Happy Easter

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter!

May you all have a wonderful time with friends and family.May you eat lots of chocolate, and hot cross buns and be happy!

Even if the weather is wet!

I'll show you my Easter tree tomorrow as I can't take a photo at the mo!

I'm off to bake more cupcakes!

Rachel x

I've been tagged by the lovely Sophie and I've been given this Award

That's so sweet of you Sophie, thank you so much!

Anyway I have to tell you 7 things about myself so here goes!

1. I hate the adverts for Maltesers! The one where the lady is horrible to her husband.I know' it's only an advert but it irritates me!A lot!



2. I am very untidy(I say creative) In fact hubby teases me that I only take macro shots for my blog and that my blogging chums will never see a wide angle view!



3. I used to live in a caravan until I was 4. My dad had blown the deposit for the house on a van! I loved it as it was in the country, it was a large mobile home. My mum wasn't so keen and couldn't wait to buy a house!



4. I can make myself burp! What an amazing skill I hear you say, that must be so useful! But I can't curl my tongue!



5. I shall be getting a dog this month! I really really want a dog.I never thought I would but I've really wanted one for a WHOLE year but it took me ages to persuade Hubby!I thought I was more of a cat person.We had our lovely cat Peanut for 20 years but he sadly died just over a year ago!



6. I'm taking part in Dottie Angel's Challenge of The Utmost kind and I've just gotten past the first 4 months.It's not been too bad so far. But now we have a change in season I'm going to find it much more difficult!I need Spring clothes. I can see I may have to resort to making skirts from old sheets soon!The Challenge has definitely made me become more creative though!
7. I like to 'make' something everyday, stitched, knitted or even baked a cake. Makes me think I've achieved something!
   
   

So there are my 7 things now I would to pass this award to the following beautiful bloggers . They make me smile!

A Thrifty Mrs

Tabiboo

bellascountry

Sarah-Jane Down The Lane

The Hen House

Stitchery Pokery

Bunny Mummy

Have a lovely day!

Rachel x

You make my day!

Yes you do ladies, I've got a nasty cold at the moment but you make my day with your lovely comments! Thank you for taking the time, it's really cheered me up!I haven't got much energy today so I've just been dabbling and making brooches ,with my Cath Kidston/ Ikea quilt cover!

I made one for myself to pop on my Angora cardigan!

I shall pop some in my Etsy shop later today too! http://www.etsy.com/shop/RubyRedcrafts

Now let me tell you about my best friend Karen.We've known each other to have a quick chat and say hello to for about 8 years and her son was in my class at pre-school.Then I started to have a stall at Karen and her husband's events in Burford.We have become really good friends over the the last 3 and a half years. Our families get on well together and we've been on 2 amazing fun filled holidays to the Caribbean too!

We also have stalls together on Thursdays in Witney, we chat and giggle all day!

I've been nagging Karen for ages to open an Etsy shop as she sells beautiful vintage items, jewellery and homewares

I don't want you ladies to miss out as her pretty things are very reasonably priced.She only opened her shop a week ago and she's already sold 6 items!

If you'd like to take a peek it's here http://www.etsy.com/shop/BAYTREEGIFTS

She's also opening a blog shop too, you can find it here http://baytreegifts.blogspot.com/

I'm sure she'd love you to pop by and say hello!

In other news I've been tagged by the lovely Sophie http://chezsophie-sophie.blogspot.com/ Thank you Sophie, I shall have a little think and then post about it

See you soon

Rachel x

Sweet things

The Union Jack was a gorgeous gift from my children, the Russian doll my husband brought back from Russia a few year ago, when he worked out there. The toadstool was from the car boot a year ago!

Little birds waiting to be hung on my Easter tree!

Piles of fabric in my tiny craft room

Sweet teacups waiting for me to find their matching saucers... I know there here somewhere!!

Have a lovely day

Rachel x

Finally up!

I painted my little shelf unit a few weeks ago but haven't put it up until today.



Here's a before picture

I bought it at the boot last year for £2! The Hubster was going to put it up last week ,but had to go and work in Norfolk. He was only supposed to be gone for 3 days, but was actually gone for 8!!

Anyway now I'm so pleased he's home . He doesn't mind that there are a few jobs to do! He's in a good mood because he's got the Grand Prix to watch!

I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I sanded and primed it. The I painted it with 2 coats of emulsion and then I waxed it.

I'm off to paint my mirror now. It's cream with a touch of gold and I'm going to paint it white.

Have a lovely day!

Rachel x

Snippety snipping

Been snippety snipping at the Ikea quilt cover

I've made 3 of these!

I've made lots of hearts too! These will be made into a heart garland.

I'm off to bake cakes for when Sonny Jim gets home from school. He's got his appetite back.BIG TIME!!

Rachel x

p.s I cried my eyes out last night watching Married, single, other!

How about you?

Just wonderin....

How I could have reached the age of 42 and NEVER heard this song before.A hauntingly beautiful song.Wild is the Wind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWOPT3TAAY this is the David Bowie version, so beautiful!

I came across it when I was listening to Billy Mackenzie on Spotify.I loved Billy in the 80's in the Associates. Me and my friend Nora McGrath used to listen to their 12"over and over again.We thought he was GORGEOUS. I was about 14 at the time!

Anyway Spotify led me to YouTube and there I heard him sing it, so haunting and beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAtCMpC0_f0
Sadly Billy committed suicide in 1997 aged 39
such a shame....