World Book Day...

A 'world' day, that it seems no-one outside of the UK knows about, is pretty random in itself, but these backgrounds, chosen by the individuals pictured, are pretty out there...

Today they donned their gladrags and made the most of the sunny weather...

Year 5's theme was JK Rowling, and Year 3 had Julia Donaldson.  I think they looked great.

Linking up this literary selection with Cindy and the Randomeers xxx

Counting my blessings...

The highlight of my otherwise horrible day...

The Grand High Witch, Fantastic Mister Fox and Matilda xxx

A Little Bit of Magic!

OK, not really, I could do with a cooking, cleaning and sleeping spell right now, my first emotionally-stable day off in weeks and I am exhausted.

As I am sure all you Mums will know already, tomorrow is World Book Day, so as is customary round these parts, all the children will be going to school dressed as book characters.  Last year I created the Where's Wally extraordinaire, for dear son, this year he wants to be Dumbledore.

So out came the Nativity outfit, perfect robes eh, and this morning I made some accessories to match, hat, hair and beard...

The fitting went down well, I just have to tweak Meg and Mog in the morning!

I did do some proper sewing too - one large (10"x 57"currently) block that I will show you on Friday, and I also started on my March Brit Bee block(s).

As soon as I found out it was kitchen-related paper-piecing, I bagsied Kerry's teapot from Fat Quarterly 8; so this morning all full of bravado I made one!

Ceri is this OK?

All went to plan, maybe a couple of pieces unpicked as I picked up the wrong bit, but no pinning, smaller pieces and minimal swearing.  I think I had missed the 'cut out the pattern/part you are sewing and don't wrangle with the whole A4 sheet when trying to sew' bit before, because I had this sussed, and it even came out the right way round. 

FYI I foundation pieced this, but used freezer paper templates to cut the fabric - best of both worlds I reckon, in my oh so vast experience!

So now I have no fear; however getting an idea onto paper and working out how to go about dividing that up is still some way in the distance, but I am still rather chuffed.

Oh, and I am pleased to say my Mouthy Stitches pouch arrived with its owner safe and sound today, one less thing to worry about x

Never one for the easy option...

Thursday (oops amended from Friday - good job I re-read the letter!), as I am sure most of you are well aware, is World Book Day.  So dressing up as a favourite book character is the name of the game for dear son.

So although we had the whole of half term to think of and organise an outfit, did we?  Oh no.  Was I thrown into panic this weekend and then prepared to go into town after work today to buy something?  Almost.  But no, instead of taking the easy option, I have ended up spending the best part of this afternoon and evening doing a bit of deconstruction-reconstruction to produce possibly the silliest thing I have ever made!

From these:

To this!

I still need to give it a good press and tidy up all the lose threads, but little Wally should be impressed!  I will take photos on Friday.