A week of Pinterest - day 2

Today is a share of homemade treats to give as gifts, last year I made little packages up of homemade fudge and chocolate brownies and gave them out to friends, I really enjoyed it and will certainly be doing it again this year

Heres some of my favourite finds from pinterest  - Cinnamon Madelaines, Marshmallow Fudge, Chocolate dipped cherry vanilla fudge, gingerbread faces & lavender shortbread

 You can find links to all the bakes and many more on my Cakes and Bakes pinterest board here

A week of Pinterest - day 1

With christmas just around the corner I thought i'd share some of the gorgeous finds on pinterest
I'll start the week off with christmas decorations, really simple ones yet super effective, and ones that the children can be involved in too
I have plans to do all of these! so watch this space on our creations!

Doilie christmas trees, potato stamped cards, fingerprint cards, peg dolls and a lolly pop stick sleigh

 All of the links for these inspirational ideas and many more are available in my pinterest album Childrens Crafts here

Giddy Excitement

Today we are jetting off to New York to celebrate my 40th birthday
My Mum is kindly looking after the boys so we can spend some quality time together
I'm so excited i'm giddy, like super giddy

Be back soon

I've planned a week of pinterest fun on my blog for whilst i'm away - enjoy

A week in the life of me... day 6 and 7

The weekend passed by in a blur!
Man of the house went out on his new bike! came home very very muddy!
Me and the boys kept nice and warm in home watching movies and playing games

Sunday was a nice relaxing day too for all of us
I popped out for a couple of hours with a friend to the My Little Vintage fair at our local garden centre
I know so many people that do these events now its lovely to have a quick catch up with them
(Emma from The Dotty Dog Company and Michelle from Button-It)

They even chickens too

I must admit also that Bosworths (the garden centre) have out done themselves with their christmas decorations this year, especially the frozen section!

Thank you for reading along with my week of me! 

A week in the life of me... day 5

The start of today was going to be all about an extra shift in the pantry, a new hair cut for Riley (much overdue) but instead I have a poorly boy at home, cuddled up on the sofa in his dressing gown with a sick bowl not far away from away

So inbetween cuddles i've done housework, dodged the rain to the laundry room (its in the garage) and baked!
I also started on a few mini crochet christmas hats with the idea of putting a chocolate in each

I Prepped my blog for when I'm away in New York (Have I mentioned I'm flying off for a week! I'm still slightly giddy with excitement!)

To be honest nothing much else was done, all the plans went out the window with little man at home, but at least we got lots of cuddles time!

A week in the life of me... day 4

Its a busy day today - Thursday!

This morning I stocked up and moved a few things around in my den in Vintage Fleur,

I also met up with my lovely friend to have a morning cuppa and catch up whilst we were there, I'm really taken with the chai latte, its my most favourite drink at the moment

Then headed out to My Little Vintage after lunch to do a restock and shuffle around there too, I share this space with my friend to cut down costs and to be able to offer more handmade and vintage in our small space

Although it looked like a fun day, which it was updating my areas, it then became very stressful, with the school siblings photo not going very well at all! then a meeting at school once the boys were home as Jack is having a few issues which need to be addressed!

I sat down on the sofa and finished the basics of a christmas stocking gift I'm making for Riley! Can you guess its going to be!

A week in the life of me... day 3

Wednesday means again my lovely little job in The Warkton Pantry, we're adding lots of christmas stock to the shelves

I finally sorted out photographs of all my current handstitched brooches that are available, heres a peek at all of them

A wet and miserable day means the heating is on at home
A toad in the hole nice hot filling winters dinner is on the table

Baths ready for siblings school photograph tomorrow, although I doubt Riley will look spit spot at the end of the day!

My eyes are super sore at the moment so a call into the opticians to make an appointment is on the cards tomorrow! 

A week in the life of me... day 2

Yes its Wedsnesday I know I know! a typical day for me! I left my mobile phone with all my photos on at work! so here goes! 

Tuesday means by lovely little job in The Warkton Pantry but the morning always starts with setting up breakfast ideas for the boys so they can choose what to eat, that gives me time to have a very strong cuppa tea to wake me up and print off any orders from Not on the High Street that have come in over night

I had to pick up some more ceramics stock off the lovely Stephanie on my way to work, its always a pleasure as you get such a great greeting from all the animals

Sort out all the cakes for work! (its a difficult job *drool drool* but someone has to do it!)

Get to an IEP appt at school about a little one!!

Packaging parcels

School run, snack, homework, cleaning and getting dinner on
Back to school at 6pm for a parents evening with little one
Home for dinner and then telling Daddy all about little ones report

To be honest after today i'm a little knackered, man of the house was poorly in the night but went to work at 5am! I'm sure he spoke to me but its all a blur! So we snuggled up for a short time and then sleep was calling!

A Week in the life of me... day 1

I thought for fun and something different I would document 7 days of what little ole moi gets up too...

Today is Monday and typically not a normal day!
I'm travelling back from a girlie weekend away (more on that next week)
I've missed the boys, my man, my pets and my home but i've also had a fabulous break away

The majority of the day was spent driving home from Chinley in Derbyshire, we were quite literally in the middle of nowhere and had beautiful scenic views

Then real life started to happen again..
Home cooked dinner

Homework

Reading & Bedtime Cuddles

Snuggles with my man as I super missed him this weekend whilst watching episode 1 of series 6 of 24!!!

Creating a Yarn Bowl

Myself and a friend like to book ourselves in for a pottery session once in a while, this is about the 4th time now and I knew that I wanted to create something that resembled a yarn bowl!
I'd seen so much inspiration on pinterest that I just had to give it a go

We used Stephanies traditional potters wheel which you kick and had a good laugh trying to move our foot and hands at the same time! (its quite difficult you know)
I made my bowl and let it dry a little before scratching in the words yarn a holic and marking out where I wanted the yarn to come out, I also added some holes opposite that to hold some crochet hooks in place

This is a peek before it went in the kiln

and this is it now its been fired and glazed

I LOVE it, I'm so proud of how far I've come with making something that actually looks like a bowl!

Stephanie sells her own creations on facebook here

Playing catch up...

Its been a tad busy here...
Half Term

 Hospital Appointments - the dreaded smallest waiting room in the world!

 Halloween - dressing up and attending a fireworks show

 Spiderman came for tea! alot

It was the MK Handmade & Vintage event at the weekend so I popped along to see a friend of my selling her gorgeous creations (we're planning on sharing a stall next year - very exciting)

 I took her off for a coffee break and now I so want a fabric tree after seeing this in John Lewis!

 The boys are back to school, I'm back in the pantry and the studio, but also packing for my annual crafting weekend away with the girls, this time in Derbyshire - very excited and counting the sleeps, only 2 more sleeps...