A field of sunflowers in Montbrun des Corbierres taken by my daughter, Jayne.
“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.”
It's been quite some time since I posted and even longer since I picked up something to craft. I miss that wonderful feeling crafting gives me, I call it my theraphy. I know I will eventually get back into it!
A prayer written for our Gran and Mum
by Jayne, your grandaughter.
As warm tears stream dowm my face,
I ask you Lord, for mercy and grace.
Protect Gran and hold her in the palm of Your hand,
As she passes from here to Your holy land;
Comfort those who loved her so dearly,
Bring peace to their hearts, so they may see clearly,
You are the way Lord, the truth and the light,
May Gran's star above us, forever burn bright.
For our dear mum, Marcella, who passed away on Saturday 7th June.
You will be sadly missed by all of us, you were so much a part of our every-day life.
We love you, forever in our hearts,
Your family.
Here are some new pictures taken around the garden.
Yellow is the colour at the moment with the Accasia and wild mimosa trees in full bloom. With the late autumn sun shining on these lovely displays, everything has a golden glow.
Here is an old plough I picked up recently on my meander. I love these old farm implements and hope to add to my collection soon.
I made these early in the morning to go with my strawberry linen cloths for the Farmers market craft fair. In the early morning light they looked good enough to eat.
The strawberries sit in a little white aged pot surrounded by flocked leaves and real dried moss.
Take a look at A-Bear-A-Month Blog and see the Pretty Maids all in a Row.
These delightful bears were made by members of the HugBeary Den Teddy Club in South Africa, a teddy club that has been going for over ten years now with many of the members still there from the start in October 1997.
Hogsback, a little place in this wonderful world, a place in Eastern Cape tucked away high up in the mountains. Hogsback will take you back to nature, a little bit of heaven to refresh your soul and enjoy the many arts and crafts of the local folk.
Enjoy this slide show of Springtime, photos taken by my daughter, Jayne
How often do we need a reel of cotton, only to find a tangled mess of cottons in our sewing box, or reels that have become dust gatherers as they sit on our reel holder.
My way to overcome this is to keep each reel in a little zip lock bag with just the start of the thread sticking out. Now when you need to use a particular colour, just pull your thread to desired length and cut, leaving the start of thread ready for the next time you need to use. No more tangled threads, no dusty reels and no need to open zip lock bags (until you need to replace your empty reel)
Of course if you have the space (oh that we should all be so lucky)you can put a peg board up and punch a whole in the top of zip lock bag and hang your cottons up for easy identification.
This is my 150th post on this blog, can't believe I "write" so much!!-with nearly 6000 visitors and over 11,000 pages "read".
To celebrate I wanted to give something back to all those who have come along to read and written such encouraging comments.
I will be posting Sewing Tips and listing them for easy access on the side bar as I post. These are tips I have discovered along the way, making my life easier in my crafting, most out of sheer frustration in not being able to find things. I have also started with some Easy to Make tutorials -already listed on the sidebar with direct links. So do visit often and enjoy and use whatever you can.
Sewing Tip to follow directly.
You know when you are sewing, there is always a bin of scraps you throw away. Well don't thow those away anymore. Now you can make the cutest mini fabric wreath with next to nothing scraps of fabric and my Scrap Happy ideas.
Make a mini autumn wreath out of fabric scraps
Another Scrap Happy project from Whimsical Prims.
Gather your fabric scraps and sort into colours you want for your wreath.
Now trim your scraps into strips, doesn’t matter what length or widths if they vary a little.
If your strips are short, join together with a little hot glue.
You need three strips per wreath.
To start your wreath, hot glue the ends of three strips.
Start plaiting until your plait is as long as you want.
Form a circle and hot glue the ends to seal plait and trim off excess fabric.
The larger your circle, the wider you should make your strips.
Sew or hot glue embellishments onto wreath. Attach a string to hang.
Its sooo easy with a Scrap Happy projects
