Wed-nesday?

Bear with me with these daily snippets,

my head is not in blog mode just yet...

You may have seen this softie before. A Wedding Cake request from a friend and a sewing theme I will be following again soon...

The past few months I have been indulging my inner princess with lots and lots of wedding planning.

We have set the date for March next year

and found a lovely english garden to be married in.

I have fallen for many of the gorgeous wedding sites and all the handmade touches to add to special days.

I have saved and sourced a million little pretties.

But before I go on I want to ask, 

would you like me to share?

It won't be too much I promise, just a post once a week or scarcer and the pretties, stationary, inspiration, sweet details and craftiness rather than seating plans and bridal nightmares.

Thank you all so much for stopping by,

you made me feel very welcome back!

xox

Hello old friend!

It's been like this for far too long but yesterday it changed...

Needles!

Felt!

Threads!

No room for diner at the dining table!

Actual crafty messiness!

I'm so excited to have my urge to sew back, oh how I miss it!

I missed you too and to get over my "umm...err...so many excuses" embarrassment of neglecting poor little blog here, I think a daily snippet may be called for...

And with that you'll see me tomorrow!

xox

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

It's so nice to be here...

After what feels like a very very long time indeed, I'm glad to say I'm back here at the little blog and after all the upheaval I'm being to feel myself again in a place I can finally call home...

We arrived at 'home' three little weeks ago after a very long drive and a car full of our random little things, still waiting for more to arrive. I've been busy nesting, make our first apartment into 'home' and doing a little exploring of this strange new place, but not much else. The little scene above is from the hallway - a little house thimble I found on ebay filled with tiny things (I have become obsessed with these since I saw this one and this one. I neeeeeed a large one too!), a mini calender from Danita Art on Etsy, a twig pencils with a forest dunny and this...

 

... a tiny little Ollie dog I found at the weekend to greet you at the door as I couldn't bring the real one.

Its nice to be home

and so nice to be back in blogland too...

Hope to see you soon!

xox

Cake and a catch up number 2...

Time for another little cake and a catch up...

After a little over a week of unpacking, I'm about ready to start all over again... with the packing that is *sigh*

The little craft room is becoming a travelling workshop of tiny suitcases and a sewing box, both in need of a very strict edit. It's so hard to chose my favouritest of all my favourite fabrics and buttons and what nots and lace! And all the stitched little samples and softies... I'm hoping to hold a quick little going away giveaway next week to find some of these things a lovely new home. Fingers crossed for a productive weekend!

Another thing to be packed away is the little shops as I become a travelling sales bunny. On Monday I will close the little doors for a month as I make my big move, so this will be the last weekend if you did wish to treat yourself to a little something and I will be adding little extra thank you gifts to all orders :-)

I'll be seeing you next week for another catch up and hopefully that giveaway!

Squirrelled away in packing boxes...

Today is the first of my two house moves. 

All is going well and in this little quiet moment I thought I'd say hello and make a little list of my favourite things about here before I go...

Lovely neighbours,

having a little wood at the bottom of the garden

and garden thats always seems sunny (thats just how I'll remember it, probably not too true...)

And the lovely woodland folk who pass by, including my favourite pair of cheeky squirrels...

I couldn't leave without stitching a little momento

See you all soon!

Hope you are having the loveliest day!

xo