tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48385374892442784962024-03-13T20:03:20.079+00:00Woodle DooUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-56422507463904393172015-12-09T12:31:00.002+00:002015-12-09T15:13:01.047+00:00Softest Loveliest Fabric for Toys ..... Ever!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's that time of year when I am frantically making. Everything from pompom garlands through advent stars to mince pies. In the midst of all this frantic festive creativity I am making a few presents for some of my smaller and newer relatives. Those small beings are getting these soft squishy dolls, my designs (I call them Spotty Dolls, these are 18cm tall but are also available 40cm tall and more like a cushion.) and from my <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/642124">Spoonflower shop</a></b></span> and oh my are they soft!<br />
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I would love you to feel this fabric as I don't think I can quite explain how tactile and lusciously soft it is. When it arrived in the post the other day and I showed it to various family and friends their instant reaction was to stroke it while oooohing and arrrrrhing and gently rubbing their cheek on it.<br />
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What am I talking about? The new farbic from Spoonflower called Minky! I ordered my dolls on it out of curiosity and Oh my! It's lovely. The colours are crisp and bright and, importantly for babies, it is beautifully soft. There is a slight furry texture or knap to it and just a little jersey style stretch. As it is so soft and floppy it is slightly more fiddly to make than when using the linen cotton canvas, but nothing some tacking doesn't overcome. <br />
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I love it. My next <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/720333"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Campervan and the Surfies</b></span> </a>will be ordered on Minky. I think it's the loveliest fabric for babies toys.<br />
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Am I going on a bit about this lovely soft fabric called Minky?<br />
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But just to remind you here is my Campervan and Surfies, but on the usual lovely but not so soft Linen Cotton Canvas from Spoonflower.<br />
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It's that time of year when I show you my tea towel calendar.<br />
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This one is for 2016. The design uses a linocut of a still life. It depicts the classic winter veggies for a lovely warming stew and my favourite stew pot. The orange gives a retro 70's feel inspired by my own colourful orange kitchen. <br />
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You can buy it in my <b><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/4406429">Spoonflower Shop</a></b> on their beautiful Linen-Cotton canvas. It fits a fat quarter or buy a yard and have four tea towels. All you need to do is simply hem the fabric and voila a funky tea towel for yourself or maybe a Christmas present!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-33631469826313020522015-10-22T13:02:00.000+01:002015-10-22T13:02:03.805+01:00Snoozebot Robot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My finished 'Snoozebot' Robot Quilt!<br />
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This design is much more of a classic quilt design, emulating patchwork. It's more of a 'cheater quilt' (a clunky name for a lovely way of making quilts!) than some of my other designs.<br />
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You can buy the design from my <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/1029181">here in my Spoonflower Shop</a></b></span> and make your own.<br />
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It's very simple to make and quite relaxing and addictive and the loveliest present.<br />
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Basically you are making a fabric sandwich with something like wadding as the middle bit to add the warmth. Once you have your Snoozebot fabric you will need a backing fabric and wadding. Pin them all together, I find saftey pins are great for this then just start sewing. You decide how much or how little you want to sew, where you sew in relation to the design and whether by hand or on your sewing machine.<br />
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Watch this space I have another one on the go that I will show you soon!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-77045448401327101372015-09-02T06:59:00.004+01:002015-09-02T06:59:58.287+01:00Finished Farm Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My 'Farm Quilt' fabric finally finished and entirely hand sewn. I must admit, as my first ever hand quilting project, it's not perfect but has been quite hypnotic and a lovely task with a satisfying end result! It is a simple process to make, being a sandwich of batting and fabric stitched together. The design is available from my <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/4039478">Spoonflower shop</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-26395408711647524422015-08-11T16:19:00.000+01:002015-08-11T16:19:13.065+01:00New Fabric Designs - Farms, Robots and Bubbles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I get so excited when my samples and test swatches arrive from Spoonflower. I have some tweaking to do but most will soon be available at my <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/woodle_doo">Spoonflower shop</a><br />
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There are two of my 'cheater quilt' designs, <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/4039478">'The Farm-Quilt'</a> and <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/1029181">Snoozebot - Robot</a> These are designs made to make quilting easy and quick to make. Also a sweet cut and sew dress for a 5 to 6 year old called <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/1614145">Undersea Bubbles</a>.<br />
