End of the month

Hello there - Here we are well into 2016 and things are carrying on at rather a hectic pace with lots going on.  My craft room was finished a couple of months ago and then Christmas came along and things never really got done as I wanted them.  I have been busy painting shelves and re-arranging and generally getting it sorted as I want it.  I wanted a piece of peg board fixed to the wall to hang things on to save putting them away every time I use them. I was looking for some in the local DIY store, when I bumped into a friend of mine, Steve and he asked me what I was after and we looked for it but no they didn't have any.  He said let me know what size you want and I will make you some.  Well I had an old cork board with a frame around it, so when I got home I measured the frame and let Steve know the size.  15" x 23" and he duly got drilling.  21 rows across by 14 rows of holes down = 294 holes all spaced one inch apart.

 

It looks as though Steve started the drilling in the middle.

Here it is in the frame.

 

 

Out came the paint

 

 

Give it a good stir

I was stuck with getting peg board hooks, so Steve made me
15 little hooks from bending and cutting picture hooks

  

and hey presto!!

 

Here it is all finished and hanging up on the wall in my new - craft room.  It is perfect for just hanging things near to hand to use again easily without having to pack them all away and it is all just what I wanted.  Thank you Steve - you are a star!!

 

 

Then I painted the shelf the same colour as the peg board and recycled some porridge pots - I made some little crochet bands with flowers on and finished off with little buttons to go around them and give them a  bit of colour and again I can pop bits and pieces into them.  They stack inside each other too and look rather nice and colourful.

 

 

This lovely sign has been hung on the wall  in my craft room.  It is a Christmas gift given to me by my 'Saturday morning running buddy Alex and his family' and is the perfect colour and matches my porridge pots perfectly - I love it.

 

 

I made a cover for my sewing machine with some material I had left over from making my blind.  So I have two more shelves and the bookcase to paint and then all should be finished.

 

 

These beautiful little stitch markers were my 'secret Santa gift' from my buddy in a crochet group I belong to.  I am going to hang them from my peg board so that I can look at them when I'm not using them.

 

 

 

 

A couple of making days and I have a few cards for forthcoming events

 

 

These lovely little baby bootees that remind me of strawberries

 

 

Rob one of our regular parkrunners did his 200th parkrun so I made him a hat

 

 

Arielle was next to do her 200th run so I made her some mitts

 

 

I was able to do a few more rows on the hitch hiker scarf

as I had to stay in as we were having a new front door

 

B E F O R E

 

 

D U R I N G

 

 

A F T E R

 

Then off out for a stroll around the village

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We came across these peacocks - what a glorious sight

 

 

 

 

These little dogs out for a stroll on the beach with their coats on!

 

 

Grandson H, hubby and I playing with shadows on our way down the hill

 

 

and again on the beach

 

 

 

A carving or two along the promenade

 

 

A tribute to lost sailors

 

 

Appley Tower

 

 

A walk around the park on a winters afternoon and along the promenade

and just looking up between the trees

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

 

Some more squares arrived from Mary

 

 

and I joined them on

 

 

And then some more

I joined these into sets of two

 

 

and joined them on - I need one more from Mary for the top corner

and will then start the border

 

and started another blanket

 

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In the meantime

 

 

Putting these lovely colours together

 

The knit n natter ladies started crocheting squares for our current project

 

 

 

little piles of them

 

 

and I've started joining them.

 

Off now to join some more

 

xx ttfn xx