It's arrived!!!!!

When I got home from work yesterday, my prize from Maggie Grey was on the doorstep. It's even better in real life, my photo doesn't do it justice. Thank you Maggie, I will treasure it.

I couldn't blog last night as I went to a fund raising event. My oldest daughter and her friend voluntarily run a baby and toddler group in the village. Once a year they hold a 'Curry Night'. Just over £300 was raised. Lots of laughs and another very late night!

At our Sutton Hoo exhibition, Kezzy fell in love with these fairy shoes, they are larger than the ones that are normally stitched, approx 7 inches in length. Anyway, Alan being a soft touch where Kezzy is concerned, bought them for her, and they arrived yesterday

Springfield Quilters held their final meeting here, at Graham on the Green, Writtle. Opposite this lovely pond.Very pretty and tasty starter, a wonderful main course, followed by..........hot chocolate brownie with chocolate ice cream-delish!!!!!!!!There was a live band playing which made conversation quite hard, but we managed to have a good natter and caught up on all the latest news.A big thank you to Delia and Diane, for starting the club, without them I would not be where I am now, textile wise.
A photo of my bag as promised, still taking Sutton Hoo as my inspiration. The pan scourer represents the armour, and again Celtic spirals. This is the week when I should have got some stitching done at school, though what with being out on a first aid course yesterday, and a 2nd pre-inspection visit today, tracking down my reports that had gone missing, between the office and my pigeon hole, its not happening. Then when I got home from work, guess what was on my doorstep.......

my books that I ordered, how's that for service? I have enjoyed looking through them both while sitting out in the garden watching the sun setting. Wonderful photos of inspiring work and lovely clear text in both books. Congratulations Maggie, Lynda and Carol well worth waiting for. I can't wait to read them properly and experiment.

I can't believe my luck!!!

I have not been in school today as I have been on a first aid course in Brentwood, lovely tutors and feel that I learnt a lot. I decided to check my blog before getting ready to go out for a meal with Springfield Quilters, and I have won MAGGIE GREY'S scroll!!!!!!!!!! I have never ever won anything in any of the blog draws before and to win a piece of Maggie's work is like winning the lottery to me!

This 'n' that

I have not achieved much today, I think it could be due to the lack of sleep from Kezzy's sleepover, but I have had a tidy up in my play room. I bought this belt from Primark for £2.50 just for the lovely wooden beads.
So today I cut it up and sorted them to colour.

The felt beads I made yesterday at our Schoolhouse Arts Dabble Day were put out to dry in the sunshine and are now ready for me to embellish.


Kezzy took Muppety exploring in our garden, and then she had to do some homework.

Over the Easter holiday we had to save Capri drinks pouches for textiles. On Kezzy's last lesson, she was given double-sided tape instead of masking tape as an aide for holding them in place when stitching. The double-sided tape wouldn't peel off, so the sides, back and front had to be remade. We have been saving the pouches again, ( I have got everyone at school saving them too!) and this afternoon, we had enough to complete the main components. The base and handles have to be made, which is the next lesson.

I am now going to do some work on my bag, I haven't posted any photo's of it yet, as I wasn't sure that it was going to work. I am using a pot scourer as part of the decoration, so I will let you know later in the week when I have done more stitching. This is the week when I should get a half hour of stitching in my break, yahoo!!!!!!!!!!

Felt Dabble Day at Schoolhouse Arts

All four of us, Margaret, Debbie, Nickie and myself, were involved in the workshop today at Schoolhouse Arts.

The day started off with making wet felted beads. To help get them dry, we started to dry them in the oven on a very low heat,before moving them outside to dry in the sunshine. The group was then divided into two and it was then onto either dry felting, making a stone or a fruit or using the embellisher.The weather was so good, that we ate our lunch outside in the garden

It's hard to think, looking at the photo, that two hours later we had a terrific storm! The groups swapped activities after lunch. The last hour was spent doing more playing on the embellisher or decorating the felt beads.

When I got home, it was a bit of a rush to get ready for Kezzys birthday bar-b-q. As Alan started to cook, so the storm started! The rain did not stop the fun, and the meal was finished off with a white chocolate fondue.

Regional Day 2011

Wednesday evening, and it was back to school (So still no stitching!) in the evening for the school production of Killer Queen. It bought tears to my eyes watching it, as one of the boys who had a big part, had been in my class when he was three. He was so shy and timid then, that he was frightened of his own shadow.
I had a committee meeting on Thursday, and it has been agreed that we use Writtle Agricultural College for our Regional Day, July 2nd 2011. They were so helpful when we went to view the venue and it has such wonderful grounds, I just hope that the sun shines on that day, so that we can picnic outside in the gardens.

A new addition to the family.

Monday was Kezzy's 14th birthday, and Alan and I decided to get her a rabbit. As the breeder was away on holiday, we couldn't collect it until Tuesday. Monday night was spent preparing the hutch. Let me introduce you to 'Muppety'. One very loved bunny!

Kezzy finished her sock monkey that she was making for her cousin's birthday. She needed a little bit of help with the muzzle, as the fabric was fairly hard for a novice to stitch.