Taking stock: The list

I'm playing Pips game. I found it via my favourite blog (Fox's Lane) - is it wrong to have a favourite? Read their's, do your own, it's not as easy as you think it's going to be.

Making : Memories.
Cooking : Butternut squash and sweet potato soup, roast chicken dinner.
Drinking : Real ale and not enough water - not together!
Reading: Crochet books, inspiring blogs, school homework.
Wanting: More time.
Looking: Forward - always.
Playing: Bingo with Ro.
Wasting: Time on facebook.
Sewing: Reversible cloak for dressing up, a comfy beanbag for the littlies.
Wishing: It was Spring and we could skip the snowy bit.
Enjoying: Typing this while my daughter sits next to me painting a picture.
Waiting: For Ofsted.
Liking: Lazy Sunday mornings.
Wondering: If Ro is enjoying his first rugby session (age 3).
Loving: My family.
Hoping: We as a community can do something with the field that's up for auction next door.
Marvelling: At all the things my children say/do/create.
Needing: An egg for my yorkshire puddings.
Smelling: Freshly made coffee.
Wearing: My PJ's.
Following: No-one.
Noticing: I still haven't bought a family calendar for this year.
Knowing: My birthday is only one week away.
Thinking: About tomorrow night's tea - Soooo rock and roll I know!!
Feeling: Like a cuddle.
Bookmarking: Nothing.
Opening: A box of jaffa cakes.
Giggling: At celebrity big brother - my guilty pleasure.

Night night...Nx

A Thrifty Thursday velvety satiny cloaky Cloak

Another 'Thrifty Thursday' find...A pair of red velvet curtains for £3.25. Initially bought to re-upholster a dressing table stool for Miss M.  

Then, I thought - this could make a cool dressing up cloak...and that thought led to...it could be a reversible cloak...trip to the fent shop for purple satin...then my search begins for a pattern.  I ended up kinda following this pattern.

Although I have to cut corners cos I 'wing it' a lot.  I didn't cut the first curve and left it oblong.  When sewing, I left the hoods 'loose at the neck' so I didn't have to hand sew that part, after sewing right sides together I just turned the hems under and top-stitched it closed - after turning it inside out/right way round! If that sounds confusing - it was!

Sooooo after a few hours of head scratching I finally made it, Miss M tried it on and posed for me...She decided she could be a witch, or mother gothel (Tangled), or red riding hood, or she could be a princess...and that's just in 5 minutes!  I'm sure it will be a cloak of many guises...Ta-Dah!

Nx

Thrifty beanbag love

I bagged myself a new curtain going spare on Freecycle the other day...we need floor cushions for the playroom.  Searched for patterns and found this one for a beanbag! 

Really Mostly easy to follow instructions...

My little helper taking the pins out for me...

 

  

I got a little bit stuck with the velcro instructions and just did it my own way in the end. I also replaced the velcro with a zip for the inner.  So here we go...

Ta-dah!

It's bigger than I thought it was going to be, especially as I chose the child's size pattern to follow, I'm still pleased with it though...it's been used already.  Nx