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Sorry about the poor quality of the photos, I was too impatient to wait for good lighting!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-44386053129884491212015-07-15T15:05:00.002+01:002015-07-15T15:08:54.838+01:00A class load of artistsLast week I went into my son's class for a whole day of art. What a wonderful bunch of talented enthusiastic 8 year olds!<br />
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Linking into their botany topic our theme was flowers and initial inspiration taken from Georgia O'Keefe's flower painting.<br />
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I asked the children to really look at their chosen flowers and believe what they really see not what they think they see. I asked the children to fill the whole page even letting the image fall off the edges.<br />
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In one day this amazing bunch of small people drew their flower, painted their flower in watercolour using wet on wet technique, they made monoprints of their flower, they made a group stencil painting of their individual flowers and they made linocut plates and printed them.<br />
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The children's joy in exploring new techniques was wonderful, with each child feeling great satisfaction and confidence with different mediums. The monoprints were particularly enjoyed as the resulting prints were so surprising to the children.<br />
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Have a look at some of the gorgeous images these lovely little people made.<br />
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P.S. The linocut prints were all drying outside and I forgot to take any photos of them, but the above image is a plate.<br />
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I say linocut, but in actual fact, due to health and safety the plates are polystyrene. Somewhat ironic as lino printing was invented by Frank Chisek, an Austrian educator from the beginning of 1900's. He recognised children's art for the amazing achievement that it is (totally disregarded before), lino was easier to cut than wood, enabling children to make 'woodcuts'. Chisek's work came to the fore when Picasso realised how versatile and wonderful linocuts were and used the medium himself. However, the thought of 30 children cutting lino with sharp tools does make me shudder.<br />
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One to one children cutting lino still does work. Look what my 8 year old son achieved the other day. By the way it's an otter if you didn't realise.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-33669879785649536342015-07-01T11:04:00.001+01:002015-07-15T15:10:13.490+01:00Early Summer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Early Summer in this part of the world is lovely.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-87434219193903510392015-03-09T13:09:00.000+00:002015-03-14T23:42:13.633+00:00Making my homeToday I thought I would share with you some of the things I have made for my house.<br />
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I live in a little 1950's terraced house. We have lived here for three years now. When we moved in we had a decorative project on our hands as the poor little house had had any architectural personality wiped out of it in the 1980s leaving us with brown yuk doors and a plethora of beige, beige and questionable wallpaper. With a limited budget and a desire to live life creatively we have played with the aesthetics.<br />
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I know that some of my 'tasteful' ideas you will find questionable, but that isn't really the point. The point is we are having fun making this our own unique home and if some things don't work it doesn't matter because this is an on going project and everything is subject to change, time and finances permitting.<br />
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The kitchen was beige and brown. We painted the tongue and grove white. Then added colour and more colour. The candelabra was sprayed copper and magnetic butterflies added and you can't quite see the shelf that has my collection of coloured glass.<br />
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The spare room was a very dark red. It's now white with a collection of picture frames. The cushions are covered in my fabric designs, although the butterfly cushion is tapestry and took me what felt like eons to make.<br />
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What to do with my fabric samples? Sew them all into patchwork curtains for the window at the top of the stairs.<br />
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This was fun! We ripped up the old disintegrating fluffy blue carpet. Stripped the old paint off the stairs and painted and stained them. The bookcase was an old wooden ladder that we screwed with brackets to the wall and now has our childhood book collections. Then displayed family photos and a few old lovely children's wooden puzzles.<br />
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The entrance hall was a problem with the ugly double glazed plastic 80's door. Not being able to replace it at the moment we have embraced it's questionable design using sign writers vinyl to enhance the glass design. The curtain is original 60's bark cloth and the bench is an old brown wood 40's chest painted with chalk paint and contains Alfred's dressing up costumes<br />
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Paint chips from the DIY shop makes a playful impact in one of the kids bedrooms.<br />
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Little details can make all the difference! The bathroom desperately needs renewing but until then we stained the grout, stained the light pulls and added wooden beads.<br />
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I took these pics on a dull old winters day, when the sun shines the house is full of light.<br />
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Can you tell? I like colour!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-43565690730622834182015-02-22T10:35:00.000+00:002015-02-22T10:35:28.362+00:00Illustration Friday - Metropolis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weeks Illustration Friday is Metropolis. So I thought I would post this little design.<br />
