Garden Party...indoors!

The garden party day arrived after days of cake baking and chaos in the kitchen! The cups and saucers were ready, the gazebo up, garden tables laid with embroidered cloths and jugs of wild flowers on the tables.....and then the rain came down! So we had to hastily regroup, move furniture around and have the party indoors!A bucket of flowers by the front door.

The lounge became the craft table, ably manned by my son's girlfriend and the dining room had the cakes.

Despite the awful weather we made £328 and money is still coming in for the poor and street children in India where my daughter will be going to do some voluntary work in the summer. I had aimed to make £200 so my target was well exceeded. Just as it ended...the sun came out!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

P.S. Since I wrote the total has risen to £358!

Losing sleep about tomorrow!

HELP...why ever did I choose to have a garden party to raise money for an Indian volunteering trip my daughter is doing this year! Am I mad!
The crafts are made and ready, 200+ cakes are made and waiting to be iced....but the weather forecast is awful............
Major panic...my house is not big enough so it will have to be in the garden, please pray for dry weather!

Charity shop bits I meant to buy...and some I didn't!

I went purposely to the charity shops today to look for embroidered tablecloths and china tea cups and I found these. They are for a garden party I am having in 2 weeks time here at home. I will be selling tea, home made cakes and hopefully my textile landscapes!I blogged about the idea back on March 7th 2010 on my snowgoosey blog . Anyway, as you see I found a couple of nice little tea cups and saucers, a nice plate and a beautiful tablecloth that I got for £2! It's sad that something that has taken someone so long to make ends up in a 2nd hand shop for next to nothing.

This, if you squint and look carefully is one corner of a linen tablecloth with the crinoline ladies on each corner. It's a bit faded but there is enough left for me to embroider it. I love this design.

A cushion cover, again printed ready for me to sew!

A large piece of linen, I shall remove the blue bit and reuse it for something else and use the linen as I need it. Linen is really expensive so this is a good way to buy it.

So, a bit more spent than I needed but the summer evenings are taken care of with all that sewing to do!

Beach Hut themes!

I seem to be on a bit of a beach hut thing at the moment....summer must be on it's way! The first two pictures are works in progress both pastel and bright.

The next one is a completed card, the stripy fabric was from a pillowcase and the white bit which is the roof came from a charity shop....I got a bag of lace and trimming and there was 139 metres of this one....all for £1! I have given some away and swapped some as well.

This quilt is a work in progress too, I'm onto the quilting bit now so sit in front of the TV in the evening quilting away.

Lastly this is my very good friend, Sylvia standing in front of her art work. We went to a private viewing last night at a local Arts Centre. I have never been to anything like that before and was a bit unsure about it as I was sure I would not be making intelligent comments! However it was fine and we really enjoyed it, catching up with friends and seeing Art in a very different way.