T52MMMC - week 15

Well this weeks amazing (he he) make of mine is as pictured above. How did I make this fantabulous piece of jewellery I hear you ask. Firstly I purchased a pendant I liked from ebay. It's picasso jasper and is gorgeous. Much nicer than my pictures will show. Next I added a long length of waxed cord from The Little Bead Box (Liz has loads of brilliant jewellery making goodies, you'll not leave empty handed!) and voila a beautiful simple pendant. Now if I can make it anyone can :)

Michelle xx

I'm just a bad bad blogger

Hello everyone.

Well I'm not very good at this blogging. Only just started and I fell off the wagon. Its been a whole month since I last posted anything!! So I thought I better just type something, a catch up if you like, even if it ends up being garbled rubbish he he.

My excuse first of all is the summer holidays. Having the kids to entertain leaves very little time for blogging. Just getting my head around twitter so have been spending time on there too. As well as my usual Folksy spending.

We have 6 more sleeps till our holiday too. Which we are all excited about. Maybe, in the future, I'll blog about what a personal milestone this holiday really is. Just maybe, when I get to know you all a little better.

I haven't forgotten about T52MMMC either. I have done a few crafty bits. Today included! Very proud to say I made some earrings and a bracelet. When The kiddiwinks return to school I'll do a big T52MMMC blog with pics :).

So a further round up in words of the summer holidays so far is:

Cooker broken, new cooker, illness for us all, kids at grandparents for 1 whole week, 1 week of freedom for mummy, new haircut, lots of Folksy buying, birthday party, trips to seaside, book club set up, curry night, dinner party arrangements, cheesecake recipe sourcing, lots of book reading, uniform and shoe buying (so expensive), clothes buying, visiting parents, parents announced new move, penpal searching (today) and all the other usual summer chaos of days out/in with a 7 and 4 year old.

Also will do blog posts about the fantastic goodies I received from WhimsicalWren (100th sale) and Trinket Box (giveaway winner). - apologies to these 2 lovely ladies for not doing one yet.

Next post will be after my hols unless I sneak another one in. Thanks for reading and enjoy the rest of your holidays everyone. Bye for now.

Michelle xx

The 52 Marvelous Makes Madness Challenge

Hello everyone. Wasn't sure I'd make the third day blogging as the heat is sucking the life out of me. But nope I'm not going to moan about the weather!

Well I've decided to take on a challenge!! Think all those creative people over at Folksy have rubbed off on me. Its going to take me a full 52 weeks, one a whole year GULP. Right so the challenge is to make 52 things I'll enjoy making in the space of the year. Yep thats one a week. Now to all you proper crafty, artistic, talented people out their this might not seem like much of a challenge (especially you June Looners and soon to be July Jesters). But to the average individual like me who is used to receiving handmade at the click of a Folksy button, in particular this month lol, it is going to difficult! Now this making can be anything from sewing, cooking, candlemaking, painting etc etc. Once a week I'll blog about my crafty exploits with pics (it may give you some laughs anyway). I really must get that camera out. For more info or to join in click the link on the right hand side. Fingers crossed I get through it.

Bye for now.

P.S. Thanks for all the suggestions regarding the dinner party and Folksy blogging. Off to buy something new to wear tomorrow :)

Take care

Michelle x