Tea Towel Swap

I received my tea towel and I must say it was well worth waiting for after seeing the sneak peak on Shellie's blog, it is gorgeous and the redwork she did is beautifully done, I have the tea towel hanging in my kitchen on show, I just think its to pretty to use.

Thank you so much Shelli!! :-)

Shelli has also put a tutorial on her blog on how she made it, so if you are interested please check it out, its her first sewing tutorial and she has explained it so it is very easy to understand.

Tea Towel Swap

We had a tea towel swap over at Crafty Mamas and this is the one I made for my partner Shelli, I had a lot of fun making it but my embroidery skills need a lot of practise. The tea towel is huge, a lot bigger than I thought as I cheated and just picked up a tea towel, I did actually cut the tea towel in half it was that big, was going to make 2 but ran out of time.

Sorry the pic isn't very good, another thing I really never have mastered is taking pics...lol...the writing says.. fresh is the bloom of a bright spring day.. I was inspired from one of my craft mags for it and I also crochet the top so it can be hanged up as well.

My swap partner Shelli however has a sneak peak of the one she has made me on her blog as its on the way to me, you can see it here.

Shelli has made hers from complete scratch, hehe...she didn't cheat like me, it sounds so lovely though, just can't wait to get it, wish she put a bigger pic on her blog though...lol..

Free Stuff Day For Aussies

Just wanted to mention a great new site for Aussies called.. Free Stuff Day..it's a lot of fun and you can grab yourself a fantastic item for free.

So if you live in Australia and you are interested , check it out here, oh yeah its free to join to.

Zakka Swap

This is what I made for my partner in the zakka swap we had at Crafty Mamas a little while ago, don't know if you could really call it zakka but was a lot of fun to make, just wish my embroidery skills were a lot better, my partner liked it though so I was happy.

Blossom Tree

Had to get a pic of our tree in the front yard when it was in full blossom, it was just beautiful, shame doesn't last to long the day after I took this pic we had bad winds come through and the tree lost over half of its blossom.

My Poor Blog

Well I have been really neglecting my blog lately, I've been taking a break from things and the computer has been one of them, even really haven't done much sewing either but all nice and refreshed now and time to get stuck back into it all, specially with christmas coming, thinking of doing a lot of handmade pressies this year and typical spotlight has a big sale on today, wish I knew about it before I went shopping on the weekend..lol

Well will be back later, I do have some pics to put on here that have been waiting a while.

Zakke Swap

We had a zakka swap at Crafty Mamas and this is what my very talented swap partner Mon made for me. Mon has painted the most gorgeous cat and rabbit on the bag and also added the cat, flower, rabbit and strawberry in kanji writing. Mon has done such a great job on the bag and she also sells them you can see more of them at her esty shop.

Mon also sent me a crochet beaded necklace and some really cute cards as well, I really got spoiled in this swap, I hope what I made, Mon will like but I can't show a pic yet as its still on the way to her.

You can also see more things Mon does on her blog :-)