Having a busy week

Well the sun has been shining brightly here all week and its been over 20c so its been more like summer than the start of spring. So weve been busy busy chopping down trees and cutting back brambles. Painting fences and the shed and side gate. Cleaning down the floors with a power washer. It was all going really really well untill i was loading the care on thursday morning when i somehow managed to fall in my front garden while walking back from loading up the branches into the back of my car :-((. I have only managed to twist my good ankle and bruise my left hip too. Oh sometimes i wonder how i get by with all the accidents i have i really do. But saying that i am walking much better on it this morning so hopefully thats a good sign. One a lighter note as you can see i kinda got my greenhouse!!!! We went up to morrisions on monday afternoon to get a few bits and pieces and they were selling these on sale for �15.00 ok its not the biggest one in the world but its great and i love it!!! Its the perfect start for me to get me doing more gardening this summer :-))). There always seems like theres so so much to do and because i totally necklegted it all last year there is twice as much as usually so ahhh well i guess i will get there in the end. The only downside is the decorating has still been put on hold but i will get back to that on the days i cant do the garden. It was so lovely here yesterday we managed to have a bbq in the garden last night too. It was fantastic to soend a few hours with my boys just messing about and having a laugh it seems like forever since we had the last one but this one will be the first of very many this year. And when my wine has finished brew ing next week im so looking foward to drinking it on my patio and relaxing :-) Hope you all have a great weekend xxxxx

Buds new hididng place

My dog is terrified of the hoover always has been. Ive had to move my kitchen table into my living room for Donny and when i was hoovering the other day i turned around and this is where he was lmao!!!! So cute i just had to share :-)))))))))))))))))))))))

What Ive been upto :-)

Well truth be told since finishing my last dragon dreams design i havent really put much in way of needle to fabric. I have made a start on the head design. I choose a freebie to begin with just to see if i have the patience to really do it and the small piece that i have done seemed to take me a few hours so for me this is going to be a very long project i think. Can you tell what it is yet???? I very much doubt it haha. I did however pull out an ols wip this morning and do some backstitching on it ooohhhhhh how i detest backstitching i really really hate it i do wonder sometimes if i just pick the patterns with the most in it just to agrivate myself!!!! I really do believe it is the reason why this piece hardly gets picked up with me just because there is just so much of it!!!!! Any winge over lol the dragon seems to be comeing along beautifully even if a little slowly so i should just stop winging about it :-) Ive also started to plant my seeds ready for the summer this morning too. I really really need a greenhouse i would love to have one but i guess i will just have to see how far i can stretch myself there. But for now at least they are on my kitchen windowsill what i have [planted so far anyway i still have loads left but not enough space!!! There tomaotes, chillis, courgets, peppers, spices, some flowers and more i cant remember now lol how useless am i!!! And as i started to clear out the winter from the garden yesterday I have alot of old stuff to go down to the local recycling place once i have finished my coffee now. I dont want to see it built up this summer i want my garden to be a lovely place to go out and sit. As last year i was way to involved in other things i had no time to enjoy it but this year i will have plenty and im really starting to look foward to it. Weve been so lucky this last few weeks the sun has been beautiful and its been warm enough to walk around in a tshirt untill teatime when its been really cold and foggy most nights too just a reminder i think that its not even spring yet. Hope everyones having a lovely week xxxx

Happy birthday Leon!!!!

Oh my where does all the time go!!! It flashes past so quickly these days I can hardly believe i have 14 and 15 year old boys!!!! Long gone is my chance for a cuddle and a story but still it is nice to see them turning into young men :-). I made this card for Jake to gtive to Leon as he is a mad Man utd support unfortunitly lol!!! Its just with me being a Cheksea supported and his Dad being a Liverpool supporter it does get heated around our house sometimes lol. Well I hardly seen anything of Leon today. He went to the local lazer zone that has opened in town with a big collection of his friends and Jake and his girlfriend then he went off to town whil i was home baking his cake and preparing a home made from scratch Indian meal for his birthday meal. We had turkey birianni, beef vindaloo, garlic and ciorriander narn breads and onion bahgis all made from scratch!!! It took a few hours but was well worth it :-) And what did he do them for the rest of the evening??? Went upto his room and spent it all on the internet. Cant say i wasnt a little dissapointed but like Donny said they are growing up and i guess there is nothing i can do about that. So i just played the new game that Donny got for me on the ps3 for a few hours to try and unwind after a long day cooking and i did enjoy myself which is strange because im not a big gaming person unless its a singing game lol. Well anyway happy birthday Leon im glad you enjoyed your day babe xxxx

