Evie is concentrating very hard on drawing this picture of a baby (apparently!)
Archive | January, 2012
Popular Craft’s Owl Swap
30 Jan
Owl
I love an excuse to craft and when I found the website of the new magazine “Popular Crafts” I decided that this was a great excuse for me to craft!
The obvious choice for me as a crocheter was to make an amigurumi owl, and after I’d had a go at a couple of free patterns that I downloaded from various websites, decided that I had to bite the bullet and and buy a pattern. I bought a lovely owl pattern from Stacey Trock’s “Fresh Stitches” etsy site for $5 which worked out at about £3.50 and she emailed it to me in pdf form.
The first owl that I made was slightly wonky, but it only took me a couple of evenings, but my daughter told me in her bossy 2 year old way that I could make another one for “that lady” and that she was going to have this one! Fine!
My second effort was less wonky and I stuffed it a bit fuller and I was pleased with the finished result.
Here’s my first attempt as he grew…
Owl Head
Owl Body
Waiting for stuffing
And here’s his brother taking shape:
My second owl waiting for his stuffing and his eyes!
So here are the two owls before I sent one of them off to his new owner.
The two owls
As part of the swap you are to send a bought gift of up to £3 value. I found a little owl with an electric tealight in it in M&S and thought that it was perfect. So today I sent the owls along with a box of chocs to a lady called Sarah-Jane in Scotland.
The finished gift
I hope she likes it and I can’t wait to get my gift back!
Project 366: day 29
29 JanTesting out the new car seat whilst watching telly! Evie particularly likes the cup holder!
Project 366: day 28
28 JanMy second afternoon tea of.the week! This one was at woodlands hotel in gildersome. The venue was nice and the company was excellent…but the food wasn’t up to much at all!
We went with groupon vouchers so paid about £7 for 2 people…it was only just worth that and if we’d paid £10 each which was the advertised full price I think I would have probably complained!
Project 366: day 25
25 JanI called at the co-op on my way home. I bought lots of things from the reduced shelf that were down to 25% of the original price.
Here are some of them:
And here’s the mushroom soup I’m having for my tea!
Cost for 3 portions…60p! I love a bargain!
Project 366: day 24
24 JanStew this morning
Stew this evening
I love how my slow cooker magically makes my tea whilst I’m at work!
