Jeans, cardigan, vest top, corsage. Annoying hair that I'm fed up of. Good, so that's Sunday. I made sure to wear something close fitting to back up my protestations that I'm not pregnant.

Honestly, you have a tummy bug for a couple of weeks and everyone thinks you're pregnant....what's with that?

I took a couple of photos of Saturday's outfit cos I was trying to extend my summer tops into the autumn/winter season. I tried a long sleeve top under this sleeveless top, what do you think?


Do you think it looks a bit odd or does it work?

Also I had my crochet ear warmer which I totally love. It's all very well wearing winter coat and scarf but I get cold ears and then it gives me a headache etc so this is perfect.


It was about £10 and if you want one let me know cos I'm not sure if Loopy Lizzie's got any ready made or whether she'll make to order.


This week's Shop your Closet was a free for all hence my trying to transition my summer top into A/W. Pop over to Yellow Blackbird for more info.



Samantha x

At home with Mrs H

So, remember how Kei shared my tutorial for the bubbles bag yesterday on Unfortunately Oh! ? Well today she's sharing her fab tutorial here with us for the most gorgeous cross necklace. Check it out below then go share your appreciation on her blog :) Kei has tons of fab posts so make sure you 'follow' her using Google friend connect to keep up with her posts. 

Hi everyone! I'm Kei and I'm visiting today from Unfortunately Oh! It began life as a craft blog, but other things appear to have snuck in. :)
There are a lot of tutorials on my blog, ranging from stuff like furry claw scarves and eye patches (very Halloween, right?) to YSL-inspired cuffs, wire-wrapped crystals and pincushions!

Anyway. When the lovely Samantha asked if I'd like to do a blog swap, I jumped at the chance!
Then I racked my brains to come up with something sweet and stylish to share with you guys. Something that looked good but didn't require a degree or a day to make!

What I came up with was this cute cross charm necklace.


This is so simple to make that anyone can do it!
Here's a little tutorial.



Time needed: 10-15 minutes (approx)

You'll need:
22 inches of chain
A ring/hoop
Large cross charm
Small cross charm
Jump rings
Clasp
Flat and round-nose pliers
Cutters
Ruler



1. Cut 12 inches of chain and fix the larger charm to one end with a jump ring.



2. Cut another 9 inches of chain and use a jump ring to fix the ring onto one end.



3. Attach the small charm to the final inch of chain in the same way.



4. Connect the end of the shortest piece of chain to the ring.



5. Slip the longest length of chain (with the large charm attached) through the ring from underneath.



6. Add a clasp to the ends of the two longer pieces of chain, and you're all done :)



Variations:
If you fancy a clasp-less version of this, simply cut 21 inches of chain instead of 12 inches + 9 inches. Fix the ring to one end, loop the other end through it and attach the larger charm, then add on the smaller charm as described in steps 3-4.

Obviously the crosses can be swapped for other motifs, if crosses aren't your thing!

Ideally I would have used a bigger charm, but was working with things I had to hand!


I hope you felt inspired by this little tutorial! You can find loads more tutorials on Unfortunately Oh! Please pop over and check it out!


Thanks for visiting with us Kei! 
Pop over and visit Kei and let her know I sent you :D 


Samantha x

Day 2 (yesterday - forgot to post!)

35 Jumping Jacks
15 Crunches

Jumping jacks were slightly harder this day, definitely making me breathe heavily!!

Day 3

40 Jumping Jacks
20 Crunches

I forgot how many it was meant to be so did 45 jumping jacks. Going to need to get some specialist sports 'impact' clothing if this keeps on...!

Crunches not too bad, I tried doing one sit up in preparation for tomorrow and I couldn't even sit up. Um, that'll be interesting!!

How are you getting on?

Samantha x

At home with Mrs H

p.s. beans on toast for tea tonight :)

My latest commission (hee hee!) has been to make a set of three cushion covers. I say cushion covers but the size of them is more like pillows.

Anyway, this lady is a fan of NZ so the main one was to be a NZ flag with the other two coordinating.

NZ Flag front (I realise I shouldn't have folded it immediately after pressing!)

NZ flag back

Both coordinating pillows with cream front, red back and lace edging.

Red back with lace edging along envelope closure.

The cottons I used were navy cherries from the Tea Time collection by Makower, Cream hearts on red from the Tea Time collection by Makower and Cream Daisy from the love hearts collection by Makower.

