Spaniel cushion cover


Lovely Spaniel cushion cover I have just finished it so nice and my sewing machine is a dream to use I love it.  

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You would just need to buy a cushion pad to go in it if you bought it. It will be on Etsy in my shop the price is £8 plus £1.50 postage.

Please have a look I have all sorts for sale you might find a nice present for someone x

Sewing like mad

Hi I am still around but have got a new sewing machine some am making loads of things by the day lol.

I will start to share my makes on here and see what you think plus I have an etsy store that people can purchase my things if they like them.

This is a little black cat wall hanging I made, I love the way you can see the front & back of the cat it's cute.

Right off to sew because i'm in the middle of making something pink and it will be revealed later on once i've finished it.

Wreath wall hanging

Made this to hang on my wall for Christmas and loved making it, my friend made the same but in Black & White which looked so nice and really stood out. 

This was after I had just done free motion quilting on the front and was my first time so was a bit scary to say the least I thought I was going to make a real mess of it but was pleased how it came out. This is a picture of the hanging when I had just attached the binding which I have now hand sewn it so it is finished and looks amazing. 

Lovely Cushion

Fab cushion I've just made and really enjoyed making it I might make another one with maybe just ribbon's & see what it turns out like.  this cushion is SOLD

I have a new sewing machine and its an absolute amazing machine just wish I had bought one like this years ago its just fantastic. Makes making things so easy it just gets on with it with no messing at all I love it.

I think I will be posting loads more things that I have made with me playing with this dream machine every day now. Plus keep an eye out for maybe a few giveaways along the way.

Blue eating sprouts picking them he loves them

Sad & happy times

Well not been on here for a while but my dog died at the age of 9 which was young for a staffy and she is so missed by us still but thankfully we still have her son Blue. We also have Holly the 10 year old boxer so we decided to get another pup to keep Blue on his toe's which she does and is 6 month's old now. She is a shih tzu.

Top pic is Belle shih tzu

Middle picture is Cas who died x

bottom picture is Holly the boxer age 10, Blue the staffy aged 8

Think we can safely say they all get on brilliantly well and are so funny to watch.

Busy times

I've been very busy these last few week's with wood yes wood my husband has had me out with him in this freezing cold weather cutting and splitting wood. The only good thing is we have a wood splitter that plugs into the electric so keeps me away from trying to use a massive ax because I'm sure I wouldn't be very safe with that i would look like the mad ax woman.

As you can see the wood keeps us very very busy all year supplying a few of our neighbor's The length of the wood you can see is 1 metre lengths so a alot of wood we go through every year. We have 3 chainsaw's to use but the poor things are starting to get tired and we do use alot of chains & at least one cutter bar every year. I don't need to go to the gym because I get plenty of exercise lugging these logs about a few times a week. The next picture is my baby the electric log splitter  wow best present I've ever had lol I hate letting people on it but now and again I will share it lol. This is it and its amazing the size of logs it will split with no effort apart from one button and a lever that's it.

My hubby still uses the big ax sometime's but so easy to use my machine so that's my job and with the weather being so cold we have been trying to get as much wood in the barn as we can.


The picture below is my inset log burner in my kitchen and I love it it gets so toastie and warm in there and it takes 500 mm log's so quite a big fire. We have another one similair that has been fitted into our living room that we are renovating from an old room that had an earth floor but we are finding it hard to do wood, work & renovate but slowly we are getting there we have put 2 windows in and 2 to go but it takes a while to get the whole ready for a window with the cob wall's being 3 foot thick.

Everyday things: Garment Printing & Embroidery

Everyday things: Garment Printing & Embroidery: Global Military Supplies  ( GM Supplies ) 9 Gloster Road, Martlesham Heath Business Park, Ipswich, Suffolk,  IP5 3RB Tel: 01394 383562 ...

Garment Printing & Embroidery

Global Military Supplies (GM Supplies) 9 Gloster Road, Martlesham Heath Business Park, Ipswich, Suffolk,

 IP5 3RB Tel: 01394 383562



Fantastic place to get anything embroidered and at a very reasonable price. 

By choosing your local Embroidery & Tee Shirt suppliers in Martlesham, 

you can go and talk to them, look at your 

design on there software program and they can make alterations while you wait,

you can choose your garment colour 

from real colour swatches and get a feel for the garments.

 GM Supplies can provide this service at there unit in 

Martlesham. 


Reasons for Garment Printing & Embroidery can be:



Charity events

You are a local business

Military Tee shirts

Sports Clubs

School or Nursery

Miscallanieous items    Dog Coats and Aprons


If you can’t see what you want get in touch   and they will do there best to find it for you.

Owning an Ipad not all there cracked upto be.

Well i've had one of the first Ipad's that came out and to be honest they are very good but there is such alot of things you can't do on them so before just buying one have a play on one and go through what you would normally do on a pc to be certain that you will be able to play what you want on an ipad.

