hee hee!

I can't believe there are no posts for 2010 at all! I am such a rubbish blogger! I have decided to take the bull by the horns though and really start blogging! Dear Green Place is growing nicely as a business and I think it would be really nice to track this growth here. It would also be nice to let people know a bit more about what I do and how I do it - that sort of thing! Anyway as of tomorrow, a post a day!

My first stall..........

Well I did it! I eventually got enough items made to be able to stock a small stall at the playgroup ladies night. It was so hard! I spent days behing my machine - so much so that on the Sunday it decided to stop working! Was probably just as well as it gave time to tidy up all the loose end (literally!) before the big day!

The night itself went quite well for me, I had quite a lot of interest and sold a fair amount of stuff. It was also a steep learning curve. I have learned for example that I need some sort of hanging rail so that I can display a lot of my goods properly. The change pads and baby vests etc. all really need to be hung up to be fully appreciated.

so here's some of the stuff I took.....

There was a lot more. Think I'll add a few photos over the next few days.

Autumn..........

I took a little time out of the sewing fest that is life in here at the minute to go to the park with my beautiful family this afternoon.
We went up to Calderglen park near East Kilbride. It's a great park with nice walks, a good playground (although it always has my heart in my mouth watch my boys scale the heights!) and a little small animal zoo. We are torn between loving guinea pigs or meerkats best - they are both so cute.
Well it was super busy at the park today, everyone had obviously decided to take advantage of the sun shine. As we walked round I decided that this was my favourite time of year; lovely sunshine, crisp air, crispy leaves, wrap up and off you go. It reminded me of this photo.



It's an oldie (my how my baby boy has grown in two years!) but it was the same sort of "good park" day!

Its me again!

Hello!
Well its been another 5 months since I last blogged! Being a mother of three is actually requiring more of my time than I thought it would!

However, I have also been busy crafting too. I decided to push myself into doing a stall at the playgroup "ladies night" and have started to make things but it is soooooooooooo hard. I have no idea what to make or how much to make. I guess its trial and error.

Anyway I felt I had to have cards to hand out too and to have cards means I needed a logo. So I got some help from a very talented friend of mine and we came up with this.


I think it is rather nice and can't wait to see it on my little moo cards!

New Addition

I can't believe I've not blogged in 5 months!

OK so I've been busy creating the most fantastic thing in the world - but I never realised being pregnant had taken up so much of my time!

Well just to let you know the production was finished on the 27th of March (two weeks over the official deadline - but all parties concerned decided it was worth the wait!). And here it is...........



A little pink version of my two blue ones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're totally delighted by our fabulous little girl - the pink icing on our cake!

Cookies

Was feeling quite energised for some reason today - must be the sunshine so decided to make some cookies for the boys for a treat.
Tried a recipe a friend gave me and it seemed to work well, although I had to tweak it a bit because I didn't have quite the right stuff. The cookies tasted good but looked slightly wonky because two year olds don't really differentiate between splodge and flatten (see 3 below)!

INGREDIENTS
100g/4oz butter or marg
100g/4oz light moscovado sugar
1tbsp golden syrup
150g/6oz self-raising flour
50g/2oz choc chips
50g/2oz mini Smarties (had no big smarties)

HOW TO
1). Pre-heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas4.

2). Beat together butter and sugar until light and creamy, then beat in syrup.

3). Work in half the flour and then stir in smarties, choc chiops and remaining flour. Work into dough and divide into about 12 balls. "Splodge" them (don't flatten)onto a greased or lined baking tray and allow space for spreading.

4). Bake for 12 minutes until pale golden at the edges. Leave for a few minutes to set a little before moving to a wire rack to cool.

It says that these cookies can be kept in an airthight container for up to four days but ours never last that long!

Look what came through my letterbox!

During the week I was so delighted to receive this little parcel of loveliness from across the pond.
A few weeks ago I entered the "Boys of Summer" give-away on Heather from Blue Bird Studios blog and I was so lucky to win.
In the package was a lovely little pair of shoes and two burp cloths that just look so beautifully made in a great baseball print fabric.
I'm now torn as to whether to keep them and see if bumpy is a boy (90% certain it will be!) or to give them as a gift for baby J.
Heather's blog is full of great stuff and I have read it often since I saw it on my favourite sew-mama-sew. She has lots of nice ideas and I particularly like the Russian doll Christmas ornaments. It's also nice to have a new trans-atlantic friend! Thank you Heather!
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