tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30968179833521971582024-03-14T11:49:11.814-07:00Mud Pies and Blue SkiesA family life in CornwallChloe gricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086336486986946599noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096817983352197158.post-46760365273080619862013-06-12T12:37:00.000-07:002013-06-12T12:56:35.343-07:00a rather random catch-up<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I've been slowly making things inbetween children things and the endless moving of stuff round the house from one place to another in some sort of effort of tidying which seems futile at best. This is the latest piece, which I'm pleased with: I wanted to call it something like sunshine dancing through the flowers but that seemed a bit too silly. It's definitely a joyful, happy piece though!<br />
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This is a poorly photographed pic of another birthday gift I recently made which again, was fun to do, and I've sort of adopted it as a business logo for my yet-to-be-a-reality ChloeQuilts project. More on that another time.<br />
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Lots has been slowly going on. The girls are growing fast and summer has all-too-briefly shown her colours and today we are back to rain.<br />
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Tula is doing brilliantly and I've been having fun catching photos of her with my new toy in the pauses between walking around with her endlessly...<br />
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The biggest news however is that unexpectedly I have found myself pregnant with number four. As Tula has her <a href="http://tulalulabelle.blogspot.co.uk/">rare genetic condition</a>, this poses some questions regarding this newest little creation. Yesterday I had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorionic_villus_sampling">chorionic villus sampling</a>, an invasive test that is performed between ten and twelve weeks antenatally, to determine the DNA of the baby. Luckily, the placenta was well placed so the consultant was able to access it easily and take some of it to be tested. The whole process took about ten minutes and was uncomfortable rather than painful. I feel OK, just a bit cautious with my body and Jude did everything for me yesterday, which was fantastic and I forced myself to properly rest and take lots of Arnica. However it has been back to normal today and thankfully I still feel fine. It usually takes 48 hours to fully recover. There is between 1-2% chance of miscarriage with this procedure, although I was assured that the hospital I was in was proudly 10% less chance than this - my maths not being great I reckon that means like .9-1.9% but that is kind of gibberish to me. Small, anyhow, but there nonetheless.</div>
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Obviously most people who have this test then have to make a decision based upon the results as to whether to continue with the pregnancy. I am confident that whatever we do will be right for our family, but this is not an easy time, and we will still have to wait up to a month for the full results to come through.<br />
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This is my very favourite photo taken so far with my camera: it reminds me of everything I love about photography; the colours, the familiar object made unfamiliar by canny composition - due to luck more than skill I have to say, but then most of my best shots have always been like that.</div>
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In the meantime, I am very slowly preparing for my birthday party in a couple of weeks' time, a Mad Hatter's Tea Party to celebrate my 39½ unBirthday (my real birthday is in winter - definitely not the time for a garden party!) which will be great fun, but right now feels like more work than I can really handle. I'll post again with my party creations thus far. Come back sunshine!<br />
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Chloe gricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086336486986946599noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096817983352197158.post-2658873010704195872013-02-12T01:55:00.001-08:002013-02-12T01:55:37.072-08:00Nearly finished<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The quilting is done and I'm just finishing up the stitching of the border. The first quilt I made 2ish years ago, I bound by just folding the back over the front edge and machine stitching all around, mitring the corners nicely, but this time I decided to follow the <a href="http://thesillyboodilly.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/tutorial-super-duper-easy-way-to-face.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheSillyBoodilly+(The+Silly+BooDilly)">excellent instructions</a> I found on <a href="http://thesillyboodilly.blogspot.co.uk/">the Silly BooDilly</a>'s blog for facing a quilt. Facing just means that the binding doesn't show on the front, which I think works well for the Sunshine Quilt, as having another pattern on the front would have been a bit too much. I can see that it would be brilliant for small art quilts where you don't want a border to show.</div>
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I used a pure cotton batting which I found in the local art shop, but it's incredibly thin. It's nice that the whole quilt is 100% cotton, but it would have been great if it had a bit more loft. Perhaps I should have doubled it up. I was tempted to use the super-special 100% wool heirloom batting I bought a while back for the ongoing hand-pieced <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/jacobs-ladder-update.html">Jacob's Ladder</a> but resisted!</div>
