WOYWW 125 -little gnomie

This morning saw me at my sewing machine again, this time making a picture of a gnome for my friend Kate, who's birthday it is on Friday.  Like me, she loves gnomes, so I thought I'd have a go at stitching a picture of one.

Now I need to make me one as I love him so much!  Especially the needlefelted beard :)  He's made up of a variety of fabrics, and mounted using an embroidery hoop.  The toadstools were a sock I found hanging around my sewing machine lol!

I'm sharing this as part of What's on your Workdesk Wednesday, a weekly event hosted by the lovely Julia Dunnit, where you get to see what everyone else has been up to today!

EDIT: I've discovered where the other sock went (and why there was a sock next to my sewing machine in the first place lol!) - my fourteen year old daughter Sophie used it to make a sock monkey :)

oh..WOW!

Look at my poor garden gnomes today!!!  It snowed all night, and then all day too, and by this evening they were completely buried!

This was the view we woke up to this am [it started snowing slightly 9pm last night, otherwise it had just been a hard frost yesterday]...

from our bedroom window

from George's window at the back of the house

The kids built a snowman this morning, and Sophie and I sledged before starting our igloo in the back garden.

I took some photographs down the road; there were plenty of people getting their cameras out, it was so beautiful.

We finished the igloo late this afternoon.  The boys were great at making 'bricks' by packing snow in the washing up bowl :) 

It does look more like a beehive than an igloo, but it's ace inside with candles lit.

Forecast a freeze tonight so this igloo should last us a while!  We're much more used to rain here in Manchester than this much snow.  It was such an unusual thing that ITV broadcast their national news live from Manchester tonight!!  Snow's on it's way down south tonight.  I think I need a play inside day tomorrow, every time I shut my eyes all I see is snow falling.  I spent 11 hours out there today, just went in for lunch!!

weird weather!

It shouldn't really feel weird but it does!  It doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind here.  We've just had a bit more snow, on top of the ice from yesterday.  It was -7C last night, but warmer tonight, although my laptop has a little snow symbol by the temp!!  My 3 children were sent home from school today as the boiler had broken.  George [15] had been lamenting that it never happened in schools round here (Oldham and Tameside had lots of closures on the radio this am) and hey presto, 45mins later he was phoning to say they were coming home.  It's all fixed now so they'll be back in tomorrow and I can get on with sorting out the house, and my craft room!  I'm having a major reorganisation in there...

 

...and I can finally get to my desk!!  Lots of sorting and moving of furniture to do on the other side of it though, I have to say!!!