weekly challenge, but more chatting tbh - part 5!

[lucykate]

ready, steady, go...!

oh my god - i wasn't drunk when i did the bad post - i sound like an old lush

I'll come and take your pics if you come clean my hovel!!

Ooh, a shiny new thread ..
Have blogged our day out at Royal Ascot yesterday so no crafting to share.
Had a lovely day but OH my poor feet !!!!

Life just keeps getting in the way of my plans!!!It's hubbys 40th tomorrow and nothing is done!

Plans for today (for what they are worth)

Get kiddies to school DONE
Collect pressies hidden at my mums house DONE
Home- hot shower DONE
Colour hair (MUST cover the grey LOL)DONE
Wrap pressies DOING!
Make card for my mum & dad to give to DH
??????whatever I can fit in
Straighten hair
Put on a bit of make up!!! (only because of interview!)
Collect children
Interview
Make dinner
Collapse in heap with a glass of wine.

not done any crafting today... right now fending off DS' tuna sandwhich from maurading pirate cats. He is beign all cuddly and not wanting to go out or do anything today so its lunch and we havent stepped out the door...

I have to sort out some jewellery for the framing shop for tommorow and I'm in a slight tizzy... also have to print out some sort of temp cards... or description of what the bracelets are made of once I have gone through and decided on some... arghhhh

need to

finish kitchen swap
finish russian doll swap
paint pages
stain more pages ready for painting
order toggles (but thats on hold as I had to order the moo cards and now only have a bit of money left for craft related things)
run around in foul mood CHECK
drink copious amounts of coffee CHECK but I need more

i've only been up for half an hour!
but i'm now designing my russian doll swap!
hope to get it done for weekend as we are off to Majorca at end of the month - yipee!
my dd isn't coming so but happy for the rest of us.

Argh, I feel ill. I think I have a virus or something. I did the final fitting for the ballgown this morning, which went ok, except the waist is a little bit big (better than too small though!) so I need to adjust that and sew the hem.

I'm now working on my Kitchen Swap (I've got Driftwood) but I am totally out of ideas - I've got teatowels and I'm doing applique on them, but aside from teacups and cupcakes (which, though appropriate, seem a bit tame), I can't think of what else to do ... teatowels are a pale wedgewood blue ... anyone any suggestions? Would be gratefully received!

Still not sorted wedding pics - dh has put them on the computer but I just can't face transferring the ones I want [pathetic emoticon]

miaou, what about vegatables?, i've seen some printed fabric with pea's and carrots on it with little eyes, arms and legs, really cute

That had crossed my mind actually ... (at about 3am when I couldn't sleep ) - I think I might go with that!

Will have a think and do some sketching ... !

A set of spoons in increasing sizes?:-
teaspoon
table spoon
dessert spoon
Wooden spoon
Serving Spoon
Cake spoon (Mahhooooosive!!!)

a pale blue would be a nice background for red, you could do tomatoes, peppers, chilli, radish etc

mmmmm ... what great ideas you two!!! Lovely

I'm still here you notice though Must get off my bum and do something!

Finally got my bum into gear and blogged my wedding pics plus some other things we did whilst away! And have now created a template to do a red pepper design on one of my teatowels. Thanks for the heads up on that one LK! (still quite taken with the utensils idea but decided to do them all on one theme this time!)

found you, phew!!!

Meri - congrats on cuteable!!! That's great news.
Dizzy - congrats on being auntie Dizzy, I love the name too.

VV i really want to know what you withdrew....hmmm, did you get some tat in the post?

I have now finished the russian dolls for my swap, just need to mail them out. What else? Oh, I am still slogging away at ginger's quilt, but I've run out of patterned fabrics now, and am waiting on some more to arrive (one day) so I am just sewing black spotty hexs, which is making my eyes go all funny.

Oh gingermonkey - I was after some black and white spotty fabric (probably white with black spots, small but not polka dots) - where would be a good place to look, can you tell me? I get really lost looking for fabric on the web.

And thank you for your kind comments on my outfit (and mistypeaks too!) - I don't "do" fashion but I do like to look nice, and was very pleased with the way it turned out. What can I say, it's very "me"!

LOL...well as days go, it went pretty much to plan!

Get kiddies to school DONE
Collect pressies hidden at my mums house DONE
Home- hot shower DONE
Colour hair (MUST cover the grey LOL)DONE
Wrap pressies DONE
Make card for my mum & dad to give to DHDONE
??????whatever I can fit inNOTHING
Straighten hair DONE
Put on a bit of make up!!! (only because of interview!)DONE
Collect childrenDONE
Interview DONE
Make dinner DONE (by DH may I add-what a darling!)
Collapse in heap with a glass of wine. GULP

Trying to do a few more things I planned for hubby, but I am not holding out much hope now!

Miaou - here has lots of cotton in different spot combinations

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have blogged stuff

I'm on cuteable!!!! Loook loook loook!!!!

here!!!!

Dingle - I hope the interview went well. Happy Birthday to Mr Dingle (ooh that sounds a bit rude!)

heeeeelllllllppp.. in panic mode I'm supposed to take some bracelets (5) and some necklaces (5) into the framing gallery in town but I have like two niecklaces as the rest have sold and I have no toggles to make more till next week.. my moo cards don't arrive till next week... and I don't know what to do.. she is a lovely lady and a friend of DH so worried I will let her down by beign a ditz and me..

I thought maybe in would print out a list of what the bracelets are.. the semi-precious gemstones...

oh and I got accepted to spoonflower so not sure what to do about that... I can't sew but I jsut thought it would be cool to have some fabric of soemthing I designed... its $5 for a swatch to be made or $11 for a fat quarter... If I decided on anything I may need the use of somones sewing expertise... sorry.

I may be wittering now..

Meri - Ref:- The fabric. I don't think any of the sewers on here would have the slightest problem with using a 'designer' fabric!!
With the jewellery take in 5 bracelets and the necklaces you have, and the list of other stuff. Explain to her that your 'packaging' is yet to arrive and subsequent jewellery will be packaged like this - and take in a representation of what the moo cards are like?

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misty-- thank you.. its jsut i'm so crap at selling myself... I know i sell myself short most of the time its jsut how I am.. i'm going to give her 12 bracelets and 1 necklace.. and let her choose what she wants for the shop.. I think I will charge a flat rate evened out except for the 1 necklace... as all the materials involved in makin the would come in at around £3 or so per bracelet... I have to have a natter with her about it... will allso bring in some painted pages to get one framed for matt...

now i jsut have to struggle to get the printer out from under the stairs and figure out how to install the disk for printing once i find it.. then find paper... arghhh

miaou--- well done you! I love your little amurigami (sp) they are so cute.. the flapper one is still my favourite though... so much to catch up on.