Sunday 31 January 2010

Hmmmm

Kind of a strange weekend so far!
Friday was great, I managed to go to the local hospital and donate my premature baby clothes, they were very grateful of which nearly had me welling me up :) Fantastic job those nurses do :)

Friday afternoon took Jack to the dentist and you now wouldnt know that he ever chipped his big front tooth thanks to some white filling, although now he's not allowed to bite down on things like apples or crusty rolls, he has to cut them up first! and he was fantastic considering its the noises that scare him in the dentist, he lay still and was - well just brilliant :) very proud

Friday phonecall - rang a certain department of government help!!! and was told something I'd enquired about on a number of times to now be told its different which kinda throws our world around a little, hence I spent a little time very upset and wondering how the hell we were gonna get through that one! :( Trying not to think of it now as I can feel myself getting upset again! :(

Saturday - A very interesting trip to London - Islington in fact - with friends, had some laughs and found out some important and very helpful information!!!
If your still here well done, hope I havent bored you!!!

and thats it so far really, today is Sunday and I am going to catch up on house things, cook a roast dinner, and hopefully try to relax as I feel I need it :)
To end with something to view, Riley had his first web cam chat with a friend the other day (who he made play hide with him lol) he was intrigued by it bless him
Enjoy your weekend

Friday 29 January 2010

Cloud Treasury

Wowsers I'm being spoilt this week! This is my third treasury to be featured in :) I'm so happy
See my cloud coffee cosie there :) hehehe go check out all the other designers here :)

Trauma

in two ways!

On Wednesday I was called into school to get Jack as he had fallen in the playground and chipped his front tooth - ouch!

Bless him, he had literally chipped half of it away, managed to get an emergency dentist appointment and thankfully something can be done about it. He put a temporary cover on it and hopefully by next week you wont even know there was a chip! Amazing...

Yesterday Riley decided to play with some wool of mine, I walked away saying out loud, it was only £1 Deanne do not worry about it! lol Then I caught him in the act - literally
My kitchen was covered in wool which then led through to the hallway and living room! lol oh well kept him quiet and entertained for awhile!

Its a creative world

Its my time again over at Its a creative world, and as I've explained in my blog post over here, I was really inspired by Eleanor to create my tag journal book Pop on over here for the full write up oh how and why :)

Thursday 28 January 2010

Ele Mini Tote Bag

Look at this scrummy gorgeous little tote bag :)Natural colour cotton tote with a hand embroidered elephant, 20% goes to charity remember. Its for sale here

A perfect little gift bag maybe ?

Spicy!

Remember my empty spice jars from my woyww post!
Well here they are in their new glory :)
Mini embellishment jars filled with goodies are available in my Etsy Store more will be added over the next few days, all in a variety of colours :)

Elephant charity goodies will also be in store very soon x

Willow full reveal

After showing you a peek yesterday here's the full revealWillow Sketchie Challenges have now gone weekly so even more inspiration is to be had by the designs that Sharon comes up with.
This is Alfie and isnt he just gorgeous, he's available to purchase here along with the pretty pink dotty and green floral papers

The Design Team each week will show you Willow designs but you as a follower can use the sketch and any supplies you have, you are not limited to using just Willow designs.

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Lavender Treasury

Wow twice in one week, I'm so pleased :)
My flower coffee cosie has made it into treasury on Etsy, check all the handcrafted gifts here

Thank you Lunica for including me :)

woyww

I actually thought it was Thursday today so much so that I actually put the bins out!!!!!! and I was laughing at everyone in the street for not putting theirs out! duh!!!!

So today is Wednesday thanks to a sharp reminder after seeing Julias woyww post (thank you Julia lol)

Hmmmm so whats happening on my desk today! Sorting as always! Left to right lets see I have these from when I use to make nappy cakes and my first job Friday morning is to go to the SCUBU unit at Kettering General Hospital and take these premature baby clothes as a donation from moi

Then I have these in the middle of the desk, I've thought of something I can do with them for my Etsy Storeas for the In the night garden light, we wanted one for Riley at christmas but they were over £20 but last night I mananged to pick one up from Tesco for the bargain price of £7, no I havent taken it off him for my craft room I'm just charging it ready for tonight :)

So whats your space looking like today, pop on over to Julias blog to join in x

Willow peek

The Willow sketchie challenges are back and Sharons being working her socks off on some new designs that you'll just love, heres a peek at minePop by tomorrow for the full reveal and to see the rest of the design teams inspiration

