Birds and Trees of long ago...

Okay, enough of the sniffling and back to the crafting...

and I do mean waaaay back...

...to Christmas in fact...

I know, eek!

As well as the Swallow pouch I posted a long long time ago, I also stitched up two other pouch from the wonderful Bend the Rules Sewing. The first is made from an amazing ikea bird and flower fabric I got a couple of years ago. When having my big craft room sort out, I discovered I am quite the hoarder! I have so much fabric that I am saving for a special thing yet never remember it when those something come along. I must learn to me less precious about fabrics and finding, wheres the fun of hiding them away! I'm sure I'm not the only one, right?

A present for a friend is always a good project for lovely fabric I find! And that what we have... with a scatter of bead stitched in to the pattern and a lovely puffy flower, 

which I discovered may lovely little trees as well...

This is one of my favourite things I stitched last Christmas.

It super simple but I just find it oh-so-cute...

Struggling to give it away (but I was good, I did to my dearest friend) I promised I would may something similar for myself and as I found the picture this morning one thing popped into my head...

'Ooh! Placements!'

So back I'll go to the Bend-the-Rules book as I'm sure there were lovely placement instructions in there.

There is some many lovely things in there, everyone should have it (or her other book which I bet is just as awesome and on my wish list)

First I need to unpack my little fabric suitcase and hope all the ingredients are in there...

Have lovely weekends and thank you for your sweetness!

xo

Change...

I spent some of the long weekend exploring and was lucky enough to come across a lovely beach.

Having no beach things with us, we just walked and doodled in the sand...

And around my feet I saw a familiar sight from a photo I posted almost a year ago to the day...

Familiar but not quite,

the same but different...

And that's kind of how I feel about everything right now. 

There are lots of things which feel like back home and where that is comforting, at the same time its a little bizarre and a lot to get my head around. Its the new place and the new life, its quite overwhelming and not as simple as I thought. I thought with the internet back I could slip back into to blogging and crafting but all the 'new' is stumping me a little...

Not that I'm complaining, how could I?

Just ummming and errring and hoping saying it out loud will help...

xox