Having a ball :-))

I just wanted to drop by and show everyone im still alive :-))) Ive hardly had time to look at my computer the last few weeks. I have had one very busy husband and a living room thats looked like a production line all of last week just to try help out a friend but thankfully its back to normal now and ive decided to leave my table in the living room too as we seem to be using much more as a family to eat together than we ever did the whole time its been in the kitchen which is fantatsic.

The weather here has been so warm and sunny really unusual for this time of the year, in fact it was so nice on sunday the boys spent most of the day at the local beach. It was lovely for Leon because if he was still doing his kickboxing he would of spent the whole day at a competition and missed out on the fresh air and freedom. It doesnt seem like he is missing it one little bit which is making me wonder if he really was enjoying it towards the end so maybe its for be best he left when he did even though it wasnt his decision really. Its just a shame he fell so badly on his face when he was out i had a big shock when he came home sunday evening and seen the mess on it i really am hoping it looks better by his birthday on saturday hard to believe my baby is going to be 14 years old!!!!! And with Jake going for an interview in the local college this afternoon too i am beging to wonder where all the time has gone.....

Well even though my life has been upside down i have managed to finish the dragons dream design. I used dmc,carries creations and krenick and although the photo doesnt shoe it too well it really does sparkle!! And of course i did use my own fabric :-) And i have also started on a haed freebie just to see if i can really manage one before i spend money out on one lol will post some pics later in the week. I also want to try getting my seeds planted for the garden at sometime very soon too as it is beging to look like spring but then again it could be just a false alarm so i will have to be careful!!!

I guess this frog is just a bit much for me.

I always knew people liked to tell you how much they disliked frogging I myself hate the fact youve done one stitch out of place and if you cant just alter the pattern a little you just know you arae going to have a whole lot of ripping and tearing out maybe hours and hours of work you have done. Well this dragon dreams hs so far ben a nightmare this little frog has been frogged so many times i have lost count and obne time i even thought about giving up on him i really really did!!!! But i am detirmimed to try get him finished this weekend.

Ive had no time for him really this week as i have made the most of the bright warm sunny weather we have been getting all week even though it has been so cold and frosty every night and morning to make a start on getting the garden sorted and the shed tided. The shed is now done and the garden...yeah well... thats gonna take a while lol. But at least its beeen started right....

Ive also been busy making more headbands I dont know where i fit the time into do everything somedays lol. Donny and me made home made from scratch onion bajhis and garlic and corriander nann breads lst nite they were so yummy we have decided we are going to try make a vindallo from scratch next weekend :-) Well better get some wrok done i guess as Jake has a sleep over tonite xxx

Happy Saint Davids Day

To all my Welsh friends xxxxxx

What a wild weekend....

Donnys old school friend has been home visiting this weekend and he always seems to end up crashing at ours when hes down. He arrived at our house just after 10.30pm on friday night and before we knew it we had been sat in the kitchen chatting and Jake was telling me it was 3.20am!!!! I had to tell Jake to get off the ps3 s he was still playing greenday rockband and yell upto Leon to get off facebook!!! Typical not one of them decided to tell me what time it waas which was pretty sneaky if you ask me mind lmao. I guess its true what they say time really does fly when you are having fun.

We didnt see Alan then until sunday evening when he came back so we did have a quiterish night on saturday well earlier Leon and i were playinbg singstar for a few hours. Alan also stayed on monday night and i went off to bed earlier and left the boys to catch up and returned back to manchester on the train this morning its always fun to have him over but im always so so tired for days afterwards!!!! It does Donny good though to have a real friend over it helps lift his spirts especially after everything that went on the end of last year when we discovered what we did about certain people who only aid we were friends to get what they could from us but ah well true friends are the ones who make you smile and drive you mad at the same time and those who you do fall out with then laugh about how silly your arguement had been xxxx