And the winner is....

To be announced tomorrow...no I am not trying to tease you, I just want someone other than myself to draw out the winner so I shall have to wait until my babes are home from school!!!Posts have been a little infrequent of late as I try desperately to find my new rhythm and new role as a stay at home Mom who's just waved bye bye to her youngest as he goes through the big old school doors with a hesitant glance over his shoulder and a plee for 'Mommy come with me...' This is not helped by the fact that the small village school is going through some changes and one being no parents allowed to take their little ones into the class room...heart breaking for me I can tell you. So this last week I have wondered around the house in a pathetic state with no car to get out and about, mostly with tears in my eyes. Today is the first day I feel OK about the whole thing. SO when I am down I shop, usually fabric...check out the new fabric...it arrived two days after my order and with not one but two free fat quarters. I am so impressed I thought it deserved a mention as the owner of the shop was so nice to me and combined all my postage as well. http://stores.ebay.co.uk/SALS-FABRICS-AND-CRAFTS_W0QQsspagenameZMEQ3aFQ3aSTQQtZkm If you get yourself over there and are tempted to purchase please say hi to Sal from me. Her shop is http://salsfabrics.co.uk/
Mmmm now what goodies to make with it...
I have also noticed that the thrift and charity shops are now back to selling the wool sweaters so I have been doing a little felting and designing a new coat pin/corsage with tweed. I am sure I will share with you the outcome of both. So I have been in my sewing room a lot and I have started on the big clear out of toys so I can claim the whole room, the spare bedroom is going to be made into a den for the children, keeping me company throughout the day so I am not completely on my own has been my faithful bunny...Archie, he is such a poppet!!! He so enjoys the company. As for the piggies (Charlie and Lola) they are still fighting...I think I am getting somewhere though, I am having to give them lots of individual cuddles and they are now a lot calmer, but they are still nipping each other and sleeping at opposite ends of their house, this makes me very sad.
Why the 'Super Boy' picture, well why not...indulge me as I am missing him like crazy...I thank you all for your lovely caring comments about him, we had a lovely day (except for the cough obviously) on Monday...Big cuddles all day and we even took a long nap together in the afternoon...the next day he was well enough to go into school...I was quite upset about this, not that I wanted him poorly, it took a lot for me to take him in, I thought...Oh just one more day. But that would have been wrong, right???

I will post the winner of 'Little Pinkie' tomorrow, she is very excited...she wants to take a trip round all your homes as you have made her feel very welcome!!!

Boo!

Well I am in the middle of a number of projects at the moment, to many to go into and some so nearly finished...(usual story). So today is a bit of a disjointed post until I get organised. Yesterday was such a treat, after all the excitement of the last two weeks we had a quite day at home, my little poppet spent the afternoon playing in the garden, the sun was warm and quite bright, so whilst he played in the soil (planting all the birds sunflowers seeds) I sat with a pot of tea and tried my hand at knitting in the round...AHHHH I have always been so scared to to this but I so wanted to knit a cup cake...We are not on are own in the garden, Archie our pet rabbit was lopping around, he just popped on to the blog to say...BOO! Anyway the knitting did not go to well, I manged to knit in the round, messy but I did it, the case was done and it looks cute, when I came to make the top, I tried twice and each time it was far to small. So I nipped to the local charity shop today to pick up another set of sock needles (18p) so I can have a try with larger needles, it does say this on the pattern but I am not one for following direction, maybe I should? SO after one bad knit I thought I would show you one that turned out well. I admired a scarf like this last year in a knitting shop (which sadly is now closed) it was crochet, well I can chain and I can make my own flowers but I can not follow a pattern so I gave up on making one. Then I found a really easy pattern for the same style scarf but knitting. Its done in Debbie Bliss wool, Oh how I love her wool. I am really pleased with it but it has been more of a decoration rather than something to wear.
So here is today's Month of Moo picture, which is also a corner of my home, its my art table. I bought the Mug from the hospice that my Dad passed away in so it has huge sentimental value for me, when it got cracked I was so upset, my friend suggested using it for storage, so that's what I did and now I have it for inspiration by my paper arts corner. The blue storage with flowers on came from my best mate in Australia, she made it for me...cool eh?

NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS...
My friend who moved away in January, has just phoned me to say her waters have broken and she is on her way to hospital...I am SOOOOOOO excited. It only seems like yesterday that I was sat with her at knitting night while she was trying to get pregnant and was feeling very upset and warn out by it all as each month passed, so today is a HAPPY day, God Bless you my friend and the soon to be new arrival.