Books and Bricks and Logs!

I have been tackling my garden, particularly my 'patio' (cough) or the bit where the sheds used to be. The log pile was sprawling, and wet in some places after the recent stormy nights ripped the plastic cover (which was ex birthing pool carpet covering!

The chicken girls were pleased with all the woodlice I unearthed for them!



thinking of the book I am working on this year, I started to sketch daisy and Mary sharing books on the sofa ... but Mary slithered down! Then I let Daisy colour in the drawing.



And Matty coloured in this cartoon I did of me and the girls on the sofa. She has helpfully created a neck, for my floating head! I am very tempted to work back into this with pen, and see what comes up!


My book idea has come from a 'game' we play together, so its lovely that we can all work on it together. Daisy can now read my writing if I try my hardest to be neat!

bags of them ..... a quick round-up ...

i make a lot of bags
i make them for ourselves and for presents ...

a bag to contain steves camera - which had to look a bit manly, so i went for war-time satchel influence ...



a bag to keep the cam corder safe, that steve got me a year ago just before mary popped out ...

a drawer full of bags, many of them keeping chargers and adapters from getting tangled up with each other, and steve's headphones ...

a bag for my sat nav to travel in ...
it matches a vintage dress i got from freecycle and actually wear :-)

a bag for matty and daisys xylophone and the two wooden beaters ... nice and girly and fully lined, this one!

a peg bag - do you have one, and was yours handmade? this one looks masculine as i made it while pregnant with twins and pegging out was definately steve's job !

an apple bag, steve flings this over his shoulder (the knot is for storing), and climbs up our apple tree in september ...

a bag of cloths, wipes and rubber gloves in the kitchen cupboard, also known as the ante-pantry ...

a bag of bob-the-builder figures and diggers, includes realistic, annoying traffic cones and a man in red pyjamas known as JJ ...

wall mounted pocket-tidy thingy i made for one of louise's many birthdays ...

a shoulder bag i made for me ... has inner zipped pocket for coins and things that must never fall out ...

my very own rat bag ...
go to http://www.raggyrat.co.uk/ for yours ... mine is silver black and about 9 years old ...



a bag i made to take on the air plane for my recent trip to the highlands ... it fitted all my gear and was the required size to keep sleazy-jet happy ...



a bag that keeps all the stuff together in the boot of the car eg sick bags, and road maps, and spare headlamp bulbs ...



so what is this for, my latest sewing project? well, it's my birthday tomorrow and i hope to have added some handles ... but please do take a guess below ...