Fabric Swap Goodies and a treat for me and Hubby!

Sorry it's a bit late but I wanted to show you the great goodies I received from Callie over at Mu Mu and Squeaks place. Callie was my swap partner in Kandipandis Pad Fabric Swap and she sent me some real treats!

All wrapped up nice and bright and a lovely little vintage postcard too!

A lovely assortment of fat quarters, right up my street as well!

Plus a fantastic bundle of scraps

and to finish off with, some groovy bottle tops, the lovely postcard, a super little notebook and a gorgeous lavender heart.
Thank you so much Callie for all my goodies!
If you havn't seen Callies blog hop on over to have a look,

http://mumuandsqueaksplace.blogspot.com/


I have made use of the lovely floral fat quarter already and made this with it!

Hubby and I have had a rare treat this weekend, I took a bit of time off and we had a night on our own without Fin and Gabs! We have never been away anywhere and not taken them with us before and Fin is nearly eleven!!! We only went to York for the weekend but we had a great time mooching around, though we did find ourselves talking about Fin and Gabs all the time !! we missed them but enjoyed it at the same time!! I didn't take the camera so have not got any pics, I even didn't take a notebook, strict orders to have a proper weekend off from Will! I have it all stored in my head though!
Well the school holidays begin! A whole six weeks of no school run! I am so pleased, Gabs is going to be my helper this holidays! in between going out for walks and ice cream with Grandma and Auntie! Fin is just happy to be able to lie in and play footy all day!!! He has his friends lined up to meet!
Hope you all have a great week ahead and if you are going off on your summer hols, have a lovely time.

I won a Giveaway!

I was really lucky to have won a great giveaway over at Alix's blog Used to Bees, it arrived today and I just had to show you, it's fab!

These lovely little packages all wrapped up in Lilac tissue,

My favourite thing in the whole world! A beautiful covered Notebook and it has great images of Scarborough on, this is going to be my New Ideas Book!

A lovely book this time covered with a vintage cloth, too nice to use!

A gorgeous felted brooch, Gabs tried to claim this as soon as she saw it!!

A brilliant Union Jack pin cushion with a beautiful pin attached,

This lovely, lovely bag which came home with me tonight, full with my work for tonight! It is different on both sides and is just perfect.

This is great, it is lovely to look at and I could never cut it up but will get lots of inspiration from it.
Thank you to Alix, I love all my goodies they are perfect. If you haven't seen Alixs' blog go over and have a look, it is a lovely blog and I have been a follower for a long time, you will find her at
http://used-to-bees.blogspot.com/
You will love it!

Well, it sure is busy this week! All sorts going on at school, I actually have to check the letters each night so I don't forget anything! It is tricky as Fin and Gabs go to the same school but one is in the infants and one is in the juniors and they are actually classed as different schools! I have actually had to apply for Gabs to go to the Juniors! it is only across the playground! It will be better after the summer as both will be in the Juniors.
Gabs had her end of term concert today and she was an acrobat in a circus, it was lovely to watch, the children had great fun.

Fin is chuffed as reading books have been returned, all Library books taken back and no more spellings!!! That says it all, think he is ready to break up and have a few lie ins. I must admit it will be good to not have the school run for a while! Especially as it has done nothing but rain lately.

I have promised Fin and Gabs that there pressies for their teachers will be finished tonight so I had better go finish them off!

Have a really good week everyone and I hope you have better weather than we are having here in not so Sunny Scarborough!

Crafts Beautiful

Just a real quick post to show you my latest project in Crafts Beautiful and a quick update!

It seems like such a long time that I did these! I have been making more Seaside cards for Woodend Gallery today and they will be on their way into the Gallery tomorrow.
I haven't posted since June which is a bit bad! I do have good reason though, I have moved into a bigger shop in the last two weeks, it is still on the same road but opposite and has a lot more space to work so much to Will's relief I no longer have a work station at home and keep it all at work, much better all round except I now have no excuse to not do the ironing!! hence the late post tonight as I have just done three hours of it!

It is all go at School for Fin and Gabs at the minute! Concerts, sports days, school fairs not to mention reports and going to visit new classes for next year. Fin is pleased as he has the teacher he wanted! Though not so pleased that his sports day team came third!!
Gabs is going into the juniors so is very excited.

I will take some photos of the shop and post them this weekend, I don't think I ever posted a pic of the other one, I will now though as Will and Bill have made such a great job of painting it I will have to show their handiwork!
Have a great week everyone.

What will be, will be!

You all know I adore Doris Day! Sometimes whatever life throws at you, what will be will be! Doris gets this perfectly!
I got the most fantastic things for my birthday, one special pressie I got was the following image

This is a card printed from the original which I also received, framed and backed onto the most amazing paper! I will treasure this forever, I got the gift from two guys who have become such good friends of ours, so thank you to Martyn and Stephen. The drawing is an original from one of Martyn's designs so it is copyrighted to him but I just had to show it to you.

