Cookie Monster

2 posts in two days...good grief it must be Spring.......................

Who stole that cake.....come on own up..........grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. These cookie monsters were great fun to make I have to make some for a party next week and thought I had better have a trial run..... well you have to dont you !! just before I was due to take a picture one went missing they were obviously just too good to resist.

GOOD MORNING........... I was looking back on some old posts yesterday and it wasn't 5 minutes since I was talking about my birthday and well...here we are again....today I am errrrr.... mmmmm well you'll just have to look back and see, so what have I got planned for my birthday today. Nothing...zilch...nada..... Its a work day and nothing changes its a bit of a non event but next year I have decided that from now on I am going to have a days holiday on my birthday and do something special. Hopefully I will be seeing my children later and of course my grandson so I will look forward to that. At choir last night they all sang happy birthday to me and I got to pick a favourite song and I really enjoyed that, which song....oh yes it was "Electricity" from Billy Elliott my favourite favourite song and it sounded wonderful...I love the choir it makes me very happy. See this stitchery.....I must have done this two years ago, how lazy I am not to do anything with it but I think I should dont you ? My work room is just not working for me at the moment I seem to have STUFF everywhere so its being decorated and sorted out and then maybe I might be able to be more creative. I need a bigger house....anyone got one spare ???

Lazy Lazy Lazy thats me.....I am still here, I am still crafting I just keep forgetting to take any pictures at least not of my crafts...this little boy is taking a LOT of my attention he's 10 weeks old now and doing well as you can see. When the camera is out its snapping away at him....well could you resist ?

I have started to paint again...what you didnt know I painted too...oh yes

I flit from one thing to another never quite mastering anything. I promise I will get round to posting some of my pictures, although for every one thats

half good there are another 10 that are not lol.... no I'm not just saying that Its a trait I wish I could overcome if only I had more patience

I moan about it constanty but never do anything about it sometimes you have to accept thats just the way you are.

The special place

When you are stressed do you have a special place in your mind where you can retreat to ? I want to share with you my special place, if I'm upset or I cant sleep or I'm stressed I start at the gate and work my way through this beautiful place. I usually don't get very far it works it magic on me almost immediately.
Of all the places I have ever been in my life I wish I could re-visit this one GULP !! oh how silly I am get a grip girl.... This was my dad's garden and this is how I remember it 45 years ago sadly it no longer exists only in my memories and this grainy photograph.When other men were growing vegetables my dad was growing flowers and it was a beautiful place I have so many strong memories of that garden.I am so thankful that I inherited my love of gardening from my dad and when my own garden is looking good I have a few moments knowing that my dad would be proud of my efforts.
The Robin always pops in when I'm gardening and we joke that its my dad telling me what I'm doing wrong.

I have been ver lazy with my blog lately...I just feel sometimes I havent got anything interesting to say....but today I have....
Welcome to our grandson Christian born on Sunday 12th December weighing 7lb 11oz.
We couldnt be happier although I am farrrrr to young to be a nanny lol...

 

Well finally I have got round to posting....sorry for my absence I have no excuses.
Saturday I hosted a baby shower for my daughter, I had quite a few sleepless nights worrying about it I have never been to a baby shower so had no idea what people expected.I organised a couple of games and an activity that involved craft (of course) we bought some plain babybrows and some fabric paint and asked people to decorate them, I also did some pages for Natasha's scrapbook and asked friends to fill them in with words of wisdom for the mother to be... it all seemed to go well
and everyone enjoyed the activities. I also did a bit of baking and made some lovely cupcakes which everyone was very complimentary about. All in all a great day I started off taking photographs and then things became so busy the camera got forgotten but here are a few pictures I did take.

Pressie Time

How exciting to get a parcel in the mail thankyou to Lisa over at Periwinkle (I would attach a link but I don't know how doh..... so if anyone would like to enlighten me !!) I was apprehensive about joining in a swap,what should I send, how much should I send,will she like it, what if she doesn't like it.... on and on and on
goes my little mind but in the end it was fine my swap partner Lisa was from my neck of the woods (Sunderland) so I knew we would be ok.
I'm very pleased with my parcel,each item was wrapped in lovely tissue paper and I feel very spoilt my husband and teenage son stood and watched me open it and my sons response was "I hope there's chocolate" and yes there was a lovely bar of Lavender chocolate,cant wait to try that. I love the knitted chicken and the lovely kitchen
cloths although I wont be using them to lift anything out of the oven (too nice for that) they will just hang around looking pretty.
So all in all my first swap went well and I hope Lisa liked my gifts to her.