Controversial Mermaid!

She made me smile though and at least she sold!!

2010 - My year of the Chickens!

My pictures never seem to be in the right order, but here we go.....

This is the chicken house we were given by Rob's nephew (the small bit on the left!).

After never really wanting chickens, I decided that as realistically this plot of land would never be turned into a vegetable patch, it would be an ideal spot!

We had a realistic, but high quote to get the additional run built for us, so I decided to have a go myself!

Although I had originally wanted to get some ex-battery hens, none were due for release when I was itching to get some, so after looking on the internet, I found a breeder who we bought these from - this picture is missing the white one, named Dave.
We had only had them a few months when suddenly all three went seriously broody.

I tried turfing them out but they just got noisier and noisier, so after emailing the breeder again, I decided to put some of her eggs under them!

Crikey..

Almost an entire year since I last posted - sometimes I even amaze myself!

Well, I can hardly sit and write all that has happened in 12 months, so for a few MAJOR things, here goes:

Rob's mum sadly passed away last May and after the funeral, sorting of the house, valuations etc, we suddenly made the decision to try and sell our own, tiny terrace and buy it ourselves.

We moved in November.

Just weeks before we moved in, mum slipped in the house (doing me a favour) and fractured her femur.

She is still housebound and under varying stages of hospital treatment.

However, I finally have a craft room - the picture shows the "tidy end!" I added the shelves to the cupboards on Monday, and have been buying more storage boxes every day!

White rabbit

I've recently recieved an order from a friend who's getting married in a few months, for 3 white rabbits for her small bridesmaids to hold on the day instead of flowers.

Here's the prototype I made yesterday.

I was SO pleased that I'd found exactly the material I want to use - a double sided, super fluffy dressing gown fabric - marvellous!!

I wasn't quite prepared for the hideous mess it made when I was cutting it!!

I'm going to try making the ears longer, and the belly a bit bigger and do something to make it look as though it actually has eyes (which it does!)

Our NEW yahoo group!

After much discussion with Pat Doyle, who makes fabulous dolls, we have decided to start our own group to support and encourage other doll makers (I do make dolls as well as knit, honestly!!).

We aim to run a variety of swaps, challenges and tutorials and whatever your skill level would love to welcome you to ukfabricfigures

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What a bargain!!

These were the lasted bunch to be posted off last month. I find storing them becomes a problem, so I've decided to knit and sew up and then devote a day to stuffing and finishing off.......

I just LOVE wool and despite all my best resolutions not buy any more until I have used up ALL I have I couldn't resist these 7 balls which only cost 50p each - well, how could I ??!!

Knitted bears!

I was delighted to recently receive a photo of one of my bears with it's new owner (sorry it's such a fuzzy image) - suddenly it makes it even more worthwhile. I knit between doing all the jobs that don't give you long enough to achieve much, if anything else!