These will be in the post tomorrow to what I hope will be a very happy customer!

Samantha xx


At home with Mrs H

Ok, so you're top stitching...picture the scene. Wait, that should be the other way round.

Picture the scene...you're top stitching. (If you don't sew, ignore this whole post, it's not for you)

Ok, so we've established you're top stitching. Good. You don't want your stitching to come unravelled but at the same time you're fed up of backstitching at the start and end leaving a darker double stitch in it's wake.

That's where this locking stitch comes into action. I first saw it on Gertie's blog for better sewing and I've used it recently so thought I'd share it with you.

(Ignore my crazy coloured photos, apparently my proper camera can't handle photos as well as my phone...odd)


Start off by sewing as normal but without backstitching at the beginning and end. Turn your piece over so that you are on the bobbin side. (Or underneath).


Pull gently on the bobbin side until you see the top thread forming a loop like so.


Insert something small and pointy into the loop. If you're going to use an unpicker like I did then be careful not to cut the thread. You can use a pin or something similar.


Pull on the loop until the thread from the front comes through to the back.


Now knot those two threads together. 3 times should just about do it. Trim the excess thread close to the knots.

I told you some of the colours were funny!

This is how the back will look when you've done both ends.


And the ever important front looks neat with no visible double stitching. I hate messy stitching!

I used this method whilst making a cushion cover with the NZ flag on it. I applique'd the Union Jack and stars on and didn't want the messy back stitch so I lock stitched each section.

Union Jack front side

Stars front side

Back side

So, there we go, don't just accept messy stitching when you don't have to!

Samantha x

At home with Mrs H

Told ya it'd be good!

Pop over to Unfortunately, oh! for the bubbles bag tutorial.


Remember to come back here tomorrow when Kei's going to be sharing a tutorial with us for an absolutely stunning necklace!

Want to make a bubbles bag yourself?

Pop over to Unfortunately, oh! Click the blue follow button and await tomorrow eagerly.

Oh, you're in for such a treat!!

I know you've all seen far too much of my wedding shoes already......

But pop over to the I am blog for my contribution to their October cancer fund raising month.

That's not what it's called, that's what I call it :)

Do you ever have the kind of day that starts with you wishing you had thermal undies? To your knees. No? Ah, you don't live in Wales.

In Denver yesterday they had snow!! SNOW! In October! I don't know if that's normal for them or not but ... snow! In the back of my mind I know that as soon as snow arrives I'll be bored of it within 48 hours. Or I run out of chocolate. But still...there's something so magical about snow. Especially when you get as much rain as we do, anything's magical!

December 2010

Anyway, so, let's talk about something more interesting than the weather.

I'm gonna throw this one out there....don't hate. Do you meal plan?

Up until I started reading blogs (as in multiple ...urm...271 subscriptions) Really need to go through and have a clear out I think. Off topic...anyway, since I started reading blogs I had no idea about meal planning. Or the few times I'd heard of it I thought it was some crazy OCD type behaviour that surely could come to no good!

Meal planning for 3 months was even crazier.....how do you store all the food?!

For those who like me haven't heard of meal planning before the concept is this. You plan your meals. Simples!


In September we went on holiday, you may remember the peaceful silence that blew through this blog. No? Ah well, it was a blissful few weeks. Anyway, I was the Catering Manager for the holiday. My mum and her fancy man and my 2 sisters and their men. And I was in charge of the food. Me, who couldn't really care less if I eat a meal or a bowl of cereal.

I thought I'd better do a list of meals and then buy from those and then the family type persons wouldn't starve. Actually as it happened the opposite happened and I fed people so much they rubbed their bellies with glee thought I'd done a good job.

I wrote a list of meals that everyone would like and for the funny ones added a variation. My little sister is gluten free so I tried to bear that in mind.

Then I planned them into the days, wrote a list of all the ingredients and bought it. We all put in £50 each couple and at the end of the week there was almost a fifth of it back and everyone went home with some food goodies :)

So, when we came home I was like...urm, it was so easy knowing what was for dinner and not having to decide and then start cooking etc. So we decided to try it for October and see if it made our lives easier.


