I've Made Friday Week 47

I hope your week has gone well

& you have a fantastic weekend ahead of you.

Little Red's nose is a bit better and touch wood 

he didn't seem to have a nose bleed yesterday.

He did however lose one of this teeth.

 

Sorry about the quality of the pictures but he wouldn't stop

moving because he was so excited.

We don't have the tooth fairy in our house.

The first time we tried it he cried his eyes out because he didn't want 

her to take his tooth away.

The next time we gave him the choice, you keep your tooth

and get nothing or you give your tooth

to the tooth fairy and get some money.

Little Red chose the tooth. 

I think it costs us less ;-)

I've had a bit of an exciting week.

I joined Peerindex

and was able to get some perks.

I think the idea behind it is you tweet, post etc

about the item and in return you get 

vouchers or free products.

The first one I joined was about a charity.

You get a £50 voucher to spend at FitFlop

if you spread the word about the

CARE International charity walk:

From 4 - 10 March, the charity  is asking people to walk 10,000 steps a day in solidarity with girls like Ayanna. 

It's to highlight the long distances children and adults have to walk

just to try and get some clean water.

I would love to do a charity walk to support this but

with my CFS that is impossible. 

I'm lucky if I can walk up a flight of stairs never mind 10,000 steps.

Here are the shoes I bought with my voucher:

They are just sooo comfy and they are real wool felt!

It was free delivery as well so it couldn't have been 

more perfect!

The next perk was for 100 free minicards from Moo.

The process was easy to follow.

It was easy to design and set-up your cards.

Not only that the delivery was free and they were here within a couple of days.

I am really pleased with mine and would highly recommend them!

The cards are very cute!

A coloured design is also included on the back (for free)

and there is no advertising on the card at all!

I was asked some questions about the steam cleaner I purchased.

I bought the Wolf Steam Cleaner

When you are using the small upholstery cloths

I did find it did drip once the cloth had gotten wet.

It didn't drip as much with the window cleaning attachment

and the handle and attachment is angled so it doesn't drip onto you anyway.

I also used:

cleaning cloths so that it wiped any excess water off and made the windows gleam.

The handy thing with the wolf steamer is that

you can add or remove the handle.  If you are trying to clean

something higher up you just add the handle and it makes it easier.

As you can see from the picture above you can

add the handle and the mop fitting

and then it's a steam mop for the floors.

You can add the cloths above to the mop

and it will clean up spills as well.

It does drip a bit when you are using the handheld 

and at times I did find it a bit awkward.

The big thing for me is it doesn't take a lot of effort to clean something

and I know the germs are being killed at the same time.

Hubby maybe trying it out on the bathroom this weekend.

I'm not up to doing anymore at the moment (another chest infection).

But when I'm up to it I'll let you know the results.

If you want to see the video about this product

just go to the ebay page

Now onto my makes this week:

I joined the beyond rectangles course on Craftsy

and here is my finished cardigan:

I loved making it!

The course was fantastic!

It was easy to watch, stop, rewind, and follow when you wanted to.

I could even follow one part of a lesson, pause it

and come back and carry on a couple of days later.

I love the way Linda teaches and her

hints that she gives all the way through are fantastic.

I've already signed up to her other course:

Crafty Crochet Embellishments

and can't wait to start!

I finally finished my Newborn baby boy overalls

I bought the pattern from Cathy Ren

It's a really easy pattern to follow

and I really like the fact that they button up at the bottom

for diaper changing.

It was a really easy pattern to follow and

you can make the design look so much different

with all her ideas within the pattern:

 

The pattern covers sizes from 0 months up to 24 months

The other thing I made this week was

newborn leg warmers

I loved making these.

They were so quick and easy!

They were a free pattern from 

Manda Nicole's

The pattern was easy to follow and I think they look soo cute!

I finished reading:

I loved each story.

They were all beautifully written

and just warmed your heart.

I would of loved some of them to go 

on longer as I just wanted to know what their future held.

They were easy to read and long enough

to keep you interested.

If you want a nice easy heartwarming read I would highly recommend

this book.

I give it 4 out of 5

I also finished listening to:

 The adventures of Sherlock Holmes

I loved listening to these books.

The reader was fantastic, his accents 

made me laugh at times. Being English

myself and knowing the accents

of London etc he didn't get them quite right.

All in all a fantastic book to listen to and I highly recommend the reader.

I can't wait to choose my next free audio book to listen to.

I think I'll chose one out of Books Should be Free's top 100

audio books.

Some more exciting news.

Ali from Ali Bee Creations

has ever so kindly awarded me:

The super sweet blogging award!

