A corner of my home

Pretty purple tulips standing on top of my toilet in the bathroom. I love putting flowers into my vintage poison bottle and dotting them round the house! Oh and just be grateful I'm not showing the the huge pile of washing to the left :)

I'm much better (thanks for all the get well wishes) but I won't be around much as I have a sale or return order for a shop to finish and a big wholesale order to complete. I may bob in again before the weekend but only for a quick hello! I'm dying to get on with some sewing just for us but it will have to wait a couple of weeks until the orders are done!

Blurgh :(

I got back from picking up Tara from a friends house last night and promptly threw up twice. I've been feeling knackered for the past few days (and have a horrendous pain in my side) so I went to bed at 6.20 last night and I'm still there. The joys of wireless and laptops :) So don't be expecting anything wonderful from over here for the next few days will you?

My workspace today

I'm a mean mummy and I made the girls clear off their craft table in the front room so I could use it last night and today :)

On the table today are, bottom right, 3 packs of finished envelopes. Top right, 7 more sets waiting to be stuck together and packaged. Far top left, some of the girls books they have been making and next to that is a pile of envelopes for me to use for sending out parcels - when they have been stuck together that is! Not seen (which is a task for later) are lots of sets of gift tags that need sticking.

Busy day planned and as these are going to a new stockist on Friday I'd better get my bum in gear!

Featured

As I was catching up with my blog reading this morning I found that I had been featured on the Eco Etsy blog :)

Spot the chicken tags?

Cute!

If you follow me on Twitter then you will have seen that on Monday I had a little friend helping me out while his mum had some things to do. I had lots of parcels to pack so he came up with me to the study while I wrote out address etc to send the said parcels to.

He really liked the Fisher Price school desk - especially banging the magnets around and posting them off the side of the spare bed!

He was also entranced when the phone rang as we have one of those old fashioned ones :)

What I had forgotten is how tricky it can be to get things done when you have a little one around - simple things like getting down twisty stairs with packaging and a baby to hold!!

Make Tea Not War

Admirable words!

I got this fabulous mug from Miso Funky the other day :)

And it came with a cute Delia magnet that will be going straight onto my fridge! Claire is also the stitcher behind the sampler that hangs up in my kitchen - you can see it here.

Transforming my to-do list - hopefully!

My lovely Mother-in-Law, Pat, had this large, page to a day, diary given to her but she couldn't use it. She asked if I would use it and I immediately said yes as I had an idea for it.

At the moment my to-do list comprises of two pieces of paper - see below!

But now my to do list is here!

It's also acting as a reminder for me to do certain things on certain days such as book the car in and pick up my prescription etc. My work to-do list will start making it's way over into the diary soon as most of the things in there so far are housework/domestic. The reason for that is this, which is written in for today :)

Get train to London! As you may be aware, Matt works away quite a bit and is currently working in London. However, this is his last week there for a while so he arranged for the aforementioned lovely MIL to come over (hence all the housework!) so that I can spend a few days in London with him. He will be working during the day but I'm sure I will find plenty of things* to do!

*The East End Thrift Store is where I found 7 dresses for £20 in the summer. Hoping for bargains like that this time too :)

Stop Motion Lego

Don't search for stop motion Lego on YouTube as you will be there all day! This is one of my favourites - Bernard Cribbins Right Said Fred.



And the girls thought this next one was very funny - Lego man farts!

Crafty help for the Queensland Floods

I'm sure you are all aware of the flooding that has hit Queensland in Australia and is now spreading south into Victoria. Toni over at Make It Perfect has done a fantastic job of co-ordinating the huge list of people who have donated their crafty prowess to help. There are a very large number of auctions along with 'giveaways' and promises of portions of sales. You can check out the list here. You can also donate directly to the cause here if you would prefer.

I'm persoanlly going to enter the giveaway from Ric Rac - I want to win those cute goodies!


*This is exactly the same post that I have posted over on Cuteable today - the more eyes that see it the better!

I had an interesting meeting with a snake last week

His name was Bob and he's a Boa Constrictor :)

And he was quite good until he decided to stare me out and then sniff my neck!

The girls wanted a go too!

Anya also got to hold a baby lizard. We also met some giant cockroaches, a tarantula called Incy Wincey that I really wanted to hold but we weren't allowed, a scorpion, a bearded dragon and lots of other fun creatures!

It was all down to Ranger Rob who was the star of a birthday party we went to.