I think I'm in slow labour!!!!
It was action stations a couple of nights ago, I paced the floor for half the night doing my breathing as instructed! Was told to get my head down for a rest and what do you know? It stopped!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
How frustrated am I???
I have had many more little incidents like this and I am still sat here getting increasingly fed up with the situation now. I'm a relatively patient person but even now this is pushing me to hysteria!
I have done the usual little tricks to jump start the situation, walking, manic cleaning, spicy foods......to no evail!
This likkle person is obviously nice and snug and making the most of some quiet time before she is unleashed into this bedlam place that is my life!
I would appreciate an appearance this weekend though. I have family and friends all standing by and I'm getting regular phone calls to check if I'm ok and still here. It's driving me mad.
The only benefit is that I have done NOTHING for several days now. My girlies are away with their Dad so the house is quiet, unbelievably tidy and clean and remains like that during the night, (no little kiddies coming down and trashing the place at the crack of dawn)
I have finished my crochet projects and had to get my bits and bobs of wool out to start on another little project to fill my time. Well, as I keep saying, you can never have too many crochet blankets can you?
I'm pleased to know that Wimbledon will be keeping me occupied next week. I love it! Especially when I get chance to actually sit and watch it and not have to sit through CBeebies all day!!
So, there you have it. I'm off now to march down to the shops to buy a winning lottery ticket and hopefully let gravity do the work for me and speed up this little monkey's arrival!!!!
I will keep you posted. Have a good weekend my lovelies!
Best wishes
Nic xxx
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Hello Lovelies........
So here as promised are some updated photos of STUFF!!!!!!!
Firstly, it's Mum's wacky birthday cake!!!! This was a couple of weeks work and the first and last time I will be tackling fondent icing!!!!!!!!
It is my Mum sat in her living room with the usual bedlam of her 6 grandchildren plus my likkle unborn and our doggy Daisy Mae!!!! You won't know from the picture but all the figures resemble the kiddies brilliantly!
I was so so so so pleased this worked out how we wanted it too even though it totally stressed me out it made everyone laugh!!!
And I don't know how we managed it but the figures are still in one piece and in a nice box for Mum to keep.......even though the lads were desperate to eat themselves!!
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One of the joys about being here just with my girlies is that I can do and have whatever I like in my home, I can fill it if I want, I don't get aggrivated at having to have a Formula 1 Model car on my fireplace!! Everything I have in my home I love, everything means something to me, yes there are lots of clashing styles but that I now realise doesn't matter what so ever. A home is about love, about family, about feeling cosy and calm and I have that here. I can't explain how happy and calming it is to be here, in the UK, in my new home with all my clutter!!!
So here we are.....a little tour round my humble abode, with a few little treasure bits I have found along the way.
I love this mirror, I found it in a second hand shop for a couple of pound and it sits proudly over my fireplace, I adore fairy lights, I would have them everywhere. Its a bit too white/cream and needs some colour adding here but is a working progress and I know there is something in the charity shop waiting to be found!
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My sleeping cherub guarding my 50p vase!! I adore this bargain tea pot!!! Found in the little treasure shop I told you about. It's too nice for me to use so I have it sat on my coffee table so I can admire it constantly!  |
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| 25p plant, in a 50p car boot find jug, sat on an embroidered cloth at a bargain 10p!!!! I love this thrifting!! |
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| This is baby's room........ I don't know why but we call her Baby? Belle-Elise is almost 3 years old and it has just dawned on us that this will cause confusion once the New Baby arrives so now the New Baby has already been nicknamed Tiny Baby!!!! |
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| Finally finished and slightly tweaked since the original TaDah moment. Baby's blanket!!
Now my room with Tiny Baby's corner!!!!!......
 
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Can you remember how tiny these little socks and vests are???? Its hard to believe in a very short time there will be another likkle girlie snuggling in them.......
In the meantime Piglet is keeping the moses basket warm!
How organised am I????????
And there you have her!!! I think I'm about to go POP!!!!!!!!
I think that covers my whistle stop tour, now friends far away,,,,love you honey,,,,,,can see how its going and see that I'm really settled!
I wish you all a lovely weekend, I hope I haven't bored you too much.
Lots of love
A very impatient, fat, tired, aggrivated pregnant woman!!!!!!!!
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Saturday, June 8, 2013
Two and a half months have passed since my last blog. Gosh sooooo much has happened I have no idea where to start to update you.
Settling in
I have finally moved into my own place with my girlies and although still unpacking bits and bobs I had completely forgotten I had as they were packed away so very long ago, it already feels like home and safe, For me that is a very important feeling to have after the stress and unsettlement of the first six months of this year.
I found this little gem, after becoming very dispondent and after virtually giving up looking for a new home for us due to the complete and utter wrecks I had previously looked at. I have an eye and can spot potential yet some places I visited were horrendous and obviously had never seen any love nor care. I almost cancelled my appointment to view this house it was only because it was so close to my Mums house that I decided to have a quick look.
