Little Presents for Special Friends

Pam's sister gave this tiny cup to Pam

Pam needed a pin cushion but not a tiny cup

Pam gave me the tiny cup to make a pin cushion with

I made it for Pam before P.I.P.S this morning

and this made Pam smile

Awesome!

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My creative space - day 22 of Blogtober fest

Today my work bench in my little pink, green, brown and orange space that we now refer as Lady Land thanks to a funny commercial on TV, is covered in a wedding dress. I was about to throw it away as it had no sentimental value and no end of coaxing would make my daughter want it because there was no sentimental attachment for her either to an event that took place in it a life time ago which is a bit sad but oh well. But then I remembered with much sentimental value the journey my mother and I had in the making of this dress. Her making, me whining and my best friend laughing because no one had EVER seen me in a dress before.
My mum made it in 9 weeks whilst working 2 jobs as a single mum and I remember every pin prick she delivered as she nipped and tucked. Where they on purpose? Who knows? I mean I was a little bugger of a kid so ....

So anyhow, I decided to hunt down the woman's weekly craft book that Elsie gave me because I fell in love with the picture below. I have rummaged and found my daughters first little flower girl dress, her lace from her first canopy princess bed ( I know, I went over board) and various lace and bits from through out my life that I have stashed

I am very excited about this. I have never done a quilt before.....Help!!!
To see what other arty crafty sorts have on the go, check out Kootoyoo's blog
I am off to finish building shelves in the walk in robe now ( man land) which is what started all of this finding hidden dresses in the first place.
Cheers all
Melanie

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Lilac

Love it..........

Smell it.........

Look at it ......

It is always worth the wait.

Love Spring

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An what about this gorgeous weather we are having...

What would have been blogtoberfest post 14 but was so busy, forgot to hit post. So much for a well planned month of blogging

..........This is where I volunteer.




Just thought I would share the images I gaze at as I wander around, breathing it all and feeling peaceful.

100 year old wysteria. I bet it knows things of old and long forgotten.......

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Trash talk- tober

Now this is my kind of recycled art.

Lamps made from unwanted car parts and other metal components.

My cousin Gary makes these.

Yes, making stuff out of rubbish runs in the family and these lamps are quite stylish as well as being very blokey.

Gary takes it one step further in his recycling efforts by locating items that large companies are going to fill up our landfill with even though the items may just have a printing error on the packaging. These companies will remain nameless but they would rather throw perfectly good items, and masses of them, into landfill, rather than give them away or bother to sell them as seconds.

So its a good thing we have people like Gary. I would like to nick name them The Rubbish Police but that doesn't sound very flattering does it? I would also like to see Gary wearing a Cape as he protects our planet from these polluting perpetrators. OK OK sorry Gary, I went off into cartoon super hero world then, as I am prone to do.

Looking forward to showing off his next work of art.

Cheers all

Melanie

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