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As usual my biggest problem has been making all my lines straight! No matter how hard I try, they just won't stop wriggling about. So I think I have to just accept that I am a natural-born wriggler and leave it at that. At least until I have a better machine/proper table to work on rather than an old plywood door balanced on drawers which bounces as I stitch... ho hum.... Oh yes, the other big problem I encountered again with this quilt was keeping the bottom layer from getting rucked up when all sandwiched together. Instead of basting the whole thing before starting to quilt, I used safety pins this time to hold everything together, but every place that was held seemed to pinch up as I was sewing. I think the answer is mainly just to keep practicing, as the more I worked on it, the easier it became to hold the material flat and away from the needle, but I still can't work out what the best way is to keep the layers together at the beginning.</div>
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So all I have left to do is finish up the hand-sewing of the border to the back of the quilt and it's all done. I am so pleased with this quilt, I can't stop gazing at it and I am ITCHING to get going on the next one.... but I have neglected Jude and girls for long enough so it'll have to wait! I'm thinking I might make a smaller 'arty' quilt for my sister whose birthday is fast approaching.</div>
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A finished quilt top (despite promising myself not to start anything new till <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/knitted-sampler-blanket.html">the damn blanket</a>'s finished - gah!) This is the Sunshine Quilt, which I've promised to Milly, as she's next in line for one despite it's huge size. Also finished the back for it as well, so now I just need to go and buy the middle!! And I've decided to quilt it with simple diagonal rows, so hopefully I'll get it finished pretty quickly. </div>
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We all went to Jessie's school this afternoon to see her receive a WOW (Worker of the Week) award which she is very proud of :-D The certificates are handed out every Friday to those children who have excelled in some way during that week and this is Jess's third. Her teacher said that she has been particularly impressed with Jess this week, and it's great that they are encouraging the kids to value positive attributes like kindness and helpfulness along with the usual academic stuff. Of course it vanishes as soon as she's back home with Milly...... bicker, bicker bicker!! Poor Jude, having to put up with all of us girls! </div>
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On a slightly gloomier note, Jude's back home as his great new job seems to have fizzled out. Long story but basically the company he's been working for seem to be incapable of running their business effectively, and have lost a couple of jobs which he was meant to have been working on - and to cap it off, haven't made any effort to communicate with him about it. He's very depressed to be back at square one, signing on, when he thought that this was going to be good for years. I'm trying to encourage him to look at this time positively, to get things done in the allotment, but he is very down.</div>
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So, we're getting through the days as best we can. Brighter news is that the latest hen in our flock, Lottie, found wandering on <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/sunshine-quilt.html">our track</a> last week, is settling in well with the others - she's the pretty Rhode Red (I think) with the red/orange head and neck above. She's living in the greenhouse until the other girls get a bit more used to her, and she's already given us a few eggs, which I turned into fairy cakes for Jess to take to school - must make more this weekend for us!!</div>
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I've realised that I'm going to be 40 this year, which was quite a shock, as I don't think of myself as being a proper adult, but 40 seems pretty seriously grown-up so I guess I have to accept it now. So anyway, as my birthday will be in deepest darkest winter I've decided that I'm going to go all Queenie and have TWO birthdays this year and celebrate in style with a Mad Hatter's Tea Party in June!!! Yay!! And invite all my far-flung friends to come and push me over the hill. I've already started collecting china for it....... any excuse for more pretty old china teacups!! You can hear Jude sighing in the background I'm sure. Can you believe he threw not one, but TWO disco balls into a skip during the last job he did, clearing out an old bar.... I still haven't forgiven him. Not just for not recycling them on Freecycle, but not bringing them home for me!!!!</div>
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Well another quilt is underway... I couldn't resist my colourful cotton scraps any longer! I have been saving these for some years now, all of them are old clothes or scraps I've been given or bought at car boots or charity shops. I finally tipped the whole stack out and started cutting up all the clothes that until now I'd still been dithering about whether to keep intact or not. Frankly the chances of re-making them into something wearable or trying to squeeze into them when the weather warms up are slim to say the least, as I no longer am ;-)</div>
