Back to Normal

Things are all back to normal in our house! The 2 legged kids are back to school and the 4 leggeds have decided that as it is a bit nippy out, they will stay in bed all day.

After some time of having all my buttons carefully split into different coloured bags that I would have to tip out everytime I want to find a button, I decided to use my gorgeous Scottie tin to keep all my buttons in. I'm really loving having a good rummage through all my buttons.

I've not been quite on the crafting front, I'm just midway through a beading project. Actually Adam the Scottie has been slowly ticking over for some time now, as I was only working on him at my beading club, BUT he is getting very close to being finished. I just need to bead his head and add some furnishings and then I will reveal him in all his glory. In the meantime, here is a sneak peak at an early picture of his evolution.

That darn dog!!

Nothing is innocence personified quite like a Ridgeback with threads in it's mouth. Not content with getting her nose everywhere yesterday today Quizzy dog (she's not behaving like a Star at the moment!) stole 2 skeins of thread whilst I was getting a cuppa. Then in the middle of sewing the lovely blue bird you can see pictured, I suddenly came to a halt as my thread was caught on something - the something was her teeth!!! She's worse than a toddler. By comparision the real children were exceedingly well behaved - I didn't hear a squeak out of them all afternoon.

Still have some embroidery to do on blue bird, but hopefully I'll be able to show off his completed wing tomorrow.

Happy New year!

After 10 days of virtually non-stop decluttering the whole house in preparation for redecorating, I'm burnt out tidying, so today I settled down to do some crafting. Actually the little Scottie keyring I started last night, but only finished him today. With my studio (aka the spare room) in total disarray and my secondary studio (aka the sofa) taken up by children, I ended up working at my dining room table. This was far too interesting for Quizzy Dog so I ended up with a big brown nose inspecting what I was doing far too much!!

Yes I know she's not a Scottie (Ridgebacks are my hubby's breed of preference), but you can just see Jamie the Scottie in the corner of the picture.

I will be putting my New Year makes up in my Folksy shop later today, so drop by and have a look. http://folksy.com/shops/ScottiCreations