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  • Frame it fast!

    Frame it fast!

    Now you know I love a charity shop…today I scored a bashed up frame for the grand total of £1.99. Elder did a pastel of the Queen over the Summer and I promised to frame it. Et voila! The picture was a little too big so I used some hessian laid around the edge of…

  • All mapped out

    How are you all school holidays going? We are at the bitter end, full of wailing and gnashing of teeth. And that’s just me. Here’s what’s saved my sanity this afternoon. After a hard morning playing in the park getting completely covered in mud, the boys came home and were fit for nothing but sitting…

  • Put a ring on it…

    EBay strikes again. My latest purchase from the US. Going to have to sell a few quilts to make space for it though. But hey, it’s worth it don’t you think?

  • Key to it all

    I made these for Other Half, personalised key rings. You can buy the blanks from your local stationers. Stamp your label onto your paper of choice. Et voila!! These are named fairly cryptically so as to make them hard to trace should you lose them and an unsavoury type pick then up. And it was…

  • Staple die-t

    Well, now that Christmas is over, I can post about some of the things I made! I hope my recipients don’t mind, but there are some ideas here that I thought would be nice share. I’d be interested to see what everybody else gets up to with them. First up, is a little footstool I…