Monday's we're free so we go to the supermarket, Tuesdays is church at 7pm and we work til 6pm so we eat after church. We get home from church around 9pm. Wednesdays is Kidz Club so we leave work at 4:30pm (we work at home lol) and get home around 7:45pm and then start cooking. Thursdays is youth group so we leave work/home at around 5pm and get back around 8:30pm and start to cook. Fridays is our evening off.

So, generally we don't get to start cooking until around 8pm - 9pm. It's not great but what can you do? But having a meal plan would make it easier to be prepared and know what we're cooking.  Sometimes we have our main meals at lunchtimes but we're dealing with such short days it's crazy.

Ok, so I downloaded a month's calendar type thingy from Carina Gardner. Click here to go download it. 


Don't click the pic and save it, it's a screenshot, go there and download it for free. It's absolutely gorgeous.

Anyway, so we wrote a list of meals we liked then arranged them on the days. Pizzas feature heavily mid week cos they're quick and easy. Longer dishes feature Friday - Monday because that's when we have time.

One mistake I made the first month was not to leave any 'free' days. I really fancies pancakes for dinner one day but I was all so planned that I couldn't justify changing a meal cos I'd already bought the bits!

Parsnip two legs wanted to call in and say hello!

Then I wrote a list of things I'd need to buy for the meals. Then we did one main shop for all of the ambient goods we'd need for the entire month and then every week we'd just pop and get the fruit & veg.

Obviously it made our life easier, there's no denying that. We always knew what was for dinner AND we had the anticipation of knowing what was coming. When you only just decide you're having sweet potato wedges that night there's no time to look forward to having them.

Now here's the best thing about it. Our grocery/toiletry & cleaning spend went from £46 a week to £32 a week. Um.....what?! That's a crazily small figure to spend a week on food. £32. And that includes cleaning and toiletries. The toiletries are always going to be a good price though cos I use Avon. It's the smart girl's choice.

Source via Roxanne on Pinterest

Sure it helps that we don't eat meat. Dus isn't a vegetarian but he's quite happy not eating meat most of the time. We can get all the nutrients and goodness from meat elsewhere in our diet. Thanks Emma for helping me find where to get my iron & calcium!

It's not that I deny Dus meat, but when you are trying to be thrifty you have a choice. Do I buy beef at price X or do I buy spinach at price X. Of course, if you love meat you'll probably find it harder to cut down your meat spend lol.

We never cut the cost on our fruit and veg though, a fair price for a fair day's work. Fair trade makes sense.

Don't forget that I'm a girl who used to be addicted to takeaways, burgers, fried chicken etc. But I stopped eating it and it was tough the first 6 months not to cave in but I'm so glad I did. It's truly addicting and now I don't even fancy it. Even if I'm desperate I'd far rather NOT go to McDonalds than go.

Anyway, so, me being a little odd, I keep a record of how much of our spend is on different things and now if you're still with me and not too freaked out I'll share it with you.

I encourage you to do it yourself for a month and see what your average weekly spend is, it helps us to ensure we're not spending lots of money on silly things that we 'fancy' instead of good nutritious food.

Average week in October

Fruit & Veg - £6.68
Dairy - £4.57
Ready Meals (fresh soup in a carton lol) £0.32
Tins & Jars - £1.13
Packets, condiments & oils - £0.47
Pasta & rice - £0
Cereals - £0.76
Bread - £1.09
Breakfast breads - £0.57
Baking - £0.92
Juice - £1.15
Chocolate & sweets - £3.91 (OOPS!!)
Soft drinks - £0.92
Alcohol - £1 (4 beers for £5 and 5 weeks in October)
Pizzas - £0.30
Ice cream & frozen puddings - £1.02
Frozen - £0
Crisps & snacks - £0.83
Consumables (kitchen roll, loo rolls etc) - £1.68
Cleaning - £0.83
Toiletries - £4.68

Average week in October Total: £32.01

Just food: 24.82

Yes, ok, there are just the two of us, but we consider ourselves to eat well. We don't use value brands where we don't like them but we don't get premium brands when the value brand is just as good.

If now you're shaking your head saying, well it's ok for them they don't eat much or they don't have the same likes as I do, that's ok. But I would definitely challenge you to keep track of what you spend every week for a month broken down like this and analyse what you're spending on what.

We've cut back on crisps, soft drinks, alcohol and chocolate to bring our weekly shop down and the meal planning only helps because instead of just buying 'food' and keeping a store cupboard full of food we don't actually need, we're buying meals and nothing goes to waste or sits going dusty.

