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Striped Bag :: WiP

I've had this idea for a new bag rattling around in my mind for what seems like an age now. Inside that very messy (but quite fantastical) tangled place that is my Creative Mind, it gets mighty crowded with ideas, designs and inspiration, and sometimes it can take a while for a project to actually work it's way out and come to life. But when it finally does begin to happen, and happens just exactly as I imagined it in my mind, it truly makes for one of my greatest Excitements in life.

I'm using my ever-faithful stash of Rowan Handknit DK Cotton for this bag, worked on a 4mm hook. It's a yarn that I never, ever tire of using :: it's soft but not floppy, and most importantly the colours are fantastic and it always gives me a huge buzz combining them. My Hexie Blanket is made in this yarn, as are several of my cushion covers, my heart bunting, my advent garland, my jam jar covers....like I say, I never tire of using it. 

I think I've got about twelve colours going on in this bag, working them up in random stripes of half-treble crochet (half double crochet for those of you in the US). I like working this stitch :: it makes quite a firm texture, but is still quite quick to produce lovely, colourful, stripy results.

 

This is a design for an across-the-body type bag, a practical bag that can be slung across my green Boden coat and used every day. It'll probably not come as a surprise to you to know that I am not a handbaggy type person, never have been. I currently have a small, very battered and cheap fake-leather handbag that I use every day, and that's an across-the-body style with a long strap. It's on it's last legs mind you, is all frayed and tattered and quite disgustingly shabby (not in an attractive way), so desperately needs replacing. Even J has asked me to get rid of it, and I figure that if he notices how bad it looks, then it really must be Very Bad Indeed.

I like an across-the-body style bag as I can sling it across myself and more or less forget it's there. It leaves my hands free and I don't have to fret about the possibility of putting it down and forgetting about it. And for scatterbrains like me, this is a Most Important consideration for an everyday bag.

The above photo shows where I'm currently at with my baggy WiP...I've made the front and back pieces, and the looooooooooong strap which will connect them together....

....can you get an idea of how it's going to come together? The strap has been made in a big loop and will form the bottom and sides of the bag, as well as the handle. The back piece comes right up and over to make a flap which'll be fastened at the front with a loop and pretty button.

I can tell you that there's also going to be quite a bit of Additional Embellishment on the front of this bag in the form of flowers, leaves and buttons.

Oh yes, as lovely as the stripes are, I think Stripes-with-Flowers make for something extra super-duper special.

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ps over in Flickrville, I've created a little Gallery containing some of my favourite inspirational crochet bags...do go take a look.

pps there's also a group pool specifically for Crochet Bags...don't ya just adore Flickr??! xx

Today I am...

:: Today I am...having a love-hate thing with the wintery weather ::

Loving the view from my cosy Attic window, with the hills looking impossibly beautiful dusted in a light sprinkling of snow. And hating the thought of snow arriving down here in the town as I am no longer able to fasten up any coats I possess or wear any footwear other than crocs. Neither of which is suited to doing the school run in snow.

:: Today I am...enjoying the sight of our early morning pre-breakfast crafting ::

We rise early here at number 24, at around 6:15am or thereabouts, so even on school days there is always time for some pre-breakfast activity of one sort or another. During this week I've been joining the Little People most mornings in making some more decs for our tree, and it's been a whole lot of fun. 

We're using pre-cut felt shapes, glitter glues, shiny stars and christmas stickers, all of which are making me feel quite Excitably Festive. Not decided yet whether to string these little decorated shapes into a garland or hang them individually, but either way, I think they're going to look pretty good.

:: Today I am...enjoying a little bit of happy hooky time ::

Been at the cafe this morning, nattering, cappuccino drinking and hooking. I worked some more colourful cottony stripes to my current WiP, which is a new bag.

I have to say I've not been crocheting very much at home just lately as I usually hook in the evenings or at weekends, both of which seem to have been swamped by either tiredness or other activities of late. But this afternoon, just after lunch I sat with a cup of tea and a little Sweet Something on the side (recipe for that coming tomorrow) and enjoyed some Afternoon Hooky. Very pleasurable it was too.

In fact....am about to go and squeeze in a few more stripes before it's time to plod along the canal to school.

Hoping you're having a Happy Today, whatever the weather and whatever you are up to, and I shall see you tomorrow for some Festive Baking.....it's gonna be rather Mmmmmmm at Attic24 tomorrow!

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Advent Garland :: Ta-dah!

