…world sweet world….

look what i discovered …. world sweet world.  i think i might be in love

i can’t wait to start….

aimlessly wandering thu’ the net i came across these and this, and couldn’t resist.

mine arrived, and i hear them in the night, calling me to be started….

 

i’ve been busy….i’ll be back soon

ready to ship…

these boys are off to kina in New Plymouth….

 

little cuddly rugs…

a cuddly, a snuggly, a cuddly rug, a blanky, a booboo, a security blanket…..sometimes you need one.  maybe a tiny wee one pinned to your shirt or your bag? they have been added to my felt store

a pincushion for my wrist

i thought it would be fun - but now, its too useful to put down

(it’s not as big as it looks)

braised Pukeko

it got too hot outside while we were staying at the beach, so i went on a little op’ shop mission and found a couple of cookbooks that made me laugh.  i loved one of them because it had Desserts in the first section - gotta love that right?  it also had a recipe for cooking pukeko which sounds pretty..umm…strange.  And the book devoted to helping your kids put on weight from The Culinary Arts Institute 1949? i don’t know if anyone has that problem anymore do they?  i guess the recipe for Liver Patties would help you out, if you did

as always, i was day dreaming about the possibilites in the mon tricot Spring/Summer 1974 magazine….a stripey dress for dancing (hey, that’s not my idea - that’s what it says), a crocheted bermuda shorts jumpsuit, or maybe a ‘good sweater to wear yachting, mountain-climbing, hunting pheasant in the forest, or even for an expedition in Africa’

 

how do you lose a christmas stocking?

i don’t know how we managed to do it, but we lost one of our chrissie stockings.  i sewed this new one up from a vintage blanket, a teatowel and a scrap of christmassy fabric from my stash….

must be nearly christmas

our New Zealand christmas tree has decided it’s time for christmas

i found the tutorial for these little fabric trees on the small object , they are probably not the best to come out of those instructions, but they were fun, and they look cute on our christmas mantle piece (with cornfritter the bear in his christmas hat there too).

 

funny little inspirations

i found this in a thrift shop.  i had to buy it coz it made me wonder who made it? who did they make it for? how old were they? how did it end up alone in a thrift shop?

My fiance and i rescued this from the side of the road.  he made it when he was 8, and his dad recently decided that it should go out to the side of the road in the rubbish….