Felt magnet letters...

I saw a lovely idea on Pinterest recently (I am a Pinterest-a-holic!!) and thought I would make some for my little boy who is currently learning his letters and numbers (at 2.5 years... is that odd or normal??)..

So far I have cut all the letters out and have stitched (by hand) the first 3... I love using felt, its so easy to cut and shape, you can do almost anything with it..

Attempting a quilt!!!

I have tried quilting before, small quilts, car seat blankets etc... I stitch everything by hand (I don't own a modern sewing machine, they hate me!! lol) so it can be hard doing larger things, and I did attempt a large quilt for my daughter a few years ago, which ended in a mess and my very lovely friend Emily had to come to the rescue and fix it for me... Oops... So this is the first large one I going to make all by my self!!! I am doing it in smaller panels and then stitching them all together.. I now have the from finished, and I am waiting for more wadding and backing fabric to be delivered.. The hard bit is putting all the layers together and doing the quilting part.. I find quilting by hand on large pieces very hard, and my hands end up really sore with lots of holes... 

This is one of the 6 panels

This is the full front panel finished..... 

My House

These are some of my favourite things from around my house... Every now and then I take pictures of things I like and enjoy to see everyday so I can look back and see how my style and likes have changed over the years.. I like pretty things..

Everything is Horses!

Its my little girls birthday soon, and when I asked her what she wanted for her birthday she told me that all she wanted was her own bedroom, without all of us in there sharing with her... We are having a new extension built with 2 new bedrooms, one for me and my husband and one for my little boy... Well I am planning to secretly move out all of our things and redecorate her room on her birthday its self (while she is at school) and for it to be a big surprise for her when she gets home!!! GULP... 60 minute make over springs to mind!! lol..... Ok it will be more like 6 hour make over, but still a short amount of time to paint and move furniture in...

She wants a horse theme, so over the last few weeks I have been busy sewing lots of horsey bit to go into the new room...