(side note - we still have a store cupboard with lots of bits and pieces in - Just In Case).


Go on, I dares you, try it for yourself.

Lots of love,
Samantha xx

At home with Mrs H

p.s. in the interest in 'keeping it real' tonight's meal may or may not be chocolate & popcorn. :D

ok, so remember this that I posted yesterday?

Via Reg on Pinterest

I could in theory have counted yesterday as day 1 but you know how it is *whistles*.

Anyway, so today I did day 1. 10 x jumping jacks (I call them star jumps cos I'm cool) and 10 x crunches.

Five minutes it took. Tops. Don't believe me, try it yourself now. I'll wait.

Oh, hang about....30 jumping jacks it says. Make that 7 minutes....I'll brb in about 2 mins (or 20 jumping jacks!)

Ok, fab, now you've done day 1 too, see you tomorrow for day 2!!

Secret santa...blogger style? Why thank you ma'am!

Cheers, Bethani is hosting this year's blogger secret santa and I'm taking part! If you want in then pop over and let her know you're interested. I'd love if some more UKers joined in so I'm not the only one!

I've asked if it's open internationally and the lovely Bethani has arranged it so that parcels to be sent internationally will go a tad earlier in time for Christmas.

There's just a couple of rules which are below, nothing too hard though!

a.) must be a follower of my blog - this way all blog updates about the event will show up in your google reader so you can stay in the know.
b.) be willing to spend 15 USD dollars on the person you receive to buy for.  (its only fair everyone spends the same amount)
c. be able to have your gift purchased and shipped to your person by december 15.  (that gives USPS 10 days to get them their present)
c.) must be willing to have fun (of course!)



See you there!
Samantha xx

At home with Mrs H.

So, over on A mommy's life ... with a touch of yellow they have been talking about fitness and encouraging people to link up to stay motivated.

Let's tell the truth as it is shall we, I'm slim, I eat healthily (most of the time...don't dwell on the masses of chocolate I eat) but I am totally 100% UNFIT!

I do zero exercise. I have read lots of bits and pieces saying that if you fidget enough you can get slim and if you do the housework vigorously then it counts as exercise, but in the spirit of truthfulness, I am just totally 100% UNFIT.

In fact, the only sport I really do is jumping in between two fighting teenagers at youth group and getting a good pummelling. (side note - this is the only want to stop them fighting I've found seeing as child protection laws state you can't physically pull or drag them away from each other. It's a risky business, but you can't let them give each other black eyes right?)

So, here's my story diet and fitness wise.

When I was at high school I was cox for my year's rowing team. Yes, I was so small I got to sit in the back and shout lol. But, I had to do all of the training the rowers did just not the actual rowing on water part. I ran the cross country (and loved it), I trained on the rowing machines. I even did the swimming sessions that were part of the rowers training.

I know, I was a right looker at school!

I wasn't what you'd think of as sporty or athletic. I used to come last in all of the training, but I enjoyed it and my lungs were an awful lot healthier than they have been!

So I stayed pretty slim and not too unhealthy right through to the summer after I finished my A levels and went to work as a counsellor at summer camp in Conneticut in the US.

Bedford river where our boathouse was

I did little exercise and was eating unreal amounts of processed foods. I don't think I've ever seen cheese that yellow before or since! Almost all of the food at camp was processed, going into the deep freeze was box upon box of 'fake' food as I've come to think of it. It was just incredibly difficult to eat healthily, and to be honest, I didn't try. It was all just too easy to eat what I was given and enjoy the taste of it.

I'm the girl sitting up

I went up from a UK8 (US10) to around a UK14 then (US16) in that one summer. When I came home I went back to the part time job I'd had during college and went full time. I got promoted to assistant manager and ended up working 60 hour weeks. I was only 18 and it took it's toll on me.

When I came down with glandular fever it hit me hard. I was in bed for close on 6 months. Most of the time I was too ill and weak to eat at all and I slept most of it. It's a time of my life that I really don't remember too well but my mum quite vividly remembers the fear that they'd lose me cos I was fading so fast to nothing. The glandular fever attacked my liver and my kidneys and I went a peculiar shade of yellow and couldn't stop throwing up. The hospital eventually admitted me and sorted me out.

My recovery was slow but I stayed a healthy 8st (112lbs) for most of my early 20's. I say healthy because at 5ft and 2 inches, that's perfect for my BMI.

