I'm Still Here!

I know it's been a while since my last post but I just don't seem to have been in the writing mood. Lots as been going on at home and we have also been over to Spain for a few days. W e thought that was going to be a holiday but we worked harder than if we were at home. We had tiles blew off the roof, gate fallen off, and weeds as tall as me, oh and a palm tree that had gone wild. We also had to do a bit of painting which is not an easy job in the heat! Once all this was complete we decided to put the Villa up for sale, along with the hundreds of other properties! We have had it for 5 years now but seem to use it less and less.

Before we went away I did manage to do quite a bit of sewing, mostly clothes for myself but as usual I have no photos to show you yet. I need to get the machine out again as my Folksy shop is looking a little empty, had a couple of sales whilst we were away.

Jacko had to go to the hospital on Monday evening to have some images taken of the front of his eye to see if he had got Keratoconus, they were able to diagnose it there then. We now have to wait to see if it can be treated by the use of a hard contact lens or a cornea implant. I hope it will be the contact lens.

New Bag, New Award

Last week I was given this lovely award by Amy. Do have a look at Amy's blog as she writes some very interesting posts, especially about here how she copes with her illness.

Here are the rules:

Link to the giver – link to the ones you give to, and give them to at least seven bloggers. Notify them of the award.I am going to give this award to...

Funkymonkey

Country Cottage Chic

Ramblings of an Every day Mom

KitschenSink

Cakes make the World A Better Place

Sykesssillysite

Indigo Blue

I love reading all the above blogs and having a peep at what they are making.

On the making front I have managed to make myself a bag out of Micheal miller fabric , 'Sundaes', which I love. I thought this bag would go with my jeans and it's handle is just big enough to pop on my shoulder out of the way. I got the pattern for it from here its a great blog full of lovely handmade items.

I have made another two sales in my Folksy shop last week so it is beginning to look a bit empty think it will be a while before I get any more items in there as I want to do some dress making for myself, we go away in a couple of weeks time and even though I have probably got enough clothes to take with me I still like to have a few new items to wear. Think this comes from when we were kids and Mom used to get us new clothes for our holidays and then the next lot of new clothes you got were at Christmas, not like our kids now who have things all the time.

Well I'm off to do some housework, how boring, I'd rather be sewing.

New Arrival

I've been busy this weekend embroidering cards for my Mom's friends new Grandson. It's their first Grandchild so they're over the moon.

I also made this covered address book for my friends Birthday.

I still have a phone case to make which I will hopefully get started on tomorrow.

Saturday morning Jack and myself went to have our eyes tested, Jack had said that he was struggling to read the board. My eyes hadn't altered but Jack has got to go and see a specialist as the optician thinks he has got Keratoconus, this is when the cornea grows cone shaped. Hopefully they can control it with the wearing of a hard contact lens, if not it may mean a cornea transplant. Hopefully we will know a bit more about it on Wednesday as we have managed to get an appointment with the specialist then (had to pay to get in this quick).

It Can't be Wednesday already!

I can't believe it's already Wednesday, where has this week gone to! Jack came home from uni for his Easter break on Saturday and along with him came quite a few loads of washing.

Monday was a day of constant washing and filling up washing lines (at least the weather was good enough to dry it outside) then Tuesday I ironed from 10 O'clock until 3, my legs were dropping off!

Today I have done a spot of baking and then out in the garden, I've cut the grass for the first time this year and put some new plants in the garden that have been waiting around for a few weeks. Oh and in between I did manage to list a few bags on Folksy which I had made a while ago.

I'm sure tomorrow will be just as hectic as I need a trip to Morrisons to fill the cupboards up and then I have a camera case order to make up and decide what to make my friend Jayne for her birthday next week.

Think I'm going to go and watch a bit of tv and put my feet up whilst I can.

I've Done It!! First Folksy Sale.

Sold

Couldn't believe my eyes this morning when I checked my Folksy shop and I had made a sale. I was over the moon. My first sale was one of my Digital Camera Cases, few more left if you want to take a look. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come!!

Birthday Giveaway Winner

Thanks for all your Birthday Wishes and now for the important bit, the winner of my giveaway as drawn out of the cup by hubby this morning (he had late start for a change) was Jayne @ Country Cottage Chic. If your reading this could you email me with your address so as I could get the items off in the post to you asap.

Embroidery Machine up and Running

Decided to do a spot of machine embroidery today, in between my Mom locking herself out and me having to go down and some how try to get her back in. She was cleaning the car outside and don't ask me how it happened but the garage door decided to lock its self and she had left the chain on the front door so couldn't get back in. I managed to find an old hack saw blade that we could just about get through the gap and saw the chain off. I don't think my Dad was too pleased when she phoned and told him, Mom had been digging at the door with a screwdriver and so lets say there's a few bits of wooden door frame missing.

Back to the machine embroidery, hope you like them, thought the tea towel would be good for Mother's Day. I have listed them on Folksy but don't hold your breath cause it seems very slow on there. Needs a lot more PR work to get it up to Esty standards I think.