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Hair corsage fascinator sewing projects

Long time no blog. Sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry, cheesy grin :) OK I have been up to so much since my last confession so I shall try and catch up with my blog posts and post some photo's of some makes over the next few days. I promise, you do believe me don't you LOL

OK, whilst looking for a book for Pinkpuppy earlier on in my disgrace of a craft room, which incidentally I have still yet to find, shifs about nervously. I came upon two large sweet tins full of ribbons and trims. So I decided that to get back into the swing of sewing again with a few small projects. Pickles has been very demanding during the day so I have decided to get back into the swing of things by making some corsages and then some brooches and other small accessories and then move back onto my beloved bags. I was getting all inspired by the utterly gorgeous creations I have been perusing on here the past month or so. I know, I know, I am rambling on again :red: So back to business :)

I have a very nice but very plain black trench coat. As I have almost lost a stone in the past month I am getting brave :lol: Not quite brave enough to go the whole hog and abandon by usual black attire, but trying to introduce a cheeky hint of colour. I went through my new found stash and have picked out various black, silver and hot pink ribbons, trims and threads etc and I am going to make a corsage for my beloved trenchie. Wish me luck, I have found my invisible thread and I am about to embark on my first sewing project in what must be a year I think. Whenever it was I posted Hunny Bunny on here. (long, boring story) I'll update this post with my progress :)







I am still struggling with uploading pics from my camcorder, so so sorry for the poor picture quality, blushes with shame.

Through the lack of sew in brooch pins and the lighting not being very good in here I decided it can have a dual purpose and try it as a hair corsage in the meantime. I have just spent the past three quarters of an hour running around the house trying to bribe Pickles into modelling it for me in his hair LOL I ended up scrambling around trying to find a what I thought would be my as new Girls World head, smirk. I bought it myself a few years back to practice French plaits in as my DD didn't have the patience to sit there,sulks. I can't have anything in this house, truly I can't. I carefully took her out of her perfectly kept box (even through house moves) and when I turned it around :bug: the little what not (I said a little more at the time as you can probably imagine LOL Her perfect blonde hair now had a bright pink fringe and bright pink speckled face, Kids arrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Arrggghhhh at long last I have managed to update this with photo’s of the actual corsage itself. The lighting isn’t very good though I am afraid. The hot pink is deeper in reality and the shimmery and hot pink ribbons glisten. Now I can actually get around to making some more.







'n' SOME MORE............

Please excuse Goldies hair, rolls eyes. I was horrified when I clapped eyes on her. I had kept the box and the head, I thought in perfect condition. I haven’t used it in years since in our last house. My DD was under no illusion at the time that it was mine (to practice French plaits on) and she WASN’T to touch it. Maybe I grounded her one day and she got annoyed with me ROFL Just you wait until she gets in from college. She has some explaing to do LOL. She will most probably deny all knowledge, huffs. Must have been those peskey house elves again, yeah right!







Heres another corsage a little larger than the last one, definately one for my trenchie rather than the hair this time :) From the same jar of ribbons and threads, but using different ones. This time incorpoating silver with the black and hot pink Please excuse the models hair it’s like straw to brush. Reminds me of my late guinea pigs. Sorry degressing there, cheesy grin.

This one is larger again modelled by the lovely Goldie due to the lack of brooch pins Sorry about the camera glare, on the camcorder again :( The middle bit that is glaring and not quite coming out right in the pics is handmade from individul black and silver sequins
gems and then surrounded by individual pink sequins in a circle. Tried to get a close up but it keeps on dazzling me. I will replace these photo's with better ones when I can get my little mitts on Kevinas digital camera :)








I'll be back...................................................Later :)

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Crafts Beautiful online Christmas party

I'd just like to remind everyone that the Crafts Beautiful online Christmas party
kicks off today. It will now be starting earlier at 5pm rather than midnight :) There are going to be tons of activities, prizes, giveaways, competitions, downloads and more. Be there or be square, wink, wink :)

Anyhoo ramble over for now. I hope you are all well and having a lovely day and (hugs) to those who aren’t or can’t :) I hope to see you over at CB, wink, wink, nudge, nudge :)

Ever wanted to ask Dawn Bibby a question?

