This weeks makes...

I'm loving this trio of colour...

Yes more flowers... this time making a garland...



This is the little doorstop I made, well prepared at the craft group, brought it home to sew... my machine stays firmly at home...

Needs filling... I didn't fancy cat litter, which the group was using, so put out a request for out of date pulses and have been offered some lentils and beans.. great!

Sadly no one was able to help me sort out my foot dilema, to enable me to use my Frister Rossmann cub 4 to do free style embroidery... so I've ordered a foot from Amazon and a book through the library... so fingers crossed!

When I tried without a foot, feed dog down, the bottom thread just didn't want to join in at all...

All very frustrating... it really can't be that hard so if anyone out there can help???


Two little frogs also awaiting the pulse delivery...

On the subject of Frogs... my frogs up at the allotment spawned a couple of weeks ago.
My delight turned to dismay when the snow/ freeze then happened thus killing all the frog spawn...

In years gone by I have found that if one removes this dead spawn, which if left in the pond goes yucky  it does more often that not encourage the frogs to repeat the process... and the birds seem to gobble up the dead stuff...

The frogs in my little garden haven't got round to it yet...


I love this time of year... new life... sowing seeds.. all much later this year but baby mange toute coming up to say hello

and the tomatoes will be ready to be potted up soon...

Wish it would stop raining though... my garden is rather boggy again...

I am have a little gathering on Sunday...

Play and Make with Tea and Cake  and it would be so lovely if it could spread outside too... it will be very cosy if not...


Thanks for popping by...
Till next time
Smiles Cass x

Vintage arrivals...

Hello again!

Oh what a week full of goodies arriving...
To cheer up a rather cold spell...

First to arrive was my vintage fabric Swap from the lovely Joanne from Revamped Vintage, you can find her blog here...

We were partnered up via Ada of vintagesheetaddict.blogspot.co.uk/

I hope to make a lampshade from each of these lovely bits above...
My plans keep changing for the bit below...

After a good soak this beauty is vibrant again and I just love it!


and some sweet little handmade paper birdies...

THEN a much awaited box arrived from NewYork via Etsy...

After another good soak in ecover bleach....

























This beautiful 50's dress, lovely full skirt with the sweetest homemade flowers at the shoulder and cute bees to die for...

This was a real treat, paid for with paypal credit from selling a couple of things on ebay...

So what else has been happening... well thanks to the very talented Lucy of http://attic24.typepad.com/ 

I have been making crochet flowers from recently found yarn...


I can't really believe I can actually crochet!!

Well flowers anyway... granny squares next...

I also found this 70"s pattern yesterday on ebay so am waiting for it to arrive so I can make my first dress...

and I have another Swap to think about this time via Bobo Bun I am paired up with the lovely Nancy from Canada... a long way away maybe but we find we have a great deal in common...


So I feel content, the sun is out, I have washing being blown about on the line, first time this year so all is well...

The week before was a different story... cd player broke... both headlights stopped working on the car (on the way home in the dark!) and the fridge freezer died... always in threes eh always in threes...


Smiles Cass x