Inspiriation

What inspires you? Well I find inspiration from all sorts of places. Mainly blogland but also books. I found out that my local library had these great books on their shelves so promptly borrowed them. 

After looking through them I have decided that it is going to be very difficult giving them back so have put them on my gift list for 2009. I write this list during the year to help people out with ideas of what to by me for Mothers day, my birthday and Christmas, so am hoping that these will find there way to me on one of these occasions.

The Doodle Stitching book has inspired me to start my own here...
I have stuck pictures of stitcheries that I have seen in blogland and have drawn my own version of them. I have even converted the bottom stitchery into this....

A bottle bottom pincushion with special hand made pins. The pinheads have been made using Shrinky Dinks. These were really fun to make and started out as an experiment that worked out really well.

I went to Spotlight last week as I had a $10 voucher to spend and of course I couldn't pass up an opportunity like that. 

I found these gorgeous papers....

and matching stickers...

These stickers are great and I will be using these for sure. I actually bought two lots of these. The second lot are in green and brown only but they looked really fun.

Finally I bought some more socks (little 5-8 yr old) to make a couple more sock monkeys.

I should have a finished product to show you next week as they will need to be finished by next Friday. It is registration day next Friday for next terms craft classes and I am teaching a block called "One Week Wonders". I am going to teach the little bottle top pincushions, bottle bottom pincushions (see picture above), tape measure covers, thread holders, Shrinky Dink pins and Sock Monkeys. It will be a full on term but I am really looking forward to teaching these fun projects.

The crochet is coming along really well with my summer bag almost complete. I will post a picture of that next week as well.

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Last Day of Holidays 8{

Yes today is the last day of school holidays for my boys. As of tomorrow we will be back into the swing of things with having to be up early, getting lunches made and packed, having school diaries signed and all that goes along with being back at school. It is also back to work for me. I could really get used to being a full time stay at home mum again but the need to send my boys to a really good christian private school outweighs that at the moment, and I must admit that I do really enjoy my job and the people that I work with really are very nice to be around.

This week also looks at the start of Friday Craft again and I am doing a stint of teaching this term. I am going to be teaching a table quilt designed by Debbie Mumm called "Honey Bee Table Quilt" and this is my version of it.

I took this photo outside and I think it was a bit windy so it may be a bit hard to see properly. The 4 ladies that I am teaching seem to be excited about the idea of learning to do patchwork and quilting and I hope that I am up for the challenge. I thought that it would be a good quilt to start with as it is just two basic patchwork blocks and they are quite large (12" finished) so shouldn't take too long. We have 10 weeks to get it all finished so will have to post some photos of their finished products.

Well I did get my crochet cardigan finished and no it doesn't fit me so am very disappointed with that. I am now trying to see if I can somehow add to it to make it bigger. It is mainly the arm length that is the problem (this is always my problem with any tops) so will see what I can come up with. As for the WIP quilt, well am still plodding along with that. I did manage to achieve a lot with my scrapbooking however and will post photos of that when it is possible to do so.

Well hope to be in touch again soon,

Regards 8}