I'm so pleased I did. My paperwork went in the same day and BINGO! Here I am sat in my new sunny living room. All my nick nacks out, a man free zone, I have the remote, the phone, the laptop and homemade biscuits!!! OHHH its fab!!!!
I set straight to decorating although it only really needed a bit of TLC, it's looking really homely. Just the hall, stairs and landing to tackle now and they are being sorted Monday,
My girlies are pleased with their new home, new room, settled in great and have even made some playmates so are always outside playing.
I have in dribs and drabs got most of my furniture treasures back from France, still a couple of bits and bobs to come back but all in all I am happier with the situation. I have just read through my previous post and was shocked at how negative, low and in such a bad place I was just a few weeks ago. I'm still a long way away from being me but bit by bit I have made progress, helped with the fact I have been so busy recently on a mission to sort my life out and turn what seemed like a BIG negative into a BIG positive.
New arrival imminent!
Only 25 days now until the new little addition to our girlie household arrives. I'm thrilled to be able to say that it will be another girlie wirlie to join our team! We are all ready and sat waiting now. Name chosen but to be kept a secret, the cots up, the prams assembled, bottles ready in the steriliser, nappies and tiny baby grows are patiently waiting for the little body to fill them!
It has been, in my experience of pregnancies, a quick one, a relatively easy one health wise, I have only gained a stone in weight which we all know makes life so much easier afterwards to get back into ones jeans!! All this is probably due to the amount of other stress with moving back to the UK, going through a divorce and custody battles, moving, again, from Mums to my house and all the other related stress factors being so much bigger than the worry of the pregnancy, it has been a doddle and soon will be over.
This last stretch though is always the longest as you ladies will be aware. The heat will be great in about 4 weeks when the little one arrives and we want to be out and about but a bit of a cooler couple of weeks would be greatly appriciated due to the fact I daren't leave the house in fear of over heating!!!!
New finds and treasures.
One of the joys about this little house being MY HOUSE, is that I can fill it to the gills with whatever I like!!! All my little chintzy bits and bobs have pride of place and my "bit of a mixed up style thingy" I have going on........not shabby chic, not retro, not French chic.......but a bit of everything and anything, just whatever I like, works surprisingly well here. Adding to this I have stumbled on a new little shop in town, I almost crashed my car when I spotted it, Vintage and Retro Emporium. Its a little gem, filled with alsorts of treasures from upcycled furniture pieces, vintage clothes and trinkets. I have already spent to much money in there but Im so pleased with my little finds and they have added greatly to my mixed up collection. Photos will follow once I have caught up with my postings and recent events.
I am also a now dedicated frequenter of the charity shops. I never had the time before and being in France they didn't have the same thing. Every few days I do a little wander. In one of the local towns we have a road full of them so I can make a moring of it. Not only doing my bit for charity, making one feel better, but finding some great stuff! I do need to be careful though as I realise this could turn into an obsession quite easily and before I know it I will be sat here under mounds of rubbish!!! For now I have plenty of room left to fill!!
Mums 60th
In the middle of all this we also had Mums 60th birthday. My sister and are owe my Mum such a lot and wanted to do something really special to show her how we feel. Not very easy though when she was adament that all she wanted was a meal in a local pub with me and my girlies, my sister and her kiddies and her partner. We decided to over rule her in the end and book a meal in a lovely restaurant and secretly added her extended family and close friends to the invited. Nervously unsure wether this was the right thing to do and how she would take it, we were very releaved that all went well.
We also said we didn't know what to buy her for her birthday and as she doesn't like waste and would rather have something as a gift that she wants opposed to buying something for the sake of buying it, we both gave her a bit of an IOU with the promise to do something or buy something later when we could afford to do so. Meanwhile we had booked a trip for the 3 of us to New York in the spring next year! What a surprise!!!! Needless to say she is thrilled!!!! As are we!!!!!
We even turned our hands to cake making and decorating! My sister baked a fabulous cake and I set to decorating it. I don't do baking and this is the first time I have tackled fondent icing, well any type of icing really. We couldn't decide what decor to do so in the end I came up with a comic scene to decorate the top of the cake with and then...I don't know how or why......decided that it couldn't really be that difficult to do.....could it???? Several days in......my answer to that is YES it is difficult.
Anyhow,,,,,,,the cake was finished, looked and tasted amazing too. Lots of hours work went into it but it was completely worth. It will be, I will say now, the first and last!!!!!
So there you go lovely people, my recent events!!! No doubt I have missed something, I have tried to be a little more positive than my last post and I hope I haven't frightened you lovely followers away with my negative thinking and depressing previous posting.
ONWARD AND UPWARDS from now on,,,,,,,,,,,I PROMISE!!!!
Lots of love xxxxxx
Settling in
I have finally moved into my own place with my girlies and although still unpacking bits and bobs I had completely forgotten I had as they were packed away so very long ago, it already feels like home and safe, For me that is a very important feeling to have after the stress and unsettlement of the first six months of this year.
