Back To Basics

Thank you again for sending so much love for my brave boy.  

I was rather peturbed that more than one member of my family thought the clown in the top photo of the previous post was ME! I like to think they meant her smiley face - but fear it may have been her outfit!

Kenzie is still doing well and is loving all the attention. 

Meanwhile little brother GB is obviously lacking attention - as he came downstairs at the weekend looking like THIS:

He had even gone to the trouble of painting the inside of the cotton wool red, so that when he pulled it out it looked like it was soaked in blood! What a boy....

Anyway, enough of the hospital talk - back to my staple blog diet (boys, crochet and blocks!)

Here is the message I found on my bathroom door this morning

Not exactly the chic sign my bathroom deserves!

I'm such a crochet sheep - I lurch from blanket, to jar cosy, to scarf to... frankly,  whatever anyone else is making. 

I realised pretty quickly that anything that took patience more than one night wasn't for me, so have recently become obsessed with neck warmers (3 WIP's but nothing to show!) and more recently Amigurumi. 

Inspired by Victoria I set to, making a teeny tiny rabbit for my gorgeous neice Mabel. Except it didn't end up small - it was bloomin' massive!

Cute though.

I didn't expect (1 year old) Mabel to want to actually play with it - but got a text from Nelly saying 

"Mabes loves her rabbit - she's currently chewing the buttons....

hope your handy work holds up"

Yikes!

Anyway - undeterred I tried again - 

this time a teeny weeny mouse. 

And it worked!

Its been a busy few weeks in the chipper shop and I've had some lovely commissions to keep me even busier. These ones were for Claire, who was inspired by Annies recent giveaway!

Claire requested some coordinating blocks in duck egg blue, pale green and mulberry pink, with words that have meaning for her.

They made a lovely collection:

I also made some for Annie! In colours to match her 

beautiful blog....

 

Finally - some blog shares in case you've missed them

Over at decor8 there are some brilliantly clever ideas for ways to use your instagram images (love the stickers!)

...and at oh, hello friend Danni has a beautiful calendar screensaver on her current post:

 ...there's still time to enter 

Susan's scrumptous giveaway here:

where you can win fabric, ribbon, yarn, buttons....

 ...and lastly, in the quest to fill the picnik gap, I'm still loving picmonkey - but also ipiccy, which already has the good old collage option!

That's it. 

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