tie one on - the tea towel apron

this is my tea towel apron for tie one on...it's really quite simple...

a tea towel with some cotton tape and an old bakelite button...


and some japanese inspired fabric...


i was hoping to do a fridays favourites today but i have run out of time, my show and tell will have to keep for next week...have a great weekend!

legs...

after toying with the idea for a couple of weeks, miss moo has decided to actually use her little legs for walking...we are very excited and she looks so cute tottering around the place calling "cat" (her new friend...more about that later)
anyway, you can see that i went a bit silly over socks that were on sale at target... so far one monkey has been completed...he was supposed to be a stripey mod monkey, but i ended up sewing him in a mad rush so that he wouldn't miss his flight to scotland...i sewed what should have been his jaunty red scarf on very firmly, so firm in fact that when i realised i hadn't left enough room for his arms, i didn't have time to unpick it and start again...
i thought i might have gotten away with it until someone commented that she thought he was a russian cossack monkey...hmmm
hopefully a three year old won't know the difference...

guessed!

well done jacqueline and mandy, we were indeed fred and wilma!
we had a yabba dabba do time at the party, especially as our friends the rubbles came too...it's amazing how much easier karaoke is when you are wearing a wig, they even had our theme song along with all my favourite 80's tracks...anyway i'm going to stop now before i really embarrass myself...

guess who...

hip hip hooray...no it's not my birthday...this is the closest thing to the fifth sentence of my 23rd post, for the following meme from ainslie whose lovely blog is over here...

THE RULES:
1. Go to your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five people to do the same.
(i'm not entirely sure where the meme has been so i'm just going to leave it open for anyone to take...)

speaking of birthdays, we went to a twenty-first party on saturday night and it was a fancy dress...


can you guess who we were?

short attention span...

surprise surprise...i should be finishing projects but instead i am trying out the lovely little purse pattern that lyn so kindly shared over at molly chicken...
i have been wanting to experiment with some applique and embroidery and i like how the red shoes turned out...could be just the thing to practice on sunday nights while i am watching a certain television show...

not so random acts of kindness...

someone very clever made this lovely doll and cd case for me...
thanks scooter girl, i just adore them!

new things...

a shiny red heart, a bracelet of pretty beads, lolly red earrings...and a new name to match...

this week's mail...

these quilt squares are going to Quilts for Katrina...