Phew - busy day!!!

And I think that is an understatement! I've been busy writing my first posts for the new venture Cuteable which became ours a few days ago but we were sorting out lots of boring stuff before we broke the good news to everyone! I *think* I've finally mastered wordpress too which gave me a bit of a headache to begin with but as I say I think it has sorted itself out for me now. I'm going to be super busy from now on but I will try to find time to pop in on here every day even if it's just to type some random blab - no change there then!!

I introduced the girls to this little beauty today and they thought it was very funny! Not as funny as I thought it was but then I do have the mind of a 6 year old sometimes :)

Edited to say - my husband is a genius! He showed me how to get a video onto my blog - so here for your pleasure are The Muppets with Mahna Mahna.

Ooooh spooky!

This is how my Crafts 2007 photograph came out when I was trying to cut and paste it from Word - pretty cool eh? I think I prefer this one. I especially like the the bunny family in the bottom left and the mod chicken next to them!
Off to bed now - night night
xx

Crafty round up of 2007

I made lots of things in 2007 and thought I would do a round up of my favourite crafty things from last year. Expect a fair few chickens!


1. Set of fishy cards, 2. Kingfisher mini envelopes, 3. Monster card, 4. Jersey chicken, 5. Set of 3 notecards, 6. Congratulations card, 7. Vintage button notecards, 8. Needleful things, 9. 60's Chicken, 10. Bracelets on me, 11. Re-purposed earrings, 12. Paint card gift tags, 13. Henry climbing trees, 14. Price tag chickens, 15. Christmas owl pennant, 16. Glove bunnies, 17. Mod square chicken, 18. Mini Christmas decorations, 19. Swirlyarts Christmas card, 20. Disco chicken

It's difficult.............

............... to try and get organised for a new business venture when your 18 month old has turned into a limpet and stands and howls when you have the cheek to nip to the loo! Oh well it's a good job I can type with one hand!
News about the business venture hopefully coming soon :)

Ideas, ideas, ideas!!

Don't you just love it when you suddenly get struck by inspiration for fab gift ideas? I was struggling to think of something to make for a baby boy whose birthday is coming up (not until June so plenty of time!) but I have just thought of the most fantastic idea! All I can say is it has something to do with these things.

And while thinking about this idea I have just come up with another one!! It's the lack of sleep that does it for me :)

De-stash

Well, before Christmas Matt and I had a huge tidy up of bits of the house and took about 6 black bin bags of stuff to the charity shop! We've started again today after sorting out loads of stuff to go to the tip and we already have another box of stuff to go to the charity shop! I also know that I have 3 huge boxes of stuff in the loft from when I used to be a teacher that I won't need ever again as I am never going back to that job :) I might give it to Anya's school if any of it will be of use to them - some of the games will be I'm sure. It will also give us enough room in the loft to put some of the stuff that is cluttering up the study at the moment!!
As my craft room is next to the study I have been popping in there to sort stuff out too and I have some things to put into the swap group on Flickr. There will be more coming soon I can assure you! Here's a couple of pictures.

Bag of leather scraps

Bag of bits of broken and tangled jewellery. Oh and the picture at the top is the view out of our study window over the park - we've been in the study tidying for most of today!

Christmas time

Picture heavy post - be warned!

Well we had a lovely Christmas - we spent time with my parents on Christmas day and then at Matt's parents on Boxing day. We'd already been at Matt's parents for a few days because Gramps (Matt's Grandad) was 94 just before Christmas.

Here's a picture of he girls opening their stocking presents. In out house stocking presents come from Santa and the other presents come from family and friends - otherwise there is no point in writing thank you cards ;)


Here's a piccie of me wearing my Christmas outfit - and it was all from the charity shop or gifts!


Here's my sister Sarah wearing her Christmas outfit of choice - the Ninja outfit.


Another piccie of the girls - here they are wearing their Christmas outfits made for them by Alex (which are fab by the way!!!)

Right back soon with more posts!!

I'm back!!

From a freezing cold, but very good holiday in France. Too tired to blog now but I'm sure there will be more coming soon! Ta ta for now :)

Blog break!

Right I have closed my Etsy and Tuggle shops for the upcoming Christmas holidays so I am going to take a blog break too! For part of Christmas we are going away to a part of France that has terrible phone reception and the house has no internet connection so I'm going to be uncontactable - how nice is that going to be!! I'm planning on spending quality time with the girls and Matt, reading books and I'm going to try and teach myself to crochet. I have different sized crochet hooks and the Ladybird Teach Yourself to Crochet book. We will see how that goes!
Anyway I know it is a bit early but have a great Christmas and I will see you in the New Year :)

Kitch-en art gallery

So something good did come out of the craft fair that I did a couple of weeks ago. I got talking to some other stall holders and one of them Jayne, works in a gallery in Middlesbrough. She was taken with my chicken doorstops and told me about a exhibition that she was curating and suggested that I send some of my things in to them. So of course I did! Here's the website for the gallery - none of my stuff is in the photographs because it didn't get there until the day of the open evening! We are planning on calling in one day next week as Matt's mum and Dad live nearby so I'll hopefully get photos then.

When I was at the craft fair I bought one of Jayne's rings and it's fab! Please excuse the bad photo!