This weeks make is a fabric kiddies shoe bag, ideal for those school plimsolls for PE. I was sent a special delivery from those kind people from Plush Addict for me to do a product review on. It contained the following: a 28mm Olfa rotary cutter a 6 fat quarter bundle of Riley Blake Rocket … More Make it Monday: kiddies shoe bag & product review
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Tagline: A tale of fanfiction, family and first love. I had never heard of this book until last week when catching up on some blogs I follow that a couple of them had mentioned going to a book signing by Rainbow Rowell in which she’d discussed some of her books. I’m a … More What I’ve been reading – Fangirl
This week features a make that Miss P completed: a stuffed toy dog that she got as a kit for her recent 6th birthday from a friend. The kit features a fabric dog that needs stuffed and sewn closed and a bag with fabric stickers to decorate it. Miss P inserted the stuffing into the … More Make it Monday: stuffed cuddly dog
Nine weeks ago I decided that I needed to get off the sofa and get fit and not just for the summer. I wanted to build my stamina and fitness levels so when my friend Jo-anne told me that she had started started running in a local park with JogBelfast (part of a free ActiveNI … More Milestones: with running and my blog.
This weeks make is a bit of a cheat….a delicious cheat. I admit that when I make lemon meringue I use packet lemon filling and ready made pastry. It’s not that I can’t make them myself but I’ve better things to be doing with my time as I work full time and have 2 demanding … More Make it Monday: Lemon meringue pie
During the summer I do more reading than at any other time of the year. I don’t know if it’s due to the days being longer or if it’s because I take the majority of my work holidays during the summer. Anywho – I thought I’d share a book I’ve just recently finished reading – … More What I’ve been reading – The Sentinel
Well here we are – the 1st week of the summer holidays has passed and I’ve been thinking of crochet. I know crochet in the summer is far from ideal (do you really want to working with yarn it’s so warm) so I went onto Pinterest to see if I could get some summer crochet … More Make it Monday: summer crochet
The Creative Pixie 