I found this little gem, after becoming very dispondent and after virtually giving up looking for a new home for us due to the complete and utter wrecks I had previously looked at. I have an eye and can spot potential yet some places I visited were horrendous and obviously had never seen any love nor care. I almost cancelled my appointment to view this house it was only because it was so close to my Mums house that I decided to have a quick look.
I'm so pleased I did. My paperwork went in the same day and BINGO! Here I am sat in my new sunny living room. All my nick nacks out, a man free zone, I have the remote, the phone, the laptop and homemade biscuits!!! OHHH its fab!!!!
I set straight to decorating although it only really needed a bit of TLC, it's looking really homely. Just the hall, stairs and landing to tackle now and they are being sorted Monday,
My girlies are pleased with their new home, new room, settled in great and have even made some playmates so are always outside playing.
I have in dribs and drabs got most of my furniture treasures back from France, still a couple of bits and bobs to come back but all in all I am happier with the situation. I have just read through my previous post and was shocked at how negative, low and in such a bad place I was just a few weeks ago. I'm still a long way away from being me but bit by bit I have made progress, helped with the fact I have been so busy recently on a mission to sort my life out and turn what seemed like a BIG negative into a BIG positive.
New arrival imminent!
Only 25 days now until the new little addition to our girlie household arrives. I'm thrilled to be able to say that it will be another girlie wirlie to join our team! We are all ready and sat waiting now. Name chosen but to be kept a secret, the cots up, the prams assembled, bottles ready in the steriliser, nappies and tiny baby grows are patiently waiting for the little body to fill them!
It has been, in my experience of pregnancies, a quick one, a relatively easy one health wise, I have only gained a stone in weight which we all know makes life so much easier afterwards to get back into ones jeans!! All this is probably due to the amount of other stress with moving back to the UK, going through a divorce and custody battles, moving, again, from Mums to my house and all the other related stress factors being so much bigger than the worry of the pregnancy, it has been a doddle and soon will be over.
This last stretch though is always the longest as you ladies will be aware. The heat will be great in about 4 weeks when the little one arrives and we want to be out and about but a bit of a cooler couple of weeks would be greatly appriciated due to the fact I daren't leave the house in fear of over heating!!!!
New finds and treasures.
One of the joys about this little house being MY HOUSE, is that I can fill it to the gills with whatever I like!!! All my little chintzy bits and bobs have pride of place and my "bit of a mixed up style thingy" I have going on........not shabby chic, not retro, not French chic.......but a bit of everything and anything, just whatever I like, works surprisingly well here. Adding to this I have stumbled on a new little shop in town, I almost crashed my car when I spotted it, Vintage and Retro Emporium. Its a little gem, filled with alsorts of treasures from upcycled furniture pieces, vintage clothes and trinkets. I have already spent to much money in there but Im so pleased with my little finds and they have added greatly to my mixed up collection. Photos will follow once I have caught up with my postings and recent events.
I am also a now dedicated frequenter of the charity shops. I never had the time before and being in France they didn't have the same thing. Every few days I do a little wander. In one of the local towns we have a road full of them so I can make a moring of it. Not only doing my bit for charity, making one feel better, but finding some great stuff! I do need to be careful though as I realise this could turn into an obsession quite easily and before I know it I will be sat here under mounds of rubbish!!! For now I have plenty of room left to fill!!
Mums 60th
In the middle of all this we also had Mums 60th birthday. My sister and are owe my Mum such a lot and wanted to do something really special to show her how we feel. Not very easy though when she was adament that all she wanted was a meal in a local pub with me and my girlies, my sister and her kiddies and her partner. We decided to over rule her in the end and book a meal in a lovely restaurant and secretly added her extended family and close friends to the invited. Nervously unsure wether this was the right thing to do and how she would take it, we were very releaved that all went well.
We also said we didn't know what to buy her for her birthday and as she doesn't like waste and would rather have something as a gift that she wants opposed to buying something for the sake of buying it, we both gave her a bit of an IOU with the promise to do something or buy something later when we could afford to do so. Meanwhile we had booked a trip for the 3 of us to New York in the spring next year! What a surprise!!!! Needless to say she is thrilled!!!! As are we!!!!!
We even turned our hands to cake making and decorating! My sister baked a fabulous cake and I set to decorating it. I don't do baking and this is the first time I have tackled fondent icing, well any type of icing really. We couldn't decide what decor to do so in the end I came up with a comic scene to decorate the top of the cake with and then...I don't know how or why......decided that it couldn't really be that difficult to do.....could it???? Several days in......my answer to that is YES it is difficult.
Anyhow,,,,,,,the cake was finished, looked and tasted amazing too. Lots of hours work went into it but it was completely worth. It will be, I will say now, the first and last!!!!!
So there you go lovely people, my recent events!!! No doubt I have missed something, I have tried to be a little more positive than my last post and I hope I haven't frightened you lovely followers away with my negative thinking and depressing previous posting.
ONWARD AND UPWARDS from now on,,,,,,,,,,,I PROMISE!!!!
Lots of love xxxxxx
Thursday, March 28, 2013
A long way to go.......Will I ever get there?
