I'm such a bad blogger!

Really I am.

It's been over a year since my promise of posting more regularly.  Life just keeps getting in the way.....

I've taken up crochet and made a couple of things so here is my latest item - a little dragon angel to remind me of my little ones I've lost to miscarriage.  The first at 10 weeks in 2009, the second at six weeks in 2011 and the latest at 18 weeks in July 2012.  It's a hard thing, especially with so many people around me having babies, but we are trying again with another cycle of treatment.  Fingers crossed that we eventually get what we are longing for...

back again, again

So, yes I've been gone again for ages but a lot has happened since my last post:

1. he who shall not be named had a job change
2. we've been 'enjoying' the trials of fertility treatment 
3. working full time always gets in the way
oh and...
4. we moved countries!

So as you can see all my time has been all taken up living outside the interwebs which is always sad as the real world has so many less distractions which means I have to be productive :(

So far no luck on the baby front but now I'm a lady of leisure I'll have more time to craft and blog so expect more :)

For now here is a picture of a subversive cross stitch that I did for a good friend of mine before I left her in the pits to continue her slavery to my former masters

PS - I now live in Doha in the Middle East which is very conservative and was surprised to hear 'I touch myself' by the Divinyls playing on the radio - it was like a little bit of rebellion in song :)

voodudes

Long time no write but the world outside the internets seems to take up all my time!

I've been working on some little minions, I call then Voodudes, and thought it was time to show some of them off to the worlds.

this was my first attempt but he was hard

to turn the right way out

second attempt and some cross breeding experimentation

I have more in the works and will post as and when :)

The nappy bag of swirliness

Both my friend and the sister of He Who Shall Not Be Named are expecting the patter of tiny claws hooves feet and I have decided to sew stuff for them.

I found a pattern and instructions for this hip mama diaper bag on the blog A Mingled Yarn. Of course we don't call them diapers in the UK so I have christened it the nappy bag of swirliness

It's almost really straight forward except for sewing the corners which I only perfected with my second last one so there was a lot of unpicking and swearing going on. At least for the next one the amounts of F's and C's I utter should be fairly limited.

So here is the finished product of the one I made for my friend who is due in July.

I also created a tag by using a iron on transfer however it's not very flexible and I doubt it will stand the test of time so I might fork out some dosh and get some made so I can add them to everything I make.

I love skulls :)

I have a bit more time until the sister of He Who Shall Not Be Named pop's out her bundle of nappiness so that's taken a back seat as I get ready for the Star Wars party I am organising, however I will post pictures when I am done.

My current projects

I love Star Wars, well the original three anyway, and have taken inspiration from some cross stitch projects in the Flickr group Subversive Cross Stitch which have a Star Wars related theme. So here are some teaser pictures of my new needlework in progress:

That's no moon....

.....It's a space station

the weapon systems on this Death Star are not yet operational

but wait.............IT'S A TRAP

I'm making this for a surprise party which has a Star Wars theme so will be posting other items I will be creating in the future.

I've also made this fleece hat based on a pattern by Heather at dollar store crafts. It is modelled by the Hamster from Creature Comforts. Unfortunately I didn't have the pattern when I sewed it so my ears are a little high and small. If you haven't guessed it's meant to be Yoda not just some random green monster :)

judge me by my size do you?

May the force be with you

Felting - Raving Rabbid

Even though I have some UFP's I have finished another felting project which is just as cool.

We had a dress a sprout competition at work. Really, it's the best thing to do with a sprout - other than bake it wrapped in bacon so that the lovely bacon fat disguises all the horribleness of the taste of sprout......hmmm bacon......sorry where was I? Oh yes, I dressed my sprout as a Raving Rabbid with a plunger gun. Unfortunately everyone thought my gun was Santa's boot and while I can see what they are getting at it was displayed in front of a background that showed the plunger gun peoples.

Anywho here he is in all his glory:

I'll be back

He is languishing in a box at the moment as the sprout has since rotten and been buried with full honours. So I now need to make him a felt head so I can have him guard my room at night when all the things that come alive while I sleep roam the land.

sad and lifeless not to mention a bit googly eyed :(

Felting - my new craft interest

So, one of the crafts which has been distracting me from my little old blog is felting. It's pretty amazing actually as it's sculpting with wool and it''s not as hard as it looks.

I bought a woolpets kit of a bumble bee and was quite impressed with the fact that it didn't take that long to create and well it actually looks like a bumble bee and not some type of mutated beastie.

Here are some photos:

hmmm......nectar

here's a close up

I'm in the process of felting an eyeball & a brain but at the moments that have become UFP's (UnFinished Projects) which is a little sad because they will be awesome when they are finished.