The last few weeks . . .

The last few weeks have been whizzing past - lots of things to keep me busy and also some big decisions to ponder and make. Here is some of what has been occupying my time

Lantern walk at playgroup

Baby L is roly poly and very active

Winter = more frequent asthma for both H and A

A little backyard fire bucket to celebrate the Winter solstice

complete with sparklers and marshmallows

Teaching needle felting to a wonderful woman's group that I am a part of

Baby L has started solids - so a bit of extra cooking and a whole exciting adventure

A work in progress that H helped me with

New hairstyles for H - she has discovered that she likes ribbons

My boy who is enjoying spending time in the kitchen - he is looking so grown up!

another one who is growing too quickly

A new needle felted mobile for Baby L

Busy happy times for sure.

Rainbow needle felted faries

In the last week of being pregnant with baby L I was bitten by the needle felting bug ( it was great because it helped to distract my mind from the fact that the baby was overdue). I wanted to make a mobile for the baby that I was waiting to meet and as I played around with the roving these little fairies / angels came into being.

I ended up making eight of them in rainbow colours (of course) using beautiful roving from here and here.

The roving used here was from Fiona Duthie

wing detail

Even though all the needle felting was done before baby L arrived they are still sitting in a little basket on my work table as i am unsure how I should string them up and I have not had time to play around with them. I am hoping to have some time in the coming weekend.

This fairy is the Indigo Inspirations rainbow roving

This eighth fairy / angel is not part of the mobile - I was just having too much fun