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scraps in progress skip to main skip to sidebar scraps in progress sunday december 05 2010 the pop up shop hello everyone where does the time go i ve been a bit off the radar lately but i have been up to something since the summer i ve been steadily making things in my spare time with a view to opening a christmas shop think of it as a kind of pop up shop in my very own kitchen i invited friends and work colleagues and i m pleased to say it was a success mind you i don t think i could have done it if my lovely mum hadn t helped me and i was really nervous beforehand the fact that it went well then spurred me on to book a stall at a christmas street fair near to where i live in the university area of the city that was today and it was awesome i pretty well sold out it was so busy i didn t even have chance to look at any of the other stalls luckily the snow has gone and the sun was shining couldn t have been better i think i might have hit upon a way of satisfying my creative urges in a way that fits in well with my day job which is very important to me it pays the bills and besides i like it and i like the people i work with so it will always take precedence this way i can pick and choose when and where i set up shop so that i have time to build up stock in my spare time without feeling pressured could be a win win situation i sold lots of these clown tree decorations good job as i got a bit carried away and made a gazillion of them posted by fiona at 8 51 pm 5 comments sunday september 26 2010 christmas fairy comes early this year i am thinking ahead for christmas do not be fooled by this i will still be running round like a headless chicken come the middle of december i bought some wooden clothes pegs and spent this morning making a prototype christmas angel there are several things i will do differently if i make any more but i m pleased that it worked out roughly how i thought it would i d like to make some more but i don t know when like a lot of others i was aghast to hear that bloglines was closing i ve changed to google reader and what a revelation turns out that bloglines wasn t picking up feeds from some of the blogs on my list and hadn t been for a while the demise of bloglines prompted chooky blue to write this interesting post about the different ways we access blogs well worth a look i m also pleased that blogger seems to have sorted out the spam issue and i m no longer having to delete comments all the while i promised the girl i would make some bunting for her to put up in her student house bright fabrics this time every week i send her a parcel with something in maybe a sachet of hot chocolate mix or a face mask something small that doesn t cost too much to post i write a little note on a postcard and i try to send a different one each time if only i were so diligent about posting on my blog sigh posted by fiona at 3 32 pm 7 comments saturday august 21 2010 this and that the summer has got away from me somehow and we ve done some fun things but there hasn t been much time for creativity what with the decorating picking the girl and all her belongings up from london and taking her back again and various other days out and family occasions we spent a week in wales all four of us in the caravan and no arguments here s the husband on the sand dunes the dog is not ours the weather wasn t brilliant but we had a good time nonetheless all i ve really had chance to do is a bit of knitting the teddy bear posse is getting bigger and i ve started a tea cosy goodness knows why because i only ever make tea in a cup with a teabag i haven t even read much i have eventually finished the seamstress and i read half of hemingway s the sun also rises but didn t manage to finish it by the time our book group met this is most disappointing as i was aiming for a book a week in 2010 epic fail as the boy would say posted by fiona at 9 26 pm 4 comments sunday july 11 2010 what next it s been a bit hectic round here we re having all the interior walls stripped repapered and painted this would be bad enough if we were a tidy non hoarding family but being as we are giving the decorator room to move necessitates the movement of piles of stuff a fair amount of this has gone into bags to go to charity shops but my sewing room is also being used as a temporary home for boxes too i can t get to the table with my sewing machine meanwhile i m planning what to do with these felt flowers i ve been doing some knitting too pictures next time posted by fiona at 8 46 pm 8 comments sunday june 20 2010 world cup bunting in our house you have to have an excuse for putting up bunting i have mentioned before that the husband does not get the concept of house decorations seasonal or otherwise i try my best but even after nearly 21 years of marriage i haven t quite converted him so world cup bunting we ll gloss over the fact that the girl was heard to say why have we got american flags up in truth i just like the red white and blue combo and it goes with my blue and white crockery this was my first try at making bunting and it was really quick and easy i used bias binding and attached it to the flags with a zig zag instead of a straight stitch i know my limitations and i would never have caught in both sides of the bias binding and the flag with a straight stitch and i made cupcakes i was desperate to use my new cupcake wrapper die cutter i bought some pretty wrapping paper from paperchase and used that think i should have used smaller cake tins but not bad results and the kids were impressed posted by fiona at 8 59 pm 7 comments friday june 11 2010 ooh er i had these 3 1 2 inch crumb blocks that had been maturing for about a year and a half so i decided to make a doll quilt with them couldn t quite get the hang of the perfect on point setting but it ll have to do even with the misaligned seams i don t aim for perfection on the grounds that your goals should always be achievable posted by fiona at 10 19 pm 5 comments saturday june 05 2010 a day out and a finish it s half term here in leicester so on wednesday the husband the boy a k a ds and me went to the black country living history museum we have been several times before and it is a great day out despite all the modern attractions of the x box wii nintendo etc the boy really enjoyed going down the helter skelter on the fairground and was fascinated by hoop rolling which he went back to more than once i also finished my dad s birthday quilt a week late but what s a week between family he was pleased with it anyway posted by fiona at 3 15 pm 5 comments older posts home subscribe to comments atom about me fiona sometime quilter crafter knitter crocheter and reader always striving for a work life balance mostly failing miserably i live in hope view my complete profile what i ve been reading this year click on the picture for more details october 2010 september 2010 august 2010 may 2010 april 2010 march 2010 february 2010 january 2010 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