Tuesday 26 January 2010

Vintage goodness

More vintage goodness in the form of buttons are in my etsy store

Carrot Cake

The lovely Debbie over at Country Heart and Home is doing a recipe each week so after 52 weeks we're going to have a folder full of delicious foods :)

I've finally sorted myself out and today I baked, I love it when the recipe states to chuck everything in :) now thats my kinda recipe lol
These carrot cakes are truly delicious, pop on over here and see the recipe details
I'm very pleased with them :)
Enjoy x

Monday 25 January 2010

Phew

We had a long drive to see my parents yesterday and Riley didnt take to it too well, he must have got so uncomfortable and fed up on the way home he was really upset bless him.
Whilst at Nannys we couldnt resist putting on a new shirt that Mum had got him, what do you think! How gorgeous does he look lol
As for today I havent stopped! I've done nothing but tidy and blitz! organise food for the week with the weekly shop! and sort sort sort... phew

Treasury

I came home from visiting family yesterday to find Na Noo the alien has being featured in a treasury over on Etsy, how sweet :) You can go view the list of peeps by clicking on the picture
Thank you SezKnits for featuring us :)

Sunday 24 January 2010

Quirky Crafts Challenge

Another fortnight gone by already, so Quirky Crafts has a new challenge set for you this week and its 'Bears' :)I've made some quick and simple gift tags using the 'Forever Friends' sticker bears and off cuts of white and red cardstock
Pop on over here to join in with us, yet again we are sponsored by 'The Crafty Pad' with another two stamps up for grabs :)

How do you sleep!

This is generally how we find Wicket sleepingif not like this then on the arm of the sofa or curled up by my feet :)
How silly does he look, dont you just adore animals lol

Saturday 23 January 2010

We're off

on a journey tomorrow, not far but near the seaside!

My dad was 50 last week so we are off for family celebrations... Hmmmm I wonder if we get to see the beach!
Thought I'd share his birthday card with you, due to him being 50 I thought I'd make him a really youthful card lol
I've triple promised myself that unless 'really' required I will not be buying more personal stash until I have used up so much of mine. I have scraps and full sheets of really gorgoeus papers sitting in a box here that I dont use, so my intention is to use the lot!
Materials used, a wallet card from my wedding stationery samples, 7gypsies papers, odd alpha stickers, chipboard and thickers, brad, cork and twine
Enjoy your saturday evening, I'll leave you with Lara to make you smile
A real ray of sunshine she is
Enjoy x

They've landed

The aliens have landed, well one has anyways in my craft room!
Meet Na Noo

He's a general you know! Available to buy here

Enjoy x

Friday 22 January 2010

Bowling

We love bowling, we were suppose to go last week for Jacks birthday but our car was in the garage, so instead we went last night :)

A great night with fun food and three 8 year olds energy! lol of which every photo I took one of them was pulling a silly face!!!!!!!!! so this one will have to do, can you believe that Sol in the middle was actually shorter than Jack this time last year, and he's only 7 actually!!!!!!!!!! wow he's sprouted up lol
Jack took his bowling ball of course and strutted some moves!!!So a belated happy birthday bowling event for my gorgeous little man

House full

of pocket monsters that is, more non scary monsters in my Quirky Boots Store :)
Love Bug
Cyril the very gentleman monster

Enjoy x

Thursday 21 January 2010

For the Love of

elephants!

Elephants I hear you ask? I love them, always have, my heart beats twice as fast when I see them, they are such beautiful and graceful animals to me.
For my birthday a few years ago Tel surprised me by adopting an elephant I actually cried, I loved it :) A perfect gift for me :)

I've being meaning to for some time now choose a charity for a year long donation through the sales of certain handcrafted items of mine.
This month I've being working on something small and quick but pretty so I can start my charity on a roll :)
I'm making mini wool felt elephants with pretty hand embroidery designs and stuffed to the brim with toy filling :) They will be available in many different colours and during the year some larger ones will make an appearance including fabric ones too :)
At the end of 2010 I will make the donation of monies collected from sales, 20% of each elephant sale goes straight to the charity.
I will be keeping a banner in my side bar and I will update often to show progress of sales