Time to reflect...I have come so far in the last few months yet I feel a million miles away from where I want to be in life. My future seems to be in the hands of everyone else now and that doesn't fill me with much confidence at all.
I have done all I can at this moment. I'm still sat waiting, still sat here lost within myself, knowing I can do nothing, knowing that on the first inspection it appears I have nothing, that I have left everything behind. Yet everything I own is tied up in the hands of someone else with no quick means of releasing it. Living with the bear necessaties of life and wanting, needing and hoping for so much more.
Everyone, I'm sure, thinks I am selfish for making a huge decission to change my life so drastically but do they really see why? Do they see it was for the benefit of my girlies and myself?
Why does it matter what people think? Will their attitudes change when I get where I want to be? People fast forget the huge progress you have made when there is a low point in your life. You truely do find out who is important to you within your family and network of friends when you hit rock bottom. Thankfully I have some fantastic friends helping me through this yet some people close by have surprised me.......well no, not surprised me as I should have known better. The problem being, my rock bottom wasn't caused by me, my methods of sorting out the situation and changing our lives were my decission but I still see and maintain I had no other option.
When I look back I have allowed other people to dictate my life to me. Although I was probably in a situation which on the surface appeared great to other people, I know I have actually only had about 12 months in 11 years which were truely happy.
All I have ever tried to do is find happiness, find some calm for myself and my girlies. Why does that bother some people? Why do people make me feel I have to explain myself and my actions? I don't question other peoples lives, everyone lives how they want to, weather they are happy with their lives or not, their lives are their lives, they control them and they are nothing to do with me so why is my life open to discussion?
The future scares me enormously now, waiting fills me with dread, hoping for more seems useless now, not being in control of the situation is terrifing to me. I have a plan yet can't enforce it. I can't allow mysef to wish for things as I can't bear the knock back of dissapointment that it brings.
All I can do is sit and wait. Sit and hope. Have faith that someone somewhere who knows my life path, knows where they are taking me and guides me there sooner rather than later........please!
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Weekend Waffle!!!
Hello friends,
I hope this finds you all well and that you all haven't got this horrendous rain we have which is now taking its toll on my spirit! It feels like Spring is still a long way away.
Anyway .... I finally threw an outfit together for my girlies to wear at school. It turned out ok in the end and they went off smiling with their donations. Its amazing what you can do with a bit of red net!
My comic relief girlie's
My makes
Whilst I was on the local market buying supplies to make these little tu-tu's I was drawn to the haberdasherie section with....yes....the dangerous stuff.....BUTTONS!!! (crafters sweeties!)
I obviously had to have some as their lovely Spring colours called out to me in my craving state for sunshine. The next problem being involving them in a Spring project.
Yes I know,,,,another project when there is so many UNFINISHED projects crying out to be finished.
In the end I opted for a quick and easy Grannie Cushion. I don't even have anywhere to put it yet but decided to use this spare time I seem to have an abundance of at present to get ahead of myself on little makes I can decorate my new home with. My new home that I haven't even found yet, let alone moved into. However it gives me something to concentrate on and I know what it will look like when I do find it and also how it will be decorated.
I love it and I think I now need to make another in a different colour way!
Discoveries
The smell of the library takes me back donkeys years too. I can't explain it but its just a calming and pleasant experiance. A bit of time out from the hustle and bustle of life outside the Library walls.
My girlies came along and we all have a new library card and can spend some quality time together away from the TV.
They were really funny, I don't think they GET the concept really! That you are allowed to take several books for several weeks.....without paying for them.....then swap them for some new ones??????! They looked at me like I was talking jibberish!
It was a lovely hour spent after school all together. Clutching their piles of well chosen books and their membership cards they were beaming.
My eldest Girlie Wirlie chose a kiddies craft book and a fancy dress book....yey! I will be having a sneaky peak! Also a book about the Queen. (She is definately a mini me! My Girlie not the Queen of course!!!) Then they sat reading out facts and dates like " When was the Queens Coronation?" or "How old was the Queen when she had Prince Charles?"...........I do have all the answers should anyone want them!
I'm really pleased at the interest she has shown and like I say, it doesn't involve a TV, DS or a mobile!!! RESULT!!
I also found two interesting books to bring home with me. "Crochet Accessories" and "Shed Chic".
I have been flicking through them both. The Shed Chic has some lovely shed conversions, offices, workspaces and studios. The photos are lovely.
They brought back memories of my poor little "Vintage Suzie" caravan still sat in France without me.
I miss her. I don't know if I will get her back but I hope so. I have spent many a happy hour in there with my basket of yarn and hook, tea and chocolate. I love her so.
I took out all my caravan chintzy bits and bobs so at least I have those here as a reminder but she is bare without them and all on her lonesome sat in dreary Normandy. She needs love and chintz and clutter!
Hopefully one day we may be reunited again.
I discovered these chicken coops. Aren't they fab! Take a peek!
And when I win the Lotto this gorgeous little caravan will be parked on my estate!
Oh to dream!
And finally.......... a finished project!