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At first I thought I wanted to have little four-patches inbetween the larger squares, but (and this is the great thing about being able to lay the whole scheme out) once I could see the big picture it just looked way too much, even for me! And I would love to have stuck to my original idea of it being completely rainbow coloured, but that would have meant going out and buying fabric specifically for it, which goes against my ethos of just using scrap. Mind you, I had to go to Tavistock the other day and have to admit that the lovely Spring green was a skirt I bought just for this project! I couldn't resist the colour, and actually I think the whole thing would have had a completely different feel without it. I seem to buy an awful lot of pink and purple....</div>
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Along with the newly blooming snowdrops, we found a little feathered friend wandering on our track who we've persuaded to come and stay with us... I'm guessing some hard-hearted person decided they no longer wanted to keep a chicken and decided to release her into the wild. Luckily we have plenty of space for another hen in our mis-matched flock. Poor thing was starving. I think she might be called Lottie. She's very beautiful. </div>
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Happy Imbolc to you all (read more about this lovely pagan festival <a href="http://railwaycottage.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/imbolc-celebrations.html">here</a>)</div>
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So happy to find plants quietly flourishing in the allotment at this time of the year. Quince flowering at the top, then an unknown plant Freecycled to me a couple of years ago flowering for the first time and I've included the Bronze Fennel too, just because it's lovely. All those pretty feathery fronds sprouting from the base of the dead stalks. At some point I'm looking forward to getting out there and having a good clear out of all the winter debris and seeing what other gems are lurking in there.Chloe gricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086336486986946599noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096817983352197158.post-88781577146391949102013-01-15T02:20:00.000-08:002013-01-15T02:20:01.483-08:00macaroni<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes! We finally had some sunny days at last.... We made the most of it, spent a lot of Sunday at the beach with all the other smiley folk and their dogs liberated from their rained-in indoors lives... Jess had her first go on a proper bike without stabilisers which I'd picked up a few weeks back on Freecycle and was full of her achievement! Milly also had fun scooting about on the little bike outside for a change (she normally cycles through the house). And I spent a good hour knitting in the sun while Tula snoozed in the car. Win win! </div>
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I'm quite pleased with my progress so far; I don't mind the odd wobble, it's part of the joy of handmade, after all! It is a little frustrating that so much of the blanket is knitted purlwise because it is recommended that instead of picking up two stitches at a time from each side (as you would for a knitted side) it's best to pick every row, so obviously it will take twice as long! Still aiming for June...</div>
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I've been AWOL for a while, sorry! All the girls have been poorly; Tula being the worst and still no cessation of snot in sight. It's been a real struggle these past few weeks: this is my worst time of year when I find it hard to be a human being let alone a mum to three little ones or a wife or housekeeper. I don't like writing negative posts, but this is just how it is.</div>
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Jess is in France with Granny and Grandad, having a fine old time I'm sure. I miss her dreadfully, especially as when she returns she'll be straight back to school.</div>
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Trying to stop myself from plunging into any new projects until I've finished something first... I'm itching to start another quilt but can't stand the thought of having yet another pile of fabric hanging around for ever. I just don't have enough hands. So, I'm determined to finish the knitted blanket hopefully in time for Granny's birthday this year. So only a year late.</div>
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Jess played an angel in her nativity play, which was really lovely.</div>
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Hey there! Been a while, so sorry.... mostly we have been busy partying... </div>
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He's made out of a piece of MDF painted by me with acrylic paint and then cut out by Jude.... here are the eyes:</div>
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They're machine-stitched out of fabric scraps from my stash and then glued onto cardboard. At one point the kitchen was covered with eyes on every surface:</div>
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Each one was hand-stitched onto soft cotton bags which I made out of an old bedsheet, until I ran out of time and lovely Dotty ran them through the machine for me, being slightly more nimble with an electric needle than me. This was the prototype:</div>
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A few weeks ago I knocked up this little bag of marbles for another girl (see a trend developing here?):</div>
