ATC

This gives you some idea how small it is... Sorry, Maud wanted everyone to know that she's small and compact too...

This is an ATC that I made about 4years ago and has been sitting in my sewing box all this time.  I knitted the little jumper on some fairy needles. The needles in the picture are made from cocktail sticks and a couple of wooden beads. A crystal at the end, a few pink beads and the ball  of wool - cotton wrapped around a bigger bead. I loved it so much, I couldn't part with it.  It is 9cm by 6.5cm... tiny...

Fairy Wishes

My gorgeous daughter sent me a letter with this lovely drawing that is supposed to me. Cheers.... sorry I haven't been around for a few days... I'm sick... not enough to take to my bed and stay there, but sick enough to drag my sorry carcass around and do things that have to be done.. like go to work... then come home and flop into bed with heated wheat bag, tissues, cough mixture and paracetamol. Never mind Mother Goose, I've doing my  dying swan impression.... hopefully tomorrow I will be back on form.... hope all of you are well...

The girls are in their boxes......

I little bit of tinsel .... and..

The girls are as snug as a bug in a rug...

Ready for tomorrow to give to my friends... Maud is happy too, four less Fluffy Muffins round the office...

Maud in the smoke room....

The orange one is the one that got baked on a too hot oven, thanks to Maud. The green one is thankfully ok. Maud was rugby tackled and dealt with. Fluffy Muffin is beginning to learn....

Fluffy Muffin got the girls to put Maud in the smoke room. Sound proof too.... he he he...

Everyone say "Cheese" or "O"

 

He was inspired by the Fimo Staedtler site. His insides are foil and yes he is a Cork Stopper. Just a little stocking filler.

Hope your day was better than mine... I got snowed in.. and to top it all I'm coming down with the lurgy.. sore throat, shivers... just want to go to bed and drift off to Happy Dream Land... or Blank Nothing will do too.... sniff sniff... I'm really pathetic when I'm sick.... sorry.  May you all be warm and toasty and free from lurgy....

Smokin......

The "Clonettes"... more like the "Smokettes". It doesn't show up that well on the photo but the girls are all little grubby, the faces are splotchy too.  Maud decided to light that darned cigar while I was baking. She also turned the oven up to high. So my poor little Smokettes who were destined for Christmas pressies will now be glitterfied and hung on my tree. Maud is in a foul mood, coz it means there will be MORE Fluffy Muffin looky likeys round the office....

Shouldn't pollute the Air

Happy Birthday Mum...

It's my mum's 70th Birthday today... can't believe the number.. she looks really great for her age. I bought her a beautiful bracelet and the gift wrapping was pathetic... so I made my own heart box, thanks to  and a little mouse card. The mouse is made from http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/free-gift-box-templates.html a page from the telephone directory. (Mouse instructions from www.origami-club.com/en). The mouse sheet is 150mm x 150mm sorry don't have the inches. A little bit of ribbon and heypresto he's ready for a dinner party. The box that Mr Mouse is sitting on is made from the top of a Lipton's tea box that I recovered with paper. 

It was all easy peasy cheap and cheesy and made with lots and lots of Love... Hope she doesn't look at my blog, coz she ain't getting her pressy and card till tomorrow night....

Last Day.....AEDM... Advent Calendar

My daughter made this for me and sent it in the post. It's an advent calendar. She's at Uni in England and I hate not being in contact with her on a daily basis. When I haven't heard from her in a few days I start to imagine allsorts.... her response is always.. Mother Goose don't fret the Aliens came and took me off in their spaceship.. and everyone knows that Aliens don't have mobile phones or internet....derrrr...

I have really enjoyed AEDM, seeing what all you talented people are upto and receiving some lovely comments on my blog and making new friends.... can't wait for the next one and hope I catch up with all of you again soon.... May all your wishes come true...Catherine x

Windmills

Windmills, there are lots of beautiful windmills where I live in the Charente-Maritime (France), unfortunately most of them are in ruin. Thankfully there are one or two in full working order. The fascinating facts about our mills: the roofs are made of wood and turn with the help of a long poll and once a upon time a donkey, so that the sails can be turned to the prevailing winds. There are two doors into the mills, so if one door is blocked by the sails, the miller can go in through the other door. I pass several on my way to work every day...they remind me of fairy tales and the other day I thought of Rapunzel : then I had a horrible thought... what would happen if Rapunzel got nits... 

Autumn Leaves

I loved the colours and shapes of these leaves, especially the second one in, a red leaf with yellow splotches which are much brighter in real life. The kids at school brought them in for our leaf project, so I have no idea from which tree it comes. I had found these little rhymns plus the leaves and "Hey Presto" leaves that became trees...

Where has everyone gone...!

 

I finally finished it late last night...99 100.  I had things stuck on the other side of the pages, so when I started shading in the trees, I got a bumpy effect like tree bark. For once a happy surprise.

I started this a couple of days ago and still haven't finished it... Will post it again when finished... There really isn't enough time in a day...   Have a good weekend everyone....