Every Inchie Monday - Buffalo

And Good morning to everyone on this fine Monday!!  Yes can you believe it?  I have my inchie finished in time to post today!  Wonders will never cease  ... and ... I am nearly finished on next week's inchie too!!  Let's hope I have time to finish it by next Monday!  So this week's theme word for EIM is buffalo - but I didn't want to go the American buffalo route as that is really known as a bison, I wanted to do a cape buffalo with those lovely big curly horns!  I was trying to think of a way to 3D them and thought about pipe cleaners!  In fact this little inchie went really well for me, I didn't have any grey fabric so I coloured an odd bit I had left over with a number 4 warm grey promarker and hey presto!!  Shall use that idea again when I don't have the right colour!!!  So toyed with the idea of using beads for eyes but they didn't look right so opted for small bullion knots in black and did the nostrils similarly in grey, just a 5 twist did it!  So here is my Cape Buffalo:

The weather here is being very kind to us although we did watch Wimbledon with her beautiful blue skies and sun with our own skies very grey and oppressive!!  My husband gets so jealous when he sees other people having better weather than us - but that's nearly all the time!!!  However today is glorious - and he's in watching the cricket on the TV!!!  You can never win!!  I will be out after I've posted this to enjoy some gardening in the sun!!! Hope your days are as lovely as today - Ha Ha - I have just gone on to EIM to get the link and notice so far everyone has done the same as me!!!  Oh well - we can't always be different!!  Thanks for calling in and for any comments you leave - I really enjoy reading them, take care.

Every Inchie Monday - Cow

Well it is actually Monday for once!!  I have tried to get my cow done but boy was she difficult.  I was going to do the cow that jumped over the moon but thought she would be so tiny you probably wouldn't see her!  So I opted for one of my favourite types of cows - the highland cattle which we saw when we went to Scotland 5 years ago.  They are so beautiful and I thought I could make her golden locks in her fringe out of bullion knots!!  Great idea but in reality ... I was on the point of discarding it as rubbish when my husband stepped in to see what I was moaning about and said it was beautiful!  I don't know if he was just humouring me because he wanted me to stop as he was hungry for lunch or not!!  Anyway since I had put so much work into it and I don't now have time to start again I am going to run with it.  I am tempted to put a picture of the photo I was copying.  These inchies sound simple but they are not!  And to cap it all I have lost my 2016 inchies - still cannot find them anywhere having turned the place upside down - literally.  Am wondering now if they've been thrown away by mistake but am hoping they will eventually turn up.  Fingers crossed.  Thanks for stopping by and hope your week is a good one.  Oh and now I think I've burnt my marmalade - forgot it was still bubbling away on the hob!!!

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