06/29/2008

Curtains for Daisy! the campervan

I have been busy doing 'stuff' to Daisy. After originally making white with greeny/blue spotty curtains for the camper I decided they were a bit 'bland' so bought some new spotty fabric and made new curtains which now have the wow factor. Well to me anyway.

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Then I decided to redo the floor.Dsc_0442

From the wooden to the retro.

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Then I redid the side panelling in spotty too.

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Now I have the seats to buy new foam for and recover. Getting there slowly. I love her transformation. we had a lovely day out in her today too. 

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06/20/2008

punctures and knitting.

Oh dear, I am even more of a bad blogger, I don't know what's the matter with me but I think I've lost the plot!! I don't know where the time goes or what I have been doing but I haven't taken any photos. I haven't been sewing, I haven't been blogging, so what have I been doing? Well I'm not really sure, I think I've been in a time warp. Well we went out cycling at the weekend and it was great because we could put the bikes on the back of Daisy, but oh dear, what happened on the way home was we got a puncture. When a camper get's a puncture you sure know about it, I thought I'd ripped a hole in the side of her. But luckily I hadn't and I have NO idea or do I want to have any idea how to change a tyre, but two nice kind men came to my rescue and changed her tyre and we were back on the road again pretty quickly. Thank you kind men!!!

The other thing I have been doing is Knitting!not very well, but i saw some huge wooden knitting needles in a charity shop and thought they looked pretty cool, so I had to buy them and then I bought some wool and am trying to knit, just a scarf but we'll see how it turns out, I am not expecting miracles.

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The light is diabolical.

06/13/2008

birdies

I have been so bad at blogging lately. I do not know where the time goes. i haven't taken any photos much but I thought I'd show you something i started a while back, well I started it when Lucy locket said about the mini quilt swap.

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i may finish it one day!

05/31/2008

v w campers

Daisy had her first proper outing last weekend. She loved being away from home. She had an extra lodger too.

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can you spot him?

He thinks he's hawaiian. We made lots of new v w friends

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And when we got back I got the mini quilt from Sarah at sarah's house

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this is for the mini quilt swap that lucylocket organised. thank you Sarah and thank you Lucy and this is what I sent Sarah

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Chickens in wellies. hope everyone is having a good weekend. I am off to put a roofrack on Daisy tomorrow, it is flat packed, so i guess that will be fun! (not)

05/19/2008

bad blogger

I have been a bad blogger, I have been a bad blogger, I have been a bad blogger, ok you get the message. I have not been having a good time lately, but do not want to harp on about it. Anyway during my horrible time, I have been very Naughty. I have bought a 1974 v w campervan. Meet Daisy

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She is a bit old inside but I plan to make her pretty. Lots of spotty fabric, have started on the curtains, but it all takes time, and I haven't got very far. Will show you before and after photos when she's a bit nicer.

In the mean time this is what I sent Lucy locket for the mini quilt swap. She received it today so I can show you. Front

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Back:

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And I sent her some other goodies too:

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And the little lockets got loads of crazy bones, didn't photograph them.

04/29/2008

hearty tomato and pif pressies

Look at this heart tomato

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if only I could photoshop my photos then I could doctor the photo so you couldn't see the dirt on the handle of my fridge! mrsa has nothing on that handle. it's a wonder we're all alive.

Yesterday I received a pif pressie from www.peasandneedles.blogspot.com

look what I got

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Thank you so much Lucy, I love it all, but the children have been stealing MY moomin sweeties.  I love the girl it reminds me of a dress I had as a younglin, it had a girl on the front and on the back was the back of the girl. I called it my Susie dress, and one day I was out with my Dad and it ripped, so my Dad took me to a sewing machine to get it fixed. I loved that dress.

Now I must get on with my next lot of pif pressies.

oh almost forgot here's the rest of the pif's I sent before.

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This was to Dominique at  www.rosesposes.blogspot.com

Then this one to Sara at www.all-about-eden-saraeden.blogspot.com

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04/25/2008

new friends

Hi, yesterday I met up with 2 people that I met through blogging. They were Nicky from http://thevintagemagpie.typepad.com and Asti from http://lilupix.typepad.com we just met up to have a cup of tea and had a good chat and laugh. How fab to meet people that have  similar interests and just through blogging. I also got to give Nicky her pay it forward pressie.

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I managed to send the others off today.

I am convinced that the man that brings parcels waits until I have gone out before he delivers a parcel, so I then have to retrieve it from the main office. Anyway I did get this

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and inside was this

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other side

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inside

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how scrummy. all dotty!

04/21/2008

pay it forward

I have now actually wrapped the pay it forward pressies and will try to post them tomorrow, this is the first pay it forward, so second people will have to wait longer. I have been so busy but not sure with what!!

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Well I have been sticking these up

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These are decals from elephantine on etsy, you just peel them off and stick them on the wall. The pink ones I have put above the curtains, so the birds look as though they are on a ledge. I am very into birds at the moment.

04/18/2008

music...sherbet ...Howzat

I don't know why but I love this 70's song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNcFxhgcvZ8

No sewing just dodgy 70's music!! check out the clothes and haircuts!

04/17/2008

pay it forward pressies

I have been busy making the pay it forward pressies, I have almost got them finished, they are half wrapped soon ready to go and anextra pressie as a surprise for someone.

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I also got 2 prints framed this week and hung them on the wall

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Little boy, on seeing the keep calm and carry on said 'does that mean when we're fighting we should keep calm and carry on?' Children have such great perspective.

Bought this spotty paper today, it's meant for origami, which I am hopeless at, it's too mathematical for my brain, but just thought it would be good for 'arty' stuff.

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