On a different track now, Wedding fever is still around!! I have been busy doing Wedding work all this week but had a nice reprieve when  had an order for a couple of Photo Albums for a little Boy and Girl,

I had real fun doing these, but then I had to get back to the serious work!!

For my birthday I also received a fab brooch, let me show you which one!

www.angelaknipe.com/

I love it and it is firmly in place on my jacket!

All in all its been a funny old week! I am glad its Friday tomorrow and Gabs and I will have our usual dance around the kitchen to "The Candyman" on Radio 2 just after 8 o'clock in the morning. It is the start of our weekend and gets Friday off to a flying start!
Have a happy weekend everyone!

A busy weekend and my giveaway winner

It has been a really busy time around here!
Firstly it was Fathers Day, we had a lovely visit to the farm to see my Dad and of course it was the perfect chance for Gabs to see the pigs and the lovely new pony Snowdrop. Will show some photos later on!
Happy Fathers Day to Dad and Will, it was a lovely day for them.

It was also my Mums birthday, which did overshadow Fathers Day a little!! Sorry Dad and Will!
Mum liked her pressies and had a nice relaxing day as we had all been out for a lovely meal on Saturday night to celebrate!

And today is my Birthday so we are well and truly Birthdayed out!!! Though we have not had cake for each occasion! Fin, Gabs and myself have however had some crisps and dip tonight! Some friends popped round for tea and we had some treats for tea! Will unfortunately could not get the night off from work so he has missed out. Saved him some Strawberries for breakfast though!

We drew the winner of my giveaway last night, thank you to everyone who entered and the winner is,
Helen Philipps of helenphilipps.blogspot.com/
Well done to you Helen! If you do not already know Helen's blog click on the above link and you will be in for a treat.
Have a great week everyone.

Fin and Gabs is nearly one year old!!!

How did that happen?? I cannot believe that on the 15th June I have been blogging for a year!  It has been a lovely year, I have made some really good blog friends and even though I have been absent for a while lately, I still love blog land!! and you are all still there!
A lot has changed in a year too, what a difference a year makes.
I thought I would celebrate with a little giveaway, all you need to do to enter is leave a comment, no more than that. Just thankyou to all my followers, I love reading all your amazing blogs and sharing a little part of your creative life. My giveaway will be open until Sunday 19th June, not very long I know but it has crept up on me and it is my Mums birthday on Sunday as well as Fathers Day so will have to do a blog on that day!!

The giveaway is,

  A delightful Home Sweet Home sign, made by me.

A cute little Home is where the Heart is mini picture, made by me,

 A pretty little porcelain bird, not made by me,

A household  notes book, made by me,

and a couple of little surprises!!
Have a lovely week everyone.

Not again Gabs!!!

Just when you think, "Hey we have got through the half term OK, back to school tomorrow!" what does Gabs go and do? fall, not once but twice! As a treat Gabs had been invited out to play for the day with her friend Tilly and as usual falls over her own feet! She seemed OK but said her hand hurt a bit, so Calpol was given and off to bed we popped then in the morning, (first day back at School!) her hand is swollen and bruised! So off to A & E we went! It turned out to be just a sprain, so all is well that ends well. You have to get these things checked out just in case don't you?
I was just looking earlier at one of my favourite blogs/websites,
www.maryengelbreit.com/
and what is on there, a great image of a Doctor!! It turns out that Mary has designed scrubs for Doctors!! How nice would that be here!

You can see the new designs on the website!

Now onto something different, I have been making some new bits and thought you might like to see them,

I saw this fabric and had to have it!!

and this one!!

and this one!!!! This is a new design where I make the book and then leave it blank so it can be personalised instantly with a name or a purpose, I have also used it on cards,

This next one is made using my first ever printed paper design, what do you think?

and not to forget Dads Day approaching, though Dad should have his own special book too!

Think I might get Fin and Gabs to give Will one of these!! (already half full with jobs that need doing of course!) I forgot to take a pic of a Fathers Day card! will do that next time. June is a busy time in our house, my brother hates it as he has our Mums birthday which is on the same day as Fathers Day this year!!! and then my birthday the day after, he hibernates for two days!!
Fin has already had a school sports match, Golf on the very first day back! his school didn't win but he really enjoyed it, tomorrow he has swimming and a footy match on Friday, then training and a match at the weekend!! Blimey Fin it tires me out just writing about it. There is no wonder he is so sooo hungry all the time, we just can;t seem to fill him, I'm sure this is quite normal for a ten year old.
Hope everyone has a great rest of the week doing lots of lovely things.