Goodbye 2020 (Part 2)

 July - 

  Started the month with homemade Panko pork steaks, I was delighted with how well these turned out.

Then came a lovely zoom crafting session with my friend Tracey and some of the other ladies from our old crafting group.

Homemade Carrot soup with homemade herb bread plait, very tasty.

Closely followed by some cute crochet food

But I think one of my favourite activities had to be the Jennie Rayment online class. I love her style of dimensional sewing, texture through folding. 

It makes a great placemat, I only wish I had more of these fabrics so I could have made a set.

Ah well, I'll start the fabric search.

August - 

August means tutorial time, one of my truly enjoyable activities. Fab'n'Funky challenges take a summer break, so I write a tutorial so our lovely followers have an activity, and I always try to make it family friendly (it is the school holidays after all).

A little bit of dinner experiment, a sort of Japanese style stuff cabbage leaf parcel.

Turned out very nice. One day I'll remember to type up the recipe, especially as I took step by step photo's.

And of course more crochet, to be more precise, more food crochet.

September - 

Christmas cards, buttons and a colouring tutorial (slight mistake but not major), what an interesting month.

Oh and a new cushion for Mawgan's return to Uni. The chairs in the rooms are a little bit uncomfortable, but she decided against taking her gaming chair.

I had to use my embroidery machine on it, I just couldn't resist.

October - 

It finally arrived

I know it doesn't look like much at the moment but my Crafting paradise will be perfect soon. (Hopefully)

Lots of card-making of course

Best part though was preparing for the 500th post at Fab'n'Funky challenges, I had the crazy idea of doing a blog hop for it. I couldn't believe the amount of organising one of those takes, I think everyone was happy with how it went.

Before the month ended we managed to get the She Shed up

November - 

So as I've already mentioned, I entered the Miku costume I made for Mawgan into the 2020 Dressmaker of the Year Competition, in the cosplay section naturally AND it got shortlisted. I've never been so proud!!! Now for the nerve wracking wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an interesting month this turned out to be. 

A cute little card, of course

Our eldest daughter's maternity leave ended and she returned to work. So every Monday & Friday our gorgeous granddaughter spends the day with us. It is fabulous fun. She & I sing along with Mr. Tumble,  have a wee boogie to music, build blocks as high as possible or any number of messy activities. When it isn't raining we go for a walk to see what wildlife is around.

The She Shed is coming along at a bit of a slow pace but it's getting there.

I gave the internal walls a white wash so it would be bright. Having the front facing south will really help with good lighting and hopefully warmth.

December - 

So after a few days of awful weather I got the outer painting done.

And all the Ikea shelving built. I even got some books moved in. Just needs hooking up to the house and a desktop made.

This lovely cheeky monkey knows how to enjoy her lunch

I'll be damned if I'm not going to let her get grubby.

I'm looking forward to the day she has her own little wellies so we can go jumping in muddy puddles and get filthy.

None of this sterilising crap for my granddaughter 😂

Our youngest daughter came home for Christmas and we started her latest cosplay project

No she's not an elf, this is a game character called May Day from a game called No Straight Roads. This particular costume is from the Christmas DLC. She was a little upset that we no longer had the electric guitar to complete the look.

So that is my review for 2020, pretty much a good year, with only a few not so happy moments.

I hope you had as much joy and fun as we managed.

Love, Hugs & Happy Thoughts 

Buffy xx