Playtime...

I've been out! Woohoo! After 2 weeks of illness and nasty snow weather I actually went out last night to see my friend, Rich, who is an artist. He has a new studio and we hung out and drank tea and I had a little reality break and we got immersed in arty stuff which I love. He did some body painting on my wrist which looked like a big cut! He's so clever and used to do make up and prosthetics for TV and films, so we laughed a lot and I sent this pic to my friend who thought I had nearly severed my wrist! Ahhh... the fun we have! My mom actually thought I'd had an allergic reaction to the paint when I showed her, it was that good!

Rich painting my wrist...


The finished result... eww!


I'm a bit obsessed with Love Hearts at the moment and keep taking pictures of relevant ones and sending them to people. Just as little reminders. :) If you eat too many they make you feel sick though so I have to ration myself. All that fizz is no good for you!


AND... P's second tooth has come out! Hurrah! It's been holding on by a hair for days and last night it came out before bed. She was VERY excited as you can tell by her expression and the Tooth Fairy was very kind and left £1, which she promptly spent on sweets today after school as a treat... a bit silly really, but she loved spending her own money.


I've been busy with fascinators and have two of the same style, Jessica, to finish making and post on. One is silver with silver and springbud green feathers on a comb, and one is pebble and ivory which is half made, and will be on a band. Everything is hand rolled and sewn so these take a bit of time to do, and are quite fiddly but I love them and they look so cute! Both are for weddings.


I've had a request to do a fascinator for a lady who is going to a wedding in Scotland and she wants to incorporate the family tartan into the design so that will be lots of fun to make. I'll keep you posted.

AND... ALL THE SNOW IS GONE! Yippeeee!! I can actually get back on track with my plans now without feeling like I have cabin fever and am stuck in the house!!

My new motto... "Say NO to snow" (although it is beautiful)

:)

N x

The Toothless Wonder

How exciting! P's first tooth has fallen out! She is officially called Gappy now (which she hates!) and looks hilarious, but so cute! Thank goodness it didn't fall out before the wedding or the photos would have been ones to remember with her grinning her head off with a big gap! I can remember when she got that tooth. It seems so long ago now, and this feels like a bit of the end of an era and she's growing up so fast.


I've not felt well this week. There's a few bugs going around here and both my parents and Kris have really bad colds and aren't well at all. I've just been really tired and felt under the weather so seem to have slept lots and lots.

I've managed to do nearly all of my Christmas shopping but have it all to wrap up now which will be good as I'll remember what I've actually bought people. P, as usual has too many presents but her main presents this year are a new bike off Nanny and Grandad and some inline skates from Grandy (great grandad). She'll be happy with all of that and it's all a surprise. I have a letter from Santa that I've written and put in the fireplace for her to find tomorrow morning which should be fun. We have a real open fire so Santa really can come down our chimney!!

Her Christmas play at school was so great and she was a light. Not typical Nativity, but she had a glowstick and sang a song which was so cute. I videoed it all and can't wait to watch it again.

My fascinator that I made for Somerset was the wrong colour when my customer received it. It wasn't the right match with her outfit (the colour match on her computer screen was different to mine which can sometimes be an issue) so I made at her request the same fascinator but in black and she's thrilled with that so I'm really pleased.


Ed, my friend, is a photographer and runs workshops teaching other budding photographers how to shoot models. He was running one last weekend with a Christmas theme and asked me to make him a huge Santa sack so that he could photograph Chaana his model coming out of it. It was so much fun to make and ended up being enormous! Here's the results with him modelling superbly!


I've also made a couple of other felt tree ornaments and finished off my friend Jo's requests for a felt brooch and a crystal headband for presents for her to give family which has been fun making. The Happy Tree is for my friend Rick (made up to emulate the Happy Trees that one of my favourite bloggers and shop owners Paper and String makes). I always joke he's miserable so this is to put on his desk at work to remind him to cheer up, the robin is for Mom and Dad.


I'm still knitting my Rudolph toy for P and just have the arms, ears and antlers to do now then have to make it up and stuff it and hopefully he'll be ready for Christmas day! Here he is in bits, body, head and two legs. Poor thing!


Finally I found this on my computer when I switched it on the other day. I really do love being a mommy :)


N x