Obligatory snow post

If you live in the UK, have a blog and it snows, it is the law that you have to write a blog post about it. It's the law I tell you! So here is mine :)

The view from the front of our house, taken from the bedroom window. That is our local park I hasten to add and not our garden!

The snow looks good on our next door neighbours monkey puzzle tree :)

And poor Bumble :( He won't be going out in this weather as he's heavy enough to drive as it is so if I hit a bit of slippy snow or ice there is no way in hell I will be able to stop him going anywhere - into cars, people etc. I will have to nip out in a bit to start him though just so that the battery doesn't go kaput as it did last winter!

As I can't get Bumble out I am going to have to miss a fair I'd planned on going to tomorrow night - it's a real shame as the whole village is turned into a Christmas wonderland and it's meant to be really good. As I now don't have a fair until Sunday (weather permitting) I am going to tidy the craft room!! If you haven't heard from me for a few hours, do call for help!

Flea market finds

I'm joining in with Flea Market Finds over at Her Library Adventures today!

I found this trio of vintage tupperware egg cups at the charity shop the other day. I love them and their bright colours :)

They were destined for the house but I think they look much more at home in Bumble - don't you think so too? They are made of plastic too so they won't get battered by bumping around in Bumbles cupboard. Alas, there are 4 of us and only 3 egg cups. I wonder if my dad will let us pinch his yellow one he has at home? If not I will have to keep my beady eyes peeled!

The sun has been shining!

So we have been enjoying it! Yesterday after swimming the girls and I went to an indoor play area and while they played I sewed a fair number of chickens. There are no photographs yet however as I have been enjoying the sunshine! In the afternoon we tidied and swept the garden and cleared out the sand pit which was full of wet and mouldy sand (nice!) Then today the girls have been playing outside and Matt and I have been sorting Bumble so he is ready for spontaneous trips away :) Oh and we have also been enjoying a couple of these.

Yum!

Bit of a poo day but oooooooh sparkly!

In the middle of the night I woke up to the sound of an alarm going off - I went downstairs but by the time I had got to the dining room the alarm had stopped. I had a quick look at the cars (through the hedge) and couldn't see any flashing lights etc to indicate that the alarm had gone off on either vehicle. Anyway, Matt took the girls up to school this morning and came back to tell me that Bumble had been broken into and the stereo stolen. I called the police and they came to check for fingerprints/blood etc but nothing there. The annoying thing (apart from the broken window and the missing stereo!) was the fact that they pulled all the fuses out to turn the alarm off and therefore the lights, indicators, windscreen wipers didn't work! Matt has managed to to fix most of them but we don't have windscreen wipers or indicators at the moment! Tricky when we live in a very rainy part of the country.

Anyway I managed to go to the charity shops this afternoon for a quick mooch while Bumble was getting his window fixed. I bought this bright sparkly top which I thought had potential for Christmas!

It's a little old ladyish but who better to channel old lady that moi :) Oh and I have to say that the old lady who served me today was fabulous! She had turquoise eyeshadow on, a ring on every finger, bracelets, necklaces, a green sparkly jumper with a fab waistcoat over the top. She was great :)

So maybe Bumble was broken into to bring this fab pink top to me? A little drastic but you have to look on the bright side right?

VW Festival

Here are some of my favourite photographs from the weekend.

Charity shop finds

When coming back from a crafty meeting yesterday Bumble got into a parking space all by himself and made me go charity shop shopping - honestly!! He's a persuasive camper van that Bumble :)

The first thing I bought was this dress for Anya for £1 - she loves it and it is in the washing machine as I type!

I also spotted these flick books for 50p each. I used to love these as a child and the girls liked them too.

I also bought some new artwork for the dining room. The photographs don't do these pictures justice - they are beautifully embroidered onto some sort of silk.

Just look at the work that has gone into this one - a bargain at £30 I think.

And this one was only £5 - it needs cleaning and I'm going to see if I can do that soon. I think all the pictures came from the same person as the donater number (for claiming tax back) was the same for all 3 pictures. There were lots more but I these were my favourites.

Not bad for less than an hour's enforced shopping trip :)

How many times do you think I will bang my head in Bumble before I learn to duck?

That is the question I was asking myself yesterday and today! We went on an overnight trip in Bumble to Settle and at one point I turned around four times and each time hit my head on the roof! I'm sure I will learn not to do it in the fullness of time :)

We played

We drank tea

We looked for trains

We went for walks

We nearly had an argument with a sheep :) He asked us what we were looking at!

We were woken by this sleeping beauty peering at us from the pop top

And we ended the trip with a full English breakfast cooked by Matt :D I could get used to this.

My husband is fab!

Look what he ordered for us!!!!!!!!!

Aren't they fab???? Tara has already claimed one of the bags (there are two mugs and two bags) and promptly filled it with toys to carry around the house. The mugs are staying in the house so when I need my Bumble fix I don't need to go outside and stroke him - not that I do that you understand :D I caught the girls kissing him the other day - luckily on a bit that they had just cleaned but still! There are t-shirts still to arrive for the girls but don't tell them - sshhh.

Thanks Matt :D

Phew - busy day and clearance section

I spent most of the morning getting my Dawanda shop back up to speed. It had been shut since November when I had that nasty stomach bug and most of the listings ran out in January. So now everything is up to date over there and I will be adding new things throughout this week and next. Speaking of adding things I went through all of my Flickr photographs (all 2,987 of them!) to find the ones that hadn't been listed in any of my shops yet. I have 254 photographs in the set waiting to be added to shops! That's not 254 items I hasten to add because each item has at least 3 photographs of it (if not more) but by my reckoning that is around 80 items to list! I'm not making any more things until those are listed!!

To aid the massive influx of items into my shops I am having a big clear out in my Etsy shop and things in my clearance section are now down to $1. Yep really, $1! Here are some of those $1 items (the chicken cards at the top of the page are included too!)

Some recycled envelopes made from a French magazine.


Some pig silhouette cards

And some knitting envelopes. There are also more things and as I get listing I'm sure other things will be going into it.

P.S. it poured down when we were out in Bumble earlier so I now know where the windscreen wipers are!

Introducing.... Bumble!!

We've bought a camper van :D And here he is. Can you guess why he is called Bumble??

We were sorting things out to put in the van and it was teatime so the girls decided to have tea in Bumble while we were sorting.

Anya doesn't look impressed with having her photo taken at tea time though!

Look at the funky floor - easy to entertain the children at least!

A couple of interior shots showing storage space and the fridge and grill.

This is why I am going to develop strong arm muscles (well I suppose I need muscles somewhere!) Obviously no power steering and first gear has a knack to get it right (i.e it is a bugger to get into!) And first gear is in the wrong place (far left at the bottom) but something I will get used to.

Side view with the sliding door shut.

Front passenger side door with flower decal.

Do you think Matt is pleased??

I am very, very pleased with it and we'll never lose it in a car park :)