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I don’t know what has happened to me.
I am posting for a dear blog friend, Andrea, from Welsh Quilter.
Her daughter Jesse, has a once in a life time chance of going to Africa, but the students have to raise the money themselves.
Any way they are doing a quilt raffle for one of Andrea’s gorgeous quilts to help pay for Jesse’s trip.
I will let you go over to her blog and read all about it for your selves. Follow the link Jesse’s Trip Fund
Will see ya over there…
Aisha
Wishing you all the best for this festive season, sorry it’s a bit late, but better late than never.
See you all soon
Claire ox ^_^
it’s been a while, but my grandad sadly died. The funeral was last wednesday, so I haven’t been working on much. Not really felt like it. It was really great seeing my aunty and uncles, and all my cousins. The thing is they only ever get together when theres a funeral. The last time I saw two of my uncles was at my gran’s funeral and that was 18 or 19 years ago…
I did get to meet one of my grandad’s brothers though, which was nice. First time. Baby H wanted to play in the funeral place and the crem, so my lovely hubby kept taking him outside to play, so he missed most of it. Don’t think he’s to bothered, but that left me on my own. He finally got to meet my wacky family afterwards, though, and everybody seemed to like him, which I’m glad about.
I have been working on a nappy/daiper bag and it is finally finished, but I am now having probs getting the pics on the mac. Will keep trying.
Now for some good news…
I’m pregnant. Yippee.
My mum has been to visit us while we are nearby. It was also a bit of a fly-by as she was on her way to see my grandad who is quite sick in hospital. God willing you will be better soon Grandad.
The booties have been finished for a while and are listed on Ebay . So hopefully some luck selling on there.
The pink butterfly ribbon that I spoke of before has been added to the upper and sole.
Finally we have arrived in England. It took a while and we have finally got here. It’s a bit weird being back here, but still good for now. It’s mighty cold after being in Bahrain at 40 + temperatures.
It may be a little while before I can start sewing again, as my machine is still in Bahrain. Waiting for the cargo to send it over. I hope it won’t be long. I miss Pfaff. I hope that she is ok without me.
I have found a shop that sells embroidery stuff and the like, and they sell felt. All different colours, Yippee! So I have bought a load of different colours so I can at least make Bitty Booties. Started on some already. A lovely pink and purple combo. Will post pics when they are finished.
Internet will be on by friday, so will be posting on all the usual blogs, must say, I have missed you all. As you have probably noticed the new look blog. I thought we are now in a new place, at least for a while, so I thought I would give the blog a new look. Tell me what you think…
Speak to you all soon…
The internet is going of line this afternoon, ready for our journey to England. Here in Bahrain you have to make sure that your bills have been paid or they won’t let you leave the country. So the phone and internet bills have been disconnected and we have to clear the bill at the end of next month. Bit of a hassle, and boring for me, a whole month and then some without blogging. So see you soon
Bye for now!
I made another pair of the Bitty Booties the other day, but a little bigger, so they will fit older babies. I was asked to do them in pink, so here they are…
Next I did this fabric tissue holder, as my hubby always wants tissue when we are out, which means that my handbag is always full of tissue. So I thought I would have a go at doing one of these to save some space. I had to do it by hand though as my foot pedal is in the shop, but I think that it didn’t turn out to bad. To think that a few years ago I hated to sew anything by hand. I hated sewing as much as I hate ironing.
I’m not making bags at the moment, as we will be leaving soon for England so I want to keep the load down…
It is killing me! Lisa from U-Handblog has got me totally addicted, it’s all your fault Lisa. Any way if I manage to make anything in the meantime (if its not too heavy) I will keep you posted. So check back regularly.
I thought that I would get myself onto the extended network, so I have signed up for a myspace account.
You can find me here;
Myspace
Here are two new bags that I have completed using a navy blue fabric that is kinda like chenille. It’s lovely and soft. Some stripey fabric that has stripes in the same sort of fabric as the navy. I did the clutch with a flat bottom, if you remember the floral clutch that I did with the square bottom and didnt like it…
Well I like this one.
We went for a wander around the souq a few days ago, and came across a shop that makes you feel like you have stepped into a time warp. (the step is a vortex that sends you back in time) My hubby calls it the time machine 
. Everything in the shop is from the 60’s and 70’s, and he sells Pfaff machines and parts, this is why we went there, looking for the Ruffler foot.
