Yoohoo Guess Who- is there anybody still following my blog???

Well hello blogettes yep, It's me, Andie, long time no write eh.
 I wonder if anyone will see my blog? its been quite a while since I wrote it last.
 I got out of the habit of writing it before christmas as I was busy with orders for Andies Accessories and after that I've felt like I've lost my blogging mojo, but after a chat with Chrissy earlier this week I thought I'd have another go and try and write at least one entry a week.
So here goes here's this week. 
I was a little worried that  I wouldn't be able to even write an entry because just lately I've had a bit of trouble leaving comments on friends blogs I follow, but today I finally managed to leave comments so yippeeeeeeeee.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm right now I'm here what shall I write about???? well .......... erm............. I don't know now, maybe I have lost my bloggin mojo, this may take a bit of getting back into.
Ok well what have I been up to lately? well I've been sewing a lot. I just love sewing, both by hand and machine, but just lately I seem to be really enjoying handsewing. I think its partly because I can sit in the living room with the tv on and chat to Paul while I'm sewing.  Also no matter how long I have free time wise I can fit a bit of handsewing in, whereas if I machine stitch I have to get the machine out and set it up on the kitchen table and sit in there alone so I tend to only machine sew when I have a full day free to go at it.
So what have I made this week, well I did get the machine out this week as I had a free day and thought I'd take the opportunity to get the machine out. I made this fleece cushion cover with a seperate removable inner cushion.

I also did some handsewing on a few evenings, making some felt keyrings. Firstly I made some in the style of the emoticon/smileys we use when texting/chatting on social media sites. I made the wink, cool sunglasses and happy smiling ones.

And then I made some heartshape ones in different felts with little wooden heart shape buttons.

I sold a couple of these yesterday so that was nice.

Besides sewing things I finally got around to starting the long put off job of checking and sorting the stock for my jewellery website and today I have reduced a few items and put them in the special offers section. I will be reducing some more pieces soon and I have some pieces I made but never got round to putting online to add to the site too so I'm hoping to get those photographed and added within the next week .
My jewellery site has been quiet recently and I have been thinking of giving it up but I have lots of pieces made and lots more beads here so thought I'd hang onto it a little longer and see what happens. I'm not expecting much change though to be honest as more or less everywhere you go sells jewellery now and its so easy to pick a piece up while yourout  buying something else,  so why would people come and look online and wait for it being delivered. Also the fashion at the moment seems to be big bold pieces and that isn't really my style but my web hosting doesn't run out till autumn so I'll hang on for a bit longer and see.
At least I'll have plenty of jewellery to choose from when I feel like a new a piece, while sorting it out the other day I took a few pieces out of stock to keep for myself.
Well I think thats enough from me for now so night night blogettes, keep blogging and I hope someone has read this lol
Andie x

Saw this on a friends blog ramblings of a rusty mind and so decided to join in and have a go myself.I bet out of everyone that does it my answers are the longest cos I do tend to go on. I've tried to keep them short but well you know me girls my short answer is most peoples long.
Right here goes A to Z of me



A - Age - 39 aarrgghhh !1 year away from 40

B - Bed size - Double, would quite like a king but anything bigger than double and I'm not close enough to nudge Mr Super snorer when he gets too loud


C - Chores you hate - All of them!!! I HATE housework but if I have to pick one ..IRONING ooh I HATE IRONING with a vengance


D - Dogs - Scared of them, prefer cats like my gorgeous baby Lucy

E - Essential start to your day - Tea, love it milk two sugars not too strong please, usually have it with bowl of cereal like special K


F - Favourite colour - Ooh dunno too hard to pick blue pink red purple green ....

G - Gold or Silver- Varied over  the years but mostly silver


H - Height - 5'7 ish used to be 5'7 and 3/4's but my posture has gone to pot now so prob at least lost the 3/4s if not more


I - Instruments you play - None properly but I do have a light up electronic keyboard that I like to have a tinkle on


J - Job title - Lazy bones and very lax housewife, also make stuff but thats not a job thats a pleasure


K - Kids - None, never been that lucky


L - Live - Barnsley, South Yorkshire

M - Mother's name - Ros or if you're being proper Rosalene


N - Nickname - Andie, much prefer this to my proper name which I have NEVER liked. Mind you as a child I wanted to be called Diane after Miss Diane off crossroads, I'm so glad now that mum and dad didn't take me serious and change my name cos I dont think it suits me and I don't know anyone named Benny now lol


