SweetMyrtle

lisa hannigan

wow, love this video !!

gorgeous Lisa Hannigan. go take a look.

i am now off to find a white dress and get my paints out!

wishing you all a happy creative weekend x

my 1940's girl

my sweet 11 year old is studying world war 2 at school. they had an activities/dress up day this week, with the school hall  set up as a mini community complete with anderson air raid shelter. They cooked wartime food, learned about rationing, danced the jitterbug and listened to eldery folk from the local community talk about their memories.

the children have all been working on their own projects about an aspect of the war that interests them. smallest has been finding out about the role of women in the war so on the dress up day she said she would lke to go dressed as a Land Girl. After dismissing the  uniform of jodphurs, sweater and hat we decided to go the more casual dungarees and pretty blouse look inspired by the film, 'Land Girls'.

so in true 'Make do and Mend' style i refashioned a pair of my husbands  dark taupe coloured jeans into some dungarees. Here's how i did it;

1. I folded his jeans in half matching up the inside leg and outside leg seams.

2. I folded a pair of my daughters jeans in the same way and laid them over the top matching up the inside leg and centre front zip edges to use as a size guide.

3. With tailors chalk i marked around her jeans with a new outside leg line, hem line and waistline. I then cut off the excess on the larger jeans (leaving seam allowances).

4. Using the cut off hem i refashioned the 'bib' of the dungarees and also the side seam plackets for the buttons.I used the cut off outside leg fabric for the straps and luckily had just enough.

5. i then stitched up the side seams, attached the bib, and straps and finished off with buttons.

I was really chuffed and so was she. We dresssed her hair (quite wildly) in 1940's style and realised that the archetypal headscarf would not go over the top so discarded that. Her green weelies completed the look but i was later told that they made doing the jitterbug quite difficult!

this little piggie went to market...

or should it be, 'the 3 little pigs'?

yesterday i collected our piggies, made under the expert tuition of Lucy Burley at a family workshop a few weeks ago.

We thought about making a hegdehog for our 'hedge fund' ! (sorry) but decided on piggie banks. this weekend we shall paint them. It was a lovely workshop and a great chance to create along side the girls.

 

i spy a spider...

today i have been making yarn pom-pom spiders.

we will be making them with our Little Sew and Sews group later. 

i hope they enjoy making them as much as i have!

 

potato heart

a happy find : )

our saturday

a busy day shopping, collecting our vegetable share, tidying, washing, cooking, baking, reading and watching the last  Dr Who and the first of the new Merlin. 

and time for a game of ludo.

hope your weekend had been good x