The charity I hear you ask is this one The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, you may better know it as the tv documentary Elephant Diaries,
It would be a dream come true to stay in such a place for awhile and volunteer to help with those beautiful orphans, a real dream.
After contacting them they kindly sent me these beautiful pictures to share and print off, I adore them (tears of joy when I saw them)Sigh....
So watch this space by the end of the month my Quirky Boots Shop will be 'stuffed' with elephants for sale for a worthy cause

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Forum Goodies

Over on the Quirky Crafts Forum I've being having a play around with free websites and I've managed to start a little shop which has all of my crop stock on, just adhesives and a few crafty bits :)
Why dont you pop on over and take a peek (click on picture for direct link)
Whilst your at it, dont forget to pop on over to the forum, its still a small but growing forum, challenges are currently fortnightly and we'd love for you to join in with us, and dont forget you can win goodies too, You've got until Sunday to win two gorgeous stamps from The Crafty Pad

Meet the girls

Francescaand IsabellaCute and fun little handheld monsters for your pocket :)
These will be available in my Etsy Store later on today

woyww

Its that time again, so Whats on your workdesk It doesnt look very interesting does it! Its very grey and miserable outside today so hence very dark in my little pink room. Anyways from left to right is a couple of photos I really want to scrap of me and my best bud in Costa at Christmas, moving to the middle, the dreaded tax forms I'm doing for the first time! I'm nearly finished, I think and thats about itOoooh no whats this, they must be hiding in the metal drawer on top of the tax forms ;) I have odd scraps of felt sizes so a few fun 'softies will be added to my Etsy Store very soon

Off to have another coughing fit as still feeling rough, remember to pop on over to Julias blog to join in

Look who's 3

Our little man turned 3 on Monday, and he's a huge fan of George and Grandpa Pig, and let me tell you, it took us some time to find this boat!!! everywhere was out of stock!!!
Can you tell he's poorly again :( bless him

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Willow Design Team Call


Willow Designs is looking for 1 creative designer to add to the talented design team at Willow Sketchie Challenge
If you love to colour, card make and use downloads then you could be who we are looking for!
Please send an email to Sharon here with a couple of examples of your most recent work and directions to your blog (a must have). The deadline is the 27th January!

Monday 18 January 2010

What you drinking!

Mmmmmm a custom order for a Vanilla Latte :)

Saturday 16 January 2010

Project 2010

Over on Its a creative world we have a year long project starting today entitled Simple Things
Each Design Team member will be showing a page each month based on a given word and what that word means to you, its a personal journey and we'd love it if you wanted to join in with us.

Today we are showing you our book covers, heres mine
I'm taking the title Simple Things literally, I'm going to use only recycled products or items from my scrapbox and nothing new. My book is small at only 5 x 5 inches but all of my inner pages are going to be different sizes and materials.
My front cover is very plain and simple, just recycled corrugated card ripped and inked, twine and papermania alpha stickers

I'm excited about this monthly journey I'll be taking and cannot wait to see my book at the end of it

Friday 15 January 2010

Waffle

I'm in a waffling mood today so thats what my post will be - waffle - pref with blueberries and cream but no just verbal waffle of sorts.

Jacks bowling got postponed because our car was in the garage for the mot, so we've rebooked that for next week, so until then here's his cake
Now I'm no cake maker! ask anyone, I do try but I do fail most of the time, its quite annoying actually, so due to illness and the failures this wonderful delicious cake was supplied by Mr Tesco :)

If you read yesterdays post you'll see that Riley and I stayed home to make ourselves better, so most of it was spent eating fruit, and at the moment oranges are a favourite of the little man of the house
Dont you just love agpha effect, really old style, my favourite one to use
Riley was back to nursery this morning as his eyes have cleared up lovely, along with my sore throat I went along to Libbys house this morning to show her my dies for the cuttlebug she won before christmas, which she now adores even more - Have fun Libby
Jacks away this weekend at his dads, Tel and I are actually going out Saturday night (hope I feel better) a novelty I can tell you.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend x

Thursday 14 January 2010

Peppa Pig!

I feel rough again and with Riley poorly we dont really fancy stepping outside into the mist today (other than school runs of course)

I have things I need to do but I also have a bored toddler, so today we played with these alot :)
which were then turned into a train track

and whilst he had a nap I finally got my ironing done

Fold it

My post is on Its a Creative World todayWhy dont you pop on over and see what all the folding is about !! :)