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....

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

Well anywhere but here anyway lol!!!! Saying that it was very pretty to watch through the window as i was making christmas cards this morning but it didnt last long before all the rain came down and washed it all away.I have been sat down tonight trying to figure out what gifts im going to get for my boys this year they grow so fast and its so hard when you can no longer just go out and buy them toys theres nothing to built anymore on a christmas morning and i miss that along with all the excitement of the night before.

But i guess you cnt keep them small forever they hve to grow up and explore the world for themselves just like we have and hope they turn into good people.

Im sure they will still have a great day and just enjoy being home lol i doubt Jkae will be ble to pull himself away from his girlfriend for a whole day though hehehe Im easy this year lol i just would like some perfume and some makeup please santa ive been a good girl xxx i dont ask for stitchy stuff theres no point in a housefull of boys hehe

Going to see santa!!!!!!!

Yes ive decided im going to drag Donny out with me to twon to watch santa arriving at the grotto as he usually arrives on a sleigh with reindeer :-) then we will be ble to see all the lights too ahhh im looking foward to getting out for a bit with my hubby hopefully it will help his mood a little and when we get back im going to get on with my christmas hards hopefully and watch a christmas movie :-) xxx