Those of you who have been reading my blog for a little while will know I have a mild (honest, it is only mild) obsession with buttons, so today when the postman squeezed a few parcels through the door I was excited to see one of them was from Sarah's shop!

A lovely pack of mixed flower buttons (they are just so yummy!) and you can just make out at the top a pack of orange polka dot buttons. The flowery ones are going to be sewn onto my 'flower garden' needle books to match with my flower garden pincushions. The polka dots are for something else(!).

Look here! Lovely Kerry, the editor of Popular Crafts has put my blog in the readers blogs section! So I'd like to say thank you very much Kerry and HELLO new readers *wave*. There are some great projects in issue 2 which is a complete guide to fabric and needlecraft, so right up my street! I've added a few things to my to-do list already! :)

I'm going to try and work on a mini tutorial for you for later in the week, so do come back. It will involve a sewing machine!

Not quite a rainbow blanket yet, but I'm S....L....O....W....L....Y getting there. It's a tad late now as Lovely lovely Joy had baby William on the 23rd April, and weighing in at 10lb 9oz too!!! He already doesn't look newborn!

I'm hoping to get it finished at the end of this month so I can get it posted off to New Zealand to keep William warm as they get to winter over there! Congratulations Joy and Danny, he's a fab looking fellow and we can't wait to meet him!!!!!!!!!! :) 

From now on I am officially NOT KNITTING any more baby blankets, unless of course you tell me at least 3 years in advance! ;) I may be pursuaded to knit a hat or two or possibly a little jumper!

One of my lovely baby friends asked me to make her a custom iphone case for her returning to work (today!). Isn't it lovely?? (if I do say so myself). Charlotte took the photograph for me as I completely forgot to!

Can you tell I'm still slightly obsessed with button flowers?

Its that time of the year, all of Hattie's little baby friends are starting to have their first birthdays. One! already! Where has the last year gone?! To celebrate this I thought it was time I offered 1st birthday bibs in my shop.

Each birthday bib is made from a cotton/linen blend fabric and backed with some lovely absorbent terry fabric  to catch all those dribble and spills.....AND they have a fab polka-dot NUMBER ONE on the front - I have lots of lovely polka-dot fabrics! Each bib ordered is random, and will be suitable for a boy or girl. Here are the 1st three I've made and I've got a few more that just need to be finished off.

SPECIAL BANK HOLIDAY OFFER: If you buy 2 bibs from my shop you will automatically receive a FREE surprise bib in you order!

We're not all about sewing and science in our house, that's just me. Hubby works in the games industry so we have a vested interest in games. Computer, console and board! Personally I'm more of a Nintendo girl when it comes to console games and PB (pre-baby) we were known to while away many an hour playing World of Warcraft (I'm a level 80 human mage!!!). 

Here are a few of our board games - not a patch on some of our friends board games collections(!). They are all great and I'm rubbish at most of them. If there was one game I had to recommend it would be Mamma Mia (aka 'the pizza game') - it's a fab little card game small enough to pack for holidays! Each player places ingredient cards down until they think they can make the pizza from their recipe cards - the winner is the one who completes the most pizzas! Again, I'm rubbish at it but its fun and will be going on holiday with us again this year :)

Our newest game is bananagrams! It's brilliant, like scrabble only faster, much more fun, you don't need a board AND it comes in a banana shaped bag! EVERYONE should own it! This one is going to be packed wherever we go this year! We're having a bananagrams house championship and as it stands after 3 evenings play its 10 all. If there is one thing you do today, let it be play a board game!

Sorry for the delay in showing you the lovely goodies I received from Maxine.

A fantastic kilner jar pincushion complete with some gorgeous handmade daisy pins. Lovely bright buttons to add to my collection and some gorgeous fabrics and trims. I have been thoroughly spoilt. Thank you so much Maxine! Everything is just lovely! Now I'll have to think up something special to make with these goodies!

To see more of the fantastic pincushions people have been making for the swap check out the flickr group :)

In celebration of my nice new banner - I'm offering free worldwide shipping in my etsy shop all weekend!