Puppy is being very impatient, but first a quick catch up! 
Thank-you all for your kind messages about our beautiful boy! The poor little chap had tonsilitis! Not in our plans for this week! Nativity plays, Santa Express steam train trip, Christmas Lunch and Carol Concert but decidedly NOT tonsilitis! Thankfully by Monday midday his little system was already fighting it off and the kind G.P. gave him vile tasting anti-biotics (think undilitued orange squash!) so, by Tuesday lunchtime he was back on fighting form and I took him into school so that we could see our little King in his last Nativity!
Not that I had realised it.
That this was his last Nativity.
Apparently after Year 2, no more Nativity. Did I cry a few tears? You bet I did! Another milestone passes. Another little stage of his childhood closes. I weep for every one. Sad to see it go and feeling so very lucky to have him and to be able to share every precious moment!
In addition to all the other goings on, he has been keeping me company in the workroom in the evenings making gifts for his teachers. I love to watch him sew. That steady hard concentration...
and a particular way he has of holding the needle so that the thread doesn't slip out at a crucial moment. This tree decoration is finished and ready to be wrapped..
I especially like his idea to add triangle 'spikes, to make it all three-dimensional'. Just perfect.
This brooch is still a work in progress and will be finished off tonight. I find it so hard to give these works away but he makes them with such love for a particular person in mind that they really aren't mine to keep!
I have also been busy and have stitched more Retro Owls and Big Dogs so that I can keep my Etsy store stocked into the New Year.
And now...
Ta DA!
"About time too!!" I hear you cry - "We have been waiting ages!"
Puppy is handmade from vintage recycled fabrics, stuffed with fresh new polyester filling, and trimmed with vintage buttons and hand embroidery.
Puppy measures approximately 18 cm long by 14 cm high to the tip of that fidgetting tail.
Please note this is not a Christmas giveaway. I know, the timing and all, but it's really not! A puppy is for life not just for Christmas and I wouldn't want you to think I was encouraging anyone to think otherwise!
Plus there is nothing Christmassy at all about the bunting. It can be used all year around and that's just what we do here in the kitschen- any excuse; Birthdays, special visitors, holidays, sunny days - every day feels better with a bit of bunting!
So, if you would like to give puppy a home, leave me a comment on this post and I will do something very technical to randomly and impartially select a winner!
If you would like two goes in the hat (I know, very technical! But it's a very fine hat!) just link to this post and tell me where to find your link and I'll pop your name in twice!
Good luck everyone. I'll make the draw at 6pm on Wednesday 17th December!
t.xx
Thank-you all for your kind messages about our beautiful boy! The poor little chap had tonsilitis! Not in our plans for this week! Nativity plays, Santa Express steam train trip, Christmas Lunch and Carol Concert but decidedly NOT tonsilitis! Thankfully by Monday midday his little system was already fighting it off and the kind G.P. gave him vile tasting anti-biotics (think undilitued orange squash!) so, by Tuesday lunchtime he was back on fighting form and I took him into school so that we could see our little King in his last Nativity!
Not that I had realised it.That this was his last Nativity.
Apparently after Year 2, no more Nativity. Did I cry a few tears? You bet I did! Another milestone passes. Another little stage of his childhood closes. I weep for every one. Sad to see it go and feeling so very lucky to have him and to be able to share every precious moment!
In addition to all the other goings on, he has been keeping me company in the workroom in the evenings making gifts for his teachers. I love to watch him sew. That steady hard concentration...
and a particular way he has of holding the needle so that the thread doesn't slip out at a crucial moment. This tree decoration is finished and ready to be wrapped..
I especially like his idea to add triangle 'spikes, to make it all three-dimensional'. Just perfect.
This brooch is still a work in progress and will be finished off tonight. I find it so hard to give these works away but he makes them with such love for a particular person in mind that they really aren't mine to keep!
I have also been busy and have stitched more Retro Owls and Big Dogs so that I can keep my Etsy store stocked into the New Year.
And now...Ta DA!
"About time too!!" I hear you cry - "We have been waiting ages!"
A Pinkest Pink Patchwork Puppy and a length of vintage fabric party bunting!
Puppy is handmade from vintage recycled fabrics, stuffed with fresh new polyester filling, and trimmed with vintage buttons and hand embroidery.Puppy measures approximately 18 cm long by 14 cm high to the tip of that fidgetting tail.
