good news

Really pleased this week, I sold Santa's work shop, now got room for my next project, not sure yet what it will be. I am going to look in my shed to see what I have in there, I know I have a dolls house, a conservatory and a couple of room boxes, so over the Christmas period I will be thinking about what I will be doing, any suggestions?

I have been making little pin cushions as a pressie for my mates at the craft club, we are having a party this week, that will be fun.

At home I am all ready for Christmas, pressies brought, shopping done, I have been buying bits over the year, plus making presents and cards, well done me.

I have been enjoying myself looking though your wonderful blogs, there is so much beautiful work out there and a lot of talented people,

hope you all have a great day, see you all soon

some photos

Hi all, today I got the dolls house finished, this is the one I had to paint for my cousins grandchildren, its their Christmas present, she will be collecting at the weekend, hope its what she wanted.
I have also added a photo of my Christmas tree,
well that's all for now, see you soon

the dolls house

Christmas tree, homemade decs and presents wrapped in brown paper and string

my Father Christmases

Its beginning to feel like Christmas

Its beginning to feel like Christmas, this week my son and I have put up the decorations, they consist of a tree, with my hand made decorations and my collection of Father Christmas ornaments, I used to have so many that it would take me all day to put them out, I have now been more selective and now only have a few special ones, they still please me and make me smile when I see them, I have wrapped all my presents, I have been very green, I have used brown paper and twine, with added home made gift tags, it does look very effective, must remember to show you some pictures.

I have a project on the go, my cousin has brought a child's dolls house for her grandchildren and I am decorating it, so today I have done nothing but paint, and you know how much I love painting!!! I hope tomorrow I will be able to finish it off, I have got a very special present to make for my friend in the wilds ( you know who you are ) cannot say what it is or show you a photo as I want it to be a surprise, I will try to remember to show you after Christmas.

I have got my little dogs presents and they have not been touched, all the presents under the tree have stayed in place and apart from a little look from the puppy she has left them alone, even the decorations have failed to create any interest, I get the feeling she is waiting for me to leave her alone then she will have fun, hope not.

I must say a big thank you to my new followers, I am constantly surprised when new people sign up to follow me, Thank You.

well better stop now still got my son's jumper to finish, just sewing up now, but I keep looking at it and thinking is it too small, oh dear, hope not.

funny things we say

Good Morning everyone,
welcome to my new followers, hope you enjoy my blog and my ramblings,I love to receive comments so feel free to add some.

I had to laugh to myself yesterday, I was in a shop and they had jewellery knocked down to 50p, so as I was looking another lady was also looking and was saying how great it was and she was going to get some things, i then saw a little bracelet that had sliver coloured shells, I exclaimed soap dishes, and immediately got some, she gave me such a strange look and walked off, sometimes I forget that others do not always think as I do, wonder what she thought.

Busy day today, more Christmas cards to make, tags for the presents, Christmas tree to put up, and finish my sons jumper, wrap the presents, yes I have finished my Christmas shopping, even down to the food just got the fresh stuff to buy, so organised this year, what happened. so time to get started.

I love this bit

I love it when a project starts to come together and I can start to put in the bits and decorate it, I am very pleased with the end result and love how the battery xmas lights turned out, effective and bright.

this is my last project for this year need to start getting my stuff out for Christmas, my son and I are going to put up the decorations tomorrow, I think this year I will not be putting the presents around the tree, the puppy will have a lot of fun with them,

lets get on with the photos

Oops Santa has lost his teeth

We have a problem, while I was adding bits to Santa's work bench I misplaced his teeth!!!!
only joking, I came across some teeth in my stash and placed them on the woirk bench, looks kind of funny, yesterday I made items for the bench including paint pots, these are so easy, download little labels from web, resize, cut up small pieces of dowling, paint silver, add labels and there you have it paint pots, easy.

I also made the posting box, so today got to make lots of enevolpes and letters to go in it,
I also started to make toys, in my picture you can see the train in progress,

Thank you for your lovely comments, I ma still searching for the makers of the dolls clothes.

Did you see that programme last night on telly about miniature animals, so cute, I do not think I would dress them though, it makes them look silly, and looking at Muppet I think I may have a tiny dog, she is now 5 mths and not growing very fast but she is so cute and loveable, we are begining to get her house trained, its working just the odd mistake now,

I usually put my Christmas decorations up on the 1st of December but have decided to wait for the weekend, got a lot of pain today so it will have to be a quiet day, I am going to sit today and continue knitting my sons Christmas present, a jumper, 1 sleeve to go, never again will I let him choose a pattern, it has 16 rows to the pattern and its fine till you come to increasing and decreasing, then its hell, its not the sort of pattern you can see by eye, so I have had to work out the rows, why did he not ask for a scarf!!

lets get on with the photos

see the paint pots, Santas teeth on the shelf

post box, and partly made train

my miniature puppy, Muppet

help needed

Good morning,
thank you for your lovely comments, they always cheer me up.
Now yesterday when I did my weekly tour of the junk shops, in my favourite shop "The Attic" a great place where you find all sorts of things and you have to really search through and so cheap, well sometimes she has dolls house miniatures and I found a bar, optics, bottles, till register all for 5.00, I also got 2 lovely little porcelain dolls dressed in tiny knotted clothes, so neat and the stitching is so tiny, I am curious to where they have come from, they do have a label on with names, so does anyone know them.

This one says Sue Osbourne, Hythe

this one Pam Adams Sudbury

so there they are anyone know them?