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{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

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I am still open

My shops are still open but be aware that items may take a bit longer to ship than normal. I'm needed by a friend offline so I am still checking emails etc but don't have a great deal of spare time. I'm hoping that things will be back to normal after the weekend.

A day in the life Tuesday 12th July

My day started earlier than I would have liked!

1.55am - get up to Tara as she has had a bad dream. Go for a wee and get a drink while I am up.

6.22am - alrm goes off. Ignore Radio 2 until news at 6.30am

6.30am - listen to news

6.33am - switch laptop on, check emails

6.41am - start letting people know that they have been featured on Cuteable today

6.45am - realise that it's Tuesday and I have forgotten to write a Craft Juice Tuesday post for Cuteable

6.46am - decide to write a CJ Wednesday post instead and start looking for cute stuff

6.50am  - dance in bed to We Love to Boogie by T Rex

6.51am  - keep deleting spam from cj while searching for cute

7.01am - listen to news and then go to wake girls up

7.02am - realise T is already up and is waking her sister and delete spam coments from Cuteable

7.02am - lagh at the spam comments and how people think they will get through the spam filter!

7.05am - wake Matt up and the delete spam emails from Cuteable

7.09am - nip laptop upstairs to charge and then go downstairs with girls and Matt for breakfast

7.09-7.55am - have breakfast, put a load of washing on, unload dishwasher, put more pots in dishwasher, make girls lunches, tidy kitchen a bit, send kids to get dressed

7.55-  8.35am - get dressed myself, do girls hair, tell Tara yet again to get dressed, brush teeth, fix a tissue box that is Boris and Bo's car,start uploading photos from yesterday to laptop, check emails again

8.35 - 9.10am school run, chat with a friend who has been ill, get milk from shop

9.15am - washing out as it's a gorgeous day!

9.25 - 12.30pm Hanging about in front room waiting for parcel to be delivered. Tidied, watched homes under the hammer and sewed up the binding on the second teddy quilt!

12.30-1.15pm lunchtime while reading a magazine

1.20-3.20pm up at school for Anya's sports day.

3.20pm - pick girls up

3.30pm - girls playing in front room, me checking emails again, Cuteable comments etc

4.00pm - parcel man finally turns up. Good job I wasn't waiting in all day - oh wait!

4.10pm - administer tablets to poorly husband and snacks to hungry girls

4.15-4.40pm stringing tags - it's a boring job but got to be done

4.41pm head downstairs to make a start on tea and sort lunchboxes, letters from school, washing, dishwasher etc

5.10pm - teatime which is raclette tonight. nom nom

5.40 6.30pm - finish tea and load dishwasher back up ready to go on in morning. Put another load of washing on. Hoover utility room and kitchen and mop floor. Finish reading my copy of The Week.

6.30pm -  upstairs to get girls ready for bed and nit comb their hair (glamorous!) and so that Tara can read her school book to us.

7.20pm - Bedtime for girls - time for me to go back upstairs to check emails.

7.26pm - get bored of checking emails upstairs and take laptop downstairs so I can watch Torchwood whilst working (catching up ready for new series on thursday night!!!)

7.28pm - top up my pepsi max and grab two rocky road pieces to eat :)

7.30 - 9.45pm watch Torchwood and write CJ Wednesday for Cuteable, check comments on Cuteable, delet yet more spam from email inboxes and Cuteable itself, list some things on Etsy and Folksy :)

9.45 - 10pm - read book in bed. Gone by Mo Hader if you are interested.

10pm - Light out and sleepy time!

So it wasn't a typical day as I didn't get much Swirlyarts work done in the morning or the afternoon actually - normally there is a good deal of work thrown in there for good measure! To see who else took part (you know you want to be nosey!) then check out Moosh.

Big numbers!

So which will be first to the big numbers?

I am 11 sales off 300 in my Etsy shop

And 16 sales off 200 in my Folksy shop. Which shop will get to the big numbers first? Answers on a postcard please (comments will do below!)

Why didn't I think of this?

Sometime you just can't seem to see the wood for the trees and I can't believe I hadn't thought of making one of these pincushions before and it was only when a customer asked if I could that I said yes and then duh! What am I waffling about? A pincushion/paperweight version of the fabulous Chicken Pox of course!

Isn't he cute? This one is flying to America as I type but rest assured there will be some flying into my shops shortly!

Slowing down

Most of the time I'm rushing around like a blue arsed fly - working, trying to manage the house, kids etc and sometimes it leaves me being a little bit frazzled. You can tell when things are getting too much as I start shouting more at the kids for little things that don't really matter and stomping round the house (a lot more!) So this week I am slowing down a little and taking time to do a little more stuff for me - like handsewing the back of the binding onto the girls teddy quilts. I might be absent from this space for a bit this week - smelling the roses and all that!

Philatelic fun

Philately is the study of stamps and is different, so Wikipedia tells me, to stamp collecting. I spent 2 hours+ on Friday night sorting my collection of postage stamps into colour themes. Why, you say? Well look below!

Blue postage stamp stickers

Green postage stamp stickers

Orange and brown postage stamp stickers

Purple postage stamp stickers

Red and pink postage stamp stickers

Lots of postage stamps have been upcycled into stickers! I used to use postage stamps on my cards (back when I used to make cards) and I had a box full that wasn't being used. When I found them again recently I knew that they could be turned into stickers. Oh and the green ones were listed for half an hour last night before being featured in a treasury!

You can see the treasury here if you so wish :)

I have some more sorted into themes such as football, birds and *whispers* Christmas which should be coming soonish.

*Apologies to anyone who saw this post much shortened in their google reader last night- I clicked ctrl p and it published before I had change to write more than the title!

Rock stars of the future?

What do you think?

Tara has even got the rock star hairstyle (i.e. not brushed) down to a tee!

Is it a book? Is it a plane? No, it's a .........

Well it looks like a book......

Hmmmm, but not with the elastic round it.

Any ideas?

It's a ...........

Kindle cover :) Matt made it and it will keep your Kindle safe while out and about and the felt will stop it from being scratched.

And he says he isn't crafty......... He is open to custom orders too :)

{This Moment} Tara's writing

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.


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