Sharing some love xx

Recently a very dear friend of mine told us she had breast cancer. We met on the smo board and she came along to my runboard when i set it up for all of us to have somewhere where we could all go to chat about anything and nothing without being moaned at for being to off topic oe personal. When she told me i was in shock as she is such a loving giving lady who was always joining in exchanges and competitions and always there to chat and i have to say it hit us all very hard there were a lot of tears shed.
Rose and i chated and we decided that it may be a nice idea to make her a quilt so it would feel like when ever she needed us she could just wrap the quilt around her and we would all be there for her keeping her warm and strong through the difficault days. I pmd everyone on my board and Jacky,Louise,Sarah,Sue,Nicky and her daughter Lyn all joined me and Rose in making squares for the quilt. Lyns friend Lorna who has recently also become a member of the board did a fantastic job in making up the quilt and we are all very grateful for the wonderful job she did as you can see.Here is Joan with the quilt and i know she loves it as she left a very heart warming thankyou message for us all. Joan we are all here for you and we hope that stay with us for a very long time to come. I would liuke to thank all the girls involved in making this possible as it was worth every minute to make you smile Joan xxxxx

A busy week and a sick child and hubby

I have been so busy this week its really hard to believe its just wednesday!! I have managed to fir in four days of ecercise since sunday and even though my legs are very sore im really quite enjoying it!! I started on saturday morning and did a kick boxing fitness dvd with Leon we are trying to get us both fitter by the time we go to Ireland for him its to help for me its to get back into some of the jeans i have folded at the bottom of my wardrope lol!!! Jake had his friend Sean stay over again saturday night that was fun there was four of us to have a bash on sing star and the karaoke machine that was better as the teams were more even that usual!! I should of thought then when Donny went upstairs to watch tv that something wasnt right with him then again when he watched the grand prix up there all afternoon on sunday leaving me to stitch and watch the notebook (which i would really recomend if you love to watch a fantasic love story i really enjoyed it). Well he got steadly worse through sunday night he has a really bad chest infection he is coughing really bad and breathing worse and looks awful even walking short distances is wearing him out. I have told him i think he needs to go to the drs but he is insistant he is taking enough medication so i just have to keep a very close eye on him and see how he goes i guess.

Monday i was busy again did another dvd when i got up well some of Davinas new one until i got inturupted i was kinda glad i have to admit as my legs where still aching from the kick boxing one!! I managed to get a whole lot of cleaning done this morning you know sometimes i think i make work from nowhere when it really doesnt need doing!! I also managed to get somemore done on my firy who is starting to take some shape at last. I went to collect the boys from school and then we went up to town to finally go collect my pool cover which at long last had been delivered into wilkinsons it seemed to take for ever. Here is my current photo of my wip..

Yesterday morning i got up and when the boys had gone to school i had a go of yet another fitness dvd i just hope i can keep this up!! I then did all the cleaning, washing and ironing

and then sat and watched a dvd and stitched for a little while. When the boys came home from school Jake helped me cut down the hedge in the front garden and then we went down to the local recycling place with the branches and other stuff we were clearing from the garden. When i got back i was having a cuppa and i looked across at Leon who was sat on the sofa on the laptop chatting on msn to his friends and he really didnt look right i asked him if he was ok and he said no within minutes he has running to the bathroom to be sick. H e then went to bed and slept right through from 5.30pm untill 7.30am this morning needless to say he is home from school for the day today. After food i decided to go out the back and start trying to cut down the trees in the back garden i was out there until 10pm lastnight i have cut down 6 huge black bag fuuls and id say there is at least another 20 if not more to do you can see a slight difference but not very much at all they are now waiting for me to take them to the recycling place too.

Well with Leon home today and Donny still not doing great i think i will have an easy day today i think i may need it lol. I have told Jake i need to go shopping later and he will prob get a text from me to meet me after school.

What a wet day

We have been having such lovely weather the last week it seems starnge and unusal to have it so wet here!!! yes i know im in Wales ut still lmao!! Here is a photo i took of the sky last night before the rain came in isnt it beaautiful it was so pink i had to take this to show the boys as they were at cadets I have been so lucky this week when it comes to stash arriving in the mail fisrt was this amazing package that arrived from Kathy on the smo board i was just trying to help move along her contest whan i was choosen as the winner i was so pleased!!!! i was even more pleased when i opened the package yesterday morning and i seen all the lovely floss inside i feel so spoilt thankyou so much Kathy it was much much more than i ever expected to recieve!!!I also recieved thsi morning my exchange parcel from Sandra for the summer exchange i have been running for Helga on her yahoo group trying to help her out since she made me a moderator. I was amazed to see what Sandra had stitched for me it really is beautiful and i have never ever seen anything llike it before its like a stitched pencil case with a zip its beautiful!!! i love it so much i really do and all the goodies you have sent me i do feel really really spoilt thankyou so so much!! i also love the magazine you sent me too xxx

We have a really wet miserable day as i said its still so warm but yuck. Jakes friend is staying over with us tonight Jake was going to be going there but it was easier for me to have him this time which is fine as he is a lovely child he really is it will be great to have a forth to play sing start with us for a change lol at the moment he is in Seans house with him and they will be returning later this evening. Leon is upstairs playing ufc on the 360 so its nice and peaceful for the time being i am making the most of it listening to my cds!!

Here are a couple of photos i took of the boys in the sun they are just growing far too quickly for my liking so im trying to make the most of them while i still can :-) I hope you all have a lovely weekend!!

At the beach today

The boys were back at school today and so Donny and I decided to go for a walk down to Llanelli beach which is something we havent done for a while it only takes about 10-15 minutes to walk there and it was still so hot and lovely we thought it would be nice even though his poor eyes are paying for it tonight the hospital has said he needs to try go out in the sun and he has very strong sun glasses but its still so painful for him and i bet he will be paying for it worse tomorrow but it was still nice to get out for a little while just the two of us. We have had a lovely weekend in the garden in the sun and enjoying the pool we had a bbq last night first one for this year and it was really lovely although playing truth or dare with a 12 and 13 year old can seriously be scary if not so funny!!!!! it was brill!!!!

I thought it maybe nice to show you how fantastic it is to have a beach at walking distance this is where Leon was all day on saturday with his friends.

Its a shame the tide was out maybe next time i can show you the sea too!!!

This is where i met Donny 17 years ago just a few days ago wow its quick how time flies i guess thats why we should all stop and take time to remember where we used to spend our time when we were growing up if we can as places get changed so much these days its a shame sometimes.

What a nice suprise

This is what came through my letterbox this morning it was such a lovely suprise!! I had no idea i had won another prize from the needlework show this year i have been very lucky to win two wonderful prices it was a fantastic suprise and i love it!!!this is the first prize i won well acually it was a $20 gv from scarlet quince but this was the chart i choose it really spoke to me and i had to have it :-) I have also been lucky enough to recieve some wdw two from my very dear friend Tonya and one from Lisa on the smo board thankyou both very much :-) xx

There has also been some good news and i can now show you a finish that i did a few weeks ago as Sandra has now recieved it, It was a summer exchange that i am runing for Helga on her yahoo group Sandra said she loved it which was great :-)

And last but by no means least at all here is my lastest wip it is the halloween trick or treat fairy from the magazine Louise kindly got for me from the us last year see i have finally started her!!! i havent got too far as its been nice and ive been in the garden with the boys lol but i have started!!!