Boiling Baths and Beads

There is still no hot water or heating in our house...and probably won't be for another week, which really is truly rubbish! However it does inspire me to be a lot more crafty in the evenings, especially when it comes to making polymer clay items, as I am constantly being asked to by my boy, in order to have the oven on for a while in an attempt to warm the house! Having a bath also warms the house quite well as it takes well over 30 minutes, an electric kettle (bought especially for the purpose) an old fashion whistling kettle and two saucepans all heating up on our gas hob to provide enough hot water! I'm only grateful that we have a gas hob, if it were electric I don't know how we'd survive, it would take twice as long to get half the amount of hot water. There is a plus side to all this, which is that we're not paying rent the whole time we are without a working boiler, which is better than nothing I suppose.

Anyway...this is just some of what I have achieved over the last few chilly nights....

I best be off, hopefully at least, we're going shopping today, that is if I can get the boy out of bed and boil a bath in time.

Happy Sunday xx

New Fabric

When I returned from work yesterday....to the news that we still had no heating or hot water (it's been over a week now!!)....there was also this lovely little package waiting for me. Which made the bad news seem OK very briefly!

They came from reprodepot and arrived very swiftly indeed.

Now I just have to decide what to make. I always grow far to attached to fabric, not wanting to make anything out of it as though it is more precious to me in it's original state! Or case it all goes wrong I suppose!

Buttons and Bags

Now available for sale in my shop are the cupcake and toadstall buttons....

AND....

some very lovely shopping bags.

Baking Cupcakes...

Along with the many fly agaric mushrooms I created yesterday I also cooked up a whole load of cupcakes.
Today I shall be getting these ready to post in the shop and stitching up some more shopping bags.

Shop Reopen!!!

Horay Horah!!!

I have reopened my etsy shop! Come take a look if you like.

There will be many many new items to be added including bags and lots of new buttons.

Socks in progress...

Since I have such little space for creating at the moment, I have been mostly knitting the last few weeks. It started with a blanket I will no doubt never ever finish, partly because I so rarely have the foresight to buy yarn in bulk and for that reason I found myself back in store to purchase more, but was quickly distracted by a large sale bucket that had sprung up since my last visit.

All the reduced yarn was at least 50% off and I found myself wandering around in a daze with armfulls of yarn I will no doubt ever put to good use. However I did purchase a single ball of this wonderful raspberry Rowan Calmer. I had a sock pattern knocking around that required the same yarn and had had success using last year so I thought it the perfect project.

Gardening adventures.

Despite being complete novices, not actually having a garden of our own and it being so late in the year, the weekend before last, we decided to start growing our own vegetables. To make things even more complicated we decided not to just go out and buy some ready to go plants, but instead to start the whole process from seed!! To any experienced gardeners this no doubt seems utterly ridiculous, but already we seem to have some progress.
The garden in the house we are staying in at the moment and all the gardens of the houses we've looked at so far in our hunt for a new home, are very small and courtyard style, mostly just squares of concrete or decking, so anything we do grow will need to do so in pots. I found this great and very inspiring book, which made us feel that maybe in wasn't so completely impossible.

Not ones to do things by halves, here is the extensive list of what we've planted so far...

Carrots

Beetroot

Radishes

Lettuces

Rocket

Onions

Spring Onion

Cucumber

Almost of all of the seeds have sprouted and most of them have now been repotted in larger spaces. We've also cheated a little and purchased both a tomato plant and a basil plant.

It's very exciting watching it all flourish, I don't know if it will all work out as planned, but it's been fun and we'll just be a lot more clued up and ready to get on it earlier next year.

I shall keep you updated on our progress.