Your Help Please!

Now ladies I need your help please.

I desperately need some lovely big red shiny beads just like the ones above.

What do you think girls? Where can I buy some big cherry beads about 13mm in diameter? The ones in the picture were a lucky find in a charity shop.

I look forward to your comments, I know you won't let me down.

There'll be no more cupcakes with out them!
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Till next time

love fi x
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PS Thanks for all the Maisy love.

Bake or Fake!

Hello Ladies, first things first. I would just like to say thank you to Lyn at Everyday Life for giving me this award.
The 'Lemonade' award is for "seeing blessings where they're not obvious and make lemonade instead if complaining about sour lemons"

Thank you sweetie.

And talking of lemons... This is lemon layer pudding.


This pudding is all mixed together in one bowl but then during baking, separates, leaving sponge on the top and lemon sauce on the bottom!


Pure genius! No need to make custard!
I need to find a chocolate recipe!
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Well that was the real deal and now for a little 'fake baking'

Mince pies!
All made from fabric of course.

A little bit of sticky mince meat oozing from under the lid.

Hmmm..... can you smell them. Tee hee!

I love the little red berries, three different red beads.

It's no good, I'm going to have to make some real ones!

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Pretty new fabric

Hello ladies. Look at these scrummy fat quarters.

Aren't they pretty? I can hardly bare to unfold them as they look so lovely.

Well you would think 12 fat quarters in one go would be enough, but look I didn't even make it out of the shop and I'd picked up another couple of lovely fabrics! I'm sure they placed the basket of fabrics directly in my path!

This is my latest 'cake', I was trying out different beads on the top to see which look best. I've found it very difficult to find big red beads that look like cherries to go on the top of the cake. Where ever I go I keep an eye out for bracelets and necklaces and ...well anything that might have big beads on it. I've searched the Internet to buy new beads but they are soooo expensive for the size I need. (about 18mm)

These beads are taken from 2 bracelets and I know they look nothing like red cherries but using a little bit of artistic licence, I think they are quite passable.

As long as it looks at first glance as if you could stick your finger in it, scoop up a big blob of creamy icing and lick it. Then I'm happy!

Kirstie who?

Hello my lovely bloggy friends.

I don't know quite where to start today. I've been dibble dabbling in a few different things lately. I've been knitting, sewing, crocheting and most interestingly of all... painting!

Do you remember this old, old, old kitchen cupboard from this post last August? No of course you don't because it was an embarrassingly long time ago.

Well we've finally started to do it up. We've been waiting for some decent dry, not too windy weather to take it outside and sand it down; it doesn't say much for our weather here does it!

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A quick recap: We spotted it laying on its side in the rain, outside a cottage in a neighbouring village. Cheekily left a note written on the back of an old receipt asking if it was being thrown out. Twenty four hours later three of us were straining to lift it into the back of our car (it weighs a tonne!) Eat your heart out Kirstie Allsopp!

Strange as it seems, I wasn't too keen on the 'battle ship grey' paintwork, so its being painted cream and pink. I can't wait to get it finished.
And I think my new Sanderson fabric might be ok behind the glass of the cupboard doors. We'll have to see when its finished.

Oh and I've been really enjoying making more cupcakes. Calorie free of course!

Love Fi x

Rabbiting On. (again)

Well I promised you bunny parts, and that's what your going to get, but first a little message for Alex at Pink Feather Paradise...

It's on its way!

Carefully packaged up and in the care of Royal Mail.

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Bunny

The prototype

The second bunny, more the shape I had in mind.

Actually wonderful man thinks it looks more like a hare!

Maybe that's because the ears are so big?

Gosh! Now there are two! They're breeding like ra.....

New Fabric and Hearts.

Well, my house guest went home today. We've had a lovely week. Lots of chatting, some shopping, a visit to Farfield Mill at Sedbergh, Lakeland at Windermere, and my favourite Embsay Craft Mill near Skipton. Oh yes, shelves and shelves of fabric, sewing notions, yarn, embroideries, paper crafts and the cherry on the cake... it's own little cafe! What more could a girl ask for?

I made a couple of purchases. Well I couldn't come away empty handed and disappoint you all, could I?

This is my favourite. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. A little applique maybe?

This one comes a close second.

Just had to have this fat quarter.

And some embroidery threads.

Yep, there's definitely some applique and hand embroidery on the cards.

After all that newness, I would like to share one of my recycling tips with you.

Keep your eye out for cheap bags when your in the charity shops. This one cost me a £1.75 and after I'd butchered it with a pair of sharp scissors;

I've gained a zip, a magnetic fastener and two little clippy things with matching D rings! What a bargain!

Shopping is all well and good, but I got down to some crafting this afternoon. We've been thinking about Valentines Day at work, and need something eye catching to advertise our Valentines Day disco.

A piece of underlay fibre board, cut into a heart shape. It was very easy to cut and it's also very light.

Covered both sides with fabric.

Hopefully this will hang in the window and we can pin our adverts on both sides.

I've also stitched together a strand of pink hearts to hang from the ceiling, we'll needs lots of these. I'm not sure I had my machine on the right setting for these, as it didn't seem to like sewing them. Any suggestions?

That's about it for today girls. Oh, the dusty old Singer Sewing Machine. It lives on one of the landing windowsills at work. Quite forlorn and forgotten. As you can see it's in need of some TLC. Well quite a lot of TLC actually as it doesn't work. I'll keep you posted...