What's up...

How can that be, a whole week has just passed me by whilst I have been busy doing so much stuff. Yes a contradiction, but that is how my life is at the moment. I remember when I wrote about rhythm, taking time to smell the coffee, camera always in hand and a crafty project by my side whilst baking a tray of cupcakes as my children played at my feet. How I miss those days, I have finally admitted I am indeed just 'flying by the seat of my pants' kinda girl at the moment. Each week I think I will be on top of it all and then something else needs attention.Over the holidays I so enjoyed my time with my children and I did indeed take time out to just be with them, for the first time in a couple of years I felt relaxed and slept well, I awoke in the mornings ready for the day instead of dragging myself out of bed for that much needed caffeine intake before I could truly open my eyes. I made time for my children, just for fun, play dates, some social time with friends and time for sitting in the sunshine watching my children play. Indeed, it was a good break. However its back to reality and orders are mounting up, the job search is demoralising, school issues, meetings and tomorrow is my final assessment at college. I need a bit of beach time to get all three of us back to that spacial place of finding our own flow and just going with it.

On the work tray at the moment (you know the one that you sit with in the evenings and do your hand sewing whilst watching some telly... or is that just me) is a huge pile of hearts all ready for stuffing with the gorgeous lavender. Also finishing off an order for corsages, I love these floppy roses and often make them to go with my fabric bags.
Following on from my last post I had bought some super big buttons and wanted to use them so instead of 'zipper wash bags' I have 'happy button wash bags'. . .
Using the machine embroidery to personalise them and matching them up with the fabric insert to finish the the whole bag up with style. Thanks to Poppy for this super easy bag design.
I have been on a little Dotty Red shopping trip, I was asked to make something in a particular fabric which then sent me on a shopping search...did I say fabric, yet here I am showing you a picture of yarn...it was on offer, half price so for ten pounds I bought myself a little sash and I know just the project for it...
I have not knitted for myself a long while so over the holiday I worked on a small project of Bunting, knitted bunting. Useless, time consuming and sometimes fiddly... but so nice to do...
Pretty pastel candy stripes, delicate shades which reminded me of vintage seaside holidays of my childhood with all the faded sunny shades eating ice cream on a beach. A memory which I hope to pass on to my own children with our own trips to the seaside.
On buying the yarn I was chatting to my friendly local kitting shop staff that even though I had not been to my knitting night at the shop in two years (no childcare) I was indeed still knitting, yet I was still a virgin when it came to cable work. It was obvious that this was a shock and surly someone that did so much crafting could have learnt this skill, because its so easy, if you know how.

No... still need to learn it, its so hard and complicated...

So I sat in the sunshine that very afternoon with cable needle and pattern in hand I mastered the skill... years I have wanted to be able to cable, and after just one afternoon in the garden... I can now cable, and I am SO PROUD OF MY NEW SKILL . . .

Have a great week, as for the weekend, I am going to make it one that is of a slow pace and I will take time to smell the coffee. Hope you do too.