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Well my dears, this is my hundredth post... and I have made no progress with creating something for a giveaway to celebrate because my sewing muse has legged it. Done a runner, scarpered.</div>
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I'm too embarrassed to even show you the thing that I did make because a) it's so badly botched and b) I may be able to salvage it somehow and still turn it into something useable.... I have always had a real fear of cutting into lovely fabric - especially if I have very little of it - in case it all goes wrong, and this has happened a couple of times before as I am pretty new to the whole sewing malarkey.</div>
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So yes, I hacked into the <a href="http://scraptastic%21%20woyww%20is%20here%20again%21/">pretty patchwork</a> I was so pleased with and well, let's just say I've learnt my lesson: always practice something new on crap material FIRST!</div>
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So in the interlude while I coax the Muse back into my fingers, here are some pretty pictures to lift your spirits on what is today here in Cornwall a very murky, misty, damp sort of day :-)</div>
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Do I put it all away and get on with something for Christmas instead?! Only seven weeks to go, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3096817983352197158#editor/target=post;postID=2807888059267638857">Granny's blanket</a> is nowhere near finished....</div>
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Chloe gricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086336486986946599noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096817983352197158.post-11596291825231900402012-10-31T04:22:00.001-07:002012-10-31T04:27:29.158-07:00WOYWWing & monster making<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: center;">I haven't been able to do much lately as little Tula Belle has had a monstrous cold (I wrote that without intending to be funny - monsters are definitely taking over my brain) which has meant I've been unable to leave her for more than 30 seconds during the day without her crying, unless she falls asleep. Hard work at half term with all three girls home! We even had a thoroughly pointless trip to hospital on Friday night where we got to watch TV for four hours, waiting for the doctor's verdict. Yes - FOUR hours, with three under-fives in a horribly hot waiting room. Luckily the two older ones were angels, and there were lots of toys to keep them occupied, and the TV for Jude. Unlike my lovely girls, I was not in the best of moods, due to lack of sleep and worry over Tula, so by the time the doc re-appeared at 10:30pm, I was about ready to rip his head off. Needless to say, he allowed us to leave shortly after.</span></div>
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Tula is a special little girl as she was born with a slightly odd shaped chest, which means she is likely to have more problems than most babies coping with colds, which is why I wanted her checked out this time, as she hadn't been able to drink all day what with being so congested. Thankfully all was fine and she is slowly on the mend. I keep <a href="http://tulalulabelle.blogspot.co.uk/">a separate blog</a> to follow her story, which I occasionally update.</div>
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So, as a result, not much progress is being made with any of my projects. In fact, at some point I need to sit down and work out exactly what I need to get going on if I'm to get anything done for Christmas this year. Normally I'd be working out some card designs by now and have at least one pressie finished... this year: nada. zilch. zip. Despite <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/and-very-merry-christmas-to-you-too.html">my feelings about the whole Christmas frenzy</a>, our gifts may have to be a little less personal this year than I would like.</div>
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Anyhow, back to the messy desk! I started making a pile of monsters to stitch onto <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/autumn-woodland-and-monster-plans.html">party bags for Milly's birthday</a>, but now I've finished a batch of the bags, I've realised most of the monsters are too gangly to fit the size of the bags. Below left is one that's definitely too big, and he doesn't look anywhere near as nice shorter... so I've been playing with the pile of scrap fabric <a href="http://littledottybird.blogspot.co.uk/">the lovely Dotty Bird</a> flew in recently and trying to make some more squat figures.</div>
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I kept some photos back from <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/an-early-birthday-present-warning-there.html">this post</a> just for today's Green Day!</div>
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A wonderful section of wildflowers in the planting scheme at Stratford Park in Stroud</div>
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<br />Chloe gricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086336486986946599noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096817983352197158.post-19022054704950192782012-10-24T00:00:00.000-07:002012-10-24T04:03:27.024-07:00WOYWW - It's Wednesday again!<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm back! And with a different workspace.... my favourite father-in-law gave me an early birthday present of an Adana letterpress, which I am over the moon with BUT being the mother of 3 under-fives means I have NO time to play with it: a thoroughly novel kind of torture.</div>
