Catching up!

After my little outburst in the last post I am slowly catching up.

I finished my friends Birthday present:

It's a Blythe version of a real life 1960's chair that is her pride and joy. I sprayed a Bratz chair and made a little cushion for it.

We had a lovely time at Center Parcs, I took the girls along, this is what Mervin wore:

I cancelled my stall at the craft fair as I've got so stressed out about it and there is no way I would make enough stuff for 2 days of the fair.

I've made a great start on my Morticia Addams costume for the amateur dramatics christmas show. I've also managed to borrow a lot of stuff for my hubby to wear. We've added lots of extra rehearsals days so that will be fine.

I rearranged my work day before I had cancelled the craft fair, so now I can get on with my costume, Blythe commissions and get ready to go away next week.

I've made a good start on my Blythe commissions. Although last week I had a disaster. I had cut out and half sewn 3 coats. I finished the first one and found that I had added seam allowance onto the pattern that already had seam allowance (that's what I get for not labelling my patterns). So I threw them all away and started again.

Every cloud has a silver lining because I made a new pattern and it works a lot better than the last :D

So at last I've finished one commission!

And in true procrastination style I started my little applique project that I mentioned ages ago.

I started it yesterday before I cancelled the craft fair so should have been working my butt off making stuff to sell.....but no, I start a new project lol.

Can you guess what it is yet?

I'm hoping to start swimming again this week and maybe actually clean my house.

xxxx

What a week! MaidenSuit appreciation post :D

I've been FRANTICALLY preparing for Blythecon over the past week and boy did it pay off!


I even roped others into my preparations lol and commissioned MaidenSuit to make me an embroidered sign. She well and truly did me proud and worked so fast getting this finished and in the post for me in time for the convention. So I'm dedicating this entire post to her.


I'll get all my stalking done in one go, hopefully it will make me look less of a weirdo but I'm her number one fan!


So without further a doo!! Here is my amazing sign!!!:




We set up a trade, so I am going to make her gorgeous Blythe family some dresses and I can't wait to see them wearing my creations. Jane and I are kindred spirits when it comes to Blythe dolls and Blythe style, I even adopted one of her dolls. She's a very creative crocheter, embroidered and photographer.


When the parcel arrived I squealed out loud and did a little dance around the kitchen because Jane had been very naughty and included one of her famous Deer Pixie Hoods!!!
I couldn't believe it! It was my birthday earlier that week so it made my week! It was also the exact colour I would have chosen, see kindred spirits.


Here is Forest in the fabulous hat!!!


Of course MaidenSuit has an Etsy shop and a great blog so please take a look and bookmark them both for whimsical inspiration :D

www.etsy.com/shop/maidensuit

http://curetouch.blogspot.com/

Thank you.
xx