TA-DAH!!!..........One finished baby blanket.
I think it looks quite sweet. Scarey to think in a few short months it will have a loving new owner! AAAAAHHHHHH
There you have it. My recent events and waffle!!
I'm going off now to have a major tidy up as my lovely Mum is on her way home from a sunny beach (God she will get a shock with the temperature difference) and I haven't done a great deal since she left other than the essentials, hooving and washing up! My ironing pile is HUGE!!
So HI HO...Its off to work I go !!!!!!!!
Best wishes
Nicky xx
Monday, March 11, 2013
Red nose day fancy dress........HELP!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!
Morning ladies....and gents.......although not sure how many gentlemen tune into my blog apart from my family and good friends. So Morning Everyone!
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Mine was rather lazy but it was supposed to be so it went to plan.
So today I am sat frantically trying to think of 2 more fancy dress ideas for my girlie's for Friday's Red Nose Day!
Im scouring the web for inspiration and not coming up with much really.
Looks like it is going to be a trip to the market and some more sewing projects!!! A few late nights for me on the horizon then!
We had one fancy dress day a year at the girlie's school in France and all year to prepare for it but this is the second in their 3rd week of school.
Brilliant fun for the girlie's and great for the charities involved but not so great for me who took the, obviously wrong decission I see now, to not bring over all their fancy dress box of clothes just yet as we were short of room! Never mind, its keeping me busy and something else to think about!
So Im off in the search of stripy tights, netting for tu-tu's, T'shirts to decorate!!
Anyone with any bright ideas???? Im open to suggestions, 2 outfits needed, cost is also an issue and time is a factor too!
Thank you in advance
Best wishes for a happy Monday.
Nicky xx
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Dear My Mum.
Another Mothers Day arrives,
The years seem like they fly,
I'm happy to be able to say,
For this year, I'm close by.
For every year I'm miles away,
Unable to share with you,
What should be a very special day,
With lots of hugs and fun things to do.
I can not express just how I feel,
All the things you do for me,
The love, the support, the help you give,
It comes ever constantly.
I'm so proud to have a Mum like you,
So special you'll always be,
Even living together now,
Fills my heart with glee!
Peas in the pod we've always been,
So how we cope......remains to be seen.
In your little house we all squash in,
Close and cozy like beans in a tin!
With a house full of girlie's,
And just one loo,
First up and dressed is a challenge too!
Our nightly chats and bags of crisps,
Chocolate, wine and nibbles too,
Taste so much better now,
I'm sharing them with you.
I've missed all the times we could have had,
Whilst living across the sea,
But happy to be home again,
Close by with you and me.
I love you more than I could ever say,
and pleased we are together,
To share a laugh or a special day
I hope it lasts forever.
Happy Mothers Day Mum!
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Crochet progress, bumps again, fancy dress and yummy treats!! Bit of a mixed bag but what the hell!
Hello friends
As I said recently I was tackling some new projects. Just simple grannies, things I can do without having to think about it. They are so calming and seem to have helped me stay relatively sane recently. As soon as I'm hett up I dig out my needle and do another grannie.
Also having the selection of wool I have to hand here in the UK is a help, not only a good choice of colours and material but competative prices too compared to that in Europe.
I am finding my inspiration making steady progress as well as my grannies.
SO here we have a few part made blankets ready to make a half-time appearence. They aren't ready for a big TA DAH moment yet but keep watching I have very little else to do with my time just now.
Firstly my OWN blanket,,,,,, it makes a change to be able to say OWN,,,,,,,usually they are for my girlies!
I promised to make myself a HUGE multi coloured delight and here it is coming together nicely.
Then after reading Mollie Makes this month I jumped onto the idea of using the multicoloured baby type wool,,,,sorry I don't know the correct terminology for it but you know what I mean....to make My Bump a cot blanket!
BUMP....yes you heard right.....I have another BUMP!! Hopefully only until the start of July then I will be back to normal and in my jeans again!
Anyway,, going slightly off track there....sorry about that.
Here are my neat little grannies awaiting sewing together. How lovely they look, sat patiently waiting to be made into some delightful little cosy blanket . It was an unexpected project to start but aren't they all? I like the idea that it has come together quickly and is looking quite cute even if the colours are rather pale for me.
In the middle of it all I have spent 2 nights frantically making costumes for World Book Day!
Its not an easy task when you need to find two different fancy dress outfits that must be characters from well known books. Especially when my girlies are very specific at what they will and not wear!
In the end we opted for Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy from Wizard of Oz.
We now have red glitter all over the house from Dorothy's red glittery shoes I spent an hour glueing!!! Tu-Tu underskirts......??!!! You know the ones made from itchy net your mother used to put you in? Well I had to make two of them to go under their summer dresses that, thankfully, I didn't have to make. Two aprons also.
What you need to realise is this.....I am useless at any form of dress making type projects, they are just too intricate for me to concentrate on. Also my MUMMY is away sunning herself on a lovely beach so I couldn't call upon her expert opinion to guide me through how to do this, let alone talk her into doing them for me. Pity.