If you pop over to CB now you can submit a question for her to answer when she joins the party online on Sunday :)

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It's been almost three months since my last confession :(

Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, hangs head in complete and utter shame. It's been almost three longgggggggggggggg months since my last confession. I kept popping on with the best intention in the World to update my blog but as the seconds turned into minutes, the minutes turned into hours, the hours turned into days, the days turned into weeks, the weeks turned into months, I think you get my drift, wink wink, nudge nudge. Wow that was original, eh, not. Oh I am such a sarcastic cliché at times I must be back to my old self again hurrahhhhhhhhhh.

I was going to bore you with all I have done but to be quite Frank or Mary, whatever way your cookie crumbles. To be completely honest I can't bothered. Please don't be upset it's nothing personal. I am just slothful and so lackadaisical of late I simply can't muster the energy and thinking about it I can't have done anything of real interest anyway or I would have been on here bragging wouldn't I eh?

To simply condense the past three months so as not to bore myself or you to distraction I made some cards, baked lots of cakes, put on weight, joined Slimming World, lost weight, started cycling five miles a day and taking Pickles for three hour walks, was in a car crash, baked lots of cakes, put on weight, started Physio for crash injuries, went back to Slimming World, insurance company written Jacques off, my Renault Megane. Luckily Pickles wasn't in the car as OH had a day off and the entire back, roof and side where he would have been sat ended up caved in and wrapped around the back wheels :( , baked lots of cakes, put weight on, did some sewing, went back to Slimming World, decided to have a go at becoming a Vegetarian, baked lots of healthy food, lost weight, did some sewing, took some photographs, read a few books, went on public transport for the first time in about ten years due to having no car, cries out loud, attempted to drive OH's Mazda 6 - didn't get on, did some more sewing and eating, was dragged into being an extra in a short film through DD and thoroughly lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvved it, back on Slimming World plan, started writing and designing again, decided I am going to write a screenplay !

I have also become extremely addicted to making my own soup. Thick, creamy spicy carrot, parsnip and coriander being my absolute favourite. Both Vegan and Vegetarian friendly, no fat, low calorie, SW green day FREE and deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicious, licks lips, in a lady like manner of course :)








You will find more photos and the recipes (when I can be bothered editing my posts on there also) on my Confessions of a Slimming World dieter blog :)



Ok, I have now bored myself to tears and probably you also so I am signing off for now. I shall hopefully be back on later though so I’ll hopefully see you all then. Oh and before I go I thought I’d let you know that I have now succumbed and got down with the kids n all that and bagged myself a Myspace account . Hopefully see you over there sometime :)

Just before I go I'd like to invite anybody that doesn't already know about it to the Crafts Beautiful online Christmas party.
on the 29th & 30th November. There are going to be tons of activities, prizes, giveaways, competitions, downloads and more. Be there or be square, wink, wink :)

Anyhoo ramble over for now. I hope you are all well and having a lovely day and (hugs) to those who aren’t or can’t :)

Cheers ears :)

Kevina does it again :)

Afternoon everyone :)

Sorry for being such a bad, bad blogger, hangs head in utter shame. I promise to do better in the future :)Been soooooooo busy. Kevina has done us proud again with one of her random cake baking jaunts. Details and piccies below :)

I hope you are all well I have been sooooooooooo lazy. I am still in my jammies at almost 4pm. Pickles must have known his Dad was off work and let us have a lie in. I still woke up b4 9 though, that darn body clock. Got my OH up at 9.30 to watch the cycling on the Olympics. Totally lazed and grazed all day. Can’t honestly remember the last time we did this. We don’t even get a lazy day at Christmas lol. Watched the TV and read and just devoured a gorgeous man sized portion of a sticky lemony toffe steamed pudding Kevina made. Pure torture as it had to boil for a couple of hours and it smelt gorgeous.





