Lavender Blue

 

 

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green.

When I am king, dilly, dilly, you shall be queen.

Who told you so, dilly, dilly, who told you so?

'Twas my own heart, dilly, dilly, that told me so...

A while back I mentioned to my mum that I would like to get hold of some Lavender...  I had forgotten every word about it til this weekend gone, when my mum pulled a whole bin liner of Lavender from the boot of her car!  Never one to turn down a freebie am I!  My other half, bless him, helped me trim out all the wooden bits, til we were left with a huge pile of stems for drying...

 

 

If you would like to try drying Lavender at home, pick the Lavender just as they open, and dry on open trays or by hanging in small bunches.

 

 

I have already started to take the flower tops off my Lavender as they dry, because it was falling all over my kitchen floor and I have no room!  I seem to be getting a lot more than I expected, just look at all these blue/purple sweet smelling nuggets! 

 

 

 Fingers crossed the lavender dries OK, as I am looking forward to some Lavender makes :o)

 

 

 

Marmalade The Cat

 

I picked up this cute little papier mache cat from my local craft and collectors fair on Friday.  I was instantly drawn to the bright summery colours and glossy finish.  We have named him Marmalade...  Unfortunately he has already suffered a chipped ear at the hands of my two year old, but he is very happy sitting on top of the book case with the co ordinating enamel teapots :o)

Sunny Happy Summer Crochet

I was awake early this morning and the sun is streaming through my window.  I have been painting and redecorating my bedroom since the weekend, and as it is currently clutter free (it's all piled up in the spare room atm,) I thought I would take this opportunity to (finally) share with you my finished crochet bedspread.

 

She has not yet been washed or blocked, but here she is in all her colourful splendour...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you are all enjoying the summer sunshine :o)

 

 

 

 

 

Love is all you need...

Hello, apologies its been such a long time since my last post.  The reason behind this is my daughter and her naps... or lack or them.  The terrible twos have hit and now I am no longer getting my window of crafting time.  I swear there are not enough hours in the day! 

 

I finally got to do some sewing at the weekend and was feeling inspired by a "HOME" picture I had seen ages ago by Dottie Angel, with a doily for the O in HOME (sorry I can't seem to find the original photo anywhere, but it was very similar to this image.) So I donned a floaty skirt to get me in the vintage sewing zone and set to work...

 

 

I have had this old picture frame (which I saved from the dustbin/freebie) knocking around for ages, and all the fabrics were either thrifted or from my scraps box.  The letters were all machine sewn on and I hand stitched the doily on around all the twirly whirly hoops with contrasting pink thread.  (It took a very long time!)

 

 

I also hand sewed this little hanging heart, to sit alongside the picture frame.

 

 

I even gave cross stitch a go for the first time in about twenty years.  It really was quite therapeutic! 

 

 

Slowly our little housie is becoming more and more homely... 

 

 

Happy little housie, happy little me :o)