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I get to run in to my <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/say-lookit.html">newly created workspace</a> for half an hour in the evening before being summoned back by the youngest as she requests her evening/nighttime snack. Sigh. I almost wish I was the sort of mother who could just feed her babies every 3 hours and then shut up shop, but sadly that just has never felt quite right to me... however, now my new baby is exerting pressure on me too, I'm starting to think there could be some strength to that argument.</div>
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So, I'm left with setting type, which is painstaking as the only bits I have are titchy, and I am very slow. I'd be happier with chunky type to start with just to be able to get used to the whole process, but I guess it's good practice. Hopefully I'll have a bit more energy tomorrow to get my supplies in and then I can get messy - the best bit of any creative process I think - from baking to painting! I do have a few blocks to play with too, so I don't have to finish my text (it's a silly poem I made up to give to John as thanks). And in the meantime I can carry on researching the wonderful world of letterpress! I'm reading <a href="http://fameorshame.com/johnryder/edition/">this wonderful book</a> too.</div>
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Chloe gricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086336486986946599noreply@blogger.com27United Kingdom55.378051 -3.43597346.109196499999996 -23.650817 64.6469055 16.778871tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096817983352197158.post-44616887475834733592012-10-22T06:43:00.001-07:002012-10-22T06:43:43.024-07:00Say lookit!<div style="text-align: center;">
It's amazing what you can achieve in half an hour really....</div>
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Well, we had a great weekend away; Jessie saw the <a href="http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/lion-king-bristol/bristol-hippodrome/">Lion King in Bristol</a> with Granny and it was amazing - she hasn't stopped singing the songs since... We went to the Museum in Stratford Park which was as stunning as ever</div>
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The best thing of all, however, was an early birthday present from my printer father-in-law</div>
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an Adana letterpress!!!!! !!!! !!!!</div>
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As you can probably tell from the unjustifiable number of exclamation marks in the previous sentence I am thrilled beyond measure, and am just itching to get going on it... he even gave me everything I need to get started, so it's damnably frustrating today that my utterly gorgeous baby girl is refusing to have her usual daytime 3-hour nap whilst the other two are at school/nursery. </div>
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AAAAAARRRRGH!!! I just want to play with my new toy!!!</div>
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Well, you know the kind of thing I'm sure, something like <a href="http://www.pureplaykids.com/natural-finish-kitchen-and-oven/">this</a> or this one below, both of which are along the lines of £140?</div>
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Here's my version, which cost a LOT less!</div>
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About a year ago I found this old unit on Freecycle. Thanks to darling hubs' skills, the rather dull 'telephone unit' was transformed by taking off the two original sliding doors below the shelves and turning them into opening doors, one for a cupboard and the other for the oven. </div>
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Jude cut a hole in the base to accommodate a spare dog bowl to use as a sink and added a set of old Bakelite knobs scavenged from a rusting cooker. </div>
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My only extravagance for this project was to buy a tin of Annie Sloane's <a href="http://www.anniesloan.com/acatalog/Why_our_Paint_is_Special.html">Chalk Paint</a>, which is probably the nicest paint you can buy, both in terms of toxins and odour as well as being environmentally kind. Jude put in a copper pipe to hang a set of hooks from, and I used a marker pen to draw hob rings on top. Total expenditure £17 (for the paint!) - but I only used a third of a tin and plain emulsion would have done the job just as well.<br />
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All the goodies on the shelves were bought in charity shops/carboots or gifted: nothing (our poor deprived girls!) is new. Granny very kindly bought a set of lovely fabric foodstuffs from the wonderful (but pricey) Myriad for a birthday, plus all the kitchenalia - pans &c - she bought from Ikea. A few weeks ago I found a boxful of toy grocery supplies in a charity shop for about £2, and everything else has similarly accumulated over the years.<br />
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One very happy Milly May!</div>
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Paint: £17 for 1L tin in Old White</div>
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Sink: Pet food bowl, hole cut to fit.</div>
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Hinge and magnets for the doors: £5</div>
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I'm joining Fiona for <a href="http://raindropsanddaisys.blogspot.co.uk/">Green Day</a> today! <br />
