Chez Budsmam

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

September furtle

Hello to September's furtle! Well it's been a mixed month. First thing as ever was my section of the Phenology wheel, only 3 more sections to go!

I've been on a mission to finish off all the embroideries and cross stitches I have laying about. Finished is better than perfect I think. For a lot of them it simply means putting them in a hoop, now I have my lovely hoop stands its easier to display them, first up this lovely mandala from Carina

I fell on love with this from cotton and twine, just love the colours so made a start 🤞 it will be done in time for Halloween

My mam gave me this on my recent trip up. Its a silver thimble which belonged to my great grandmother. I remember my grandmother showing me this and letting me play with it when I was young. The box shows a picture of Castle Street in Aberdeen probably well over a hundred years old. I'm cleaning it up, not something I would use but lovely to have

This is exciting 🤣 I loved the look of this Halloween box from Innocent Bones, it's just so cute and the wee mini projects are very sweet in a Halloween kind of way

This was a tick off my intentions for this month, blocks for Siblings, nice and easy

Another tick off my intentions and a use of an embroidery! Two for one here 🤣. I needed a label for my quilt for Alice Caroline SOS. This was and embroidery I had whuch I was never going to frame or put up so it doubled as a.quilt label

I have mostly finished this Halloween cross stitch! It's all done just need to make it up. I'm going to make it into a mini quilt I think.

And that's a wrap for September! I didn't get all my intentions done but that's not surprising given my mega trip up to see mam. But I've mostly done the intentions I didn't tick off so 🤞 they will get done next month.

Thanks again to Archie the wonder dog for hosting.

Intentions for this month

°Finish hollygon Wreath

°Finish Christmas cross stitch

°Quilt label for SOS quilt ✅️

°September siblings block ✅️

°Finish Halloween x stitch

(Carried over from August)

Intentions for next month

°Finish hollygon Wreath

°Finish Christmas cross stitch

°Finish autumn leaves

°Finish Halloween x stitch

(Carried over from August)

Grandma Bruces thimble

This is me with my gran and grandad. I loved my gran so much, she was a great sewer. Taught me a lot about crafting. On my recent visit to mams she gave me this silver thimble. I remember playing with at grans. It belonged to her mother, known as Grandma Bruce. By all accounts she was a horror, very difficult woman. But my gran kept this and loved it, so I love it too. The box its in has a picture of Castle Street in Aberdeen on the front

Its heavily tarnished so ill try the bicarb treatment

After 1 soak in bicarb and aluminium

After 2nd bicarb treatment

I'll probably leave it there for now, its come up quite well

A lovely wee connection to my gran

Wednesday, 16 September 2026

September seasons

Sooo I swithered and swithered about what i should take a picture of for my seasons in 2026. I then decided to take an overview of each side of the house, we will be moving in a few years and I want to capture the house as it is.

September sees the beginnings of the winding down for winter. Hanging baskets are still lovely but not quite as abundant, roses have mostly wound down but still a few blooms to come. Rowans are still bright but I see a few fat pigeons pecking away at them.

January right