Business cards

Well I took some photographs of my new style business cards yesterday and they came out quite well. If you have seen my previous business cards then you probably won't see much of a difference! I have decided to ditch the iron on sticky stuff as it left a residue all over my iron and the fabric on the cards itself. I've decided to sew them on instead and I personally think they look great! I can't use invisible thread though on them as it snaps very easily and then leaves me with 4 lots of thread to sort out!

I think they are fairly representative of my business and I am going to add a range using paper instead of fabric too so that should sum up my business quite well! Obviously the fabric and paper is all recycled/repurposed!

Wednesday weigh in

I've decided that I need to loose a bit of weight and tone up - how I'm going to manage the exercise part though I don't know! I could do with loosing a bit as I am nearly classed as obese according to my BMI score. I know that it can go by weight of muscle etc but I don't have any so that's not why it is high! So I have decided to do a weekly weigh in and you can see (hopefully) progress as I work to loose a stone and a half. That would get me down to 11st which is the ideal for my height. So this weeks weigh in puts me at 12st 7. Keep reading on a Wednesday to see the progress.

Into other news I went into town yesterday and got some fab things in the charity shop. One book I got is about embroidery (but it's too boring to photograph) and the other has kept the girls amused for ages.


I love the felt hats below.

I also got a very cute pair of birds that double up as a salt and pepper set! Aren't they cool?? They even have their own perch!

Photoshoot

The chickens are going upstairs shortly for their photoshoot in the light box so there will be some new chicken doorstops in my shop soon as well as cards and a slightly new design of business card. The business card won't be for sale in the shop obviously (unless someone wants to give me money for them!) but they are going to have their photo's taken today.

At nursery it is Spanish Day today so Anya had to dress up in red and yellow to represent the Spanish flag. I have plenty of red for her but no yellow. I have plenty of yellow for me but that's not very useful. Anyway, we compromised (as she insisted she had to be yellow and red) with a yellow ribbon in her hair. I'm tempted to find an oak tree on the way back from nursery to tie it round!!

Nice break

Had a nice break away - family, fun, farmers market and a car boot sale. What more could I wish for! It's my Mum and Dad's 30th wedding anniversary tomorrow and I made them a hamper full of goodies for them to share and this card below.

And here is the picture that Anya drew inside the card of Tara. Cute!

I've got lots of washing and sorting to do so I will be back with a proper post soon. And some of the goodies I have been making!

Tagged!

I have been tagged by numerous people both here and over on Cuteable. Sorry for the delay in doing this but I have been a bit busy! Here are 7 exciting and interesting facts about little old me!

1. I have a phobia of water - not washing water (!) but large bodies of water like rivers, canals etc. I really don't like boats or even walking alongside waterways. It's strange really as I can swim but don't like to!

2. I LOVE charity shops, jumble sales, fleas markets, car boots sales - you get the picture. My ideal day would be to get up and go charity shopping all day. In fact when we were in New York recently we managed to find a flea market. I saw a beautiful bike but we couldn't get it home :)

3. I used to rock climb, abseil and go caving but I haven't been for years (I used to do it in the Guides). I really like the adrenaline rush!

4. I used to be 16st and a size 20/22 but now I'm 12 and a bit stone and a size 14/16. I'd like to get down another dress size and tone up a bit but don't we all!

5. Gosh this is hard! I love reading and used to read a book a day before the children came along but now it's limited to a chapter or two before bed.

6. I like Granny Chic dressing - even though I am only 30!



7. I love vintage ephemera - in fact any ephemera - but especially postcards, recipe books, ledgers, letters, autograph books etc etc. I also like using etc a lot!

There - I'm not going to tag anyone but if you would like to have a go just leave a comment and I'll come and have a look. If you want to see my last 7 facts then they are here.

blurgh!

Still feeling a bit poorly but much better than I was this morning at least. I haven't been sick since last night so that's good and I managed to walk up to and back from nursery so I can't be that bad! I have swapped my jeans for my pajama bottoms though as the jeans pressed into my stomach too much! We have been reading, watching telly and just generally slobbing out this afternoon. I'll be back tomorrow no doubt!

Lists

I am always writing lists - shopping lists, to do lists, to make lists, things to buy in town lists etc etc I always feel guilty however when things aren't crossed off as quickly as I would like. Today I have decided that I will write a list of all the things I have done today (including boring things) so that I can see exactly what I do do in one day and then hopefully I won't feel guilty about not crossing things off my list!
I'll edit this post just before I go to bed tonight so you can see what I have done today - it's up to 12 things already!

Right here is the list - I've edited it now so things should make a bit more sense and I've moved the picture from at the end to the middle where it breaks up the long list! Also I was feeling sick and went to bed early - that's why there are no entries after 8.30

Showered 6.40

Got dressed

Made breakfast

Punched some paper flowers from a Cath Kidston catalogue

Loaded dishwasher and switched it on

Got girls dressed

Brush teeth

Straighten hair (don’t do it every day!)

