Mothering Sunday

I think I am sorted for Mothering Sunday. When asked what I wanted, my reply was simple, and the same as every year - to have a meal with my mum, my children, husband, and sisters. I don't 'need' any gift - just to spend time with those important to me.

However, Mothering Sunday falls early this year - and caught my husband out. He rang our local pub to book a table for us all on Tuesday this week - not surprisingly they were booked. He then did lots of frantic ringing round to try to find somewhere for the 8 of us. It looked like it was going to be Pizza Express - when my sisters came up trumps by offering to cook. So one sister is doing the starter, another the main and my husband has made Chocolate Chilli Mousse. Now my mum isn't one for gifts either - which is why the meal out is always nice, as for once she lets us treat her. However, I haven't a gift for her - but I have made her her Mothers Day card. I got the inspiration from the invites I did for Lou's birthday, where the original inspiration came from Mel over at Day to Day. I knew I wanted to sew a card - but didn't know what to put on the front, that is, until I saw this lovely button on Raspberry's blog.

Apologies for the poor quality picture - there is no good light in a home with only energy saving bulbs and its dark outside!

Headache

I've had this fabric for a little while now. I fell in love with the combination of duck egg blue and chocolate on both pieces, and sadly my photo doesn't do the colours any justice. My idea was to make a bag out of it using the dotty fabric as the lining.

Now I know how I want the bag to look, I want to make a clutch bag, only I can't quite work out whether I want it zipped or with a 'flap'. I keep pinging between the two, so more thinking to do.

Tree Gnomes!

I came across a pattern last week for soft trees, and I just knew I had to do something in this vein. Now we have two Christmas Trees in our house - a rather sedate glass ornamented version downstairs and a multi colour mish mash of decorations on a smaller one upstairs. So I decided to make some trees out of felt to adorn this upstairs tree. Doodling away whilst on the phone I added a face to one of them (on the paper!) - and this stayed, so here are my offerings!