Ippety Skippety.......

Actually I am all skipped out.....I feel totally exhausted and have no idea why. Maybe I'm working out to hard at the gym?!!!

Even when I'm tired though I still feel the need to do something creative, so drawing whilst snuggled up watching tv was a prefect solution earlier this week. And thanks to the suggestion from the lovely Rachael, may I introduce you to Rapunzel....

I promised a little update on my crochet blanket....it's the first "practical" item I've made so it's interesting...it's coming along slowly.....it's much more vibrant than this in real life.......

As you can tell I got a little impatient and had to sew a few squares together as I was desperate to see what it looked like (and check that it did indeed resemble some sort of blanket!!!)......Meanwhile I have a nice little growing pile of these....

I received this lovely hat box stuffed with smelly goodies for Christmas, and it's made the perfect travel solution for my work in progress....

I tend to take it to Mr T's every few weekends....once his little girl is settled in bed we tend to have dinner and watch a film, so I've been sneaking my hooks and wool out at these opportune moments and whipping up a few squares in front of the tv :)

The lovely oriental rolling pouch of hooks you can just about spy popping out here was a thoughtful lil pressie from Mr T himself as I'd lost my old set. What a lovely lil thing he is :)

I was a bit naughty this week and decided to treat myself to these beauties that I saw going for an absolute bargain on fleabay.......I've been looking for a tape measure stamp for a while but not seen one I can justify spending out on, so when I saw this pack I fell in love.....all the borders are really usable which is unusual for me: there's usually something in a pack that I don't like or won't use, but I've got ideas for all the embossing patterns in this lot.

 

I got the herringbone one too as i felt it would be an alternative to my beloved Swiss dots..............which incidentally I have LOST!!! Before going away with the Sarah's Cards girls in November, I streamlined the stash that was inside my rolling robox to take just the essential stuff I knew I'd use over the weekend, which included putting a see-through box with most of my acrylic stamps and my swiss dot embossing folder to one side.............in a safe place.......ahem!

I have turned the place upside down looking for them but can't find them anywhere and the only thing I can think of is the box was mistakenly thrown away when I had a big clear up just after Christmas. Gutted!!!

Well I'm off to play with my new toys, maybe in conjunction with the lovely kit I have waiting to play with here from Sarah, featuring the gorgeous Love Nest papers from Glitz......there just might be time to get your subscription here...... if you haven't already ;)

Catch ya soon peeps xxxx