poor Health

hello everyone!

Some-of you will already know that's i've been rather unwell the past few weeks, [details can be found on my running blog]  but as i've began to feel a little less pain it began to give me time to crochet, therefore over the next few post will be about the works i've done so far! got quite a few WIP's finished!!

this is nurse Molly at a local fisheries, where they keep koi in an old swimming pool, some of them are Massive! but isnt this a lof goldfish?!!  this was my first trip out post hospital:-) 

and as you can see i managed to do a little bit in hospital, unfortunately i could quite life my right arm without being in excessive pain and therefore this was abandoned after just the one granny square!  this square is part of a blanket i am doing where i have only bought 5 balls of wool, 'the 5 ball blankie' will update on that later! 

now i have more time on my hands im currently considering other ways i could fund-raise for Child flight, so any commissions are welcome, and ive began to design some things to sell patterns for!  will update as and when i can! 

for the time being everyone take care! 

Helen

amigurumi animals 2

so going on from the previous blog post,  i made several other animals and creatures over the weeks on the run up to Christmas, all sold with a small donation to the charity for each one, all the below are commissions, and the majority are from patterns that i changed as i went to look better.

1 of two snails. [cant find the other ones picture.  gave him eyes as well and looked really cute!]

 

1 piggie! the little tail actually curls back if you pull it out. 

the fox is a brooch with a felt back.

owls in different colours sold about 20 of these in total

there is a few more as well but the pics must be on my camera instead of my phone, will update and post when i can! 

happy bags

this post is to celebrate raising over £100 [+gift aid] pounds on Happy bags. 

YAY

these are part of my fundraising ideas and are sold to raise money for child-flight, which if you regularly read the blog will have heard me talk about it before.  

they cost £2.50 each and £2 goes straight to the charity, so that means over 50 have so far been bought through Ebay and to friends and family. 

the most popular version is the nurse shift survival bag, with the genetic happy bag a close second.  they have a little poem in each one and contain every item on that poem, making a great little keep sake and gift for all occasions, also have Christmas bags and birthday bags for sale. 

more details can be found over on Ebay 

and the just giving page to go with the fundraising can be found here

thank-you to all who have supported this so far! 

Orange Santa,

hello everyone, 

so i know this post isn't really craft based but please continue to read.

those who know me will also know i'm involved with a North west charity called Child flight having been a nurse on the orange team on the last trip. therefore i have decided to fund raise in a variety of ways, this includes sponsored run's including this years Santa dash. I wont be hard to miss!

after talking to lots of people not many know about this wonderful charity and therefore i have come up with a little creative idea to raise awareness. as Christmas is coming and we all send Christmas cards so i'm sending 50 cards to a variety of celebrity, from the north west or with relevance to the charity to raise awareness about this cause and hopefully also raise some support! 

this is something I've always wished to do anyway as part of an experiment on how many replies you would get etc, so will be very interested in the outcome of this.  

will update on the progress of this as i post out the letters ETC! 

Remembrance day

Poppy day,

Here are a couple of my knitted poppy’s and crochets poppy’s. 

Over the years I’ve made poppy’s from different resources and here are this year’s attempts, all profits have and will continue to be raised for the poppy appeal!

least we forget

EDIT:- sorry its a bit late, was meant to be posted on 11/11 however forgot to press publish before i went away! 

Hama Beads - Autism pins

Hama Beads.

I have always loved Hama beads, over the years making all sort of designs however mainly following board shapes and filling them randomly.  This week I was looking at crocheting some puzzle pieces to raise money for autism awareness [if anyone has a pattern it would be very welcome] and started to mess with my hama beads again. End results = these.

 

I also ended up melting one of the boards I was using with a hot iron.. Although rather melt a board than myself.   Im currently selling this brooch’s on eBay with profits going to the national autism society. Please check it out and support if able.