A Quick Ta Dah!

Happy Easter Everyone !!!!xxx

I know its not like me to post daily but I have had a little bit of time today to finish a couple of projects in between a bit of gardening, baking and entertaining the kids!

Here is the first.  Remember yesterday (my previous post) we were collecting pebbles,

....shells....

and glass in Morecambe.....

well I paired these with the glass floats and vase that I had found at the car boot.....

and hey presto!

Our bathroom centre piece.

I love it and my newly finished bathroom.... I'll save that for another post.  Ta-ta for now. x

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.......

Today we decided to down tools and have a little trip out.  There was also a motive behind this, as we have a static caravan in Morecambe and we needed to check that everything was ok.  The poor little caravan was a little cold but no damp or wet in sight so looks like we might be having a little Easter break soon.

After checking on the van we ventured into Morecambe to the delight of our 2 year old Molly.

 

All ready and waiting with the bucket to collect pebbles, shells and driftwood for another little project that I may have mentioned previously!

 

You wouldn't have known but whilst we were on the beach it was actually snowing but we were well wrapped up. 

 

We had a little peep at the local market and I bought some lovely wool ready for yet another blanket ....

 

 

And some fabric at such a bargain price......

 

But my last little treasure was in a charity shop and for a bargain price of 40p I got myself a book from my childhood and one that Lucy from Attic 24 has been mentioning in her blog recently.

 

Happy Easter everyone and I hope you get chance to have some fun and time for crafting over the next few days x x x x x

Snowy Weekend

This was the view from our Kitchen window when we woke up on Saturday morning, lots and lots of lovely unadulterated snow.  Although now that it has started to thaw it is not looking quite so impressive.

We have had a busy few weeks, my little boy has visited his new school (because of the house move), our conservatory has been finished and we have managed some more decorating.

Here is the conservatory, my new craft room;

Not yet finished but only needs to be decorated so that's now been added to the never-ending list.  W.e have managed to cove the Lounge on Monday night (I did the sawing and hubby did the sticking) and we did some wallpapering last night.  Not sure when Saturday nights got so exciting!!!!!! I did enjoy myself though and was allowed to actually progress from pasting to actual lining and managed a whole wall : ).

Not really made much progress crafting wise been busy entertaining the kiddies.  Molly and I painted nails this afternoon, we decided on being slightly adventurous and going for 2 colours  (she's 2 and a half and thought it was fab).

Then we moved on to hairdressing and poor Jake seemed to become the target!

 

Hope you all had fun in the snow whether you stopped in or played out!

Car Booting

Off we went this morning to our local car boot despite the little sprinkling of snow on the ground.  And do you know what I am soooooo glad we did as we came home with loads of bargains : )

For a grand total of £16 I bought - the Gruffalo's Child book, Brambly Hedge box set, 4 various books, Alice in Wonderland (golden ticket book), glass vase, some little girls pumps, vintage pillow cases (future project....watch this space), a vintage tea cup (all on its own), yellow vintage tea set, wooden boat, wooden key holder, strawberry glass, boat wall hanger, a storage box for my dolly peg paint and last but not least some children's clippo (like sticklebricks, if you remember those).

If you are a regular visitor to sockamabobs you'll already know that we are in the middle of renovating our new house so I have been trying to source inexpensive things for decoration (especially for my craft room aka the conservatory).  I have also recently been thinking about opening up a wool shop which also showcases some of the crafts that I make (its very early stages and a little bit too scary).

Anyways enough of the chit chat and on to the photos -

My little girl watching her Daddy and all the workmen fixing the house, hmmmm wonder what job she would like when she's older!

Some of my trinkets.  The boats are for our new bathroom.  I managed to get some turquoise and blue glass floats from the car boot the other week.  These had been shown on Kirsty Allsop's Vintage Home (a Telly Programme) and I had fallen in love with them.  The glass vase that I bought today can fit all of them in and once I have some fishing net, some shells and pebbles my centre piece will be finished and I promise to post a picture.