Anyway, then I got together with a guy (some of you know him as 'the evil ex') and we had terrible eating habits. I really didn't care much about food so wouldn't delight in whipping up a delicious dish. We'd just get takeaways or quick and easy ready meals or processed junk.


I really couldn't care less if we didn't actually have to eat to survive (Except chocolate of course) so at the time, I didn't care what I ate really as long as I was eating something at meal times.

I was a heavy smoker as well during that 5 years and I got to my heaviest of 11stone (154pounds). Size UK18 (US20) on a 5ft tall girl wasn't my best look but it was too late, I was already that size, it was too hard to diet and I just couldn't be bothered.

I'd moan about my size and my general unwellness but not actually change my eating habits. Fridge fulls of fruit and veg went mouldy where I'd made an effort to buy the healthy stuff but didn't get around to eating it before it went off.

Source via Roxanne on Pinterest

We would come out of the supermarket with a car full of groceries and pull into McDonalds to get something for dinner that night. Crazy. We would only drink fizzy drinks or occasionally squash, never water and rarely juice. It wasn't just my size and health that was suffering, it was my purse too! 40 a day + a week of junk = super expensive! I can't even really work out where the money came from considering my ex gambled approximately £1k a month away. (That's a whole other story).

Anyway, so then the ex left me. I was devastated. This man who had abused me, belittled me, controlled my finances and my entire life had such power over me that I thought my life was over. I'd be on my own forever and the world was a scary place.

I gave up smoking as I couldn't afford it any more. I also gave up eating. Looking back I can see that it was my body's way of putting control back into my life. Without ever consciously deciding not to eat I began an anorexic lifestyle that would see me eating barely one full meal a week.

My sisters rallied around me and where they'd kept their distance when the ex was around after they discovered that there wasn't anything they could do for me, I had to decide to leave him of my own accord. But the insults, the distance, the way I'd treated them was all swept away by the love they had for me and the relief they had that I was free from that relationship.

Via Michele@The Scrap shoppe on Pinterest

All the time they'd been there in the background ready to swoop in and support me, to pick me up from the pieces and I hadn't known the safety net was there. I was oblivious to it, I didn't want to know, I didn't want to think there was anything wrong with my relationship at all. After all, he said he loved me, that must be love right?

Anyway, so I lost weight and went back to what I now think of as my natural state of 8st. It seemed to be what I reverted to everytime I lost weight. Still I didn't exercise.

Then I moved to Wales. Partly to get away from my ex ever being able to find me and partly because it was the cheapest house I could find within an hour of my younger sister. I had a job working from home doing customer service and call centre stuff but I was getting down. I was getting depressed and couldn't take being stuck inside all day. So I got into the habit of taking a walk for my entire lunch hour then eating at my desk when I got back.

Via Lisa on Pinterest

It was fantastic, I'd go to the country park and have a really quite vigorous walk, listen to my music and breathe deeply. It wasn't quite running, cycling or weights but over time I found I was getting toned and I wasn't ashamed to walk around in shorts anymore. My lungs didn't struggle so much with my walking up the hills and I could go further for longer (within an hour of course!).

And then I met my husband and stopped exercising as I'd moved back to Luton with mum. I didn't really feel much immediate effect but my eating still wasn't right and I was feeling more and more tired. Dusband's sister was studying to be a nutritional therapist in London and gave me a consultation and advice as part of her course and that's when my life turned around.

Via PJ on Pinterest

Finally I had a plan to follow, I knew what I personally needed to get my energy back and to be healthy. The knowledge she had was immense and it was real tangible good advice. Emma gave me a list of the foods that contained the vitamins I was lacking and helped me to come up with ways to incorporate some seeds and nuts into my diet encouraging me to aim for my five a day. I would recommend her to anyone. In fact, I am recommending her! She qualified with flying colours and is an independent consultant now. If you want to contact her you can email her (emma(at)nutritioneast.co dot uk). When her website's up and running I'll let you know.

That's off topic. So, now I eat healthily encouraged by my fruit freak of a husband and his super brainy sister who really does have a miracle cure for my lethargy and low energy. Who knew that it was so simple?

But, I still don't exercise. I should, I really do want to. I tried running again a few times but my lungs felt like they were going to burst. My hips felt like I'd swapped them for an old lady's hips (that'll be my lazy gluteus muscles that I do my exercises for remember?) and my achilles felt like someone had slit it with a knife.