Guess I’d better go and get dressed. Not even done any housework yet. We were hoping to go out for the day today with my OH being off for a fortnight but the weather is really icky. Hopefully it will improve by tomorrow. Off to get dressed and go blackberry picking now. Catch you all later.

I hope that everybody is well and having a lovely day and (hugs) to those who aren't or can't :)

I shall be popping bakc on later to upload some cards :)

Cheers ears :)

Chuckle Monkey card :)

The slideshow above may take a minute to fully load and display :)

This was one of my first ever Chuckle Monkey cards. It took a while as all the images were handrawn (they are now available as stamps from Spiral Whisper, see posts below) They were then coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils and watercolour paints :)

With my OH getting back from working away at last and having a good nights sleep,oh and I sooooo needed it. I will be able to buckle down and make some more Chuckles n Giggles cards this evening. Including images you HAVEN'T SEEN YET, wink, wink, nudge,nudge. Off to supervise the watering of the chillies, tomatoes, cucumbers and some other strange things growing in the corner of the greenhouse now (cheesy grin) Not going any where near it until I can be sure that hugggggggggggge dinner plate sized spider has gone, filthy dirty crawling manky creature thing that it is. Urggggggggggggh.

Cheers ears :)

PS I'll pop back on later with my creations and to pop some of the workshop in progress photos on :) 'n' photos of my new yet to be named beloved, already dressmakers dummy I got yesterday :) I'm hoping to catch up on some sewing tonight as well as cardmaking. I have some lovely Laura Ashley fabric I have been dying to attack LOL

Hola :)

Hola everyone,

Yes I think I am going insane. Most probably through the lack of sleep. I am soooooo tired but I can't sleep. Totally drained as my OH is working away again and Pickles and Her Royal Highness have been running rings around me for days, scowl. I can't wait for my OH to get back tomorrow then it's nappies all weekend for him I'm afraid, oh and watering the greenhouse because I won't go in there because there is a huggggggge spider in there the size of a dinner plate. OK, OK I may be exaggerating there a little. But it's ruddy big and it scares me so I'm going no where near it. Oh and he has to help finish the workshop and mow the lawns (I usually love doing this but the hayfever is really bad at moment, achoo, see I told you, cheesy grin) I am sure I will also think of more things to add to that list b4 his return tomorrow. Oh I am wicked I know but I don't care, ha ha ha ha! I am going to try and have a rest.

Completely off subject but I am sooooooooooooooo excited off to pick my dressmaking dummy form and knitting machine up tomorrow and I am going to my first ever crop for a WHOLE day. Wow an entire day of crafting without being mithered or moaned at, pure bliss. Going to attempt my first ever scrapbook page. I've been collecting the stuff for years I get it out occasionally to stroke and then put it back again. It's too pretty to use LOL

Seven of my stamps are up for either sale or pre-sale release. In case you didn't already know (an even bigger cheesy grin) oh and did I also mention that if you scroll down you can take a peeksy at them. Oh and did I also tell you that you can buy them from here. . Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm don't think I did. Ok, I'll save your ickle fingers from scrolling down to check you will find them here. See how kind I am to you (hugggggggge spider dinner plate sized cheesy grin)

At the moment there are seven on;
Rock Star Chuckles,
Coming Ready Or Not (Chuckles n Giggles playing hide and seek),
Chuckles banana tree,
Tarquin the tree frog,
Chuckles Lazy Day,
Giggles,
Boozy Chuckles.

With more going on next week. Currently designing some Christmas stamps amongst others. Can't get used to Christmas in July at all. Had a couple of glasses of rose at the weekend to try and get myself into the Christmas spirit. It partially worked. A good excuse to have a few more this weekend, wink. There are piccies of all of the current designs below, a couple of post down. Can't remember whether I've mentioned it or not (innocent angelic look) n you can buy them here.

Better sign off now. Just noticed it's gone 2am. I just can't sleep when my OH is away. I have been up since six too.

Nighty night, don't let the bed bugs bite :) Oh and b4 I go please check out my stamps here. :)

The land of nod beckons.

