Bloom card

A lovely Stampin' Up design

Bloomin' With Beauty

I used the rose and bloom stamp from the above set.

I coloured the rose with Aquarella pencils and used some gold glitter for the centre.

For the border I used a Just Rite stamp and coloured with Pebbles Chalks

I used Spellbinders Labels 10 to frame the rose which I hand cut and positioned with foam dots to give it some height.

This card will now go into my stash of ready to go cards....

Awaiting delivery to someone in the future.



Three lovely ladies.

Today I would like to share with you, three different crinoline lady designs.

Recently I bought set of 6 plates in very good condition.

It was a bit of a random purchase apart from the fact that I just loved them on sight.

I have no cups and saucers to go with them but they were just so pretty I could not leave them in the shop.

Weatherby

Hanley England

Royal Falcon Ware

Durability stamped across the flag

Three of the plates are printed in gold

and

Three of the plates are stamped in red and blue

Seems strange to me.

What do you think?

This is a lovely tea cosy I bought a month or so ago.

She is sitting over a

Royal Doulton

Brambly Hedge teapot

This lovely little jam or sugar bowl is called

Lilac Time

Swinnerton's England

Hampton or Upton England

and then overstamped

with

Australia Design

Application No

10793

Made in England

Such a lot of markings for such a little piece. 

Back of bowl

Inside the bowl

Underneath showing all the markings

Pedestal bowl

stamped

Empire England

The entire setting sitting on

my

Dutch Oak Sideboard

Everything is crammed into this house

It's a bit like a furniture storage facility

Hopefully won't be here too much longer......

Here's the setting in pink hues...

Just playing with my new mobile phone.

Children's Tin Tea Set

15 Piece

Children's Tin Tea Set

Pretty enough to serve Valentine's afternoon tea.....

or

at

any

time of the year.

Most of us are young at heart

and

this little tin tea set is so appealing,

even though it's meant for children.

I

LOVE

IT!

Possibly slightly indulgent of me but I spotted this little set in the chemist shop last week and wanted to buy it but thought it was just something else I didn't need.

I went home and thought about it and ended up buying it with some Christmas money I had not as yet spent.

It cost $37 but it is so lovely

It has it's own case which is so pretty

as

well

as

being a bonus for storage

and

safe keeping.

My DD is 27 so too old to play with it.

She just had her first child...Master E,

so I'm guessing he probably won't want to play with it

and

certainly not if his father has anything to do with it....LOL

Never the less it will look cute in my sewing room

and

I get a little thrill each time

I

look

at

it.

I could have taken some time to set it up

with

better props

but

I was so anxious to show everyone I didn't.

I would have loved one like this when I was a child.

I did have 2 different plastic tea sets when I was little

but

only a few pieces remain

and

the pink colours are faded to almost white now.

:((

Leave me a comment

& 

let me know what you think

of

my little

children's

tin

teaset.

Vintage apron

I finished this vintage apron for my friend.

It's a SEMCO design crinoline lady sitting in a garden.

Her mother had hand worked the embroidery sometime in the 1950's.

I lined it, added some faux front pockets with ric rac embellishment,

then

washed, starched

and

ironed it

to

complete.

I made this apron a few years ago now

but

as I am still not able to sew

due to back pain

I thought I would share

some of my older projects.

This glamorous apron model (aka DD) is wearing her winter flanelette pj's.

This photo shows the lining....a dainty and small blue cotton print.

I used this same fabric for the waist and neck ties.

Newly arrived first grandchild!

Welcome

to

our

first grandchild

....Master E....

Little did we realise that when DD went for a routine checkup at Midday that she would actually go into labour right there at the hospital, 9 days early.

This photo below was taken 1 hr into labour.

Being her 1st pregnancy she had all the midwives and doctors caught un-awares as they kept saying she could easily go on like this for 2-3 days.

I know how she is with a lot of pain and could see she was in labour, but to them she looked ok.

So in case the medical staff were correct, she asked me to go home and make some banana muffins as it was going to be a long night and she might want a snack...

So her hubby and I rushed home to make them only to be rung within the hour saying things were progressing quite quickly...

so at 5pm we rushed up with the muffins (that were not eaten by her in the end)

...LOL...

By 8pm she was in so much pain she asked me if now would be a good time to ask for some pain relief and the midwife agreed so off to the birth suite and some gas.

The gas helped a lot and she gave us a thumbs up.

1 hr 20 mins later little Master E was born on 1st February 2012.

In Australia this would be written as 1-2-12

DH drove over last weekend to see his new grandson for the first time.

I had arrived one week earlier just in case babe was born early

and

it's

just as well I did

with

him

coming 9 days early

Here little Master E is 2 days old with my DH and I

Master E

(8 days old)

and

DD

She is successfully feeding him herself

and

even managing fairly decent night sleeps...

let's hope this continues.

How did I cope with my own back pain throughout the 3 hr car journey to DD's town as well as the birth you may be asking???

Pain killers

valium

and

the 

latest

and 

greatest tool

my

TENS machine....

it's sort of funny to think I was trying to cope with pain

to

handle sitting through and helping my DD through her labour.

The TENS machine certainly helped me get through it all

and

for that I am grateful.

You can see the 3 vertical scars

from

my

Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

(TLIF)

performed

May 2011