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

Busy days again :-))

Firstly i would like to stay a big thankyou to Nicky for my wonderful birthday presant you never forget me on my birthday and christmas I love it so much thankyou so much huni lots of love xxxxx

I dont know if anyone remembers that i used to make sweat head bands for the kickboxing class i used to attend...well ive been approached by different club in the last few weeks and asked to make some for them and i was more than happy to do it as even though it totally does my head in when im sat there doing it i relly love the way they turn out when they are finished tke look for yourself and see what you think... I wil admit it does cut into my stitching time but im sure i will pick that back up very very soon xx

Happy birthday tooooo me!!!!!!!

Omg where do all they years go....they seem to fly by I cant hardly believe it....

Well today started off relly good its half term here so i got lay in to start with :-) Then my dad called down to see me nd I told they boys they didnt have to stay in with me go out and hve some fun for a few hours with thier friends. So I had a bath and put on the lovely dress Donny got me for my birthday we dont usually get our gifts until the evening in this house but i did get that one just a little early. Donny and me went for a walk over to Lidls to get some wine for our meal tonite and i had only just walked in through the door when the phone rang and thats where the day started to go horribly wrong........

On the phone was a police officer who haad Leon with him and was looking for Jake. Turns out after they had brought Leon home and given him a real fright that the poor thing had done nothing wrong and haddent even been in the place where it had all gone on....confused much....well so where we to be honest. Anyway I got on the phone and told Jake to get himself home but they picked him up when he ws on his way and this is when we got the full story as to what had gone on. We had a multistory car park in our town and the roof seems to be the meeting up place for kids these days why I have no idea really. Well Jke and his friends like to make videos ect and they thought it would be cool to throw some catalogues off the top to see what type of noise it would make when they crashed to the floor...stupid well yes but they had made sure that it was a place where noone hardly goes and that there was no one there and noone was hurt and no damage was done...so im still confused why the police had wasted thier time chasing these kids when they said themselves they werent going to do anything about it. Surely thier time would be better spent cually chasing people who are damaging property ect... But that did put a big cloud on my day :-(( I know boys will be boys but why on my birthday. Jake did spend the rest of the night in his room and will be kept in for the rest of half term even though he didnt do much wrong.

I did get some lovely gifts from Donny,Jake ,Leon and my dad and did play karaoke for a bit but i wasnt the same as i would of liked it to be.

I love saturdays :-)

This week has been a great week so far and its almost over so i hoping it stays that way :-) Today has been beautiful here in Wales its been warm and sunny a big improvement from the dark cold and wet depressing weather we have been having for most of this week. But Leon has just informed me walking in through the door it is now feezing dark and foogy so i guess even thoughits only just after 6pm the winter is still firmly here.

I managed to finish off myfairythis week. For a quck stitch itstaken quite a while LOL i guess thats cos i reall havent given it muc time. My time seems to have been spent on decorating cooking and cleaning this week which is fine cos one of these days i might just e that show room house.............yeah rite...............tat when my kids have moved out!!! hehehehe Its nt a hous its a home so as lon as it clean i can handle a little mess!!!!

We have visitors coming from Cardiff for the day again toorrow and Donn friend coming for he weekend on friday all this along with half term is going to keep me a vey busy girl along with a new order for headbands :-)) Watch this space starydreamers fabrics may again raise from the ashes as i dont have such big commitments to other people anymore xxxxx

Happy valentines day

To all my friends who celebrate the holidays :-) We dont do it its one night a year and we believe that you should show each other in little ways everyday how much you love each other :-) Most holidays are too comercial these days. But my eldest son did buy gifts for his girlfriend aaahhhh young love xxBut i did do some baking for my boys and Donny is cooking me a meal tonite and we are going to let the kids watch a dvd upstairs tonite so we can spent the evening together see......the romance is quite dead afterall lol xxxI hope you ll have a lovely evening spent the way you want :-)) Love to you all xxxx

Quick stitchy update

Ok so i havent been doing as much as i would of liked this month but in my deffence i have been really busy getting the kids rooms sorted out so i guess that should make me feel a little better. This is taking me a little longer than i thought though i must admit i guess my big gab has made me a litttle slower than i used to be and the complete colour change has been quite daring too but so far so good and i like the way it is appearing to be turning out and thats all that matters hey :-) I was hoping to get it finished tonite for stitch weekend at my runboard and this will then make me 3 out of 12 for this years challenge which i really do want to try and complete this year :-) Have a lovely wekend xxx

Still decorating.