I've been wanting to make some sort of Advent calendar/garland type thingy for many years now, but until this year I've never been organised enough to get my creative thinking cap on in time. Arriving at the very last few days of November and suddenly wanting to create a handmade advent something-or-another is not really possible. Way too rushy and stressy for it to be worthwhile.

But this year, lo and behold, I have actually managed it. Yaaayyyyyyyyy for me!!!!! I feel very impressed with myself I have to confess, and even though technically speaking I haven't quite finished stitching all twenty four numbers yet, I am overlooking that weeny little fact and giving myself a pat on the back anyway.

The idea for my garland came about when I started making these fabulous crochet granny stars, you probably remember my post about them from a few weeks ago (see here). I was originally intending to string a dozen or so of them into a garland to hang over my fireplace (to replace my heart garland for the festive season), but as with many projects of this nature, I found that once I began making these stars I simply couldn't stop. Soon my starry pile was growing a little out of control and when I finally stopped hooking and started counting, I found I'd made sixteen instead of twelve. And that was when it suddenly occurred to me that if I made just eight more, then sixteen would become twenty four and they could indeed be turned into something Adventy.

So twenty four stars were made and strung onto some pink yarn to make a very looooong and colourful garland. But as festive and pretty as my garland was, my stars were Numberless. And no Advent garland would be complete without a set of twenty four numbers, would it??

I needed numbers of some sort then...hmmmm.....well I pondered and I thought, scratched my head and browsed through this amazing Flickr group for ideas and inspiration and eventually came up with a Number Idea.....

I cut twenty four circles out of coloured felt and lots of numbers out of red cotton fabric, then used iron on bondaweb to attach the  numbers to the felt.

A bit of white embroidery thread and some extremely enjoyable and theraputic hand stitching, and there you have it.....a whole bunch of Advent Numbers!

On the reverse of each number circle (which is visible when they're hung up), I added a circle of bonded cotton fabric (embellished with a button and some stitching) to stiffen the felt and stop it going floppy.

And the final thing was to add some coloured paper clips as an easy Hanging Mechanism.

I'm really rather pleased with how it's turned out.

So are the Little People.

They declared that Mummy did a Good Job.

So shall I show you how it looks?

When it's all hung up?

You'll have to excuse the quality of the following pictures I'm afraid, the light is very poor here today (more rain and gloomy dark skies) and I struggled to hold the camera still enough without wobbling.

ok..

here

it

comes.....

Ta-dah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a good 8 or 9 ft long and beautifully stretches across the whole width of the archway which divides our living and dining areas downstairs.

And today being the 3rd December, the first three numbers are hanging in place, marking the date and the Big Countdown.

In true, homespun, colourful Attic24 style.

I'm really pleased with my Advent Garland.

In fact I Love, love, love it.

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White Hooky Snowflakes

Morning All :o)

Yes, its the Whitey-white Reveal today, and of course you were all absolutely right when you guessed I've been crocheting Snowflakes. White snowflakes no less. Made with All White yarn and not a bit of colour in sight (although was mighty tempted to try these out in coloured yarn I must admit).

 

So....do you like my little venture into the World of Whiteness??

I really am thrilled with these snowflakes, I think they are just so festive, simple and pretty. And such fun to make, oh-oh-oh yes a lot of fun. And addictive too, so hard to make only a few. Much easier to make a whole snow storm.

Over the weekend I found myself slipping gently into a snowflake-making frenzy. A quiet, peaceful, happy frenzy, but my goodness, I found I could not stop making them. One after another I turned them out, trying out different sized hooks, making little piles of flakes all over the table. It really began to feel like it was snowing here at Attic24.

Did I tell you how ThRiLlEd I am with making these? And how much fun they are? And how addictive they are? Did I, did I??!!!

So anyhow, I need to tell you a little bit more about how I came to get started with making snowflakes....

Some weeks ago I received a comment on one of my posts from a very nice lady called Victoria. She thought (quite rightly too) that I might rather enjoy a spot of snowflake making, and gave me a link to a free pattern on the "Coats and Clark" website. This website has loads of free projects and patterns for all types of needlecraft, and seems to me to be a really super resource.

It took me a while to get round to trying this pattern out, and I confess I did not find it easy. I don't know about you, but I find there's something about the way crochet patterns are written which always makes them seem over complicated to me. I kind of get a brain-freeze, do you know what I mean?

