Cushion week

Hello girls me again and this week on time yippeeeeeeeeeeee.yay. So I hope everybody is well, (Chrissy I hope your bug has left the building now) I hope you are all able to get out and about and aren't snowed in.
Luckily we haven't had much snow here in Barnsley which is good as I don't like it, sorry for those who like it, but to me it just causes too much trouble for us as a country, we just can't cope with it. It brings power lines down, makes roads impassible, causes road surfaces to crack, causes peoples pipes to freeze, build ups of snow on fragile roofs can cause them to break under the weight, people slip and break bones on it, the thaw can cause flooding, ooh and no end of other problems we seem to have.I know it can look pretty sometimes and its fun to make a snowman, go sledging and things but everytime I hear there's a chance of it I panic and dread it. So there you go there's my bah humbug bit.
I had worried that last weekends snow might stop me meeting my friend from Chesterfield for our planned  trip to Meadowhall on Monday but luckily even though she had more snow than us  the roads near her  were fine so we both made it for our shopping trip and it was a fun day.
This week on the crafting front I've been making cushions. On wednesday I felt like getting the machine out and sewing so thats what I did. It had a fab day in the kitchen singing away to my cds while I revved away on the sewing machine, making 4 cushions.

Well it was fab till my machine went wrong and started stitching really loose underneath. I had a good old fiddle tryed all the things suggested when I googled the problem but in the end I had to give up and pack it away unfixed,
On thursday I was thinking I may have to buy a new machine especially as I'd had a request for a personalised cushion for a customer so I decided to have one last look at it on thursday evening, fiddled a bit more and somehow got it working again, not sure how long for but it seems ok now. Touch wood it keeps working as I have that cushion to stitch up now the applique is done on the front and also I now have another one to make which was requested on friday by another customer.
In other news our nephew Matt who's been living with us for the last few years came back from his trip to  Australia today. We went to the airport this morning for him, sign in hand which my mum pinched as soon as we got there lol. After a 26 hour travelling time where he didn't manage hardly any sleep and a 10 hour time difference he arrived very tired but chatty and giddy. It reminded me of when he used to come and stay as a kid and he'd get overtired and be running around in chatty giddy mode before zonking out which he did at about teatime today. I don't know if he'll stay asleep overnight or end up awake and prowling round in the middle of the night.
Right well hubby has nodded off on the sofa now and is merrily snoring and heavy breathing away so I think I'll go now and ship him off to bed.
Ooh almost forgot I also made a little friend for Dotty my felt dolly I made last week, her name is Freda

Oops one week in and I nearly forgot to write my blog this week

Hi blogettes nearly forgot to write my blog entry this week, not a good start is it. I only decided to start again trying to write at least one entry a week last saturday and already i'm a day late oopsy daisy.
Hubby will tell you I'm always late for everything, well I'm not ALWAYS late, but quite often I'm on the last push no matter how early I plan to be ready something always comes up n delays me.
Anyway here I am with this weeks entry, ooh that makes me think of listening to the charts on the radio when I was young '' and in at number one its this weeks new entry 'oops nearly forgot my blog'''
So what have I been upto this week? As usual not a lot of housework :0 shock horror yes I know I'm a lazy housewife. Quite a bit of sewing :) yippee and some shopping :):) double yippee.
I started my week off with a bit of shopping from Julies new website. I saw a fantastic little cottage pincushion on her blog which was iresistable so I went over to her new website and bought it quick before someone else bet me to it. It came early  this week and is gorgeous, at the moment its displayed on a shelf in the kitchen next to my teapot with the teacozy Jacqui knitted me last year.

mines the blue one

On sunday evening I made a little lavender filled bear, it was a bit of a pain as its only small and turning it out the right way and getting the lavender in all the small limbs was awkward but I do like him.

On Monday I couldn't decide what to have a go at there were so many things I fancied doing and I couldn't decide but then I popped on facebook and someone had asked for a cushion and a heart decoration making so there it was decided for me which is good because decissions along with punctuality and housework are not my strong point lol.

I had another order via facebook this week too but the items were ready made so I didn't need to sew them.
On tuesday my mum came over and we spent the day knitting and chatting we're both knitting baby blankets despite the fact neither of us have any babies.
On wednesday I made a lavender bunny and bird as friends for lavender ted they are both much easier than ted to make.

Then I decided to try another ted, well three attempts later they were all in the bin and no more teddies were made and I'm not sure if they will ever be.
Thursday and friday beside doing some housework and the dreaded ironing were spent getting together some stock for the shop that has some of my jewellery on display and taking it in. It was ncie to see Jan the shop owner again and have a catch up but I don't know how long I'll keep on taking things in cos I still think i'll give up with the jewellery soon.
Yesterday we went shopping as I needed some more cushion filling, some white cotton material  and I also bought a few fleece throws which I use for cushion covers etc.
Then last night I decided to try making a little felt dolly that I had been given a pattern for out of an old magazine a friend of my mum had found. The longest part was the hair as I figured out how to attach it and get it to come round and over her face but I did enjoy making her and think I'll probably make more. I don't know what I'll do with them though if I make them as I don't really think people will want to buy them and I'm a bit old for dolls.

Right so there you go girls thats my week and another long rambly blog done. Hope everyone is well and not snowed in, we only have a thin covering nothing to write home about.

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.