wabbits complete!

I have finished - hoorah!!! here they are ready to go to in store tomorrow!!
...and thankyou to everyone who emailed me to see if we were ok in the floods- all good now. x
And thankyou to Handmade Kids for a feature on their blog here today- lovely.

so, what have you been doing lately?

I am on the home stretch now- hooray!!! Thirty wabbits stuffed, thirty carrots complete, all that is left to do is to close them off, attach carrot, name and tag and deliver. ( and hopefully sell a few...)
Lucky for me, my new friend Flossy-p and another gorgeous friend Miss E are coming over next Wednesday for a crafternoon to help me finish off. Very kind of them to offer there expert services. I can't wait!
Such a momentous occasion will be marked by the lighting of our cob oven. ( wood fired pizza oven made of mud hand built by my very clever and lovely Chef) A swine will be sacrificed to feed the helpers and families. Yeehaaarr (sorry to offend vegetarians) Plus some delicious vegies baked in the wood fired oven - everything tastes better when its been cooked like that! I am excited about the food as well as crafternoon.
Wednesday is my night to cook (I only have to cook one night a week but you would be amazed at how often I try to talk my way out of it) - so I better get crackin- an oldie but a goodie I stole from Jamie Oliver- kind of- I can't follow a recipe- I feel so stifled, never been good at following the rules... so a bit of chirizo, brocoli, muchroom and pasta, perhaps some pesto depending on basil situation in the garden.

rapid wabbit progression ( say that five times)

So I was feeling quietly confident, things were progressing quite nicely...until I found out yesterday that my deadline has moved forward- to Sunday 5th- ready to go in the window on Monday 6th! Aaaarrrrrgggghhh..........thump.

Wabbits wabbits everywhere

THANK EVERYONE FOR ENTERING MY GIVE AWAY- KEEP THEM COMING!!!!

Soooo, last Friday I get a phone call from a very local shop and they want some wabbits to put in the window for Easter. I am thinking happy days might have to make a couple for Easter so I said feeling brave and thinking maybe I should try to up sell- " were you thinking 5 or 10?" "on no...we were thinking more like...(wait for it)........30"( yes thirty. thirty. three- zero)....once oxygen re- entered my body I said "yeah sure that's fine. ( trying be all cool and casual which I wasn't) . Got off the phone, did little jump around and quick happy stamping of feet- then I panicked! Which I am not really prone to doing. Rang Chef. He calmed things down.

So I am making some progress ...(I can hear you thinking - shouldn't she be sewing now rather than positng on her blog?? )- but Busy is asleep and the machine wakes her during the day... So I have made one complete wabbit just to time him ( about 2 hours in total) ( the one on the left is a custom order , I am keeping them together in a basket hoping they will breed when I am asleep) I have completed 15 carrots, cut and done hand sewing ( eye lids and mouth) for 8 and have cut another 8. I will keep you posted. Chef is referring to himself as the wabbit widower...

.....and thankyou to the very lovely and very very very talented flossy-p for making my little Tweeter Button. mwah x