finish an then I can start to put in the minis I have made and make it look like shop.
I still intend to make and sell my minis, well I have to find the money somewhere and as we know this is not a cheap hobby.
So much to do.

Have a look at what I have sewn so far

oops

Hi All

yes it was a big oops, I was laying the roofing tiles and the end was in sight and guess what? yes the roof was the wrong way round!!!  so there I was was removing the tiles, then came the fun of cleaning of the glue, this took ages, I think if I had more tiles I would of ended up throwing them away, but being on a budget could not do this so I carried on.
finally I got both sides of the roof tiled. Now I need to wait for them to dry so I can begin to make them look like real roofing tiles, I had already painted the roof grey so that any gaps would not show as white.

I had a problem that I had been thinking about for a few days, how was I going to get inside the shop when I put the final wall and roof on? first I thought should I make one of the walls hinged? or the roof hinged? I finally decided on the roof, this seemed the easiest, I have got to find hinges now, how is it that one thing leads to another!!

I continued on with my shelving, I have to wait for the glue to dry before I can get on with putting the shelves on, handy tip, if you have items that are to big for your clamps but you need to hold them in place, use masking tape, this does not leave any sticky residue and more important does not remove any paint when removed.

here are the photos,

the shelving pieces painted 

the roof tiles, the right way round

this is the shelf being held together with the masking tape

My secret revealed

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Yes I have a big secret, have kept it to myself since New Years Day, and last night I had a call and was told I could now tell it, the only thing I ask, those that are on my face book page do not say anything about it on there please, my son wants to let the family know before it goes public, guessed yet? drum roll,  I AM GOING TO BE A NANNIE , yes my first grandchild, due 2nd September, so much looking forward to this, been told they do not want it spoilt, sod off its my roll as a Nannie to spoil , I have already got it something, a little bunny rabbit with a book for bedtime stories. Time to get the needles out and start knitting for the baby.

Filling the shop, I decided that I have a lot of minis to go in  my shop and I had better start to make shelving units to put them on.

I wanted to have on wall just shelving, so I measured the width and height, and using the old faithful, balsa wood, I have got the back, sides and shelves made, they have been painted, today I hope to finish them. forgot to take photo of it, will do so today so you can see what I( am talking about.

I painted a wire shelving unit and completed some of the other mini items, 

have a look

surf boards, wall plagues, mirrors signs, pictures and blind

Its fixed

Hi all

Yes I fixed my blogging issues, it was so simple, I just needed to clean up my browsing history and caches, so happy me.

Thanks to all 

made for my friend and help needed and some printies for you

Hi All

First I need help, I cannot access my comments, anyone had this problem and if so how did you cure it?

I have also put some printies on for you to print, I found these around the web, they are not mine so please only for your personal use, thank you

My friend by the sea, ( she used to be my friend in the wilds, but she moved) anyway she wants a baby bouncing chair and could I make her one, so I did,
Have a look

Getting back to normal

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Thank you all for your kind words while I have been under the weather.

Yes I am beginning to get back to normal, whatever normal is. My legs still have a lot of fluid but they are better than they were and I have managed to get my pain back under control. I have pain syndrome, got this following me falling out of the loft and damaged my leg and spine, basically what it means, is my body is constantly  in pain, as my brain no longer knows how to switch it off, I have to take  cocktail of drugs to enable me to function. Sometimes it can take over my life and I have to give in to my body and allow it to rest and recuperate, this down, so now I hope to get back to my minis. I have been doing a little when I can and I finally have something to show you.

While I was resting, I decided to have  go at miniature knitting, I had only knitted blankets before, I can do big knitting so I thought I could do mini. I was very pleased with my first attempts.

I continued to work on my beach shop and have completed a lot of the little minis that I want to put in it, I also papered and painted the inside of the shop.

Anyway enough of the natter see for yourself what I have  been up to. 

need to add little buttons and ribbon to the hat

bags and cushions for the shop

the little minis are charms that I painted

little sandals painted

some of the furniture, can you see the waste basket, this was a lid, which I painted and then stuck shells to it

I made the little postcards that are dotted around the walls