four walls and a roof.......

.....despite sticking a pencil behind my ear and using the word 'purlins' a lot the shed was never going to happen with just me and Mr H on the case....so we call in the professionals and its up in a day :)

so I have started squirreling things away for my little creative cabin..deerdre of course will be moving in with me, along with little boxes, clocks, toadstools and tins.....

so as the builder is telling me to insulate the walls and roof.... all I can think is where the little shelf will go...... what colour curtains.... rug...... cushion for my chair.... he left saying I should look at prices for insulation boards and a good floor so of course what is the first thing I do......

 raid my fabric pile and make a patchwork curtain for the door.......for insulation ..of course :)

hope you are having a good Monday and a happy summer
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7 reasons to be cheerful.......

Thank you to lovely cuckoo and lovely sarah for the blog awards :)
so as I've already done 7 facts about myself here I thought I would do
7 things that are making me smile today :) :) :)


#1 Deerdre the deer head patiently awaiting her makeover :)

#2 busyness.... lots of sewing going on :)

#3 cute glasses from the charity shop :)

#4 managing to stick this lady's head back on :)

#5 newly painted front door :)

#6 much loved little friends on the washing line :)

#7 home town rock :)

#8 knowing that I can't count and that we found this for £3 :)

I would like to pass this award onto a shiny new blog which I have just discovered
and with the bestest name...pollywallydoodle

whats making you smile today?? happy Monday *4th July*

note added.....as lovely koralee has pointed out 'deerdre' is in fact a he!! oooops any new boy names gratefully received :)

woodland friends and questionable taste.........

You wouldn't think so if you peeked at my fabric cupboard but thrifty finds have been few and far recently....although I have stumbled across some little treasures of the pot...ornament...bordering on tasteless kind........

This one wasn't exactly a bargain but I just couldn't leave him behind or his little pine cone pepper pot friend......

These I love but one may find itself sitting on the shelves of littleteawagon some time soon. The Deer is for keeps :) I'm always happy to find a leaping fawn with long eyelashes and a perky tail (and its not often I get to say that)

~Happy Wednesday~

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More distractions....

I'm feeling spring in the air....well actually its freezing, too cold to snow even and its not very spring like outside as its nearly twelve at night . But I had to share these.......

I can't get anything done till I've made something with these, they sit and taunt me by my desk.......so distracting....so cute..... from here http://www.etsy.com/shop/caramelos...... look away if you like small things :)

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Pics..pics..and more pics Yay

Not being very good at making new years resolutions and even worse at keeping them I decided to just make up some goals for 2011.....then I saw Dottie Angels 'shiny new year diorama' and Julie Arkels 'boxes' so I made up some kind of a ...well I'm not sure what it ended up as but it was good fun to do....


The toadstools are us.....the tiniest one being little Arn and the words are to remind us of what we should try and do this year...my favourites are 'slow down/speed up' these apply to all of us (except the dog..who definately does not need to speed up!)

Its made from a shoe box...newspaper,wrapping paper,old stamps,vintage sewing patterns,and that fab sticky back plastic that looks like wood.

Have also been having a little play with my fabrics.....

...I'm off now to take millions more pics with my fixed camera :)

Have a lovely rest of the week x x x x x x x x

The post about distractions.....

Wednesday already, I'm wishing for the weekend at the moment,
I am
deeply distracted
by goings on of a not very nice nature,
so need to nose about and find something nice
to take my mind off things

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Yep that'll do nicely.......


I'm easily pleased :)
Have a good week x x x x