Flowers for Abby ...

Flowers is trotting over to Abby's house now ...

We love Swaps!

did I ever tell you we love swaps? we do a lot of trading ... Daisy really likes our latest acquisition too!



Check out my friend's other sculptural animals at http://www.etsy.com/shop/zfla, and enjoy your visit xxxx

good bye reg and greg ...

well even if it is very cold at the moment reg and greg can keep each other warm

they are off to the craggy moor

and a little sheep in her pyjamas is on her way to our house!

plush team plush swap ....

we went out to play today and when we came home we found a small box in the porch ...



so we came inside with it and i made lots of toast, then opened the box - i spy fabric, a wrapped present and some little green frogs ...



i love the message on this sticker !



and all wrapped up, a special hedgehog pincushion made by amy, aka squirrel momma, just for me! and now mary can say hedgehog ! thank you amy, i love it, and thanks for asking about my poorly babies too ... xxx



there were also some small frogs to play with, one for daisy ...



one for matty ... we like frogs, she says !



and one for little mary ....

look-a this NAIL, mummy!

this picture is for caroline



i have some pieces of paper based on 8 by 8 and 4 by 8 shapes on my dining table ...
how i love to trade ... caroline is making some things that will have daisy and matty singing!

run, run as fast as you can ...

remember that little pink giraffe who was walking all the way to louisiana?
well she finally got there ... here are some new friends sent from cathy gaubert but who have since split up and taken refuse in unknown corners of the house!



cathy send some other goodies too which i hope to turn into cute things soon ... thanks for the trade cathy ... we got there!

a certain raspberry giraffe left my hands today ....

if this image were an album cover, what would the music be?

giraffe thinks, 'is louisianna very far?'...

swap dogs arrived !

our parcel from http://www.uniqart.blogspot.com/ arrived, how exciting. i swapped a giraffe for these little knitted dogs. i will never be able to knit, i cant knit scarf kits aimed at 7 year olds !



just the right size for little hands, mary-baby won't get hers untill she is no longer a suck-and-chew monster ...

caroline even gave us a basket that they can all sleep in together, so that was a nice surprise, i did think it was a hat at first, but only for a second, honest!

swap giraffe is ready ...

this is a swap giraffe for caroline, of uniqart

http://uniqart.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-dogs-blue-potatoes.html

as you can see, she made something really nice for all my littlest girls, altho mary will beed to be a bit bigger before she gets hers (mary ate part of a magazine the girls left in reach last night!)

i have shared a picture of the giraffe's bottom, because caroline said it had really nice back legs ...

Oh Blogger - I've Been Tagged!

but as i am always running around trying to catch up with things i am not going to do it, but feel free to read connie's (clothmatters), who tagged me, and do one your self if you like ... it just takes me ages to do a nice hot link, imagine pasting and fiddling with 5 friends!

and in the middle of making that lobster costume i got tagged by caroline of uniqart to do the '8 things' thing, and i loved the way she did hers with a blog entry and pic for each thing. my favorate was a lovely pic of her daughter. but of course in the middle of the lobster costume it was all sew, sew, sew followed by looking after my babies, and i hadly answered any emails and posted just enough so you wouldn't forget me!

anyway - in the spirit at least of being tagged - thanks connie and caroline for picking me ... anyway - im just going off to upload 8 pictures which will also be a bit of a 'round up', since after finnishing that lobster i 'crashed' and have felt rather ill ...

said good bye to my L reg fiesta at the end of last month ... we covered many hundered miles together and i will miss her. she was the first car bought just for me !!! and no - i didn't break it ....

a canadian fan of my work - i am soon about to make something really special for him, guy named chris :-)

a rat bag that was delayed by sea creatures got a lovely unique lining the other week, before being sent off in the mail ...

i make all my children help me with house work ... daisy is fond of putting knickers on her head even tho i say they are knickers, and not a hat ....

three blank canvases i need to get painted and collaged for phil in london .... soon ...

some ceramic painting i did with louise - she gave the striped mug to grandad-gerald for his borthday and he said he liked it ... we even have to fire them in the oven 24 hours after painting and it came out nice and shiney not brown and burned like i thought it would ...
the babies watching a man take down the corner post, and re-build it, to make my driveway wider for a newer car, last week ....
some goregous girls that arrived in the post last week - i swopped with tantehilde - aren't they sweet and summery? like the summer we havent had ....