Monday morning.

Monday morning and all is crap! Here is an example of why I am busy. It is just part of the reason.

I have spent the last couple of hours cleaning the kitchen floor. I got up to a blood bath. Alfie's got bad arthritis and keeps falling. When he gets up he drags his paws and he has scrapped a couple of claws to the quick. Simon obviously didn't notice when he let them out this morning. I have stopped the bleeding for now.  

I am going to see if I can get him a little boot.  We used to have one years ago when Rosie cut her foot badly. I am a bit concerned about blood getting on my cream bedroom carpet!  The kitchen floor is at least easily cleanable.  

Unfortunately just noticed that Loulou’s ear is weeping and bleeding. Saw the marks on the kitchen cupboards! You may recall she has a very large tumour? I have bathed it in salt water and am just having coffee before sorting out anything else!

Both babies are currently fast asleep. Breaks my heart too see them old and not in the best of health.

Onwards and upwards.  Lots of housework today. We had a big family BBQ yesterday for Simon’s birthday and I still have some stuff to put away.  Then hopefully it will be sewing time. Provided of course that nothing else occurs!

Missing in action.

Well it is a whole 6 weeks since I have managed to get here to do a blog. I have missed it in a way but nobody here seems to have missed me!  No one has asked where I am or why I disappeared.  That is a good illustration of why Blogger will never quite live up to Multiply.  You couldn't disappear on Multiply for a few hours without someone commenting, forget 6 weeks.  Tis a shame.

Since no one has actually noticed my absence there doesn't really seem much point in doing an update for you!  Suffice it to say that we are all well and that we have been busy!

Actually, I think I might just go back to how I started which was to basically write here for myself, like a diary.  If anyone calls by to have a read it will be a bonus.

Several things are keeping me very busy right now and the main one is my online shop Fabrilushus. It isn't just the sewing, it is all the networking stuff that needs to be done for promotion. Takes forever.

Anyway, tonight I have finally got around to creating a blog for Fabrilushus which you can see here:  Fabrilushus 
There is also a link tab for it at the top of the home page here.  I hope that you will be interested to drop by there and have a look round.

Ok, I'm off to bed now.

Be Happy.

Eating in the UK in the Fifties.

A friend sent me this today and although I wasn't born until the very end of the fifties, most of what is written here still applied throughout my childhood.   However the bit at the end still applies in my house to this day.  

EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES
Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.
A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter.
Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner.
A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking
Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.
Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.
Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
Only Heinz made beans.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised food.
"Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.
Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.
Prunes were medicinal.
Surprisingly muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed.
Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.
Water came out of the tap, if someone had suggested bottling it and

charging more than petrol for it they would have become a laughing stock.
The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties .. was elbows!

More Show and Tell

I know I only just did a "Show and Tell" but  you may as well see what else I have been making and what is keeping me so busy.

Let's get started. I have made 2 new bags.  The first is my ordinary tote bag.  This one has a little yoyo decoration.

This one is a different design, sort of rounded and slouchy.  I LOVE this doggie fabric. This bag comes complete with one of my felt brooches which can be removed.

While we are on the subject of doggies I may as well show you a very simple make...... a doggie fleece blanket with knotted fringe.

I have made a few baby items this last week.  Here is a fleece burp cloth.

A Ribbon blankie for a baby girl. It has a lovely textured back.

I have made some little hanging hearts in baby fabrics and filled them with lavender.   Hopefully these will get baby off to sleep.

Key rings are something new for me and I have made 3 so far.

I have made 8 new felt brooches using a different finish to normal.  These ones are blanket stitched together.

Well, I think that is about it for March.  I have got other things that I have been working on but I will show them another day.  I am still in the process of setting up a new blog specifically for Fabrilushus.  I also have exciting news coming soon regarding another outlet for my goodies.

I will hopefully find time to do another blog in the next few days.

Show and tell for the end of March

Well here we go, time to show you all the rest of the things that I have made in the second half of the month.
More hanging pillows.  This one says Hope.

The next one has the word Dream and it is not currently for sale.  It will probably be a gift for someone.

This is another version of the dream hanging cushion and this one is for sale.

I have made another ribbon taggie blanket.  This one is in 2 kinds of Minky fabric and has white towelling on the back.

This is another one of my tote bags.  I like the colours in this one.

Some more hanging hearts.

A couple of brooches.  First a new kind, which is kind of shabby chic so the stitching shows as do the cut threads and they form part of the design.

Some new felt heart brooches in mint and pink which apparently are the on trend colours for spring.

The weather here is rotten, really rotten.  It is cold, wet and windy and today we are even supposed to get more snow. Lots of the country is already buried under snow.  We seem stuck in winter.  Sping is definitely running late.  When I think of spring I think of tulips and daffodils. So to cheer myself up I came up with a tulip design.

First of all I made a cushion for my bedroom.  I was so pleased with it that I then made a wall hanging for Fabrilushus.

This is the cushion.

 Here is the wall hanging.

Well, I originally wrote this around 2 weeks ago and it just never got published. Thank fully since I wrote it spring seems to be finally on it's way.