Please note this is not a Christmas giveaway. I know, the timing and all, but it's really not! A puppy is for life not just for Christmas and I wouldn't want you to think I was encouraging anyone to think otherwise!Plus there is nothing Christmassy at all about the bunting. It can be used all year around and that's just what we do here in the kitschen- any excuse; Birthdays, special visitors, holidays, sunny days - every day feels better with a bit of bunting!
So, if you would like to give puppy a home, leave me a comment on this post and I will do something very technical to randomly and impartially select a winner!If you would like two goes in the hat (I know, very technical! But it's a very fine hat!) just link to this post and tell me where to find your link and I'll pop your name in twice!
Good luck everyone. I'll make the draw at 6pm on Wednesday 17th December!
t.xx
Comments
x
I think its great when the kids come up with brilliant ideas.
Glad he's over the tonsillitis, my son has had it on 5 of his 12 xmas days - just hope we dont have the dreaded visitor this year !
Apparently they grow out of it as they get older !!
Merry Christmas
sara
X
Your lovely little boy's sewing skills are amazing.. there's something about watching children sew isn't there. PLEASE ENTER ME for the giveaway.. such a gorgeous puppy, and a girl can never ever have enough bunting!! xx
Congrats on all those 000's!
I'm very glad to hear that BB is feeling so much better - obvioulsy those lung-fulls of good, clean Norfolk air do his immune system the power of good!! (And he was able to grow a beard for the nativity play - amazing for a year 2!)
Glad he was fit and well enough to create those wonderful masterpieces too! Teacher is going to be thrilled to bits!
Am I allowed to enter the prize draw? Puppy would feel very much at home in my pink livingroom...
;-))
Niki x
I'd love to win a puppy...for Olly!xxxx
It would be such a thrill to be entered into your draw for a puppy - and I promise - should I be the lucky one to adopt him - he will have pride of place on my duvet for life - not just for Christmas.
I have added a link to my blog on 'Allotment Lady' which you can reach by clicking on my name.
P.S.
The word verifications is asking me to type in becat - how weird and funny is that - must be feeling left out for not being a dog!
Your patchwork pup would have a lovely home with me, I have always liked the idea of a puppy and one that never has to go out in the cold weather would suit me down to the ground!!
Gosh I hope your little one is better, nothing like seeing them suffer. As for no nativety after year 2?! Wow that is so, so young. I'd have sobbed.
I love the pup, what a cutie.
:)
Puppy is just adorable! I'd love to have my name in the giveaway.................. thank you.................
Please enter me into your giveaway - your puppy is adorable!
Love the Puppy, so sweet :0)
Kx
Jo
x
Enter me in the giveaway, ooh yes, pretty pleeeeease...
Hen x
Have linked to you over here - http://thedomesticnovice.blogspot.com/2008/12/dash-of-more-cheer-on-this-fine-frosty.html
C x
dandy
Harriet
What a wonderful giveaway, I HAVE to win that gorgeous puppy, she would be right at home in the Attic24 household, as would the beautiful bunting!
Perleeeeeeeeease do enter me into your gievaway draw, any way I can cheat and rig the draw??
lxx
Please enter me in your draw and have a great holiday
Kimx
And I did the linky thing, here:
http://industriousfern.blogspot.com/2008/12/bugs-berries-and-pink-doggies.html
Thank you!
PS. E's nursery did their nativity in August. It also starred Elmer the Patchwork Elephant because they let the children help 'direct'.?!?!
your dog looks the cutest, and we love bunting in our house, please enter me in the draw!!!! pleassse! ;-)
xxxx
V,F&G
Blessings,
Madeline
I love the dog and would love a chance to win.
You might want to use http://www.random.org to pick a number (as it will generate a random number for you). HTHs.
I'll also link to your blog from http://www.ninnynoodlenoo.com/blog
Sue Cahill (sbonetsue at yahoo dot com)
I'm planning to title a series of photographs as "kitschen" and I was curious to see how others may have already used that punny word. So I just googled my way here. I love your creations and I think it's wonderful that your son seems to enjoy them, too.
Happy Holidays!
Take Care,
JoAnn
we've had a week of hectic plans disrupted by a poorly little boy too... always at the worst time, hey?!
x
Love the puppy and your xmas trees!
Willow x