Here's to 2009

Here are my girls Maude, Maureen and Moira and Betty is just disappearing into the Hen House (look at that lovely fluffy bottom).
It just so happens to be -3 degrees, the bleak midwinter is upon us and guess what, the girls have started laying! Uhh? Not a single solitary egg for months and months, infact I had given up hope that they would ever lay again!
Here is the evidence, the third one since Christmas Eve. The first one was shaped like a pear! I guess it must have hurt? Ouch.

My girls are busy then and so am I. I made this coin purse last night and felt very pleased with myself too. You may think that sounds a bit smug, but believe me it is quite an achievement. I am totally incapable of making a good job of anything that involves cutting out from a pattern and piecing together...HOPELESS, no matter how hard I try I always make a pig's ear of it. The instructions for this coin purse took quite a lot of reading and re-reading but anyway, it all came together in the end, much to my amazement. I bored my husband rigid all evening, telling him what a challenge I had met! Anyway enough of that.

So today, I thought I would make a purse using my collaged, mixed media and hand embroidery technique and here we are. It has taken a good proportion of the day to get my head around it and to actually make it, plus the 'ingredients' don't come cheap. So I'm not sure whether I will be making many of them. The age old story of too costly in time and money to make! But I have enjoyed meeting a challenge. SOLDThis is the back, (below) a piece of embroidery taken from an old tray cloth! (Very pretty).

The lining is lovely, delicious, divine, Liberty Lawn.

Bit of a close up going on here.

Ooh an even closer one!

Well talking of challenges, personally I am hoping to grab 2009 by the dangly bits this year and make the most of every bloomin' minute of it.

Let's make 2009 one to remember!

I wish you all the love, joy and happiness in all the whole wide world.

Love Viv x