I've been making a start on that massive list I showed you the other day...the only problem is I keep finding things that need repairing OR I keep having ideas for fab new items to add to it. Can someone please make the day a little bit longer and make the munchkin sleep for more than an hour in the day? Pretty please?

I have managed to finish a few things that I've had lying around for months. These new key rings just needed stuffing and sewing up. They will be in the shop later today. I've also finished a gift for someone but can't show you that until next month. I'll be sure to take some photos (I usually forget that sort of thing!) and I also have a batch of felt doughnuts on the go for a little girls birthday next week. While making them I fancied making myself a giant doughnut pincushion.....if it turns out well I may start a new range of pincushions for the shop! :)

I really shouldn't make lists :(

Here I have things that need finishing as well as new things. The idea is when I finish something off that has been lying around for months/years(!) I can reward myself with a new thing! This is only the first double page...there is more!!! Hopefully I'll have some new things to show you soon!

Hello there! I'm still alive, although it feels like we've been through the wars a little recently; sleepless nights, teething, colds, etc. But not all bad, last week was J's birthday and we went to the imax in Birmingham to watch Avatar to celebrate while Aunty Boo babysat for us! Also last week, one of my best friends moved off to start their new life in New Zealand. Hi Joy and Danny *wave*. Now, I have a small confession to make - when Joy told me she was pregnant, what now seems like a million years ago, I started knitting a blanket for their ickle bebe. This was about 22 weeks ago.......I haven't really got very far with it......

Its in a lot better shape than it was at the start of last week, I'd only just made a start on the orange! I've figured out I can probably get it finished before the little chap arrives and have it sent to the other side of the world too if I keep up an average of 3 rows a day. No mean feat when you have a 6 month old with a terrible cold who will only snooze on her mummy. Each row has 150 stitches and takes about 15 minutes to do, so I just need to find 45 minutes each day.....anyone fancy some babysitting??!(!)

I've was a busy little bee at the end of last week, making a batch of bibs. The idea was I had 9 to make and any that didn't get sewn together perfectly for the shop would get used by the munchkin. I got slightly distracted on two of them and I'm secretly pleased that we get to keep these ones!

The rest will be listed in my shop over the next two nights and are made from equally cute fabrics. Pop over and have a look! :)

***NEW*** This year I'm making cute felt lavender sachets! (as well as lots of other new and exciting goodies!)

I finished a small batch of hearts last night - here is one in progress! I just need to take some better photographs and then start listing them in my shop later today. Perfect valentines gifts! ;)

More sewing planned for later - Moustachioed fruit totes.....!

As promised here is my new stash of books that I got for Christmas - well, books and the 2010 sewing calendar! I can't wait to get making some new stuff!

The ironing pile got dealt with last night while we started watching series 5 of lost (Its soooo confusing!?!) but there is more washing being done :( I think we need to get back into a routine after having some lovely family time over the holidays. All I have to do now is tidy off my desk and then my little sewing machine friend can come back out of the utility room! I might start with a square bear! :)

Don't forget my sale is still going strong in my etsy shop and once its gone its gone! 50% off lots of lovely cute items!

Firstly, I hope you all had lovely a lovely Christmas and new year. Secondly, I'm sooooo sorry it has taken me so long to blog this year. I've no idea where these first few days have gone - its almost mid January already and I've not sewn a single thing!

As you can see, we've had a few flurries of snow in our little corner of the UK (as most people have). I don't see what all the fuss is about, I'm sure it used to snow more when I was a kid *thinks back a long time* I remember walking to school in a good few inches of snow. Also remember in sixth form some of the boys snowing in one of the girls car tyres so we had to go to the caretakers house and see if she could borrow a spade to dig it out again.

We had a lovely time over Christmas and the new year. I took Hattie to visit my parents just before Christmas to deliver presents and we spent Christmas with the in-laws. Hattie loved all the wrapping paper (and her present too!). I got some very nice books (which I'll blog later once I've taken a photograph!), a woolly dress (that I'm wearing today!), lots of socks, PJ's, a wok, lots of chocolate (no wonder I've put weight on!), my traditional 'surprise selection box' from mum(!).

Hopefully things can start getting back to normal now. Once I've tackled the MAAAAAHHHOOOOOSSSSIVE ironing pile (I've no idea where it all comes from!) I'll have a little room to sew again! I've got lots of new things planned: fruity felt coin purses, pretty knitting needle cases, fruity shopping bags and a range of new pincushions as well as a whole solar system of smiley planets!