I sat and tried to work this snowflake out, and I found that for the most part the pattern was excellent, but the way each round started out was very confusing. So I made a few slight alterations, scribbbling notes as I went, until I was happy with how it was working for me. I didn't change it enormously, just enough to simplify it and defrost my brain-freeze.

So please know honestly that this is not entirely my pattern. The original can be found on the Coats and Crafts website HERE, and I give full credit to the lovely Mary Jane Protus for sharing her pattern with us all.

 

After making many, many of these snowflakes, I decided that I very much wanted to share my version with you. Cos I do know many of you suffer from Crochet Pattern Brain Freeze just like me, and that a simple pattern can often seem imPOSSible to crack.
So I wrote my pattern out in plain non-abbreviated English and photographed the step-by-step making stages so that you will all be able to give it a go.

As with all my patterns and tutorials, you can find this one in my sidebar down at the bottom, listed as a page, or click HERE.

I'm hoping you're going to like it and that you'll be inspired to seek out some white yarn and hook up a snowstorm.....I'm planning on stringing my flakes vertically (with some silver beads I think) and hanging them in my bay window. Pretty-pretty.

Oh, and just before I go, a little note about the above photo.....as I mentioned in yesterday's post, the joy of spray-starch for projects such as this is not to be underestimated. You can see the difference it makes...a little stretching, pinning and starching and these snowflakes are transformed. Victoria also suggested to me that the flakes could be stiffened by pinning them out and painting them with diluted PVA glue, then sprinkling them with glitter.......gosh, now that would probably tip me over the edge into Complete Giddiness, but I may have to give it a go anyway.

How to resist the combined charms of crochet and glitter????

Impossible!

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edited to add :: don't forget you can share your photos over at the Attic24 Inspired Flickr group. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to bob in there and see new photos being added every day...lots of gorgeous Birdies, stars, wrist warmers, summer garden squares, bags, ripples....and I hope soon some snowflakes!

One more thing :: the spray starch I'm using is called "Astonish", it came from a cheap discount shop and only cost £1 for a large bottle. It's a blue spray bottle (ie a bottle with a trigger, not an aerosol), and you can find it to buy on line here. It works brilliantly, making the crochet fairly stiff and crispy without being rock hard or sticky.

Stay-home Weekend

Hello my lovelies, thanks soo much as always for taking time out of your day to call in to see me in the Attic. I've been enjoying your visits enORmously of late, all of your comments and continued enthusiasm and support for what goes on in my crazy little muti-coloured world is so very much appreciated. Thank you.

I'm feeling happy and refreshed today after spending a very lovely, sloooooow kind of stay-home weekend with my Little People (J was away partying with old friends for most the weekend). It was exactly the kind of weekend that I needed after what felt like a superly-doooperly long and tiring week. In fact, apart from a little jolly into town on Saturday afternoon to purchase chocolate laden Advent Calendars from here, we did not leave the house. And yesterday, with the rain pouring down for the whole day and with no intention of going anywhere or seeing anyone outside of my immediate family, I did not even get myself dressed. Yup, spent the whole day in my pj's (well, I did manage to change into some clean ones at about midday after a shower). And oh it felt good! Really good.

During the course of the weekend I took a few photos here and there, little snap-shots of our time spent at home. I really enjoy looking back at these "ordinary" photos of every day home life, it gives me a lot of pleasure to record my life in this way, to use my blog as a visual diary if you like.

The above pics are of Little Lady's hastily constructed weekend "den" made in the Big Chair :: you can see how my crochet blankets are in constant use around here, and I can't tell you how much I love that they are used and loved in this way. And although the blanket-den looks a bit makeshift and to be honest very small even for a Little Person, Little Lady did miraculously manage to crawl into it with her little pink fluffy bag of Essentials and spent quite a while in there. She could be heard from under the blanket, talking to her toys and having some long in-depth conversations with friends on her toy mobile phone. Very sweet indeed.

We had a late breaskfast on Saturday morning consisting of a huge pile of scotch pancakes with strawberry jam and syrup (fabulous recipe from here), but we were still hungry enough to enjoy a spot of Elevenses a little while later....fruit and a bun in front of some atrocious kids tv for the Little People....

....and a cuppa and a bun in front of a lovely magazine for me.

I hadn't found time to do any baking at all last week and had missed it (both the act of baking and the end results), so on Sunday morning I put my apron on over my pyjamas and enjoyed a very pleasant little baking session in my weeny kitchen.

I made some apricot flapjacks....

