He Says She Waffles

...I must have been tired yesterday because I didn't get the joke for a few minutes... but I did get to eat the most delicious waffles with maple syrup and pecan nuts yesterday at He Says She Waffles in Cirencester yesterday with the parents and my brother.

We had a quick nosed at the craft market, where I found the most lovely stall run by Val, check out here stuff on SoftTOM etsy shop and SoftTOM. I need one of these chickens....

We also popped to the Kitchen shop were I try so hard not to buy anything, honestly! I got these gorgeous 'treat bag kits'. These kind of bags were something I was seriously lacking last Christmas... its all very well making yummy biscuits or chocolate truffles but you need something to give them in!

 

The reason I was trying to behave and not spend any money is that we are moving on the 1st of March to an unfurnished house. So will be behaving not raving for the next few weeks so we can buy furniture! Very excited as the plan is to set up the 2nd bedroom (at least half of it anyhow) as my crafty room!! No longer will I be squashed into the computer room, and I will have a big desk to start clothes making again. Exciting times :)

Lucky the Sock Cat has a tea party

In the last month or so I have found no time at all to be writing about all the little things I have found myself doing. The sock animal experiement, often involving looking through google images to see what other people have done and then building my developing my own design (do an image search for sock 'insert random animal of your choice here' and you will be amazed!). I spent a lot of December planning homemade Christmas gifts too, all of which I will try and get writing about but today was all about the tea party.

For me this afternoon was about getting some naturally lite high quality images of my stock (it maybe freezing in the UK but it was lovely and sunny today), for Lucky it was all about the afternoon tea!

I let her invite several sock monkeys to the event, she was very excited!

So were the other monkeys, they had fine china, and I let them use the teacosey my Grandmother crocheted me.








Some of the monkeys were more keen on the chocolate cookies!

Some were just delighted to be having high tea!

All in all, it was a successful photo shoot for myself and these guys will all be listed on my etsy shop over the next few weeks.