Tea, Cakes and Sewing Things

I have been having a very busy week here, sewing things for magazine deadlines, drawing illustrations for book deadlines....and most important of all celebrating my birthday and my daughter rosie's birthday too!

 .........it's fun having our birthdays so close together as we often combine part of our celebrations and she was home last weekend........we have all had plenty of tea and cakes during this week.....

 ........and new pip china to use too :).........we had some delicious cakes made by my elder daughter sarah helped by charlie and daisy....they are especially fond of the part where you add the sweets to the top.......

.........i made some cupcakes  in yellow cases and added yellow roses to the top.......a bit of sunshine....

 .....because i can't yet show you the sewing i've been doing this week, i am including instead this little needlecase made a while ago and featuring a tim holz haberdashery rubber stamp and a scissor button from duttons for buttons in york......i've been using this needlecase this week for my projects.....and have also got lots of my quilt sewn too so hope to show you it finished very sooooon..............

 .....i want to say a big thank you today to two sweet blog friends who gave me awards recently......first was victoria from tangled sweetpea who gave me the versatile blogger award, and then mia at handmade by mia who gave me the sunshine award.........thank you both so much, lovely ladies :) and if you don't already know their lovely blogs do go and visit them here and here............

.........a bit of sunshine for us all today, in case some are in need of it :) ......i am loving the bright yellows of these summery birthday flowers.............

..........and here is my project in the july issue of crafts beautiful......a cupcake stitched patchwork cushion using yummy pam kitty morning fabric, and with added sparkly beads sewn onto the cake....you can now download lots of the patterns, charts and templates here.............

...........and a little cupcake postcardy tag....i love making these and adding them to each project to tie in with the theme....i also love to see how the magazine photographers style the shots using my projects.......

........there are still some cakes left here at my house....here is a virtual one for you, and i'll put the kettle on and make us all a virtual cup of tea shall i?..........thank you so much for visiting me here..........i hope all my sweet american friends had a happy fourth of july......i always love my birthday for being on that special day!.......off to do some more sewing now and hopefully i will have a finished quilt to show you next time......wishing you happy days and sunshine in the meantime........back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxx