the weekend after

We picked up our plates today, hooray! I'm really pleased with how they turned out, and I think Oki enjoyed eating his lunch off his brand new steeeeeam train plate. So much fun exploring new territory :)

Here is a felt bag I sewed for my friends' little girl who will be turning two in a couple of days. Hopefully they are too busy preparing for her birthday party to be checking in here, so it'll still be a surprise when she unwraps it tomorrow, hee hee!

this weekend

I said goodbye to these two woolly friends this weekend. I hope they get lots of cuddles in their new homes :)

We spent the morning painting plates on Saturday. Ooooh so much fun! Oki helped too, but was soon distracted and left us to it. It kept the big people quiet and amused anyways. Really looking forward to picking them up next weekend!

All aboard!

All aboard the Oki Train, toot toot!

I've had this really long frame for years, but I've never known what picture to put in it, until my little train-loving boy came along...

It's taken ages as I can only do an hour or 2 each day whilst Oki sleeps, but I think it's finally finished, yay! 
I've been staying up extra late these last few days to try and finish it...I'm exhausted but it's been worth it just to hear Oki's excited voice each morning shouting "LOOK!", as he spots another familiar face in the carriage :)

felt fun :D

Tonight I've been having fun cutting out felt. I think I will turn them into bags.

I'm going to pay the price for having these late nights in a row, but at the same, I'm enjoying losing track of time, cutting, looking at colours and creating :) 

mr tortoise, long shadows and sky

Here are some personal pieces I've been working on.
I'm hoping the bottom two will be part of a set, inspired by walks in the lovely little local park with my little boy.

Duck whisperer

A strange and wonderful thing happened the other day. My boy was poorly. He was sick on me (yes, on me) in the morning and wasn't quite his usual chirpy self. He loves being outdoors so we went outside in the garden, when we heard a loud flapping sound above our heads. 

A couple of ducks had landed in our garden!! 

They went about their business as if it was the most normal thing in the world, quacking away, wondering about on the grass, then up onto the decking. I fetched some bread which they polished off, then Mrs Duck took a few sips of my coffee from my cup, quacked to Mr Duck for a bit and then they flew off!

It was such a surreal scene and it felt really special, like they had come over especially to pay our poorly little boy a visit.

Soon after, we went back indoors and my boy was sick on me (yes, on me) again, but he was all fine the next day, and all that was left was the happy memory of the ducks' visit :)

My space

This is the little corner of our living room that I've been using as my studio for a while now. 2 days a week when Oki's at nursery I can spread out into the rest of the room, but it's not the same having to tidy it all up. I like to leave things out to look at, to keep my thoughts going, but that's just not going to happen with a curious little boy on the loose. I give him my pictures sometimes and they end up bent, scrunched up, doodled on, covered in stickers and I find them days later, covered in dust under the sofa with all his other toys.