So I am proud to say "I did it"......"On my own!" ......."With NO help." They might not be the best outfits ever but Alice, Dorothy and I were all quite pleased with the outcome!!!!
This weekend will involve plenty of peace and quiet..hopefully that is, with some homely luxuries thrown in, my favorite being sticky hot cross buns and steaming tea...........Oh I love this time of year filled with sweet yummy treats.
I will then crack on with my grannies and a bit of cosy reading or Molly Makes and my Mums new Enid Blyton book, Naughty Amelia Jane......I'm really looking forward to that although she said it was bought for my girlies to read I think I might have to see if I can add it to my collection! On loan of course!
I hope everyone has a nice Mothers Day weekend with lots of cosy, snuggly treats and that you get to spend it with your special Mummy's, if not in person, in thought.
Speak soon my lovelies.......Happy crafting!
Best wishes
Nicky xxx
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Vintage craft fair, new friends and High School offers!
Good afternoon Lovlies.....
I just bobbed in tell you about my lovely morning.
Those who know me, know I have only just come back to the UK after 8 years living in the back and beyond in France. Nothing goes on there so my usual weekend would entail cleaning, maybe a little walk, some grocery shopping, tv watching and possibly a visit to see my lovely friend..........miss you honey.......anyway, the weekend would come and go without much occuring.
TODAY HOWEVER............Mum and I went into town and were utterly delighted when we stumbled upon a Vintage and Craft Fair. Oh the JOY!!!!! What a lovely morning we had. With lots of stalls from crafters and fellow bloggers, an adorable little tea room with delicious home made scones and tea served in cute vintage china tea cups and saucers.......Oh I was in my element and can't wait for the next one. As a Vintage Fair virgin (not through choice but through living in the sticks) I can't think of a better way to spend a weekend and can't wait to be able to find some more events the same.
It has given me lots of inspiration and kicked me up the "you-know-what" to get a shift on with my new blanket.
I would also like to say "Hello" to my new followers....I love meeting new people even if only by the World Wide Web!!! Life's bringing me lots of new things at the moment....new challenges, new friends, (to add to my oldest bestest friends I might add,,,not to replace!!!!!!) new experiences, new places to visit or places I forgot about or was not particularly interested in several years ago but now I find fascinating. All these new things are keeping me going, keeping me sane and calmer. So thank you everyone for your comments, your support, not only to my followers but to my lovely family and friends who are putting up with me just now. Love you lots and please bear with me whilst I travel through this challenging period in my life. I will hopefully come out the other side stronger than before and up for everything.
My two oldest daughters have been an absolute credit this week. I am so proud of them as whilst Im sat here worry about my challenges and worries ahead, I have to remind myself that they
have had a difficult week too and come out the other side smiling.
They have both started a new Primary School this week. Completely different to what they were used to as its a UK school and they have up until now tackled all their school lives in French Schools. Im so so very proud of them how they have settled in already. My eldest girlie wirlie has just received her offer for Senior School where she will be off to in September. Feeling rather excited and scared at the same time!! I'm pleased with our offer and glad we are finally making plans that go past the next week or so because that is as far as I can bear to think and plan just now.
My likkle girlie growing to quickly!!!! Please stop now!!! Where does time go?
So there you have it, my waffle for the weekend. I hope the weekend is treating you all kind and there is lots of crafting going on!
Best wishes, speak soon
Nicky xxx
I just bobbed in tell you about my lovely morning.
Those who know me, know I have only just come back to the UK after 8 years living in the back and beyond in France. Nothing goes on there so my usual weekend would entail cleaning, maybe a little walk, some grocery shopping, tv watching and possibly a visit to see my lovely friend..........miss you honey.......anyway, the weekend would come and go without much occuring.
TODAY HOWEVER............Mum and I went into town and were utterly delighted when we stumbled upon a Vintage and Craft Fair. Oh the JOY!!!!! What a lovely morning we had. With lots of stalls from crafters and fellow bloggers, an adorable little tea room with delicious home made scones and tea served in cute vintage china tea cups and saucers.......Oh I was in my element and can't wait for the next one. As a Vintage Fair virgin (not through choice but through living in the sticks) I can't think of a better way to spend a weekend and can't wait to be able to find some more events the same.
It has given me lots of inspiration and kicked me up the "you-know-what" to get a shift on with my new blanket.
I would also like to say "Hello" to my new followers....I love meeting new people even if only by the World Wide Web!!! Life's bringing me lots of new things at the moment....new challenges, new friends, (to add to my oldest bestest friends I might add,,,not to replace!!!!!!) new experiences, new places to visit or places I forgot about or was not particularly interested in several years ago but now I find fascinating. All these new things are keeping me going, keeping me sane and calmer. So thank you everyone for your comments, your support, not only to my followers but to my lovely family and friends who are putting up with me just now. Love you lots and please bear with me whilst I travel through this challenging period in my life. I will hopefully come out the other side stronger than before and up for everything.