Then I looked at my trainers again a couple of weeks ago. They're a size too big. They also have no arch support. I, dear readers, have severe overpronation. Ah, there we go, that's the issue. So I've been looking for some new trainers and today I've finally purchased some.

Via Reg on Pinterest

You're joining me on my journey to finally get fit. For the first time since high school I want to be able to say I'm fit and healthy.

I'm still struggling with my 8 glasses of water a day but I'm trying and boy, it makes a huge difference to how I feel. You wouldn't think it does...funny huh?

Anyway, that's it, the whole kit and caboodle (mostly) of my fitness story. If you want to join in, pop over to the motivate me monday post via the button below on A mommy's life....with a touch of yellow and have a look through some of the other posts.




Love you all lots, much more than jelly tots!

Samantha x

At home with Mrs H

Source

It was going to be a poncho.

SMS conversation as follows:

Samantha: Should I wear a poncho?
Miss Mystery: No, don't wear a poncho!
Samantha: I'm going to wear a poncho AND take pictures
Miss Mystery shakes head

True story.

I put on the poncho and I was feeling it, I looked gooooooooood (and felt warm) but the collar was massive and I couldn't work out what it was meant to look like. So I swapped it for a jumper.


Yes, that's my birthday pressie from my mum behind me. It's my birthday in AGES away but she likes to be prepared :) At least I've something to look at to make me excited!

Anyway, this week's shop your closet with Yellow Blackbird was a free for all so I just grabbed these shoes I've not worn for a while and put them with my basic outfit.

Not that it lasted too well, once again I was feeling sicky in church this morning and had to come home. I'm not sure what's wrong with me really, about 2 weeks ago I've been feeling unsettled and a bit sicky, then I had a kinked bowel (I have them fairly often when I'm not being careful with my diet, usually I'm very good though and I'm ok) which gives me huge pain and makes me feel nauseous etc but then I was ok by the end of the day. The next morning I woke up with a stinking rotten cold and have spent the last week slowly recovering. Now this Sunday I felt sicky again.

No body say I'm pregnant..... But there must be something unusual I'm doing wrong?! Dusband thinks I'm run down and need to start looking at what I can cut back.

Except for the regular 2 hour Sunday service and 2 hour Tuesday service which we go to every week we also spend 2 1/2 hours at Kidz Club on a Wednesday and 4 hours at youth group on a Thursday. We estimate that we spend about 2 hours preparing for youth group a week. Add to the 1 hour a week I spend preparing children's church worksheets etc that makes for a grand total of 13 1/2hours a week we spend on church. Not including if there's church secretary stuff I need to do.

It doesn't sound that much I know but if you think the average member spends 4 hours a week on church, it's a whole working day extra!

The obvious option is to drop Kidz club as we're not leaders we're only helpers. But the number of children who attend is such that we struggle to cope with the number of leaders when we are there, if we were to stop going it wouldn't help anyone unless other members stepped forwards to help. *Sigh*

It's one big brain frazzle especially when the pleas have gone out for others to help but they feel they're too old/sick/busy to help. We do have a lot of retired members in our church and I know it's tough to find ways to help if you can't stand children, but there must be a better way of doing church than this?

Anyway, I don't think it's anything to do with how much we do at church or the pressure and responsibility of it, I don't know what's wrong with me but whatever it is, God can make me feel well again :)

What a rant this has turned into...sorry!

Ok, so I've just now as coming to post this remembered that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Um, shocking, I'm terrible for remembering things. Except the things I don't want to remember like I have not bought new trainers yet and need to go exercising.

I'm completely off the point here. Anyway, I checked my yarn tub for some lovely yarn (my sister taught me not to call yarn 'wool' cos it might not be wool. It might be acrylic. Judging by my yarn tub, I have acrylic. Also, I don't knit (anymore...tried it, hated it) or crochet so why I feel justified in even having a yarn tub I'm not sure.

*Deep breath* So, most of my yarn was pink. So I made me some pom poms!



I used my hand...I tried with two pieces of doughnut shaped card but it just wasn't working for me. Hands are easier :)

Guess who's well on her way to making herself a pompom rug?!


Just realised I may have already given you a clue or two.

Aside from the fact that I don't have anywhere to put a pink pom pom rug....don't you think it'll be simply darling?