.....Today is a day for......

......Missmatched florals, and hair clamps......

....what are you wearing today?....

...Pixie...

x

....Just relaxing today......x

.....Pixie.....

x

.....Wear something crafty.....

......This is the name of my new little line in ''Altered upcycled clothing''........

''Wear something crafty''

......I have been collecting and storing up old and new unwanted clothes and fabrics for a while now.....to indulge in my other joy of recycling old clothes,, i think it all started with the tweed jacket back in October that got me all fired up into doing it..........i have been quietly considering too about starting another blog all about redesigning old clothes,  and hopefully selling some of my creations from it too...............so watch this space my friends, i think new things are afoot in the 'crafte nook'..........

.....This is an old tank top that i have just finished upcycling,, i have given it the Pixie treatment, and i am quite quite pleased with it........

....it has its very own hand stitched 'wear something crafty' label.....

.....it has hand stitched writing......

....it has scrappy fabric and buttons.....

.....it has an old vintage button that i found in my mums old button tin, that now has a hand stitched teapot on it......

....Its also wool and angora, so lovely and soft to wear........i think i shall put this one up for sale.....what do you think? x

......

......Back soon with new things.... Pixie.....xxx

PS  Hello and welcome to my new followers, its so lovely to hear from you, and thank you for stopping by at the ''crafte nook'' and taking time to read it, i am so grateful to everyone who reads my waffle as i do love sharing it all with you......thank you all again my lovelies....Pixie x x x

....Fantastic Mr Fox.......

                                                                            .....Pixie.....xx

.....New doll......

.....Today i am wearing my flipperty flopperty flower brooch to remind me that somewhere up there above all the cloud and constant rain, the sun is still shining,.......

.....and to introduce you all to ''Scrap Sally''.....

....Pixie....

x

....This past week....

....has been just lovely, even if it has rained every day, and every night, its been wonderful to off had a week from work..........so what have i been up to ?......................................................

...Lots of Lay-ins, not having to get up at six.....

....A new book started, i adore Joanne Harris.....

....some stitchin'.....

.....finished my 'woodland wrap'..( as you know )....

....got my overalls on to give our bedroom a fresh coat of paint.....

....drank gallons of tea......i do like a nice cup of tea......

....Plus off course, popped up to see the Queen, which as you know didn't go quite as according to plan as hoped......plus also today i had a lovely lunch with my son Sam, it was just the two us, which is very rare these days as he has a little family, so this was a perfect end to my week........I have a lovely stack of magazines to settle down with tonight..................

.....back at work tomorrow, yes' i know its Saturday, but hospitals never shut, so weeks and weekends all seem to roll into one,,,in fact i am working one day on and one day off for about the next two weeks which is really going to throw me.......

........So see you all soon my bloggy friends, and thank you all as always for all your lovely comments that you leave me..........take care.....Pixie xxx

.....Woodland wrap.....

.....Hello my lovelies, and i think i shall just start by saying ,, wasn't it a jubilant jubilee.. it was good to watch the rest of it on the telly from a cosy sofa, after our wet attempt in London on Sunday, still,, at least we tried.......well done Queenie, you always amaze me how calm you look.......

................So moving on......some time before Christmas i showed some pictures of a 'woodland blanket', that i was crocheting in lovely 'Shetland wool', i showed a few squares completed and even showed you a knitted border that i wanted to attach around the edge.......well''.....i ummed and ahhhed over the whole thing and none of it seemed right to me...so i unpicked the border, stitched the blocks in a different order, and added a nice little edge,, and i have finished what is now my..'' Woodland willow wrap''.....

.......Its lovely and long,, its all snuggly,, its all Shetland,, its hand dyed,, and i love it.............

.....................................TAH DAHHHHHHH...........................................................................

.....Hook size used 3.5.....

.....Yarn, 100 % Shetland Jamiesons spindrift.....

......Lost count of how many balls used.....

......33 Squares made.....

