Things are slowly ticking away down here. The weather is closing in and there's a definitely bite to the air now that means winter is on its way. We didn't really have a summer so I'm mourning the warm weather we never really got, but I have to admit I'm looking forward to cold days snuggled on the couch with my sweetie and some crochet.

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Things are pretty busy over here at Chez Cheese, and I must admit I feel a little overwhelmed with everything that's going on and consequently not dealing too well with the stress! It's taken me a few weeks to "man up" and realise that putting my head in the sand won't make all the work go away; in fact it will only serve to increase my stress when ( Read more... )

I love making plushies, and I'm loving exploring needle felting, but no matter how far I stray it always comes back to stamp carving for me.

I've decided that this year I need to get back to my true love and spend some more time with my carving tools and some rubber. I'd like to say I want to make a proper go of refocussing Two Cheese Please... but ( Read more... )

 

Inspired by the lovely byneedleandthread, I had to do a mosaic of all my crafty endeavours for the year 2009.


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July's blocks for Ten Make Two - luckily these ones only had to go across town, not across the globe!


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My name is Holly and I'm....

I'm a swap addict.

It's true, and I'm sure it comes as no surprise, but I just can't stop! I have to get my fix monthly (sometimes weekly!).

My latest swap was with the lovely Jennie from the newly redubbed Mrs Beckinsales. I fell in love with her vintage button ATCs and she suggested a swap! But I'd never made an ATC  ( Read more... )

Well I was going well for a while there, and had gotten back on the blogging wagon but after a busy weekend and week I seemed to have slipped a little!

Not to worry, I'm good at climbing back on.

So even though I haven't been blogging I have been stitching and making and sewing and crafting and loving.

At the moment I'm loving hand quilting.


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This is a question I hear a LOT every time I do a market/talk endlessly about stamp carving.

But what would I do with a stamp?

One of my new favourite toys is my fabric covered button making kit.


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Today's stamp is something I've missed from my life for a long time now. Being a child of the 80s I really couldn't resist carving a cassette stamp!

And then, because I love the texture of stamped fabric, I had to turn it into a brooch. My favourite part of this stamp is the blank strip up the top of the cassette so you can write a message on there ( Read more... )