O - Over night hospital stays - None, not even when I was born cos I was born at home, scared stiff of day I have to stay in one, hopefully never will


P - Pet peeves - Too many to mention, I'm quite a grumpy person I am, but I don't like people who act like what they own, or what jobtitle they have makes them a better person than someone else


Q - Quote from a film - Life is like a box of chocolates- you never know what you're gonna get, love Forest Gump


R - Right or left handed - Right


S - Siblings - Big sister Alison


T - Time you wake up - Usually later than I should


U - Underwear - Big on the bottom small on the top,


V - Vegetable you hate - Green beans uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh


W - What makes you run late - Panicking- have I forgot something, is everything turned off, do I look okay, have I locked up, I'm always always in a rush to leave

X - X-rays you've had - Shoulder, chest, don't think had any others

Y - Yummy food you make - I'm not a very good cook and use a lot of prepared food but I like to make stews in my slow cooker and enjoy the tarts etc I make at christmas


Z - Zoo animal - Monkeys chimps etc- gives me the perfect opportunity to joke that they want hubby back in the enclosure, otherwise not really a zoo fan.

Hi girls. Well my cold has more or less gone now, thankfully it wasnt too bad a cold either so I've still ahd a good week. Hubby is back to work tomorrow, boohoo for him bless him, and to make things worse he has to go in really early for two days too so he'll be up at 3 in the morning. It will come as a shock to him as this past week we havent been going to bed till well after midnight and some nights after one and we've not getting up till 10 ish.
We carried on taking life easy for the rest of his week off and didn't do much except laze around and relax. I did some more sewing and made some more christmas decorations on wednesday afternoon and thursday. On friday we did some housework inthe morning and had pauls mum and dad over in the afternoon, we usually visit them but they wanted us to look for something on the computer for them so they came to us for a change, they were here from about half two until nine and then we dropped them home so I had a day off sewing and crafting on friday.
I got back to it yesterday though and started a scarf in the afternoon for my sisters mother in law, I've still got quite a lot of it to do but in the evening I had a change from knitting and while watching xfactor I made a few christmas tree brooches.

Busy week

 Well its been a bit of a busy and exciting week, last week our nephew Matt who lives with us went off to Australia backpacking for a year. The few days before he went I was busy washing and ironing his clothes so he had plenty to choose from and then on thursday we took him to the airport to see him off. I hope he enjoys himself and keeps safe.

All loaded up and ready to go

A years worth of stuff in there??? not if I was packing lol

Last week I had a message from a lady interested in buying some of my Andies Accessories items for her to resell so after a couple of emails between us she placed an order and I set about making the things required. Most of the weekend I was busy stitching away and finished the order on monday evening and then posted it tuesday. Here's hoping she's happy with my items and they sell well and then maybe she'll want more.

I also had facebook order on Tuesday so made that up and posted it off today. 
After all this making I was running very low on felt and a couple of colours of thread so hubby took me and mum to hobbycraft yesterday afternoon and I went wild in the felt aisle and also bought a few others bits from the rest of the shop too, well you have to dont you lol.

Couple of dozen pieces of felt couple of meters of fabric some thread and a few other bits and bobs that caught my eye

Hubby and I had planned to start painting the kitchen this week as he'd taken thursday off to take Matt to the airport and decided he'd take friday and the whole of this week off too, because of my order we decided to postpone the painting for a couple of days and now I've developed a bit of a cold so we've put it off for a bit longer. I don't feel upto climbing up and down steps painting and also don't fancy the smell of paint which usually gives me a bunged up nose and sore throat anyway, luckily its not a bad cold so hopefully it will be gone soon and we can crack on.
So instead of painting hubby has been reading and relaxing today and after putting yesterdays purchases away earlier on I'm going to get my bigshot out now and cut some more hearts out from the new material I've bought.
Happy crafting girls xx

Hello Bloggettes,  I've done it again and left it ages before posting a blog, only just over a week this time inbetween posts but I just seem to have got out of the groove of writing them at the moment. So anyway here I am today, just a quickie though I think that my dinner will be ready soon.
I've been shopping this week. First off I bought a few cards from Chrissy  These are the designs I chose

They are amazing as they always are from Chrissy and Hubby and I will be very pleased to send them out this christmas.

