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So my mice skittles and kitty ball seem to have been a big success. Here’s my nephew Jude playing with his kitty ball

Apparently the ball was a hit because he really likes balls right now. I seem to remember one of our other nephews Toby going through a ball phase. Too bad I hadn’t discovered [...]

I was attempting to make a stripey elephant for my friend’s new baby girl. Halfway in I realised I was attempting a bit more than I could handle in the time that I had and I had obviously picked the wrong kind of fabric. So the elephant went into the pile of half finished projects [...]

So I’ve been making fish for aunties. Scottish aunties, but not mine. These fish were made for my friend Jenny’s aunties and mum. They all fell in love with a little felt fish that I had made for Jenny for her hen do. So when the grand Scottish wedding finally rolled around, I turned [...]

Yes, I have! I have finally, after hours and days of sticking, stitching and knotting, sent off the Van Campen Christmas presents! I know it’s unbelievable as they’re only 3 weeks late – whoops and they’re not even out of this country yet probably. But there you go, I finally did it. There were a [...]

Happy New Year! Well I’m nowhere near finished making Christmas presents, whoops, but I have done a few that I’m pretty happy with that are now up on my Etsy site as new products. I’ve discovered that sewing machines are not for fabric alone but they’re (or at least mine) very tempermental machines. So although [...]

Here’s what I did last night while watching Spooks and distracting the dog with a squeaky ball during the fifth night of fireworks. So you see it is possible to throw a squeaky ball, follow an increasingly convoluted terrorist plotline and make a very amateur stuffed bear. Don’t look too closely because I sewed his [...]