Need time and motivation

Hello readers

Havent written much on this blog for a while, mainly life has gotten in the way. Family, illness, work, moving, tiredness, lack of motivation etc etc I could go on forever.

So February and March will be planning something new.

I have been blogging on and off on my garden blog  http://lifebeginsinagarden.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2016-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=2

Please take a look if your interested in gardens and plants or just want a general nosey.

Gardening

Another passion, hobby of mine is gardening. So to expand on it I have started a gardening blog with tit bits, facts and what I have been up to in my garden.

Please take a look ..                  Life begins in a garden

Union Jack Monkey

For my 'big sister' to take back to New Zealand 

New friends

Little monkey friends for Lucy and Sophie  in New Zealand. Hope they like them 

Monkeys creating monkeys

Rebecca and Freya wanted to make their own monkeys so we spent the afternoon doing just that. 

Proud owner and stitcher Rebecca 

The proud owner and stitcher Freya

The finished items. Pretty good I think. 

The concentration of Rebecca while mastering sewing with a machine. 

Likewise Freya concentrating while sewing on the machine. 

Sewing the monkeys arm on. 

My sisters Christmas Monkey

Made for my little sister 

Christmas day

Merry Christmas everyone xxx

Christmas is nearly upon us

Christmas puddings are finished just making the last pretty touches covers for the top. My clever mummy made some last year and I have copied how she made them. Adds that touch of Christmassy 

More sock creatures

They could be monkeys or just friendly

Monsters 

Toothy

Another Christmas present made

A tractor digger blanket for tommy keep him warm and snuggly

Christmas pudding

There's nothing quite like the taste of homemade Christmas pudding. Here's the first cooked pud of 2013. 

Winter monkey

It's getting a bit nippy out there gets the Nippy monkey wrapped up with her hat and scarf

First batch of Christmas pudding mixture

My second monkey

This is Oscar's monkey for Christmas, just got to give him some ears 

Eva' Christmas blanket

Fleece on one side and a lovely soft purple fleece the other 

Freya's Christmas present

She wanted a sock monkey so I thought I'd give making one a go 

Just eyes and one ear to see on and then wait until Christmas to hopefully be enjoyed

Continuing with the Tash

Have picked up with my project for Rebecca's Christmas present, the fabric is tricky and driving me nuts! Ahhhhh

Well it's finished. 

It's ok, not exactly how I expected it to turn out looked better in my head. I hope it's recipient likes it. Won't know until Christmas. 

Christmas presents

Yes, unfortunately you read that correctly I am thinking about Christmas presents that I can sew. The first project is a moustache pillow for my partners niece. Omg there are do many different styles out there. So first point of call was to get the niece to draw half a moustache of her liking. I then cut this out and drew around it on a separate piece of card. I also cut this that shape out and stuck them together.

It starting to look like a moustache 

So the next challenge is to cut out the fabric, this could be a big hurdle to get over. The fabric curls under as I was trying to pin it. Aaaahhhhh! 

Spider make up bag

Made a 'spider' large make up bag for my little sister. Fabric- Halloween themed black with silver spiders and webs outside and soft red inside. Rather smart I think