....and an iced lemon cake.

Both very satsifactory indeed, if I do say so myself.

There was also time during the weekend to partake in a little hooky business. Of course. Can't possibly have a stay-home weekend without hook and yarn, that would never do.

I spent a little time pinning out and spray-starching my Granny Stars...Oh-my-goodness, I can't tell you how fabulous this starchy-stuff is!!! It's the first time I've tried it out on crochet and it works an absolute treat. You just have to try it! Prior to their Spa Treatment, my stars were looking yummy but decidedly flopsy and roundy on the corners and no good for stringing into a garland really.

 

But not so any more!! Now they are all pert and pointy-cornered, crisp and flat and uncurly and gorgeous. And I'm sooooooo happy with them!

I finally took down my hanging paper hearts (the ones that've been up since Valentines Day) and am going to string these stars into a long garland to hang in their place tomorrow, to celebrate the start of Advent. Going to see if I can make some more today so that I have 24 altogether (8 more to make), one for each day of Advent. Think that would be good.

As well as star-starching, I also embarked on another Festive hooky project over the weekend. And I am SO EXCITED to share this with you all !!!!!!!

Remember waaaaaayy back earlier in the year when I was in the midst of making BB, when I made the decision to frog out the white borders?? Well as a result of all that bitter-sweet frogging, I was left with a rather giant ball of white wool, and quite honestly I was beginning to think I would never ever find a use for it. I just don't really do White creative things as a rule. Up until two days ago that is.

 

Uh-huh, you do indeed see a little stack of White things there, and they were indeed made by me.

Yes, I did indeed venture into the World of White.

I admit it did not come easy, but I am absolutely thrilled with the results.

So thrilled in fact that I spent a good portion of my pyjama-clad afternoon yesterday hooking and photographing a tutorial for this All-White project.

Yes, I did!

So if you fancy a peek at what I've been up to, call in to see me again tomorrow and all will be revealed.

You can expect a spectacularly colour-less post tomorrow.

See you then.................

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Granny Chic Fabulousness

 

Today is turning out to be a very long day indeed, being that it started at three o'clock in the morning for me and Bump24. Yes, you read that right :: Three-Ay-Em. That's pretty much the time we wake up together most nights/mornings, with me fidgeting and trying to get comfy with my elaborate pillow arrangement, and Bump24 partaking in some corresponding vigorous fidgeting/wriggling of his/her own.

Sometimes I manage to eventually get back to sleep, sometimes I am simply too wide awake for sleep to happen. So on the too-wide-awake occasions I quietly get myself up, tiptoe downstairs in the darkness and set about occupying myself for a while. I've come to enjoy these quiet moments of the night/morning when everyone else is tucked up in bed sleeping. I enjoy sitting in the quiet of the lamplight with a steaming hot mug of tea and a plate of toast to hand, alternating my time between my laptop and my crochet bag.  

I'm finding the delights of Flickr are extra-especially delightful at 3am. So many inspiring images to be enjoyed, so many things to make one oooooh and aaaaah and lose oneself in a flurry of excited creative thoughts, dreams and ideas. Yes, Flickr has become a real friend to me during my early morning too-wide-awake occasions.

So let me tell you where I ended up this morning.....

I found my way into an amazing Flickr group called Granny Chic. There's a strong vintage vibe over at Granny Chic which I am still getting used to, but beginning to warm to the more I see of it. The overall look and feel of this style is more subtle than my own, the colours more earthy, yet I find myself irresistibly drawn to it.

You just HAVE to go and take a look at this group to see what I mean, it's absolutely fabulous. It's overseen by the enormously talented Emma Lamb who's crochet work and blog are new to me :: I like her style very much.

But what really caught my eye this morning and sent my heart a-fluttering were the above images. Oh-my-goodness, didn't I just fall head over heels in L:O:V:E with these granny-stars??!! Bowled over I was. Smitten.

This is the work of Michelle who I've now discovered writes a lovely blog called "The Royal Sisters" . And further more, this lovely lady has written a tutorial for the making of these stars :: oh Happy Days!!! She's called them Grandma Twinkle Stars (awwww love-love-love that!), and you can find the tutorial here, as well as via a link in the sidebar of her blog.

So...............guess what I was doing at four-ay-em this morning? And onwards through five-ay-em and six-ay-em??

Of course.

What else could I do?

Out came my bag of Rowan Handknit cotton and I began star-making.