This week we have been working on Leons room again which will soon be Leons room and the games room. It seems to be a long process but it does start to seem like there is light at the end of the tunnel starting to peer through at the end :-) This is what Leons room is going to look like. Where i am standing from taking the photo is where the wall is going to be. As you can see from this photo Leon

has managed to get quite a large amount of trophies and medals both from when he used to do rugby and kickboxing and finally they are in his room where they belong insteed of all over my living room lol. His world championship medal is in the box frame on the wall next to the shelves it has its own space :-). On the bottom of his bed he has decided he is going to hang all

the belts he has achived in kickboxing over the last two years. Leon put a lot of effort into everything he did for the club he was with and his country the both times he competed for Wales but i guess its like they say i supposed all good things do eventually have to come to an end somehow and i wouldnt drem of making him do anything he no longer enjoys that just wouldnt be right in my eyes. It has to be something you want to do or you will get hurt as it is a contact sport afterall.

Anyway, this is how the other half of the room is getting on. At the momment it does just have the bottom colour painted on it as they havent acually decided yet what colour they want the walls lol. BBut as they have had they new tv that has gone on the wall ready. And we have bought them a new ps3 as a joint birthday pressie as they really didnt have very much for christmas as we went to portugal and that was expensive at least this yer that wont be a problem :-) So thats where we are at the momment xxx

What a nice suprise

Today we had guests down for the day from Cardiff. The people who run W.O.M.A.A Wales. This is one of the places where Leon used to go to some of the kickboxing contests when his intrest was much more into it. Leon came away with several gold,silver and bronze medals when he hs fought here. Anyway they came doen to present Donny with an award for ll the work they had seen that he used to do for the club where Leon was training. It was a lovely suprise and it made Donny feel so proud of all the work he has put it. He deserves it I think he did so much for the club its nice to have a thankyou like this even if it did come from another organisation.

I must be mad!!!!

Do you know what i decided to do in my wisdom today................I started Jakes bedroom!!!! I havent even finished Leons yet lol. Well i cant have him leaving left out now can I........:-) Jakes only got a small room and it wont take long I have no paper to strip this time either so its all good.

Heres what his room looks like at the momment. He is a typical teenager too but not quite as untidy as his little brother lol.

Ive got quite a busy weekend this weekend with two sets of visitors calling today and more people coming tomorrow so im not quite sure how much im going to have time to do very much this weekend xxx

Days 3 and 4

Well the bedroom is coming along slowly and now i get to show you one of the colours Leon has picked. This colour is for the wood in his room. And now Finally all the white is done too so it is ready for the colour next week :-))))

Yes he has picked bright yellow hhhmmmm thats wht you get when you let kids decide i guess lol.

I managed to find some time

To start a new small piece of cross stitch this morning before the decorating starte. The boys where at school and Donny was sleeping. He doesnt seem to be doing much of that at the momment so i thought i would leave him there and do a bit while i was watching casualty. Its a old dragon dreams freebie and im completely changing the colours too. Here is a little look at what ive done so far. Its done on a peace of my hand dyed fabric as ive still got quite a bit to use up.

I have also managed to get little more done on my fire dragon the last few weeks to. I must admit its not much but i am trying to get a few stitches in how and when i can so i will get there eventually :-)

Leons room day 2

Well i stripped all the wall paper off one half on Leons room yesterday on the side where is bedroom is going to be. He is sleeping at the front end of the house at the momment but he is being moved to the back end. I must say it wasnt too hard a job the wall paper seemed to come away from the walls quite easily which was good for me :-)

So i got Donny to fill the wholes for me and then left them to dry.Then today i had i had to start painting them white i think this is going to tke a good few coats as the walls are so green so then i cant paint the colours Leon has chosen.

I have to say that it doesnt seem like that bad work s long s i can blast out some tunes while i am getting it done :-) Its deff going to need more than one coat of white the walls are just so dark its unbelievable. But im sure i will get there

Here we go then.....

Ive started Leons room and ive decided im going to be taking photos of the work im doing as im going along to i hve something to look back on a little sad i must admit but it will give me something to do now and something to look back on whta i have achived with a little help for some of it of course :-) So heres what it looked like when i started it . You should be warned it is a teenage boys room and they dont seem to understand what keep your room tidy is one little bit mind!!!!!!!!! Loens room is really big we are planning on splitting it into two so they can also have a room where they can go to watch tv and dvds and play computer games too :-)

I will keep updating my blog on how its all going hopefully i wont bore you all too much lol xxx

Second finish of the year.

Why is it i always start of so good every january but then go down hill very very quickly....hmmm i think other stuff has been getting much to much in the way of what i want so no more!!!!!!!!!!! I keep telling myself this but i still dont believe i can really truely acually do it....I will have to hope so lol.

