Festival of the Cocoa Bean

Chocolate. That's what Easter's about isn't it? Well chocolate and spending a day when the only fruit you consume is dried and contained in Hot Cross Buns (lunch) and the only veggie you eat is potato and comes as a chip served with your fish and chips (dinner) and the only dairy you consume is contained within that mountain of easter eggs you received from some egg laying bunny.

Murtle and Eunice's Chickammyjig, finished this morning (Easter Monday) in front of the Smurf.


Lucky he's too young to realise that such things are out of place on Easter Monday (or that that crazy Easter Bunny managed to find him on 3 different days of Easter at a myriad of locations).

Blockhead

matchy matchy, originally uploaded by SadieandLance.

In need of some external arse kicking to get me crafting again I decided to sign up for the Chaletgirl Block Swap. And as suspected it well and truly kicked my arse into gear (eventually).

I was on a self imposed crafting ban until I found a place for all my craft materials and miscellaneous junk/paper work/ hundreds of metres of assorted useless cables (thanking Mr Sadieandlance for that one). So when I saw that the other blockheads were putting me to shame I swept up the crap and found a spare drawer to shove all those miscellaneous cables.

I raided the scrap box and off I went.

And my scrap box is pretty on the inside and outside so it's extra-enjoyable to go scrap fishing. But my pretty scrap box isn't the only reason I'm enjoying being back at the machine for, you see, I have a brilliant new sewing desk, but that deserves a post all of it's own (but I should say thank you here to Grandma!)

In case you're interested here's the fabric I sent off to be distributed to the other blockheads.

Can't wait to see what comes back my way - after each participant teams it with their fabric of choice.