The pattern is very simple, yet sooooo fabulously effective. Michelle made her stars in single colours, but me being Me decided to put a typical Attic24 spin on my stars and used three different colours for the three rounds. Why only have one when you can play with three??

Oh I did have fun with these stars! Eventually I had to stop when J and the Little People began to surface, but that was OK cos I knew I'd be able to pick back up a little later on when it was knit and natter morning at the cafe. And pick back up I did :: over a couple of revitalising frothy cappuccino's and a lot of nattering, I busied myself with essential star-making.

Then back home this afternoon with a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit, and I had a little time to play.....

I stacked them.

I spread them.

I lined them up and admired them.

I danced from foot to foot with a jiggety-jig and got quite over excited about them. Really, seriously Over Excited I tell you.

I've made nine so far today, but I need to make more. Many more.

Yes I see many, many more Granny Twinkle Stars in my immediate future.

I see them strung into pretty garlands and draped hither and thither, bringing a little bit of Granny Chic Fabulousness into the house.

Some colourful, starry, frivolous, Fabulousness.

Bring it on.

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Three Things

Three Things that are making me heart-skippy-happy today..........

Thing #1 :: on my table ::

:: a pot of blue hyacinth bulbs, bought from the supermarket this morning, and immediately re-potted into an old Cornishware bowl ::

 

:: love-love-loving the repetitive seasonal rhythm of my life that long-term blogging reveals (read this post from November 2008 to see what I mean) ::

Thing #2 :: on my windowsill ::

 :: in the process of de-cluttering, I came across some boxes of ornaments that had not been unpacked since our house move almost two years ago ::

:: love-love-loving finding a new home for some old and familiar treasured objects of mine ::

Thing #3 :: in my bag ::

:: a replenished stash of Rowan Handknit Cotton DK, and the beginnings of a new project ::

 

:: love-love-loving working these colourful, cottony stripes. More about this latest WiP coming soon (and nope, surprisingly, it's NOT another blanket!) ::

Happy Friday to you all, hope you find some heart-skippy-happy things to enjoy today!

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Baby Granny Blanket :: Ta-dah!

Hello!!

ooo what a lovely day I'm having today, jigging about from room to room, getting all excited about my home and the way things are slowly but surely getting straightened out around here. Tis very pleasing indeed I have to say, and my heart feels skippy and light.

Today I've been having some very excitable moments doing bathroom-styling and am delighted to say that it's nearly-oh-so-very-nearly finished. Which is Big News here at Attic24. To have one room out of seven finally nearly-oh-so-very-nearly finished is really, hugely exciting, well for me it is at any rate. The rest of the family are playing it cool, but me, oh I'm love-love-loving this housey progress! It's only a light fitting that's needed now, so if one doesn't bother to look upwards then one can easily overlook the bare-light-bulb thing and view the room as Finished. Have to say I am really pleased with how it's all come together, its exactly as I envisaged it all those months ago in January when the renovation first began.

So anyhow, you can expect an official "Bathroom :: Ta-dah!" post anytime soon, I just need to take some decent photographs which is proving quite tricksy, but I'm trying hard. I am quite desperate for you to see it.

In the meantime, I'm making today a Blankety kind of a Ta-dah day.

 

I finished my Baby Granny Blanket over the weekend, yaaayyyyyyyy!!! And I'm really really happy with how it turned out. Enormously happy actually.
Working on this blanket has been a total pleasure from start to finish, its been just wonderful. The yarn is delicious to work with, soft and luxurious and easy to hook. And the simplicity of using a basic Granny Square pattern has given me a great deal of pleasure because it's been so easy, theraputic and relaxing.
The colours, which are softer/paler than I'm used to, have surprised and delighted me. You can find the specific yarn info in this post which I made on 9th October....cooeee, hasn't this been a Quick blanket?? A little over four weeks to complete, which is pretty speedy I'd say.

I used my Bobble Shell edging pattern to finish off the border of this little blanket, and I am pleased with the way it turned out. It's a neat and snuggly type of edging I think.

In fact, the whole blanket feels rather Neat and Snuggly to me. Yes, as you can see I've been carrying out essential Quality Control tests on it this week, you know, road-testing it, trying it out, wearing it in, making it feel at home.

 

And I can report that it is indeed a pretty first rate snuggle-blankie. It's quite light, but deceptively warm and very soft.

And this newest addition to Attic24 does indeed seem to love hanging out down here with all the other hooky goodies about the place. Looks right at home on the sofa there doesn't it??

