Eddie's New Blanket

It's Eddie's birthday today, he's 14, and here he is with the crocheted blanket I made him.


Made in double crochet using wool from my stash that I've gathered over the years.

Scampy & Jasper like it too :-)

Knitted Mouse & Heart

A knitted heart and mouse keyring, pattern and wool from Let's Knit magazine.

Sea Shells Stitch Markers & Flowers

Some stitch markers I made today, made from Tibetan silver sea shell charms, silver plated beads and glass beads.

And some photos taken in our garden this week.

Butterfly Glasses Chain

A glasses chain I made from Tibetan silver butterflies, irridescent glass beads and tiny purple seed beads.

Hedgehogs & Ladybird

Late last year we found a baby hedgehog in our garden, he was underweight and unlikely to survive the winter so I took him to our local RSPCA wildlife hospital. On Sunday they phoned to say he was ready to be released back into the wild, so yesterday we collected him, and also another hedgehog and last night let them both go at the bottom of our garden.

We're putting food out for them every night to help them along and we're hoping they'll be regular visitors to the garden.

And this morning while tidying the garden we came across this 7 spot ladybird.

Stitch Markers & Glasses Chains

A set of stitch markers and a few glasses chains I've made over the last few days.

Silver Bird Earrings

I made these from Tibetan silver birds, sterling silver earwires and spacer beads, and blue seed beads.

Knitted Wire Bracelet

I made this bracelet using a kit from The Crazy Wire Company.


Really easy and fun to make, takes ages to thread on all the beads, but worth it in the end :-)

Autumn Crow & Spring Frogs

I made this card using Autumn Crow by Meljen's Designs.

The papers I used are from Pink Petticoat, their Autumn Blossom collection.

I coloured the image with pencils, and added buttons, sticky gems, scrunched up flower, garden string and some hand stitching.

And some pictures from our pond, we have loads of frogs in our garden and this week some frogspawn appeared, a sign that spring has arrived :-)

Polkadoodles Challenge & Cross Stitch Dog

The challenge at Polkadoodles this week is to use a stamp, two ribbons and a charm.


The birds stamp is Crafty Individuals, leafy backing paper from Crafter's Companion Flower Fairies CD, satin and organza ribbon from my stash, scrunched up flowers and bird charm with tiny seed beads.



This one I made from a pattern from Cross Stitcher magazine, stitched onto 28 count linen, with beads sewn on for nose and eye.

Bernese Mountain Dog Easel Card

My first attempt at an easel card, using papers and image from the Jayne Netley Mayhew collection Part 2 CD from Joanna Sheen.


The flowers are die cut on my Cuttlebug, and I added garden string, brads and sticky pearls. I printed the sentiment off the computer.

Silver Earrings

A few pairs of earrings I've made, they all have sterling silver earwires and tiny sterling silver beads.


These are made from glass millefiori rectangles and glass faceted beads.



Haematite stars and tiny sterling silver beads.



I made these from 6mm and 4mm blue glass beads that look a little like lapis lazuli.


I made these from glass heart beads, tiny haematite stars and sterling silver beads.

Made from blue shell stars and tiny blue swarovski crystals.