WOYWW 600

 

Well here we are then - WOYWW for the 600th time!

I thought I would make a celebratory badge to wear for our "meet-up" on Saturday.  

It's quite big so I don't think you will miss me!

I am sure Julia never imagined all those weeks ago that we would still be here sharing our desks, our crafty activity and our friendship after all that time.

Well Julia... we are all still here and I know we all feel so thankful that you have been such a treasure and kept us all together for such a long time. Long may it last and thank you so much for all that you do. Let's hope that before too long we will be all together again in real life and can laugh away the misery of the last year.

So, just to keep the tradition going, here's my desk.

My needle felting machine has had a little bit of use this week. I made some trees using a felted wool jumper which I needle felted onto a piece of background felt.

I used the same background for the little wintry scenes below....

I am looking forward to joining up with our event on Saturday.

Let's hope technology plays the game and we can all have some WOYWW fun.

See you then!

xx Jo

WOYWW

Well here we are at the end of January already!!
Birthday celebrations for my hubby today - we will enjoy a meal out with our daughter and son in law. It is the third celebration meal we will have had. Maybe next time I should get everyone together and have one event but it has been nice to have a few little outings to share with friends and family.

Thanks for joining the WOYWW blog hop and for calling in here to see what I have been up to.

This week I have been "dumfing" - needle felting with my machine and hand "dumfer".
Maxine has been making some more lovely pictures ready for her exhibition and I was just twiddling with little pieces to go on cards.

I think I might make a few more ATCs too. They turned out really well last time and I sent them all over the world for our WOYWW 3rd anniversary. ( see them here)

I also think I might have a bit of sewing to do this week as I have had a request for a little Katie Morag dressing up outfit. I love a little challenge.

So....
What have you all been up to?
I love having a quick blog hop and checking a few desks out. I even saw a sewing machine on display on a shelf last week!!! So come on - show us your desk!!!
Have a good week.
Thanks for calling by.
x Jo

WOYWW - Dumfing magic!

Our WOYWW ATC fun continues.

As our little dumflings are winging their way around the planet, then by return, come these wonderful little works of art.

Many are accompanied by cards, notes, good wishes and some even included lovely crafty bits and bobs.

Thank you all for your lovely comments and beautiful ATCs.

We have had such a lovely week - made even better on funday Monday when Annie and I got together to play - you show me yours... I'll show you mine!! We both think we should make a big collage of them so that we can keep them all together and display them as they deserve.

 What a wonderful way to "meet" new and old WOYWW friends. I think our Julia deserves a medal for having such a brilliant idea.

As for fun day Monday.....
well it didn't get off to a good start...
Look at the girl - she has been so poorly.
As I looked across the table at her peeping over her dumfing machine it reminded me of those captioned war time posters (Chad? Mr Wot?)

WOT NO MOJO?

                                                                                                             

But then we started crafting and somehow it worked its magic.
The needles dumfed, the felt flew and before we knew it she was back on top form and creating the most fab and gorgeous crab apple blossom dumfling!

Of course - I was busy dumfing on my machine opposite her.
So we chatted and giggled, drank coffee, ate chocolate - oops did I just admit that!!! YES we ATE CHOCOLATE! How else does a poorly girl get better?
Here are my little dumflings.

 We have had such a giggle over Maxine's suggestion re clearing her mortgage by selling my dumflings.
Seriously though - they have turned out rather well so, we think we might make dumfling mini-felts with them and make a shelf in our blog shop for some of them. So keep a look out after next fun day Monday.

Lastly, here are my latest little jumpers and beanies for the fish and chip babies.
I posted them to Dawn yesterday. She is the blog friend who wrote a post about them (read here)and who has kindly collected them and passed them on to a local organisation ready to send out to Africa.

Well what a colourful post that is!!
Have a great week everyone - see you on my blog hop.
x Jo