My two oldest daughters have been an absolute credit this week. I am so proud of them as whilst Im sat here worry about my challenges and worries ahead, I have to remind myself that they
have had a difficult week too and come out the other side smiling.
They have both started a new Primary School this week. Completely different to what they were used to as its a UK school and they have up until now tackled all their school lives in French Schools. Im so so very proud of them how they have settled in already. My eldest girlie wirlie has just received her offer for Senior School where she will be off to in September. Feeling rather excited and scared at the same time!! I'm pleased with our offer and glad we are finally making plans that go past the next week or so because that is as far as I can bear to think and plan just now.
My likkle girlie growing to quickly!!!! Please stop now!!! Where does time go?
So there you have it, my waffle for the weekend. I hope the weekend is treating you all kind and there is lots of crafting going on!
Best wishes, speak soon
Nicky xxx
Sunday, February 10, 2013
How life changes........
I would have never have believed this time last year that my life would have completely changed direction as much as it has done this last 8 months.
You seem to roll along, sometimes with a plan, sometimes just going from day to day. Then one day..........WHAM.........all change now!
Mine has taken me from running my own business in my dream house to now having taken the somewhat quick decission to upsticks and get my girlies back to our roots in Blighty!!!! Although it seems to have been a quick decission to most, once I arrived at my decission there was no point sitting and thinking about it any longer or trying to find reasons not to do what my heart tells me I need to do.
We have been through a lot recently but the future is waiting for us and our new life has slowly begun. With lots still left to do we are taking each day slowly, slowly finding our feet again.
We are being well looked after by "Mum" and would happily stay here forever if it weren't for the fact we need some more room!
So.........
Challenge one: Find a suitable house to set up our new life and make a cosy nest!
Challenge two: Spend some well needed quality time together!
oh........and inbetween doing these challenges start my new granny blanket with the wool I have just unpacked!!!!!!!
Onwards and upwards...........
I hope everyone in blog world are well and having a nice weekend.
Best wishes
Nicky
xxx
You seem to roll along, sometimes with a plan, sometimes just going from day to day. Then one day..........WHAM.........all change now!
Mine has taken me from running my own business in my dream house to now having taken the somewhat quick decission to upsticks and get my girlies back to our roots in Blighty!!!! Although it seems to have been a quick decission to most, once I arrived at my decission there was no point sitting and thinking about it any longer or trying to find reasons not to do what my heart tells me I need to do.
We have been through a lot recently but the future is waiting for us and our new life has slowly begun. With lots still left to do we are taking each day slowly, slowly finding our feet again.
We are being well looked after by "Mum" and would happily stay here forever if it weren't for the fact we need some more room!
So.........
Challenge one: Find a suitable house to set up our new life and make a cosy nest!
Challenge two: Spend some well needed quality time together!
oh........and inbetween doing these challenges start my new granny blanket with the wool I have just unpacked!!!!!!!
Onwards and upwards...........
I hope everyone in blog world are well and having a nice weekend.
Best wishes
Nicky
xxx
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Just a quick Hello
Good morning,
I am just popping in to say a quick Hello to you all. I am still here, still frantically packing boxes and binning rubbish,,,,,,,,,,,,,it feels really quite liberating to be honest being able to chuck stuff away!
Hopefully this time next week I will be sorted, packed up and eagerly waiting my departure to my new life, unless someone pops up to scupper my plans!
So I must dash now, once I am settled back into Mums (can't wait) I will have the time to catch up, sort out my photos and get some much needed crocheting done, which I am missing so much as all my new yarn is packed up!
Cheerio for now!!!!!!
Best wishes
Nicky xx
I am just popping in to say a quick Hello to you all. I am still here, still frantically packing boxes and binning rubbish,,,,,,,,,,,,,it feels really quite liberating to be honest being able to chuck stuff away!
Hopefully this time next week I will be sorted, packed up and eagerly waiting my departure to my new life, unless someone pops up to scupper my plans!
So I must dash now, once I am settled back into Mums (can't wait) I will have the time to catch up, sort out my photos and get some much needed crocheting done, which I am missing so much as all my new yarn is packed up!
Cheerio for now!!!!!!
Best wishes
Nicky xx
Saturday, January 19, 2013
A belated Happy New Year to you all.....
Well.........sorrry its late (you will understand why it is when I fill you in on the last few weeks) but Happy New Year.........May 2013 bring everyone good health, happiness and joy.
So my last few weeks.........where to start. I have payed a long overdue visit back the UK to see my lovely familly and friends. I had an absolutely fabulous time and really felt at home there with my girlies, at peace, calm and relaxed. (oh and more importantly, I stocked up on yarn!!!!!! YYYYIIIPPPEEEEEE!!!!!!
As I said on a previous posting, my Christmas this year was somewhat different to what I'm used to and I have to admit I didn't really enjoy it at all. Away from my family and friends, immersed into unknown traditions and cultures that I didn't particularly enjoy or agree with. It was supposed to be the first lovely Christmas with my farmer, the first as a new family and I ended up feeling so low and realised exactly what I wanted out of life and my future and unfortunately this was not it at all.