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<br />Chloe gricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07086336486986946599noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096817983352197158.post-53237272945627552402012-10-17T00:15:00.002-07:002012-10-17T00:20:29.736-07:00What's on your Workdesk Wednesday no1 (for me!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As you can see the monster party bags for Milly's 3rd birthday are in full flow... I've got these four pinned and ready to stitch together as & when the girls allow. The trick to parenting and creativity and NOT losing the plot is to be prepared! Even if said prep is being done at midnight the night before so I'll be hanging for most of the day. </div>
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This batch of bags are all a bit more squat than I'd like: being someone who hates careful measuring and planning things out, I just ripped up the lovely old sheet I'm using into rough strips without thinking what size the bags would end up being. Never mind, they'll still do the job, though some of the monsters may have to hold their hats.</div>
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I'm trying really hard to keep my desk neat these days; something I find really difficult. I have a tendency when I stop doing anything to just abandon all the bits I've been using until they build up into a shaky towering mess which I then have to undo and put away the next time I get five minutes to work on something. Which of course takes up the whole five minutes and means I don't get to do anything fun before being pulled away onto the next child-based activity.</div>
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So, along with planning ahead for future creative time, I'm also trying to be tidy. </div>
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My mum & uncle are visiting tomorrow so in actual fact the house is unnaturally (weirdly) tidy anyway so I'm feeling (tiredly) pleased. I don't know why I have to present my home to my family in this way, it's most odd. Their visits are quite rare, unlike Jude's family who we see a lot more of, so I think there must be some psychological need to impress them somehow; that I'm capable of looking after my own brood perhaps? </div>
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Anyway! Today I'm linking up for the first time with Julia at <a href="http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/woyww-176-really-176.html">Stamping Ground</a> for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.... it's brilliant having a look at all those creative spaces in full flow! Plus it makes me feel a bit better about the mess I'm usually trying to work in...<br />
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Ooh, the thrifting goddess was smiling on me today! I noticed a charity sale in the town hall today so popped in with Milly and these little bundles of yumminess were calling out from one overloaded table...</div>
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Milly was given a little Lion King book, which she is really pleased with. Funnily enough, her sister is off to see a performance of The Lion King with her Granny at the weekend. She wants to go dressed as Snow White - don't ask me why....</div>
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I can't stop making monsters!!!</div>
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(Jude's slightly worried that some of the monsters are a little too sinister for a 3 year old birthday party - hey, they're MONSTERS!!! - but I have given some of them hats and silly specs to make them a bit friendlier!)</div>
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Yup. I've made one whole bag. That's fine if Mil only invites one friend... </div>
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It's taken me a week of five minutes to get this much done. Tula's crying now as I type. Hey ho.</div>
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We had a lovely walk at the weekend, in lovely Autumn sunshine. The light at this time of year seems to try harder than usual to illuminate the beauty of nature, with long shadows falling across paths and adding contrast to all those jewel-like leaves all a-glow.<br />
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Milly will be three in December and whilst I know that's a little way off yet, I'm trying to get myself organised in advance because I know that I will be doing all kinds of Christmas stuff when it does swing round. So, I'm planning a Monster party for her and her nursery friends. Here is a prototype invitation from an idea I found by Sarson on Pinterest. I think I'll be using LOTS of googly eyes!!! <br />
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I've also started sewing up some simple little fabric party bags for the children to take home. Already this year Jess has been to two birthday parties and each time come home with a plastic bag full of crappy plastic toys, so I'm keen to do something different. After all, I don't use plastic bags when I shop and if I buy the girls plastic toys they're always second hand; why should it be any different for a party? Plastic is probably one of the biggest environmental disasters in the making, as I've written about <a href="http://underagibbousmoon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/waves-of-plastic.html">before</a> so even if one parent sees my efforts and decides to follow my example, it'll be worth it.<br />
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