puppies and aprons with tie strings...sounds like the sound of music!

It was my Nana's 70Th birthday the other day which we went down to celebrate at the weekend. Ellen and I really wanted to make her something nice so a couple of weeks ago we spent a few nights making this apron for her.

It's a bit of an heirloom really as all the fabric and skill needed to make this came from my Nana! She helped Ellen ages ago to make the patchwork which at the time was meant for a wall hanging and Nana taught me how to do the blanket stitch which you can see on the string ties. Even the thread and sewing machine we used was once Nana's!

We each embroidered our initials in the corners as well to make it a bit more personal. Overall she was chuffed to bits with it and we even managed to make her cry. The trouble we have now though is that she won't use it for the job it was designed for because she doesn't dare get it dirty!! Fair do's I guess!

An update on how Jenna's doing. She went to the vets yesterday and he was happy with the recovery she'd made whilst home. He gave her a thorough check with the stethoscop-e and was happy with the results of that so thankfully didn't need an x-ray or anything.

She's completely back to her normal self now and is being very cheeky!

1st of March but a heck of a lot happened last month!

I'm back and this time, I'm determined to make it 'for good' so to speak I promise!!

Things have been going great with my puppy... well sort of!

I've only had her a month and already she's had to have two big trips to the vets. The first trip was because of an accident involving a certain wiggy waggy tail and a door. Yep, you can guess what happened there can't you! So that turned out expensive because she needed an operation to put stitches in. And just this weekend whilst we were away for a family party, Jenna took a really bad turn and suddenly required lots care. What with it being Sunday evening, she went and stayed at the vets house but he later had to take her to the surgery for a better check out as she had worsened by the late evening. He did an operation on her to insert a camera down her lungs. Anyway he found that she had fluid or a blood clot on her lungs so that needed lots of treatment and x-rays.

It was so sweet when we went to collect her today though. We went in and found her in one of the cages lying flat out all sorry for herself. When she saw it was me, she literally just jumped into my arms and gave me a big lick and hug. This little reunion actually made my mum cry!!

In other news, I have actually managed to make a start on the Amigurumi I was talking about. I've started off first making a monkey 'compa-nion'

for Cory! The head actually now has a body but because of everything that has happened in the last few days, I haven't gotten round to taking a picture of this development!

I hope you enjoy my blog again after that month off! I'm off to give Jenna her meds now so toodaloos!

Long time no see!

Hello!!

Yes I am still alive and my little puppy is doing well and keeping me on my toes all the time! As I predicted, with Jenna around I haven't had much time to do any crafts or anything. I've found the only thing I can properly do is to read so I've been doing that in any spare time I have. I'm reading a book called Eragon at the moment which I am thoroughly enjoying. For anyone who likes high fantasy I would really recommend it.

Plans to start crafting again are underway though so hopefully I'll be posting regularly again. I've found a craft that is quick to do so that sounds perfect for the time span I have right now! It's called Amigurumi which is the art of crocheting cute little animals or inanimate objects. I'm still fairly new to crocheting so I've bought a book on how to do it and a book called Amigurumi World. So looking forward to them coming through my letter box soon!

These are examples of Amigurumi which I think look so cool! The possibilities on what to do are endless! Please click to enlarge in order to see them better!

Knitting books and my puppy pictures!

I got this knitting book the other week. It has lots of cute patterns to knit including some bunnies which I thought would be perfect for up and coming Easter. The idea I had is to make as many I can and sell them to raise money for charity. This is an idea under 'early development' at the moment so I'm not quite sure I'd sell them. Maybe at Church or the Christian book shop. And also, now that Jenna is now home with me, it means that most of my day is spent looking after her. I don't know how many I'll get to make so I may have to postpone the knit for charity till Jenna is more mature. This also means that I might not post on my blog as often as I did too so bare with me if this is the case! I'll try to post as often as possible I promise!! I'm having so much fun having Jenna here! She's such a joy to be able to focus on and look after. I took her to the vets today for her vaccinations and she was as good as gold. The vet even said that I had a good dog there and that she was lovely. Here are some pictures of her at home!!

