Hip Hip Hooray Halloween

Happy Halloween!

I haven't got round to doing a pumpkin but,

if I had managed to do one it might have looked like this one below...

Probably...

image source

Lucky Lion

Here is the rest of my lion's journey.

He's been on a bit of a jaunt: up in a balloon; hiked through the woods; 

went camping; met a friendly squirrel, the usual sort of thing.

Lucky little lion, eh!

All designs Copyright Amy Underhill 2012

New Prints

I'm working on a series of new designs with a travel theme.

Here's a sneak peak of one of them.

Not sure it's finished yet...

Copyright Amy Underhill 2012

Heads, Shoulders...

...Knees and Toes!

Ilona from the fab blog ilonadrewthis had the very clever idea 

to start a game of Heads, Shoulders Knees and Toes. 

This week I held my own game with jayne schofield and joanne lee 

Our theme was Owls - I do love owls! Here's our masterpiece! >>>

If anyone else would like to get involved in a game

 (and I will recommend -it's very fun!) Ilona has started up a new blog 

specially dedicated to the game, which she has now re-named Flick 'n' Mix.

Click here to see the latest creation and for more info!

New Home

We have just bought our very first house! It is lovely and I am so excited!!

However, I think it'll be a while before we get to move in. 

So while I wait patiently (ahem) I am pinning lots of house inspiration things on Pinterest!

Here are some New Home card designs I've been working on to also keep me busy:

all designs copyright Amy Underhill 2012

Mrs Rabbit

I made this a while ago for my little niece's christening present.

It's really supposed to be a pyjama case but Mrs Rabbit 

had to be hung up on the wall away from tiny little fingers for now.

Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes

I've been a bit busy lately so had a little break from blog world for a couple of weeks.

While I've been busying about I did have chance to take part in a game of

heads, shoulders, knees and toes with the lovely Ilona Drew and Lizzie Mackay

The theme Ilona chose was Cat, and I was in charge of the head:

Heh heh! A very cool cat I think!!

Here's my cat with my own version of the body:

I would like to hold my own game now so if anyone

 is interested in taking part please comment below or send me an email :)

Guten tag!

I've been in Cologne for the last few days at the Kind+Jugend trade show which is the biggest show of the year for the nursery industry. 

There were some great products to see, all very inspiring stuff.

I didn't take very many photos but my friend and work buddy Jo has lots of photos from the show on her lovely blog jo-anne lee likes so head over to see!

A photo of an owl bin by Skip Hop , one of my favourite children's brands.

It's 9 o'clock

I know it is because Betty the guinea pig tells me it is.

9 o'clock is usually the time she gets her daily dose of veg. 

She lives indoors in the corner of our living room. We hear a few little wheek wheek noises coming from the corner at about 8, then by 8.30 the wheek wheeks have turned into wheek wheeks, and by 9pm they are full on wheeeeeeeks! 

We rescued Betty from the RSPCA a few years ago. She is now rather old and is diabetic and almost completely blind (although she does always seem to manage to run to her veg bowl when she needs to) so she has had quite a tough little life. 

We do tend to spoil her, quite a lot...

Something random

I saw this on Pinterest today and it made my heart flutter! 

Maybe I could do this to my poor little unsuspecting mini.... it could be sooo pretty?! 

I joke, I would never do this, not really, much....

Bear and tiny bird

On our long journey back home from Cornwall I started a new needle felted bear.

I just finished him tonight and also made a teeny tiny bird friend for him.

The boyf wants to know what I'm going to do with Barry (?!) the bear...

Apparently needle felted bears need a purpose? Who knew.

Teeny tiny bird is really tiny:

Two birdies

Screen printed this card for some friends this eve.

They got engaged and have moved house so it's a two in one card.

My card making motto - if in doubt put more ribbon on it. 

You can see in this close-up how old my screen is!!

I will get round to getting a new one made one day...

Ahoy there!

I've been on a little holiday to Cornwall, St Ives to be exact. 

It was very very pretty, and very very busy.

I ate my own body weight in cheese & onion cornish pasties and 

I've come home with a burnt nose. Lovely jubbly.

Some holiday snaps...

Jackson de Beauvoir

Jackson de Beauvoir is a Dachshund with a blog I recently discovered.

 

He describes himself as a debonair man about town with impeccable taste, I have to agree.

I discovered him on a blogging journey via the blog Bloesem, who found out about it via JustALittleJoy.

 

Love how you can end up discovering something amazing by following blog links.

 

 

Two little boys

We had our 2 nephews aged 6 and 10 come to stay for a few days. 

Kids are hard work!! Lovely, but hard work!!

Hats off to anyone who does it full time.

The best thing we did was take a trip to the Sealife Centre in Brum.

We had a whale of a time! :)

My favourite was the Sea Otters who were all asleep 

with their legs sticking straight up in the air - very cute!

Yeh they didn't actually have any whales but, you know...

Hectic

Not had much spare time for blogging lately, life's been hectic round here!

Here's a vintage sausage dog in a knitted vintage sausage dog cardigan

 to add some vintage sausage dog sparkle to my blog.

I like vintage sausage dogs :)

You can buy the knitting pattern here if you ever 

need a vintage cardigan for your sausage dog...

And here's a sausage dog notepad from Anthropologie:

Mini update

I went to see my rusty little 4 wheeled friend at the weekend.

He hasn't been living in his barn and apparently a family 

of flying cows have moved into the tree above him. So much poo!!!

Anyway we made a start and stripped out all of the 

interior so that it doesn't get eaten by pesky mice.

I am now storing the insides of a mini in my old bedroom 

at the Underhill senior's house. Lucky them! :)

We discovered lots of rust under everything,

 which was a surprise (ahem), and a few holes.

This is a thoroughly interesting photo of a rust hole in the floor:

Will try not to be a boring rusty car talking person too much on this blog!

Last rust photo for a while...

29 Golds

It's all over then! 

65 medals for Team GB overall and most definitely a deeper bum imprint on our sofa. 

A bloody good couple of weeks if you ask me!

Dressage Gold

Well done Charlotte Dujardin and her horse Valegro for winning individual Gold today!

(yes I'm still addicted!)

image courtesy of the bbc news website

Le Wiggo

 Team GB have done so well in the cycling this year! 

Thought I'd do a little tribute to Bradley Wiggins.

In case you're not sure who he is he won the Tour De France,

 and then a Gold in the Olympic Men's Time Trials.

Plus he's got some pretty decent side burns!

I think I have a little crush...