Turning my frown upsidedown

In a bid to get over my frustration at yet another canceled date night due to someone in the family being sick and feverish (4th date cancelled in the past 2 months), I decided to soothe my anger by turning to my craft table.

  
I have been neglecting the sewing machine and craft table in the past couple of weeks due to other commitments, but today, it was the only thing that was going to make me happy.

I took some wool that I had felted previously, and got to work.

I used the neck of a turtleneck jumper which I had not felted, and sewed it onto the ends of square of blue striped wool

Then I made sausages










 

A quick dip into my Mum and Granny's collection lets me choose the perfect buttons

 

The end result is that even though I have no control over the bugs that invade my house, and the mistakes made with over the phone bookings, I can still create something that makes me smile, and makes the day so much better.

A big sorry to J and C who arranged baby sitters for tonight

My Creative Space 15 July 2010

Yesterday I made my way to the oppy with my munchkins -  just before the rain started pelting down. I was on a mission to get some more lovely wool jumpers to make more arm warmers.

I'm really happy with the ones I found, which by the way was incredibly hard, as most of the winter gear there was made from acrylic. 

I'm going to do some felting today, and these lovely jumpers will be destroyed in the process. Such a shame, but I can't wait to see the end result, and then to see what kind of arm warmers I will come up with.....

You should also take some time whilst you are here to take a look at inspirational ladies who will also use their Thursday to create

ADDED INFORMATION.... 

Ive been happily unpicking the stitches on my jumpers and was taking piccies to show you

And then I suddenly feel like I'm being watched, and out of the corner of my eye, I see that I have an audience....  

He/she is sitting right above the window of my craft area/computer, and watching... 

 I'm not sure for how long, but now, knowing how quick these lovelies move, I'm moving to the lounge room i think to continue with the jumpers...

And I have to figure out how to catch it. I don't like killing these harmless huntsmen spiders, but he really is in an awkward position and  quite high, but I don't want to leave him there... 
how am i going to encourage him into a container without jumping or running on me, or without me falling on my head in the process?