Then I bought a cute little sign from folksy seller Handmade for you by Elaine

Then on wednesday we popped to our local b&m for a few bits and ended up coming home with a few more items than we intended, we bought 2 new ottomans for our bedroom to keep the bedding in,  the one we had just wasn't big enough so we've bought a couple of smaller ones that give us more space.,we also got some new cannisters and a decorative sign spelling BAKE which is ready for when we repaint the kitchen soon.

I've also been busy stitching this week as I've had a few more orders for some more christmas hearts and decorations. It looks like the robin hearts and rudolphs are the favourites as I've sold more of these than any other style. I've run out of the robin fabric now and also had to swap the ribbon on my rudolphs too as I ran out of the one I was using before. Hubby popped out to the range in leeds yesterday during his lunch break and bought me ten more roles of different christmas ribbons so I've replenished my ribbon stock this week too.

rudolph can you iron????

Just a quickie today as I'm suppsoed to be ironing and well everyone must know by now how much I hate that so I'm putting it off a bit longer lol. I know I shouldnt but I just cant help it. I've just been reading blogs while I pass the time delaying the ineveitable.  I just posted a comment on Chrissys blog and as usual have rambled on and on and on, I think my comment is longer than her blog!!!! I really must learn to be more succinct.
On a crafty note I made a couple more christmas decorations last night, this time round I made felt rudolphs. I've been meaning to make reindeers for a while but didn't get around to it and then earlier this week I saw Chrissys wonderful leaping reindeer card and thought ooh yes I was going to make some reindeers so last night I finally got around to it. It took me a while to find the right template for it. Inspired by Chrissy's card where she added a red pearl gem to her reindeer nose I decided to add a red bead to my little rudolphs. I do hope you don't mind me using your idea Chrissy.
You can view chrissy cards here http://www.chrissysforcards.blogspot.com/ and here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chrissys-for-Cards/

I would much rather be sewing more little rudolphs or other things than ironing this afternoon but I suppose I better go and get on with it. What a shame rudolph can't iron and then I could make a whole army of them and sit here watching them whizz through my ironing for me.
Anyway here's my non ironing rudoph to say hello to you all

Ironing you must be joking !!!

Some days you just shouldnt bother

Hello blogettes do you ever have one of those days where you think you shouldn't have bothered? I had one of those yesterday. I tried crafting but it just didn't seem to go right and hours after I started I had nothing I was happy with to show for it.
It was my own fault though yesterday as I woke up in a funny mood, I was still tired and bit dopey when I got up (no jokes there girls I know I'm always a bit dopey) and also in a 'cant settle and can't be bothered' mood. I don't know why cos theres no reason for me to feel like that at the moment but heyho, there I was in my funny mood.
I'd even struggled to get into the groove chatting online with Eily in the morning, so after doing a bit of housework that was bugging me because I knew it needed doing, I thought I know I'll get my machine out and have a go at a couple of ideas I've been thinking of making recently,  that will perk me up.
BIG MISTAKE  I think I would have been better off sitting quiety in a room n throwing material away then spending hours making the couple of things I did.
First thing I tried making was a little purse for when you have a small bag and don't have room for a big one, I didnt want to just have a simple coin purse so I added a pocket at the front for cards/ notes as well as a zip up coin section and a fold over button up flap to cover it up when closed.I used my Cath Kidston strawberry fabric and set about making a pattern and cutting the pieces out.
First go at stitching the flap I went too far in and didn't realise till after I'd clipped the seam alowance at the corners so it was too late to unpick and sew again which meant the flap was now narrower than I intended it to be. Next when stitching the purse together I got stuck on the metal zip end and broke my machine needle. Then the button hole didn't go right, for some reason the machine stitching was loose on the first section. In the end I wasn't very happy with the purse at all. I think it looks amateurish and I don't like the way the zip lies although I don't know how to get round that on something so small.

After the purse fiasco I decided to try another idea I'd had which was a magnetic pad and pen holder, I didn't have problems making this but I think I picked the wrong material as its too busy and send my eyes a bit funny. Also I'm not too sure of the idea at all now anyway even in another material so more wasted time.

Feeling rather deflated I took a break for dinner but then I thought I'd try again and finish the day with something easy. I decided on a blue felt cushion with the word 'love' appliqued on it.