I sat on Boxing Day evening when the electric went off for 3 hours in the dark, by myself, just me and my thoughts and there it was....clear as a bell,,,,,this life isn't for me anymore, I want to do whats right for me and my girls, I had had enough. My mind was made up.........I had to make a serious lifestyle change. A lifestyle change that I knew was going to be so difficult to undertake but was a "Must do" for my survival.
I went over to the UK to spend some quality time with my family over the New Year to clear my mind and focus on the future and how I was going to get where I wanted to be. Like I said, I had a lovely time and came back desperately upset that I needed to come home at all but knowing I needed to to be able to deal with everything to set up my future happiness and that of my girlies.
Within a week of coming back I had packed up, moved back into my house (shared with my ex) and started frantically packing ready for a huge move for the girls and I back to the UK, back to where I came from, back to my family and friends, back to where I know, to what I know, to the calm and peace of mind and back to my mother tongue!!
I'm still here busily packing, cleaning, organising and although feeling rather panic stricken when I think about what Im about to undertake, I also feel quite excited and positive and can imagine the weight being lifted from my shoulders. I have thought positive thoughts as oftern as possible and this has helped me greatly with every huge hurdle that I have jumped the last few weeks and there have been some horrible ones to jump. I know completely 100% that it is the right thing to do for me and my girls even though I know it will upset some people on the way. I have had to be very selfish and think of just me and my girls and no one else. However I would question: "why does is it feel as if you are being selfish to think of ones self and no one else?" ...........hmmm?
Anyway,,,, that's it in a nutshell. I have had to find a new home for my poor 2 little piggies, but they went happily yesterday to a huge field with lots of other farmyard friends and hopefully they are going to be very happy there. I have also had to let go my classic MG BG T, sold today. These were essential things I have had to let go of to help me get where I am going. I will be where I want to be this time next month and most definatley this time 2014 my life will look rather rosie. Why???????????? Because I am thinking positive and I have told myself my life will be happy, calm and prosperous!
So if you don't hear from me in a while, do keep an eye out, I will be back as soon as I get a mo to fill you in on my progress.
In the meantime best wishes to you all
Love Nicky xxxx
So my last few weeks.........where to start. I have payed a long overdue visit back the UK to see my lovely familly and friends. I had an absolutely fabulous time and really felt at home there with my girlies, at peace, calm and relaxed. (oh and more importantly, I stocked up on yarn!!!!!! YYYYIIIPPPEEEEEE!!!!!!
As I said on a previous posting, my Christmas this year was somewhat different to what I'm used to and I have to admit I didn't really enjoy it at all. Away from my family and friends, immersed into unknown traditions and cultures that I didn't particularly enjoy or agree with. It was supposed to be the first lovely Christmas with my farmer, the first as a new family and I ended up feeling so low and realised exactly what I wanted out of life and my future and unfortunately this was not it at all.
I sat on Boxing Day evening when the electric went off for 3 hours in the dark, by myself, just me and my thoughts and there it was....clear as a bell,,,,,this life isn't for me anymore, I want to do whats right for me and my girls, I had had enough. My mind was made up.........I had to make a serious lifestyle change. A lifestyle change that I knew was going to be so difficult to undertake but was a "Must do" for my survival.
I went over to the UK to spend some quality time with my family over the New Year to clear my mind and focus on the future and how I was going to get where I wanted to be. Like I said, I had a lovely time and came back desperately upset that I needed to come home at all but knowing I needed to to be able to deal with everything to set up my future happiness and that of my girlies.
Within a week of coming back I had packed up, moved back into my house (shared with my ex) and started frantically packing ready for a huge move for the girls and I back to the UK, back to where I came from, back to my family and friends, back to where I know, to what I know, to the calm and peace of mind and back to my mother tongue!!
I'm still here busily packing, cleaning, organising and although feeling rather panic stricken when I think about what Im about to undertake, I also feel quite excited and positive and can imagine the weight being lifted from my shoulders. I have thought positive thoughts as oftern as possible and this has helped me greatly with every huge hurdle that I have jumped the last few weeks and there have been some horrible ones to jump. I know completely 100% that it is the right thing to do for me and my girls even though I know it will upset some people on the way. I have had to be very selfish and think of just me and my girls and no one else. However I would question: "why does is it feel as if you are being selfish to think of ones self and no one else?" ...........hmmm?
Anyway,,,, that's it in a nutshell. I have had to find a new home for my poor 2 little piggies, but they went happily yesterday to a huge field with lots of other farmyard friends and hopefully they are going to be very happy there. I have also had to let go my classic MG BG T, sold today. These were essential things I have had to let go of to help me get where I am going. I will be where I want to be this time next month and most definatley this time 2014 my life will look rather rosie. Why???????????? Because I am thinking positive and I have told myself my life will be happy, calm and prosperous!
So if you don't hear from me in a while, do keep an eye out, I will be back as soon as I get a mo to fill you in on my progress.
In the meantime best wishes to you all
Love Nicky xxxx
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