Well do you know what, I originally began this blanket with the intention of it being an Upstairs Blanket, not a Downstairs one.

I wanted it to be a bedroom blanket.

A baby cot blanket no less.

For when Bump24 becomes Baby#3.

But you see, I somehow got a little bit carried away with making this blanket and it ended up being quite a lot larger than I anticipated.

Too large for a cot really.

So you see, now I'm thinking perhaps this Granny Blanket can in fact stay downstairs for the time being, and then that officially gives me permission to make Baby Cot Blanket v2.0.

Hmmmmm yes, I'm thinking a striped one this time.

And smaller, yes it needs to be smaller.

Cot sized.

Baby sized.

Must not get carried away this time.

Anyhoooooooooooow..........lovely chatting to you and all, but maybe we need to get on with the actual Ta-dah???

OK

here

it

comes.................

Ta-dah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One Hundred and Seventeen five-round Granny Squares.

Joined using the fabulous as-you-go method, then bordered with eight rows of grannying and a bobble-shell edging.

 

I chose the colours (16 in total) completely at random as I went along, with no planning whatsoever. It's often harder than it seems to successfully do Random-with-no-planning. I did have to keep a constant eye on the overall colour balance as I worked. Had to check the balance between the lighter/paler colours and the deeper/saturated colours as well as the balance between the pinks/purples and the greens/blues.

And I think I've managed to create a very pleasing well-balanced blanket colour-wise. Well I think so.

So.....time for the Baby Granny Blanket Riveting facts...........

Measures :: 110cm x 150cm
Squares :: 117, each made up of five rounds, measuring approx 10cm square
Time :: quick!! Each square took me eleven minutes, I kid you not. Smokin'
Balls :: 22
Weight :: 1092g
Cost :: oh, I just don't go there anymore
Mileage :: 22 balls @ 125m each ball = 2750 metres = 1.7 miles of yarn (!)

 

Photo :: me snuggling on the sofa
Blanket :: soft and gorgeous
Me :: happy and smiley

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Comfort Food

Helloooooo!!!!

I bought some amazing greetings cards recently and thought you would love to see them....

 

.....Fabulous or what????

This is the work of Kate Jenkins, who works under the business name of "Cardigan".

You can see a whole gallery of her quirky, innovative crochet work on her website here, and also more here.

I love her work very much, but oooooooooooeeeee at how much one would have to pay to own a bit of Kate's crocheted Comfort Food???!!

Tis eye wateringly expensive.

Think I'll stick with the printed paper version.

I'm writing a super-whizzy post today folks as I'm still busy doing bathroomy things and getting oh-so-excited about it!!!

Been busying myself with sky blue painted things, stripy fabric things (with matching pompoms) and crocheted bunting things :: such fun!!

Lovin' it today, love-love-lovin' it. Ooooo I am just all smoochy and In LOVE with my bathroom, it's so very nearly FINISHED (in Capital Letters no less), can't wait to show you......

Life is sometimes just one huge buzz of mega-creative excitement, don't you find??!!

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Weekend Colour

 

 

 

 

My weekend was full of C's :: comfort, cosiness, crafting, crochet, cuddles, cake, coffee, colour.

Enjoyed it enormously, this homey time with my little family.

Enjoyed the comfort of being within our four walls while the weather did unspeakably miserable things outside.

I need to tell you that  in amongst all these lovely C's, I also had a little ponder about Attic24 over the weekend.

I had a good long think about the time and space that blogging takes up in my day (which can be quite considerable at times).

I balanced it out against the pressing demands of Other Things also needing my time and space right now.

And I came to the the conclusion that as much as I have to attend to Other Things in my life at this time, I quite simply also have to continue to find a little time in each day to be here at Attic24.

I have to continue to record the things that make me tick, to document my thoughts, observations, ideas, pleasures, creativity.

Because it makes me feel so good to be here.

And it makes me feel so miserable thinking about not being here.

And I'm all for the Feel-Good.

However, for the time being I'm going to have to reduce the time I spend blogging.

So I shall try to be here most days, but making shorter postings. 

Its a compromise you see, and one that I feel will do us all fine for the time being.

I know you'll understand, cos you're so good like that.

Right now then, I'm going to finish up with the words and say Toodle-ooo.

I'm off to wield a paintbrush and get busy with those Other Things.

See you Tomorrow for some outdoorsy pictures from my weekend.

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