I also managed to get this beautiful vintage tea set for about 50p.  The strange thing is though I bought the saucer last week at a car boot we often go to.  It was all on it's own at the bottom of a box and I just loved it and had to have it.  The cup I bought today at a car boot that we went to for the very first time over 15 miles away!  It was again all on its own looking very pretty and a bargain at 20p. 

When I got home and I'd given everything a wash, it dawned on me that they were the same set, they even have the same markings underneath.  How uncanny - just need the winning lottery numbers now!

Anyway off to potter, can't wait to see what other treasures I uncover next week.   What have you been up to today????????

A quick catch-up

Well hello there, I though I would just catch-up with you before I got sidetracked and started something else!

In my last post I had been doing a bit of baking and I had made some anzac biscuits for my works "bake off" that we were all taking part in for Comic Relief.

There have been 3 categories that we could put ourselves forward for - Scones, biscuits and tray bakes.  I only entered the biscuit category but out of 9 entrants I WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I was judged the star baker!

I have always dreamt of having my own little wool shop one day with a small cafe to one side serving all the old favourites just like your grandma used to make. Last week I made Lemon Drizzle cake and it was utterly delicious.  This week I have made..........

Blueberry muffins.  When I went to my local supermarket this afternoon they had some packs of blueberries that were reduced to 29p - well enough said I could hardly refuse!

The recipe was from Lucy's blog at Attic24 and they were AmaZing.

 

Last week I also managed to finish my pram blanket - ta dah.......

 

 

 

I am very happy with the finished blanket and the baby who it is for was born on the day it was finished - I had also edged it with the turquoise blue not knowing that the baby was a boy!

 

We are still making slow progress with the new house - no more rooms finished but we have bought the paint and wallpaper so again watch this space.

 





Life's little pleasures

The weather is beginning to turn nicer and it's starting to feel a bit like spring.  We have had blue sky for the past couple of days and the sun has tried its best to peep through.

I haven't really managed much craft wise and I'm just finishing my crochet pram blanket so will post a picture of that soon. 

But I'll leave you with these -

Anzac biscuits that I made for a charity "bake off".  Yum yum of course it would be rude not to sample one - "just to make sure they are ok to eat".

 My collection of spring time flowers (bought from local supermarket and market for a grand total of £2.40).  And can you just see beneath the blue hyacinth; my bargain 1960's Pyrex dish bought from the car boot for 50p!

Homemade lemon drizzle cake made using Lucy's recipe from Attic24.

 

 

The view out of my kitchen window whilst I wash up!

 

Hope you are all feeling spring like - I think my next task will be a bit of SPRING CLEANING and for a clean freak like me I'm actually looking forward to that xxxxxxx

Ta Dah !!!!!!

Fan Fare Please!!!!!

I have no idea how I have managed it but I have finished 3 different projects and all in the space of two nights : )

I have really been struggling to fit any crafting time in this last week as Mr P has had a hernia op and has needed to have bed rest so I have been doing the school run, working, cooking, cleaning, tidying, washing, bathing etc.  I have to say I do a lot of this stuff normally but Mr P has not even been able to supervise the kids so no spare time for me (sad face : (  ).

Anyway on to the Ta Dah moments -

 

 

My valentines heart - one side crochet the other side fabric.  I used a pattern from Lucy's blog at Attic24 and then modified it slightly.

 



 

This was the one that I made for a friend's birthday sticking to the pattern.

 

 

 

My little knitted rabbit with a pom pom tail - he is soooooo adorable

 (and quite easy to make!)

 

And Finally .......

 

 

My giraffe ribbon taggie - struggled sewing the fiddly bits but I think she's come out quite well.  Even if I do say so myself!

Hopefully I will have some more Ta Dah moments to share soon as I have a few more things half finished or waiting to be crafted.