Another Patchwork

This is the little patchwork I was working on during my travels through Portugal recently.

 There are other things new to the Gift Shop, the stand and jug I bought at the fair in Fuengirola, the bowl of pot pourri is a wooden bowl I painted and filled with real pot pourri, chopped very small and glued in.

A gift box I made with a roll of matching gift wrap.

Lastly, along with other junk in my workroom I have a lot of coloured pens without tops! The pens were very cheap and I cut off the ends of the lids to make these summery drinking glasses!

I hope you're all having a good weekend,

Fuengirola Fair Purchases

Wow! I see it is July already and realise that I have passed my first Blog Birthday! Thank you to everyone who regularly reads my ramblings. Here's to another good year of minis!
I have been slow to write as I had another little holiday, this time to Portugal to celebrate my husband's birthday and the fact he has now retired!
Some of the days I worked on a little quilt which I'll show you soon but this time, as promised I'll show you what I bought at the Andalucian fair in Fuengirola. 

ALL THIS!! When my husband asks how much I spent I only tell him half but still he is shocked!
Bye for now,

What is a Friend?

Friends enjoy each other's company, they help, encourage and share laughs. They are generous, grateful, dependable and appreciative. Oly and I were all of these today!
We went to the 2nd Andalucia Miniatures Fair in Fuengirola where we encouraged each other to buy the things we knew we really shouldn't but wanted anyway, helped make important decisions like whether we needed just another doll or not, depended on our friend to look after our bags when we went to the 'ladies', laughed like naughty children when we knew we'd spent too much money but didn't care, I drove and Oly generously bought lunch. We appreciate the advise on matters like whether we want something in pink, blue or both but most of all we are grateful to have a like minded, kind friend to spend a happy day doing what we both love so much - miniatures.
Here is a photo of Oly and me at the fair.

Ha ha! I couldn't resist these little girls from Eli of www.ooakminis.blogspot.com they have leather shoes, sweet dresses and so much character! They don't look like friends though, do they?
I'll post more photos later, I hope you're all enjoying your weekend as much as me!

Patchwork... and Bird Sand!

My friend popped in this morning and I was able to show her the patchwork of tiny hexagons I've finished at last. I mounted it on a cover as I didn't want to make any more little hexagons, they really are too small and fiddly.

Later, in the garden I was busying myself at the table, my husband walked by, opened his mouth as if to ask a question, closed his mouth, shook his head and walked on. He knows me well and has come to understand that any strange thing I might be doing is connected to miniatures.
Why else would I have a table filled with plastic boxes, kitchen sieves of different grades and a plastic spoon? I was happily sieving bird-cage sand of course!
Now I have a small container of 'large' pieces and two tubs of fine sand. (One for my friend, as always).

Next weekend is the dollshouse and miniatures fair in Fuingorola, Malaga! Today we spoke of little else, very excited!

Swap with Kaisa

Back in March I showed you the fabulous sofa-bed Kaisa made me. My part of the swap was to make bedding for her own sofa-bed. Kaisa has now received it and so I will show you what I made her and how it looks on the bed she made me.

 Thank you, Kaisa for this lovely swap and all the nice things you said about my bedding. Now I have to make another set for me and I can't decide whether to make the same - or different - if only real life problems were this simple! Ha ha!