Wall mural

I've had an idea in my mind for ages and ages now that I wanted a mural in my room. It's something to add in there to make the room extra awesome. I love robots and my family so I thought what better than to portray them as robots!

I'm really happy with how it turned out as it was just what I had in my mind. I projected it on my wall to see how it would look and it looks so cool!

I don't know when I'm going to get it painted though what with a puppy to look after but I hope to do it when ever the time is right. I'll definitely post it when it's finished so watch out for that!

I'm am going to have it coloured by the way. I'm actually mid- way through doing this right now! As I'm sure you know by now, you can enlarge the image if you want a better look at it.

Preparations and slight confusion!

It feels like ages since I last posted but then I look at the date and realise it's only been a few days! Time is just going so slowly in this wait for Jenna!

I'm going to visit her tomorrow evening though so that's cool.

I went out yesterday and got lots of things for her! I bought a collar and lead (with no pink in it!!) and some toys and a bowl. We also got a puppy crate too but I think we got a bit confused as to who goes where!! Doesn't Peppa look proud of herself!

I've been getting up early too because a little puppy will be up with the birds no doubt!

I'm off now to help take two of the puppies I've been visiting off to the vets for their first injection now. I think three or four of them now have left to go to their new homes! It's sad that I won't see them anymore but at least I now have Jenna!! And one of the puppies is living just round the corner so I'll get to see that one grow up!

Exciting news!

Thought I'd let you guys in on some very exciting news!

I'm getting a puppy!!!!! Those of you who know, I've been aiming to get one called Jenna for ages now and I'm so happy to say that, I went to Ambleside and met her yesterday!

She's so gorgeous and when I was there, she was happy to just snuggle into me. The breeder says that she's her favourite puppy from the litter born because she's quiet and clever.

I'm going to take her home on Friday which gives me time to get everything prepared. In the meantime though, I'm off to visit her again on Tuesday I think so that should break up the time a bit! It's like christmas all over again!!

Now this I think is a post worthy enough of a few comments to let me know what you think of her!

Cory!!

My wonderful twin sis helped me to make an outfit for Cory today!

It's not knitted I know but I just found it so frustrating that I couldn't find any patterns to fit him. Maybe when I'm a more experienced knitter I give it another go. However, I haven't given up totally on the knitted clothes front. I'm knitting him a poncho so at least that's something. It's just a bit more simple that's all!

I have a weird thing for dungarees! I just love them! I think it's because you don't see many people wear them these days so it's just that bit more unique rather than wearing jeans and T's all the time. We had some denim going spare so Ellen helped me Tailor and sew. We used her sewing machine which is relatively unknown territory for me.

Ellen loves sewing machines and making clothes so it was really cool to make these dungarees together.

Let me know what you think of mine and Ellen's handiwork!!

Animation past and present

Thought I'd show you my first ever animation that I made a year ago and to contrast it, one I made today! The plasticine one features two characters called Waddles and Max. I may decide to do something with them in the future...who knows! You can see I was new to animation because the camera is all jerky! But I was luky with the lighting though. And the UFO was a bit of an expirement with a new way of animating. I found that I could draw lots of pictures using my wacom art tablet and then put them all on windows movie maker. As I say! It's an expirement so it needs a lot of work!!

Biscuits galore!

I've been baking today!!

I got a icing kit from my auntie for christmas. You can make biscuit shapes by using the specially shaped discs that come with it too. It's so much fun!! They make so many biscuits too. I used the recipe that my aunt gave me which was I think half of the recommended recipe and found it made no less than 75 cookies! It took me ages but fortunately they only take 6 minutes to cook so I was soon churning them out.

I can see that they would be great if you wanted a quick batch to make for someone. The recipe I got worked brilliantly too and Mum said that they were literally melt in mouth!

So thank you for the great present Elizabeth!!