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This is my metropolis, or as metropolitan as my world gets. Although it's an imaginary street, all the buildings can be found in the little market town where I live.<br />
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This design is a fabric but also a wallpaper. I figured it would be great to colour in if you wanted to add a personal twist to your home decor.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-36356975679141479042015-02-16T17:27:00.001+00:002015-02-16T17:27:59.485+00:00Illustration Friday - Sleep<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weeks Illustration Friday word is 'Sleep'.<br />
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I couldn't help but post another of my linocut prints illustrating the classic fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea'. The princess cannot sleep because of a pea placed under a pile of mattresses, there by proving she is a princess as she can only sleep on the most comfortable of beds.<br />
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The my print is coloured with a collage of beautiful Chinese origami paper.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-60887823579177384942015-01-28T16:57:00.001+00:002015-01-28T16:58:06.494+00:00New Products on my Red Bubble shop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have finally had a good sort out on my Red Bubble shop.<br />
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Now you can find all sorts of new products with all sorts of my designs on, including mugs, tote bags, duvet and cushion covers, in addition to the original cards, prints and stickers!<br />
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I think I am going to have a seagull mug as it's my favourite at the moment. <br />
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I live in a small market town called Totnes in Devon U.K. It's sandwiched between the sea and the moor and is an old, pretty, creative little place that I love.</div>
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My sons' school, St Johns Primary, had an art exhibition last week,in a local gallery called Birdwood House. The children took their inspiration from where they live and modern British artists. Using a variety of media they created a beautiful and varied show. </div>
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The children are all aged between four and eleven years old. I think their work is gorgeous, amazing and inspirational, so I just had to show you a few pieces of work from the many on display.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-36001395224739040862015-01-22T08:12:00.000+00:002015-01-22T09:15:08.350+00:00Illustration Friday - Toy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A repeat pattern soon to be available on Spoonflower as a fabric. The toy train is taken from a tiny linocut print.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-21047732564915727402015-01-09T11:31:00.000+00:002015-01-09T11:42:16.497+00:00Illustration Friday - Nefarious<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weeks <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Illustration Friday</span></a></b></span> is 'Nefarious'. I couldn't resist posting this linocut of mine illustrating this man who, I think, looks nefariuos.<br />
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The top image is a photo of 'Summer Leaves', printed on fabric, it's a design I created a while ago with a view to creating a collection based on the drawings. They were an experiment on my part as I wanted free pen drawings.<br />
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This week there is a competition on the Spoonflower site to create a design with 'Fall Leaves' as the theme. This gave me the impetus to play with colours and complete a leafy collection.<br />
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Below are the Winter and Spring!<br />
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......and it might not mean much to anyone else but I'm rather chuffed that the Spoonflower blog chose my 'Autumn leaves' from the many amazing entries as one of the nine designs to promote the competition.<br />
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It's a dull grey Autumn day, not the best for taking photos and showing vibrant colours. But the postman delivered a parcel full of my fabrics and I couldn't resist trying to show you.<br />
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The first shows how my sample swatches arrive. They are 8 inch squares on a basic quilting cotton. I can now check the designs for the colours, the pattern repeat and the scale. If need be I can tweak whatever needs tweaking before I make them available for sale in my <b><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/woodle_doo">Spoonflower Shop</a></span></b>.<br />
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The second image shows my new <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/642124">resized dolls</a></b></span> as cut and sew designs on linen cotton canvas. They are smaller than the original 12 inch dolls, about 8 inches high and will be quicker and easier to make plus you get a set of four (Nellie, Lencie, Arthur and Alfred cousins) on a fat quarter rather than one big Nellie or Lencie or Arthur or Alfred!.<br />
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The third image is of a yard of my ever popular <b><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/720333">campervan</a></span></b> cut and sew kit, with the little surfers who fit in the pockets down the sides so they look like they are driving along inside.<br />
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I have to say I am really pleased with the colour intensity, it's a shame I can't quite show how zingy they are, and I am also impressed with the crisp precision of the printing I just need to adjust the scaling of a few designs. Speaking of which, I have reduced the scale of the monster collection, to make them more useful for a great quilting project and funky kids clothes and they are already for sale <b><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/collections/49907">here</a></span></b>.<br />
