150th Post Givewaway Reminder

I just wanted to send a reminder that tomorrow is the closing date for my 150 Followers Giveaway,

I will draw the winner tomorrow late afternoon/evening and will add all entries up until I make the draw.

♥ Thanks to all who have already entered I am delighted that you like my little makes! ♥

p.s. tomorrow will be my 100th post - yikes - so in recognition of this I will give a second gift to a second luck lady, see you have just doubled your chance of winning something without even trying :)

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Made In Newcastle

I mentioned the charity auction organised by Made In Newcastle well I gave them a visit yesterday and what a lovely place, this is my idea of heaven. Have a look at all the wonderful goodes for sale, it is a real treasure trove of beautiful handmade delights, I will let the photo's speak for themselves:

Beautiful softies, felt pop tarts, dolls, teddies and trinkets.

And on the way out there was pretty bunting to hide the ugly alarms:

Made In Newcastle can be found at 22 Nun Street, Newcastle City Centre, NE1 5AQ and is open Tuesday to Saturday. For more information visit http://www.madeinnewcastle.blogspot.com/.

This is not just a shop, if you are in the North East and near Newcastle pop in and have a look , I defy you not to find something in there you would want.

Oh, by the way this is the little bundle I left with them for the auction, I hope a few pennies are generated to go towards a good cause.

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Future Knitting Antics

I had a quick shuffle round the charity shops at the weekend and came across these lovely knitting patterns. I am not a knitter as such, I can knit, but have not made anything substantial since I was at school, and even then it was a one armed angora jumper (I got bored).

I plan to get back into knitting sometime soon and I just had to have these when I saw them for 20p each. There was a whole box full of patterns that someone had donated and I wanted them all, but settled for these:

How cool are these, mosters to knit, Frankenstein's monster, mummies and witches:

This is one of my favourites from this booklet, can you see him...

...of course not it's the invisible man!

I got ten of these Beatrix Potter Nursery Collection Patterns, here are just a few:

I checked google and these are selling on ebay for £25 each!!!

And this cushion and blanket pattern:

I got lots of these doll patterns including this one which is similar to a rag doll I had when I was a kid, this is Cinderella:

Who flips to show, Cinderella ready for the ball!

Ain't she pretty?

Some christmas makes:

This one made me think of Char, knitted dinosaurs:

There is a full book of those topsy turnabout dolls:

This little guy bears a striking resemblance to Peter the Disabled Duck from Harry Hill's TV Burp:

I generally find clowns spooky, bit these ones are quite sweet:

Here is another moving doll, here she is sleeping:

and on the other side...

She is awake!

How about a knitted Sunday Lunch, most odd?

These may be a bit ambitious but I will get there I'm sure.

On a different note following my post about getting healthy the other day I have decided to get to grips with the healthy living and have made a start by joining Slimming World. I joined on Wednesday night, I was stunned to see how heavy I was I must have had my head in the sand. Anyway I am up for this and ready to make a change, so I might bleat on about it from time to time.

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Charity Auction - Newcastle

I saw a request recently from the Newcastle Craft Mafia.

If any of you talented people are in the North East and are willing; Made in Newcastle are holding a Charity Auction in aid of Crisis Skylight and they are looking for kind donations.

They are looking for art donations of any kind and the donations wil be exhibited in the Made In Newcastle Store between the 21st and the 25th September. The auction will be held on Saturday 25th September at 3pm.

I am planning to take some stuff along, if you are interested please contact them via email or pop into their store at 22 Nun Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne (opposite Reflex, near the Grainger Market).
If you can't dontate and you are in Newcastle they are well worth a look, snipped from their blog:

Made In Newcastle is the inspirational centre for creativity in our city.

Occupying a four story empty shop, Made In Newcastle sells beautiful and interesting work made in Newcastle.

The space has an informal meeting area in which all are welcome and generous workshop space for free use to anyone wanting to run creative events and classes.

Made In Newcastle objects to the monopolisation of our city centre by multi-national companies and to the narrow-minded regeneration policies that have led to this.

This is our city, full of creativity.

Join us and show that Newcastle can make it!'"

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Still Hookin'

Well I am continuing on the crochet theme, it has gotten a hold on me. From the magazine I bought that I made the spooky doll from, I followed the pattern for the hats and came up with these. I need to get some practice in for making baby bits and pieces for my friend's baby.

This one was made following the pattern:

For this one I amended the pattern and used two rows of double crochet and 1 row of treble crochet repeated.

These were all made with the wool supplied with the magazine, and they are infants hats aged up to 6 months. They were really easy to do and I loved making them.

These I made using the double and treble stitches and using a cream and white wool which has turned out quite neuteral.

I made a little flower to add, but I have not attached it yet. If I made these for a little boy I would have to leave the flower off or add something else. Any ideas of what I could add for a little boy?

I need to find a pattern for some mittens now.

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Your'e Going Places Baby

"You're going places, baby" award from Bethany (thanks honey x).
The rules are simple. Recipients simply have to state where they think they'll be in ten years.

This is not an easy question, and I was intrigued to be asked it as I had really not given it any thought at all. I am happy now, I am the happiest I have ever been, I have wonderful happy kids, a wonderful husband who I adore and who adores me and a job I don't hate (can't say I love it at the minute!).
In terms of our family in 10 years time our littlest ones will be 21 (OMG, that's scary), what is even more scary is that the oldest ones will be almost 26, and I could be a granny by then!!!!!!!
I guess my hubbie and I will be looking to make ourselves a different kind of life with grown up kids.

With that in mind in ten years time . I hope to:

• Be healthy ~ I have been feeling a bit unwell recently and it makes you more aware of your mortality I guess, I need to get more sleep and excercise if I am to stay healthy.

image: google images (moviemart.in)

• Be a good mother to my grown up kids (yikes) ~ not sure how this will pan out but I am hoping to be the sort of Mother they can come to if they need me, but someone who does not live in their pockets and try to cling on.





image: Google Images (tvscoop.tv)

• Be doing less hours at work ~ this is an important one, we spend so much of our lives at work and I don't want to make as much money as I can before I die, I want to live and enjoy this precious short life whilst I can, so once the kids are old enough to support themselves this is something we are keen to do.

image: google images (blog.cyclope-series.com)

• Be spending more time relaxing/ crafting ~ this is something I can do when I am not working as much.
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• Be living somewhere different ~ I love Northumberland and have lived here for 8 years now but I originate from Durham, and Durham always pulls at me. I am gypsy at heart though and have never really felt at home anywhere, this is the closest I have come and the longest I have lived anywhere. I am 36 now and have lived in 14 different houses.

My beautiful Durham City, image:google images (keithboyarmstong.blogspot.com)

• Have lost a few of stone ~ this is tied in with the healthy bit, I have creaking bits now I am getting older and I know my poor knees are going to suffer for the excess weight I carry (sorry knees). Apart from the obvious health benefits I need to get on track and lose this weight once and for all, I have been fighting with this since I was 12 years old and I don't want to be Fourty, Frumpy and FAT! I am the only one that can do something about it though so I will have to get tough and get stuck in. As mentioned previously I have great get up and go at the start but no staying power, that's the bit I need to crack!

image: Google Images (delish.com)

I quite like these little awards as it gives us a chance to see a little deeper into each other.
You know I don't mind if you ignore this but I open it up to any of you that would like to hold a mirror up to yourselves and let us know what you see in your future!

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