I've also got to answer 5 questions:

1.  Cookies or cake? I think I'd say cake - battenburg is my favorite

2.  Vanilla or chocolate? Ice Cream would have to be vanilla

3. What is your favourite sweet treat? Apple crumble with ice cream

4. When do you crave sweet things the most? That would be all t he time ;-)

5. If you had a sweet nickname, what would it be? Dime bar - there is more to me than just what is on the outside.

Now for my bakers dozen of lovely blogs I'd like to pass this on to.

Mel's Daisy Patch

Story Book Felts

Crochet with Cris

Wonder Why Gal

Crochet Business dot com

Of Yarny Notions

Stone Cottage Adventures

The Sewmantra Blog

Bits and Bobs Zone

Notions from Nonny

Ruth's Little Leprechauns

Stitches, Scraps and Sparkles in the Sun

Now it's your turn

It doesn't have to be crocheting

anything you've made is more than welcome!

Please try and visit at least 2 other sites

to see what other people have been making.

Can you also put the pin and link to http://crochetaddictuk.blogspot.com

so that we can get more people joining in.

Thanks!

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What You Doing Wednesday Week 47

Good morning everyone!

Hope your week is going well.

Things have been a bit stressful.

My poor little man

hurt himself.

He tripped up with things in his hands

and made a right mess of his face.

It's getting better but it has set off nose bleeds.

He is having one or two each day.

If it doesn't settle down he'll have to go to the doctors.

On a brighter note hubby has been doing loads of overtime.

As I struggle with housework I talked him into a steam cleaner.

We'd never had one and so far I'm finding it a very useful investment.

Our dog Benji loves to sit on the back of the couch

and look out of the window.

The big problem is the mess from his nose.

I don't have the strength to clean it off

but I don't need strength anymore.

This is the window before cleaning

And this is the window sill

The steam cleaner has an attachment especially for cleaning windows.

This is what it look like afterwards.

No muscles used and it cleaned it extremely quickly.

I have also used the mop attachment to clean out hardwood floors.

It's fantastic! It even cleaned up the ingrained mud

that I hadn't been able to get rid of all winter.

I would highly recommend a steam cleaner.

I can't wait to have enough energy to see

what else I can clean in the house.

The other fantastic thing about steam cleaners

is they kill the germs with the heat of the steam.

You don't need any chemicals to get your house clean.

I have asthma and struggle using most household

cleaning products.

I don't need to worry anymore!

Now here is what I am making:

I'm making progress with my dungarees.

You'll have to wait till Friday to see my cardigan

as it's finished :-)

If you are a designer or blogger

& you would like some more free exposure

then I have an offer for you.

I am looking for guest bloggers for my Saturdays posts.

The dates are now open from

March 16th onwards.

I am opening it to my readers 1st

so if you want a spot just email me:

susand1408 at gmail dot com

You are able to post about anything you want.

It's a blank paper and you can 

write what you want.

I hope you like the new web design.

I am trying to learn how to program it myself

but at the moment I'm winging it.

I'm hoping that the designs and the blog will only get better.

Now I told you about:

Storybook Felts

I would highly recommend going

over and checking out Melissa's new designs.

They are fantastic!

Now it's your turn to share what you are doing.

It doesn't have to be crochet, anything you are making

is perfect.

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What You Doing Wednesday Week 46

Good morning everyone!

Hope your week is going well.

We might get snow again.

Last time they said we weren't getting snow it did.

Then they said we were and we didn't.

We'll just have to wait and see.

I hope it doesn't snow too much

as little Red is meant to be going to granny & grandads.

As you might of guessed Little Red is

off school for half term.

This has been quite an exciting week

for crocheting.

I've still been making my penguins.

Still not finished!

I've got another 9 bodies to go and then it's just a case of 

putting all 35 together :-(

Now the exciting part is I decided to give

myself a few days break from the penguins.

I decided to try out the Craftsy Course:

Beyond Rectangles

the instructor is:

Linda Permann

I am loving this course!!!

You learn how to make a beautiful baby cardigan.

As you move along the course you

learn all of Linda's hints and tips

as well as the how to make the cardigan.

I've been crocheting for nearly 2 years

& I have learnt sooooo much!

I have already purchased Linda's 

other course:

Crafty Crochet Embellishments

Here is my cardigan so far:

I've got to finish sewing it together

and then put the edging and buttons on.

I am loving making it!

I am also making a set

of baby overalls (dungarees) to match:

I haven't got as far on these

I am using a Cathyren pattern that I purchased. 

Now to some even more exciting news!

There is a new site/shop just opened.

It isn't crochet but it's really exciting.

Please Pop over and take a look:

Storybook Felts

is run by my best friend Melissa

I am sure it's going to be a huge success!!!!

I am still reading my books.

I am up to about chapter 9 of sherlock holmes

on the audio book.

I'm really enjoying relaxing, listening and crocheting

at the same time :-)

And it's free

from Books Should Be Free

The books are even better than the series.

Now it's your turn to share what you are doing.

It doesn't have to be crochet, anything you are making

is perfect.

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