Hung washing up on airer

Checked emails

Moderated comments on cuteable

Cleaned downstairs loo

Cut out cardboard for tags

Walked Anya up to nursery 8.40

Posted letters

Wrote a brief swirlyarts blog post

Responded to some emails

Put a load of washing on

Finished punching out flowers

Got Tara a snack of raisins

Made two banana cakes

Unloaded dishwasher

Cleaned up kitchen after baking

Put dirty cake making things in dishwasher

Sorted out some mags/newspapers to go into recycling

Changed Tara’s nappy

Made a cup of tea

Sat down and read emails

Sent out Cuteable advertising details to people

Picked up the pins that Tara managed to scatter all over the sofa!!

Swore as I find a pin stuck into my bum that I didn’t pick up

Hung next load of washing outside

Opened sites/pages for Cuteable article

Took cakes out of oven

Walked up to get Anya from nursery 11.15

Sliced up cakes – 1 to go in freezer.

Sat and read Now magazine for 10 mins while girls play

Made lunch and ate it! 12.20

Wrote Cuteable post

Responded to more emails

Cleared up lunch things and got some cake for girls

Looked through my blog reader ready for tomorrows clinks post

Asked a question on the crafts forum

Checked the Etsy forums

More emailing

Sorted some Flickr photo’s

Changed Tara’s nappy and put her for a snooze 1.15

Tidied our bedroom and put away the mountain of clothes piled up!

Hoovered our bedroom

Played with the girls for an hour or so while we were stripping the beds

Stripped the beds!

Sorted some stuff for the charity shop

Put the clothes in the dining room into baskets to go upstairs to be put away

Moderated some cuteable comments

Checked my email

Listed a OOAK doorstop on Etsy

Tidied up front room and kitchen

Put more stuff in the dishwasher and put it on again

Put potatoes on for tea 5.05

Moderated more cuteable comments

Through moderating comments I found a new blog for my reader!

Read some more of my magazine while tea was cooking

Had tea

Googled crafty tattoo’s as I am researching my next one!

Tidied up the tea things

Went upstairs to get the girls (and myself) in jama’s

Made our bed

Sorted the rest of the clothes out to put away

Put Anya’s clothes away while talking to Matt on phone

Put Tara to bed

Read story to Anya and put her to bed

Checked emails 7.15

Emptied dishwasher and wiped surfaces down

Swept floor and put another load of washing on

Wrote tomorrow’s clinks post for Cuteable

Updated blog 8.30

These next 2 things I did all day - managing grumpy children who don’t want to do what I ask them to and also all day sorting out bickering with them or just watching them play – I didn’t want to detail all of those things separately!

I have also counted the number of things done and it reaches an impressive 77 things! Hmmm, next time I am feeling down about not crossing things off my list then perhaps I should have a look here!

How wonderful....

...for it to be 6.30 in the evening and to have 2 girls fast asleep in their beds and for me to be in my pajama's too! The girls are very very tired at the moment so I decided to get them upstairs straight after tea. I'll probably regret it in the morning when they are both up extra early but we will see!

I'm posting also to show you the idea I have had for the children's dictionary I bought yesterday at the car boot sale. Tags would've been nice but then you would have got detail but missed the overall picture. My normal envelopes would've worked but again not much of the overall illustrations. Enter the super douper bubble envelopes!

Front view

Back view. They are lined with double thickness bubble wrap so will protect my items going out. What do you think? I'm not going to be selling these at the moment unless you think they would do well but if you want some custom requirements with letters of your choice then let me know!!

Shopping and orange dress!

We will start with the photo of me in my fab orange and yellow towelling dress that I bought at the jumble sale on the 'fill a black bag for £2 day' so it worked out at about 10p!! My kind of bargain! The girls had to be in the photograph too - Tara is copying my cheesy grin! Close up of the fabric below.


At the car boot I bought an autograph book from 1918 - I love vintage ephemera! My favourite 2 pictures are below although there is a sewing related one that I love in my Flickr photostream.



I also got an old dictionary which has some lovely illustrations but I haven't yet decided what to do with it - tags maybe but I will see.



I also bought a baby set for the girls consisting of a highchair, travel cot and a baby swing. It also came with a doll for Anya as she doesn't have one (Bo has always been her baby but she has wanted a doll for a little while now.) It was the best £5 I have spent. Tara is feeding her doll as I type and they spent a long time yesterday playing with it. I'm sure it will be played with when Anya gets back from nursery too.


I also went shopping with Alex in the afternoon to Boundry Mill as it is moving to a new site and everything was meant to be a bargain - it wasn't but I got two things for me and the rest was presents. I bought some knickers for me (which you won't be seeing!) and a fabulous bright pink knitted shrug from Windsmoor for £5! I'm sure it will be featured in some clothes photo's of me at some stage.

Bye for now.

Tired.....

...after all that shopping so the post is being delayed until tomorrow. All the photographs are uploaded so it should be fairly easy to do! I'm off to bed now to curl up with Matt and yesterday's papers! Night night!