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Also my new<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/2455616">Sunflower Calender</a> </span></b>tea towels arrived, but it was impossible to get even a vague impression of the sunniness of the design. When there is some brighter light I will attempt to show you!<br />
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I have created a tea towel 2014 calender using my Sunflower linocut print. I know we are only just hitting November, but if you buy it now <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/2455616">from my Spoonflower shop</a></span></b> you will have time to hem it and then it makes a great Christmas present.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-9680891799214379822013-09-26T11:24:00.000+01:002013-09-26T11:25:55.865+01:00Colour - Reds<br />
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Autumn is here and the garden is popping with every shade of red. They sing against the greens that are still vibrant before the real chill of the season sets in. It creates a beautiful palette.<br />
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Oh!.....and we found a fairy door in the magnolia tree at the bottom of the garden. I am told that Maggie the fairy lives there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-17259094591626270072013-09-24T12:29:00.000+01:002013-09-28T12:15:51.061+01:00Illustration Friday - Together<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weeks Illustration Friday is 'Together', so I found a linocut that I cut a while ago for Hansel and Gretal.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-39119356689978017662013-09-18T14:04:00.000+01:002013-09-18T14:04:13.399+01:00Aqua Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A collection of four fabric designs. All are small scale patterns in simple geometric shapes. (Somewhat different from my usual hand drawn, illustrative designs.) An indulgence in four basic colours that remind me of the sea this beautiful summer just gone.<br />
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Once I see the fabric samples and check the colours, they will be available from my<a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/woodle_doo"> <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Spoonflower shop.</span></b></a></div>
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A sneaky peek at a book I have been illustrating for Plum Tree Books. I'd love to tell you the story but I can't...yet!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-66760859898632447962013-08-18T20:19:00.001+01:002013-08-18T20:19:44.689+01:00Cucamelons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year we have grown cucamelons (or my prefered name mouse melons). It's a new vegetable to me. It's basically a tiny little cucumber that looks like a dolls house sized watermelon. I have to say on first taste I was not impressed, although others loved it. It's quite bitter with a lemony cucumber taste.<br />
What to do with them? As I am a fan of pickles I decided to work out how to do just that and I must say I am much more impressed with the little fruit now. Yum!<br />
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The liquid is 1/2 water to 1/2 vinegar (1/2 distilled vinegar, 1/2 white wine vinegar). Add salt, peppercorns and dill. Bring to a rolling boil, add the cucamelons, bring back to the boil for a minute or two then stuff into sterilised jars. Voila!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-39664116066700246042013-08-17T16:47:00.001+01:002013-08-17T16:47:57.474+01:00Faces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's the Summer holidays, no school! So an on going game for my boys is to find faces in unexpected places. This is a selection of the weird and wonderful expressive photos they have taken so far.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-7380540296096238372013-08-14T13:25:00.001+01:002013-08-14T13:25:18.443+01:00Doll Cousins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just a quickie to say that finally, by popular demand, my dolls are available individually as fat quarters of fabric (specifically Linen Cotton-Canvas) here at <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/collections/63736">Spoonflower</a></b></span>. They are very easy to cut out and sew, all you need is a little patience a needle and thread, some pins and something to stuff them with.<br />
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These four little guys were inspired by my two boys and two of their cousins. The girls use their dolls as cushions on long car journeys.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4838537489244278496.post-34359034557299301052013-07-09T12:04:00.001+01:002013-07-09T12:39:58.323+01:00Kid's Collages and Competitions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have recently been popping into Alfred, my smallest son's school to help with some art projects. These are Reception class's 'Seaside Collages'. (In the U.K. the Reception class is the 4 and 5 year old's in their first year of Primary school.) I think the children created some beautiful work, I'm loving the colours, the textures and all the different materials.</div>
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.....also I thought to mention that I won this brilliant laptop bag from <span style="color: #674ea7;"><b><a href="http://brightcolours.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bright Colours</a></b></span> who make the most lush coloured bags and run regular competitions.<br />
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I sussed a where a photo was taken and to my amazement, as I never normally win anything, £100 and this bag arrived in the post. Perfect for my faithful little Macbook, tablet, sketch book, pencils, phone etc etc....well I always seem to be carrying everything but the kitchen sink! <br />
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