Like I said ive had mine a few years now and never had any trouble with it but I think I would if I was buying another tablet certainly look at other one's that at around at the minute because there are some amazing one's at alot less money that will run java for playing online games. I actually quite like the look of the Blackberry playbook or the Google Nexus 7 which has a great long battery life which is very handy indeed. But my favourite is the Samsung Galaxy tablet I would quite like a camera with my old ipad not having one. The Samsung Galaxy Tablet looks fab and love the feature of doing screenshots which is very handy indeed for what I would be using it for. So hopefully in the future I will get one of these to have a good play on and should use it more than I do the Ipad.

Then the next job will be to update my phone so I need to do abit of investigating around some of the review site's on phone's so that I get everything I want from a phone before I buy one. I will tell you all i'm still using a Nokia N70 please don't laugh lol ive had it since the world cup 2006 and that still come's on when I turn the phone on and yes it always's makes all my friends chuckle when they here it and have to go and have a look at it. In a few years it will be antique lol so yes it's certainly time for a nice change and one that I can get online with .

I quite fancy and Xperia or Samsung S3 they look great so will have to have a look and a feel of them and see what there like to use. As you can see this year is the year for upgrading gadget's for us so I said once i've been sorted out properly with all this we will start on his but maybe next year because his are all ok but might upgrade his basic kindle to a kindle fire for him with him working so hard he need's a treat bless him.

Hair dye's, My old age is creeping up on me.

Well then the time has come to get rid of the grey that's started to appear lol. I suppose it's not to bad i'm 47 and not had to dye my hair until now so hopefully it will be ok. I'm naturally blonde so now i'm wondering should I go for it and doing something shocking and add a fab colour and frighten the neighbour's lol or just go as close as I can to my natural colour now that is the question any help would be very grateful please. What makes give the best result's I wonder makebe have to try a few till i'm happy with how it turns out. I am daring and really would love to try something with a bright colour or colours.

Everyday things: This is such a fantastic quilt and have to be h...

Everyday things:


This is such a fantastic quilt and have to be h...: This is such a fantastic quilt and have to be honest my sister made it but this summer when she comes to visit is going to show me h...

This is such a fantastic quilt and have to be honest my sister made it but this summer when she comes to visit is going to show me how to make it. I've been making quilts for a couple of years now and did learn fast it looks harder than it is and once you have a go you soon get hooked. Ive made baby quilts, taggy's, place mats and cushion fronts once you have a go there's no stopping you, I'm on with a project that is for my super king size bed so the quilt is going to take me a while to do it's massive but will be lovely when finished. 

This was one of my first lap quilt's I did the picture's shows you just the quilt top and backing on it I just had to go around the edge's with a small border and binding which didn't take long to finish and now is on the bottom of the spare bed and looks great.

Scones for hubby

Well thought I would make some scones to keep the hubby happy after work which are his favourites. Ive make him cherry scones & fruit scones and let's see how long these last lol they usually have gone in a couple of days with him.

My 3 fantastic dog's

These are my fabulous 3 dogs left to right Holly, Blue and Pee pee yeah I know it's a weird name but as a pup she used to pee pee all over the place and thankfully she grew out of it very quickly lol but the name stuck with her and her real name is Cas. 

They are such star's and all very individual's charactors, they are so funny in the snow and Holly just wants to run and run and run she runs right around the field then around the house and back again till she needs to stop for a rest.

Triple yolker egg's for breakfast

This is the triple yolker I was on about that we had and as soon as we picked the egg up we knew it was more than a double yolker so that's why we video'd it. Absolutely amazing when 3 yolks came out, it made our sunday morning that did.

Well another year gone and can't complain about 2012 was a pretty good year alround for us.
I didn't do my veg past last year with not being well for a few month's but will definitely be doing it this year Ive missed not being able to just go and pick what fruit and veg we wanted daily. The main thing that we missed was our dog Blue he is so funny with the sprout plants he picks his own sprouts off the plant and eats them plus the apple tree's we have are only small yet and he can reach the apple's aswel which he does eat lol really funny to watch and I will put a video of him picking his fruit & veg on here for you to see.

We haven't had any more double or triple yolker's this year but still it was amazing to see a triple and will probably never see another one again in my lifetime. We put it on you tube and amazing all the comments we got about it.

Well my competitions I enter on a daily basis was amazing wow I had some good Win's last year so will carry on entering them and you get such a lovely feeling when you get a winning email saying what you have won it's very nice and I might add some of the wins on here as I win them its interesting to see what I win and as they say you have to be in it to win it.

Wow what a challenge this is for me.

Well then where do I start lol
Today I got my donut maker that I won out of the cupboard, thought I better as it has been in there for absolute months now. Well very strange the recipe for the batter mix said it made enough for 10 donuts but the machine can only cook 7 at a time very strange but anyway we made the batter to exactly the right amount of ingredients and we ended up making 30 so go figure. They tasted lovely but maybe need abit more practice with the machine.

I will start to review things that ive either bought or won and maybe people could give me there opinions on similar items and lets see what we think are best for the money.


We had a person come for logs today aswel in a great pickup and we helped him fill it with logs from our shed.