HAPPY 9th BIRTHDAY !!!!

I am so proud of Phoebe. She is a lovely, caring, generous little girl. I cant believe I have had her for 9 years. The time has gone so quickly. I found this picture of her when she was 4! So cute!

We have been busy making her some presents. I made this little Elsie Bear doll. I had to prise it from Lucia who took an instant like to it!!

Lucia stitched the butterfly on this cushion and is very proud of it.

I am taking Phoebe and her best friend to town to go shopping and have a pizza for her birthday treat.

lovely yummy stuff

These are a few of the new lovely things I have in my shop tomorrow at Claires crop. I do have limited stock so get there quick . The shop will be open from 10am til 2pm. If there is anything you missed out on then please let me know and I can order it for you. Also if you are not at the crop and spot something you like contact me!

Sweet Christmas Paper and Chipboard

long time I know...

I have been rather busy lately and trying to fit too much in but as I have a moment I thought I would blog!

Thought I would share these. We had or photos taken by Andy Teo from Photocillin. We had such fun!

I had a string of bad school photos this year. Lucia's was the only nice one so I was delighted with these!

Yes Christmas is not far away!!!

I am doing an online craft class with the lovely Elsie as part of my birthday present. I know I can hear you say you are too busy. I have found that over the last few months I have craved some creativity. This class is lots of little projects which take very little time, so I can be creative on a tight time schedule.

I am going on a saturday crop to Burfield and taking my shop. I have quite a lot of new things so I post them up soon. If you like something then send me a message and I will arrange to post it to you.

Just realised...

that my header is very out of date! Must get an autumn one. I am looking forward to seeing Mike and Jo my brother and his wife this week end.

Also I am face painting at a party and have some lovely new brushes to play with...so nice when the equipment works well. They do all the gorgeous swirls.

Also I am in the middle of planning Ewans birthday party and have got a massive piece of cardboard to paint some power rangers on. I have just ordered these little light wands/swords for the party bags...so excited.

be the one

We were driving along in the car and this song came on Be the One by the Ting Tings and Lucia immediately was drawn to the song and started singing along (she is three) and now declares it is her favourite song. I went on their web site and love the energy and colour in how they do their videos and my space page. Very groovy.

just enjoying getting into the swing of term. I am finding that I am quite tired so there have been a few early nights, which has been frustrating bc I have wanted to do something fun. I am trying to sort out the house and keep on top of the m ounting pile of washing. I have come tho the conclusion that I need to reduce the amount of clothes we have. Another job to do!

I am very much wanting to do some sewing and keep searching for the opportunity to do something creative. So last week when I got up early there was a beautiful surprise for me. The mist had come down and covered the millions od spiders webs in our garden with little drops of water so I had great fun taking loads of pictures.

My motto : sometimes we are focussing so much on the big issues of life that we forget the beauty of live that comes in the small insignificant places.

autumn days

Well it really feels like autumn has set in doesnt it? When it is slightly cold and especially when it is wet outside I just want to snuggle up inside with some lovely warm home cooking....so today we had a lovely meaty cottage pie with a blackberry and apple crumble. So yummy!

At the moment I am enjoying getting into the rhythm of school and the routine which comes from that. I did have a tidy house but over the weekend I had to attend to a tree in our garden and well nothing else got done!!!

I will take a picture tomorrow. I was one of those situations which Colin hates. He was mowing the lawn and I say I think I need to cut some brances off the tree as one of them has come a little loose. Colin was not so sure but said he would help. so armed with a somewhat blunt saw I started tackling the lower brances....It took awhile bc the saw was very blunt but once started I had to carry on. The first branch came down quite easily and then the next branch was more of a challenge!

Colin comes out of the house to find me halfway up the tree sawing the larger branch! all I can say is he is a very patient man!!!)

It ended up with a broken saw and the branch hanging precariously in the tree! So I borrowed a much better saw and a tree lopper the next day and fininshed the job...the pile of branches is taller than I am!