Whatever you call it, it was designed with the MAN stitcher in mind (er YES, they do exist!)
Oooh , i am proud of him. He is my first prototype and a second or third design might vary... but for now, here it is!
P.S also saleable to nerdy science type ladies who also like space n' stuff x
Thursday 16th April
Dress to get MESSY!
All great fun...
Before.... oh lordy, this area beside my bed was choking with dust and filled - just FILLED with piles of magazines, stock catalogues, books, journals, pens, beauty products, old cups of water...
Look at it now!! i can breathe, i can move, i can get into my bed!
The desk comes down so i can write on it if i want - or, more importantly, i can reach my cup of tea....
Me = happy with new cabinet and happy because i had a fantastic break this week x x x
And as a sort of 'p.s' i meant to tell you - i was given the Cath Kidston MAKE! book for my birthday the other week.
So, .... where am i going? ummmm - don't go hating on me just because I am having a break and i so very much deserve it...
I am going to 'Champneys' darling x if you please - HERE to be precise.
It might sound like a boast but it really isn't x promise! We haven't hadn't a proper holiday in years and this was a birthday treat for each of us who have a birthday within 3 weeks of each other. It is our Mummy and Daughter love-in time and i hope one day i will do such things with my girl? But, for now, she can have 'Daddy Time' as THIS is grown-up ladies only! x x x
It came with Oddments that the ticket insisted were "Victorian"....! Like the Sewing Box itself.... i think not. Which is how i haggled them down in price (lesson #1 never pay full price for anything)
I have intent for it though - it wasn't purchased 'on a whim'. I wanted a carry box that had all my silks in and some buttons / scissors etc... that i can plop in front of me when I am shattered and i want to sit and watch 'Waterloo Road' on a wednesday night. Also easily transportable if i am off to my mums for weekend.... (who needs clean pants? there is only room in my car for one overnight bag, and this is now it)
Threads came with it - i haven't yet re-packed it with my treasures...
And may i sneakily introduce this *new* cushion too? I photographed the Sewing Box in front of it as it looks especially scrumptious...
I CONFESS... i was literally leaving John Lewis the other day, i was 'almost' out of the door... and it was sat there, on a shelf - alone! My sister said to me "you can't live without that now can you?" and i replied "Now i have seen that it exists -no, i cannot live without it"
I do lurve my acrylic felt and i prefer it for larger, more structured felt pieces, but these are a smaller pack useful for 'details' and smaller felt projects.
Each piece is 6 x 5 inch / 12 x 15cm so great for brooches etc...
These are the colours (i have named them all HERE)
I LOVED making these toadstools from the pack too!
Then we have SmallFish wearing a respectable pair of real goggles ... of course, we are nowhere near a swimming pool...
MrsB and I deciding whether the glasses were better in black or red (they had white too)...
I love this colour and these glasses - i remind myself of an 80's pop album cover, very 'Depeche Mode' or something?
I did wear these as part of my party outift at the weekend (it was a very black and pink combination)
And to finish off, CraftyFish doing silent movie stills, in the privacy of her own photographic studio ...(aka The Bathroom)