.....Colours,, ( i just love the names of these little balls of delight )... x

Mooskit ,  Loganberry,  sunset,  nutmeg,  Earth,  peat,  Burnt umber,  Bracken,  Turf,  Peony,  Sand,  Pebble,  Pumpkin,  Grouse,   Laurel,  Atlantic,  Moss,  Verdigris,  Bramble,  Coral,  Wren,  Rosewood.  

.....There are 180 different colour shades to buy, that's pretty amazing....and such a delight to knit and crochet with....

.......See you soon...

Pixie

x

.....Jubilee pageant 2012.....

......Well.... Mr P and I got up ridiculously early this morning to catch the eight thirty train to London to go and wave a flag or two at her royal Queenieness.......i went with the full intention if taking some wonderful pictures of the boats as they came up the Thames in a fanfare of trumpets and such like to load onto my blog for you all to see........when we got there, London was probably the busiest i have ever seen it, a humongous enormous amount of people all heading along the mall past Buckingham palace to get there place by the Thames, to wave and cheer and  hopefully grab a little glimpse of the little old lady..........

..........so here are some wonderful photos of this glorious day.......................................

.....'YEP',,,,,,this was as close as it was feasibly possible to get anywhere near to seeing a boat,,,Mr P and I walked about two miles along the Thames to try and see something, even if it was just a mast......but all the way for as far as you could see where people,, hundreds and hundreds of people,,, and i have to say.........it was HELL......Mr P and I are not very tall people, so this off course didn't help ,,,,,it was very wet and very cold,,,, by about three thirty i had had enough of being wet and cold and i wanted to go home....i hadn't seen a thing and i had had my bag searched by security guards 'six times' !!, when it got to the sixth guard who stopped me and asked me what i had in bag i told him.......

.....'' a bag of twiglets,  an umbrella,  my purse,  a single sock ! ( don't ask ), an apple core,  a plastic doll with one leg ( my granddaughters ), and about a thousand receipts''....he didn't bother looking !!

......I think when Mr P saw my sad  tired face he agreed it was probably time to call it a day.................so off we went again, all along the river to get back to the station,,,, there where again hundreds and hundreds of people all going backwards and forwards trying to find places to stop and look at the large cinema screens that were erected all along the river...the problem here was that you had to really push and shove your way through to escape the crowds......i was OK until we reached a crowd that was so deep in people that there faces were nearly touching mine, and then at one point i was completely wedged in and i could feel myself about to have a panic attack as i couldn't get out............i have to tell you my friends i was quite scared, and i hung onto Ps bag as he pulled me through.......when we did finally get through the crowd i burst into tears............it isn't always nice to be short when your stuck in an unmoving crowd....................

..........Anyway........we got back home ' eventually', and after a glass of wine and a hot bath i feel a whole lot better,  so,, i am sorry for the lack of jubilee jubilation none of it went according to plan,, we probably should of just stayed in and watched it on the telly........never mind......

........i think i may go to bed now, i am completely done in.....

...Pixie...

x

......plus....

.....Thank you to all the lovely ladies who left very nice comments regarding my footwear in the previous post.......how nice you all are.........so in answer to your question,  they are made by 'Nature Sko',, and i bought them from the 'Natural shoe shop', in 'Covent garden', though they do have very lovely website.......all my boots and shoes are 'Nature sko' as they are quite wide fitting,,,, so they are good for Hobbit feet like mine  x x

....Lost in Translation..( or rather work )!

....Hello my dearest bloggy friends,,,oh i know it has been a while since my last post, but i have been doing all sorts of awkward shifts at work,, never too sure whether i was coming or going most of the time,( though going to work instead of coming back from was more the order of the day ).. .. but anyway.. i now have a few days off to get myself back to a sort of normal routine, and catch up on bits and bobs.......everything is a mess here at the moment as i am having the front of the house completely repainted and all made lovely, and that just seems to be going on forever due the ' crappity crap undeciding, unpredictable cant make up its bloody mind  British weather'....still......that's life,,, so anyway,, i shall be with you all in a couple of days time, to hopefully show you some pixie bits and bobs.......love to you all and have a Hap hap Happy jubilee thingy......
                                                                            

....x Pixie x...