Ive been thinking about..........and please dont giggle............starting a HAED now being a complete newbie to anything like this.....can someone please tell me what fabrics they use to stitch them on. I have only ever used aida WILL IT WORK.... any advice would be grtefully accepted :-)

I did some more :-)

WOOOOHOOOO now my body has fully recovered from the last time i tried to exercise i can happily say i did an hours game time so only acually dancing of dnce central buring over 300 calories along with 30 sit ups , 30 bum thrusts and 30 leg raises and this time it just felt good :-) Im deffo gonna need to do this more than once a week to get back into it :-) xxx

Happy birthday Donny

I would like to wish my wonderful husband a very happy birthday :-) The end of 2010 was rough on all of us but you seem to come out of it all a happier person now. 2011 can only get better love you xxxx

OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!!!!!!!

I can hardly move!!!! I feel like ive been hit by a bus honestly i really do lol. Ive been a good girl and im trying to keep up my new years resolutions soooooo yesterday I did 30mins on one of the exercise gmes on the kinect donny got me for xmas, followed by 30 minutes on dance central followed by 25 situps, 25 leg raises and 25 bum thrusts and my god am i paying for it today!!!!!!!!! Now ive been plying dance central all ocer xmas so it must of been the exercise game......i think it be while before i pick that up again hehehe

New yers resolutions.

Yes i know we ll tend to make these every single year and half of them we have no intention of sticking to at all whats so ever but this year i really really am going to try :-) So if you dont want to hear me have a moan of what i want to change look way now you have been warned!!!!

Well after having a pretty rubbish end to this year becasue of certain things so i have decided 2011 is all about me!!!!

Im giving up kickboxing i dont want to be in a place where people arent very friendly i did all i could to help out at everything to have it all thrown back in my face so no more!!!! Im working on being a better mum and wife this year and its cos its what i want.

I am going to be working out at home as much as i can using the kinect i love it!!! far much better than the wii board you cannot cheat at all :-)

I am going to hget back to my stitching its been far too neglected and i miss it so so much.

I will be spending more time on my runboard and less time playing fish world on facebook and im going to try keep my blog updated so im not doing a few months at the time playing catch up.

I want to get some more of my house decorated this year and i am going to find time to sort out my garden more this year too.

Im going to keep up my baking too ive loved doing it over christmas and showing it off.

If i can think of more i will be back but i think this is a pretty good start

Merry Christmas

I would just like to wish ll my friends a very merry christmas and healthy and happy 2011. I hope tht the holiday season will bring you and your loved ones all the joy and happiness each and everyone of you deserve :-)

I just wanted to show you some of the last of my baking before i leve you to celebrate. I think i have out done myself this year almost all of these things have been a first time try out lol but i have to admit they havent come out half bad :-)

See you all in the new year!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Chocolates,cookies and mince pies :-)

Well its still snow covered here so i decided to do some baking reday for xmas i must honestly say i dont thinks will last but i enjoy doing it anyway :-)

So this is what i made first :-) there are chocolates with whole hazel nuts,chocolte and white chocolates with hazelnut brittle,chocolte with peanut butter, chocolate and white chocolate with coconut and white and chocolte dazzle squares and i still have lots of ides for more which i will get on with later :-) i must confess i have hidden the chocolates for now so they dont get eaten hehehe.

And here are some mince pies, some chocolte shortbread mince pies and some chocolate shortbred men. I wasnt sure bout the chocolate shortbread mince pies but they re cool taste more like christmas pudding than mince pies to me though lol.

Is snowing!!!!!!!

Yes you heard right it is acually snowing here in Llanelli we completely missed out last time but deffo not this time lol!!!! I am aware now that it will prob stay on my street till christmas as we get no sunlight and i will have to try get my shopping done via txi or something tues if it sty lol but for now its looking very pretty :-)

We went for a walk up to town as the vet was closed so we couldnt take the dog anyway and as i wont attempt to drive in it and the buses and taxis were stopped and the schools where all closed and many shops in town . Oh well it is very pretty to look at xxx

Last of my christmas cards for this year :-)

Hey everyone boy have these weeks to christmas been flying along so fast!!! I just wanted to take a few minutes inbetween shopping and cooking to show you my last few cards i have made :-)This one is for Jake This one is for Donny And this one is for Leon. I always try to stitch crds for my three boys over christms :-)

Im just so relieved its all coming together although if im honest im already starting to regret the bills that will start coming in after christms is over.But im sure i will manage i usually do lol

Im already starting to look foward to the new year so so much now that kickboxing isnt the only thing in my life i have planty of time to do more crafting weither it be cross stitch card making or playing with beads :-) and maybe a new line in hand dyed aid could be on the crads too!!!I have also really enjoyed making clothes designs this yer too so who knows where the future will lead....