handmade by mary emmens
Both of Tobits’ sisters had babies last year and I planned to make both of the babies soft books for Christmas. Knowing that I was going to be busy in the run up to Christmas I was incredibly organised and … Read More »
Do you pin your fabric while you’re sewing? Sometimes, quite often in fact I wing it! It does of course depend on what and sewing and who for but sometimes I love the freedom of just holding the fabric together … Read More »
It’s true at the beginning of December I had a birthday! It almost passed me by. I actually spent the day doing 2 fairs back to back (read more about those here)! Fortunately my wonderful husband took the 2 days … Read More »
It’s the last day of the school holidays, Tobit has gone back to work, we are all still in our pyjamas AND the chidren are playing really nicely together upstairs. So I’m slipping in a quick blog post! Last week … Read More »
Happy New Year to you, I’d love to do a review of the last year, thoughts about the next but can’t really be bothered! If you are interested to know what I did last year you can read about it … Read More »
I hope you had a healthy and happy Christmas, ours could have been much healthier, we are still suffering from a ‘bug’ but had a lovely quiet time at home. Now that some gift giving has been done I can … Read More »
After the last few weeks that have been so crazy I finished my last commission yesterday morning – hurrah. So what to do next? Both Tobit and I have been hit by a virus this week and have felt really … Read More »
We have friends who are teachers. Just 2 weeks ago one of our lovely teacher friends sent me a message saying that she’d been browsing Etsy looking for a little something she could give to the members of her department … Read More »
Back at the beginning of October Ali at Very Berry Handmade decided to organise a scrappy ornament swap. At the time I thought that as Christmas was such a long way off there would really be no harm in joining … Read More »
Wow, what a lot of lovely visitors I had in response to the Sew Mama Sew! giveaway day. Thanks for all your comments, I started off replying to them but then ran out of time, last week of term, one … Read More »