Cheers ears :)

PS Think I may have 4gotten to mention that you can scroll down a couple of posts and take a peeksy at some of my stamps.

PPS Knew I'd 4gotten something. The link to Spiral Whisper, coincidentally where you can buy my stamps from is here. :)

PPPS Only kidding, of to bed. I hope I don't have any more freaky dreams again, nighty, night :)

My stamps

A few people have told me that they went onto the Spiral Whisper website to buy my stamps but there were only a couple on there under animals. They are there but most of them are just listed under my name.

At the moment there are seven on;
Rock Star Chuckles,
Coming Ready Or Not (Chuckles n Giggles playing hide and seek),
Chuckles banana tree,
Tarquin the tree frog,
Chuckles Lazy Day,
Giggles,
Boozy Chuckles.

There are pics of them all in my post below this one.

The full seven on the spiral whisper site are here.

There should be more going on very soon :)

Sorry to anybody that has been having trouble hopefully it will be sorted out soon. In the meantime if you just click on this link.
It will take you straight to them :)

I'd love to see anything you make with them BTW and pop them on my blog :)

Catch you all later

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More of my stamp sneeky peeks :)

Morning everyone :) Not feeling too good today, so just a quickie. Hopefully I'll be back on for another update later :)

Previews of three more stamps have just gone on the SW website for pre-sale release.

Firstly, there's 'Rock Star Chuckle Monkey'. Oh he does get silly when he's had a shandy or four LOL




Secondly, there's a new Chuckles and Giggles 'Coming Ready or Not' stamp. See if you can see where Chuckles is hiding. I think his huuuuuuuuuuge ears may give that one away (chuckle)


Last but not least there's a 'Tarquin the tree frog' stamp. Sorry for such a close up shot of him but he's a right poser and wouldn't pose any other way. Tree frogs, eh! You can't take them anywhere LOL



The other Chuckle and Giggle Monkey stamps are;

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh firstly where it all began. This first stamp is of Chuckle Monkey and Friends famous banana tree. It has been done as a stand alone stamp so that you can easily fit it into any other Chuckles and friends scene or just on it's own. Apologies for the missing bananas though (blush) Chhhuuuuuuuuucklessssssssssssssssss, ouch that hurt my throat. He's no where to be seen I think he must have slipped off for a sly smooch with Giggles (cheesy grin)




The stamp above below depicting a very typical lazy day for Chuckle Monkey. He is such a tinker. I am surprised that hammock hasn't collapsed with him in it. Look at all of those bananas he's filled his greedy face with LOL




Meet Giggle Monkey. Giggles is the ever doting girlfriend to Chuckles. You will be seeing lots more of her and them both together :) She can be adapted to cards, scrapbook layouts and other crafting projects. I’ll be making a card with her tonight and can't wait to get started.



Meet Boozy Chuckles. This Chuckle Monkey stamp would be great for a Birthday, Christmas or New Year celebration card/scrapbook layout and other projects. This pose was captured after a night out on the lash at his local watering hole. Oh the embarrassment (blush)



The new workshop has come to a stand still as my OH is back working away again. The frame and floor have been up since a week last Sunday so hopefully we can get to work on the roof when he's back. It's looking good though (wink) and measuring about four metres by three metres roughly, I think, scratches head. Oh I am so forgetful lately. Let’s just say it's big. Can't wait to get it finished and get all my power tools set up in there. I know I am very, very sad LOL and partition some of it off for a dark room and to put the kiln in. Toying with the fact of getting a potters wheel too. Going to take the kids to our local craft centre this week or next I think to throw a few pots. Will need to take my DD with me for directions though as I am hopeless without the sat nav and my OH has it. I need one, stamps feet.

Anyhoo, I have rambled on again when I said I wouldn’t so I'm off to wrestle with putting Pickles ball pit and tent up for him.

I hope that everybody is well and having a lovely day and (hugs) to those who aren't or can't :)


Cheers ears :)

Slideshow of some of my work