This is what his pfaff machines look like…
I don’t think it does the same amount of stitches as mine LOL
Not sure if it is just my imagination, but don’t you think it looks like a singer machine? Or are they all just made in China? For example the new Toyota Aygo looks just like the new peugeot and citreon. All made in the same factory, just put different badges…
Guy’s please bear with me…
The Mac is sick and has gone to Mac hospital, where it will have to have a major operation. It may be gone for some time. It will need to rest and recouperate. So if you don’t see me online for a while and no posting, you now know why. I don’t really want to fill hubbies comp with baggy, crafty pics, but will if I need too. Depends how long the mac is in hospital.
So speak to you all soon
My hubby was searching the net to find me something (can’t remember what) and came across a site that does handbags. I did this from a tutorial.
I’m working on a set for my husbands neice at the moment. She is due to deliver her first baby in a couple of months. So I have done a bedding set, baby bag, nappy stacker and a crib organiser. I don’t want to post it until I have completed the full set. So please be patient.
In the previous message ‘Mac Problems’ I was getting the error message ‘You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.’ and asked if any one could help. NO ONE DID.
Well finally got it sorted. After endless forum searches and numerous calls to the apple shop, unpugging unnecessary peripherals, formatting the mac, using disc utillities, my hubby Isa decided to start on the hardware.
First he decided to go for the hard-drive, because we wanted a bigger one any way. The original 80GB wasn’t enough. The mac now has 320GB hard-drive, wow. Will still probably fill it… It was quite expensive with the apple shop, so went else where and got it cheaper (3x cheaper). So fingers crossed we switched it on.
Another error. What are we going to do? I read on one of the geeky forums that his error was because one of his memory sticks wasn’t fastened in properly… So we tried it. There was no problem there. So Isa took one out and Eureka it worked. But we have found out that memory sticks from a microsoft computer put into a mac computer don’t work. The mac screams and blows out a puff of air. Its trying to blow out the windows crap that has been inserted….
Any way the mac is now happy again, normal mac memory, it just only has half of its original memory until we can venture back to the apple shop to get some more.
Hopefully god willing we won’t get any more problems, thanks to the new geek in the family, ISA… 
I can finally show you the secret project that I was working on, which I couldn’t tell you about because it was a gift. Well here it is. A cushion cover that I made for my mum.
I hope that she likes it, says she does, I hope she puts a nice cumfy cushion in it. I thought it would be a good one for the kitchen chairs, as she has alot of visitors and they all sit in the kitchen and denim is hard wearing.
Happy Mother’s day for yesterday mum.
The sole of one of my slippers had totally fallen to peices and was flapping when I walked, so I cut around the good one on the wrong side of a peice of denim and then sewed it onto the not so good slipper. There is the finished project, good as new…
You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.
I get this message several times every morning after I have started my mac, can any one help?
I have been to apple and they send me round in circles. Isa has searched geeky forums to see if they know. The apple shop said unplug USB’s that are not needed, which left me with mac mouse and keyboard. Isa has even formatted the mac on the advice of the apple shop if the first task didn’t solve the problem, it still does it every day if not once, three or four times.
My dad has had this idea, more on that below with a link to his blog. Please help out..
Many years ago – more years than I care to remember – I instigated a knitted pullover, which was made by all the ladies I knew at the time.
They each contributed as much or as little as they wished, of any colour and design.
The result was really quite amazing. Somehow the press got wind of it and I ended up posing on the front of the local rag! It created quite a stir and was a very interesting excercise. The fact that it didn’t fit was irrelevant!
Years later and I’ve had a similar idea.
Ladies – get your knitting needles out!
Please send me at least one 7″ x 7″ square of knitting.
Be as inventive as you wish. Use any colour of wool. Make it as plain or as fancy as you like.
When it’s finished please send it to me.
Be sure to send details of who made it so that I can include a dedication.
Also add a name or e-mail address, blog or website name – anything you like.
My wife Sheila – she doesn’t know about this yet but she will in a few minutes – will sew them all together into a throw!
I’ll photograph each piece as I receive it and include a comment about each.
I need 100 – to make a 10 x 10 (70″ x 70″) inch throw.
Should be a super thing when it’s finished!
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