Monday 31 December 2012

Oh How True ....


I intend to write the best seat gripping true life novel ever about

a mother and her 7 wonderful and inspiring children

Get the popcorn at the ready!!!  :-)

Have a Safe and happy journey into 2013 all

xxxxxx


Out with the old In with the new!

Just wish to say Happy New Year to you all xxx

Thank you to all my followers and all the lovely comments you leave.  I just love them all. Without you and your kind words my blog wouldn't be a pleasure to do xxx

 Safe passage into 2013

Lots of love

 Heather
 xxxxx

Sunday 30 December 2012

Tatty Teddy ...

Hello all!

Here is the little fella ...


He is a cutie :-)

This is probably my last finish for 2012 .... I hope there will be plenty more finishes in 2013!

I started an AOY (All Our Yesterdays) kit last niht and I have quite a bit done already so I am so delighted with myself

Have a good evening all

xxxxxx

Saturday 29 December 2012

Christmas Present Finish

Good Evening all

I thought I would just quickly show this off ...


I stitched this for my 'to-be' Son-In-Law for his Christmas present!  He loves it :-)

For 2 nights just after Christmas the kids were with their father so I had a great stitching session once I recovered from all the hard work of Christmas that is!!  I finished the Tatty Teddy kit my mum gave me and now I am stitching an All Our Yesterdays kit.  I will post photos in the morning.

I did try and stitch on my Fairy Grandmother but it was too dull and I struggled to see the holes in the fabric so I think she will be a summer project with good daylight!!  So I am going to go through my stash of smaller kits for now.

Have a great evening

Love me xxxx


Wednesday 26 December 2012

Hope you are all enjoying ....

CHRISTMAS!!!!

Hello and Merry Boxing Day to you all!  I hope you all had a great Christmas Day.

My kiddies had a ball opening all their Santa presents.  A fabulous day all round .... Thanks Santa!!

(Lots of photos)

(L-R) Ryan's, Cara's and Katie's Presents

(L-R) Conor's, Laura's and Marks presents
(L-R) Mine and James' presents

Laura, Mark, Conor and Ryan

Katie

Conor

Mark

Cara and Laura

Mark, Conor and Ryan

James

My Santa Presents :-) 

Laura, Ryan, Mark, Cara and Katie

The children are all made up with what Santa brought from them!  Cara delighted with her Doll House as she always saw this in Asda and would squeal whenever we went in there as she wanted to play with it.  It got so bad in the end we stopped taking her in there lol!!  She imagine her face when she opened the big parcel on Christmas Morning!!  She played with it all day and was the first thing she did this morning when she came down stairs :-)

Ryan did a list for Santa and he must have done a very good list with sensible things on because he got all he asked for :-) One happy chappy there!!

Conor wanted  lots of things but didn't really did know what lol!!  Santa did a good job with a mix of his favorite things.

Mark wanted Hot Wheels and Lego so Santa brought him a mix.

Katie wanted Hello Kitty stuff and that's what she go so she is now one great big Hello Kitty girl!!!

Cara got the Doll House and Peppa Pig stuffs

Laura and James both didn't know what they wanted at all so Santa was sensible and got them a few bits and pieces, books and DVD's and left them a packet of money each lol!! 

I had no clue either so asked for a book and chocs ... I got loads .... Kindle Fire HD, book, DVD, perfume and loads of other goodies!!  I got spoiled with loads of surprises :-)

Enjoy the rest of Boxing Day.

Im off to get a bit of stitching done.  Kids away now until Friday so I am chilled out today.  Once the house was quiet it hit me how worn out I was so I just did nothing lol!!!  Two more full days ahead of me so I hope to get some progress on my WIP's

Bye for now

Love Heather
xxxx

Tuesday 18 December 2012

FANTASTIC ...

Hello fellow bloggers

Great news from my little part of the world!!!

Katie had an hospital appointment today and the hole in her heart has closed!!!

We are totally delighted here.  Having such great news a week before Christmas is brilliant!! xxxx

This morning I managed to get the Christmas shopping done. Just the food shopping to do now and all will be ready for the man in the red coat!!!

When I got home from shopping Laura had a surprise for me.... a kindle fire HD :-)
What a great day today has been!!!!!

xxxxxxxxxx

Saturday 15 December 2012

Party with Santa!!!!!

Good Evening bloggers!!

What a fantastic Morning we all had!  We went to party with Santa!!!

Cara and Party food

Katie and Santa

Katie, Mark, Cara and James

Katie, Santa and Mark

Ryan and Santa

Ryan

L-R Cara, Conor, Katie, Santa, Mark and Ryan (at the back)

Conor is in his Karate suit as the Party was in the Community Center where Conor was having his Karate Lesson!  I had to pinch him from his lesson to receive his present from Santa and then again for a group photo which is why Conor has bare feet!!  At least Conor got good exercise running from room to room lol!!

A brilliant morning had by us all!!

This afternoon Laura, Johnny, James and I got the presents wrapped.  I am going to have a little play on the net then get the rest of my assignment finished then I'm as free as a little birdie til after New Year!!

Have a good weekend all

Love me xxxxx


Oh yeah ... P.S to previous post

Nearly forgot .....

Cara's application for Nursery Sept 2013 has been handed into the school :-)

I cannot believe that she will be of age to start the schools Nursery Unit!

Fingers crossed she gets a place!!!

xxxxxxx

Friday 14 December 2012

A catch up post ....

Hello All,

No stitching done this last week as I have been running here, there and everywhere!!

Then in any free time I have been studying and preparing my assignment for my Psychology Open University Course.  This assignment is due in any day now!! Better get my typing fingers on and get it finished off and sent.

I'm not sure if I have said but I have been voted onto the Parents Council at the little children's Primary school ... I am so excited!!  I am Vice Chairperson :-) The children brought a news letter home and there in type on the school letter was my name!!  That made me even more excited!  

I went to a Parents morning at James' school and I am delighted to report that James is doing excellent in his first year of A-Levels.  In fact, and I have the bragging rights lol, James got 100% in his Maths exam!!!   I am just so proud of him.  James is also doing Computers as Physics which he is doing equally as well in both subjects!  His Physics A-Level wasn't taken up in his 'normal' secondary school so he has to travel to another secondary school in the area to do Physics.  So it was very strange going to another secondary school to meet other teachers.  He misses a big chunk of his computer classes which has been 'okayed' by his computer teacher and the teacher is delighted at the extra effort James is putting into the subject to keep up with all work.   

On Tuesday evening the Primary School at the Christmas Concert for year 3-7 and it was just brilliant!  I was so proud once again that Mark, Conor and Ryan did brilliant!  Ryan was on stage playing his recorder and he did very well despite being super nervous beforehand.  I actually shed a few tears as well.  

Over all I am so proud of my children over the last 6 months.  They have shown such courage and strength with the changes in the household since May but also the uncertainty of the previous months before brought. The children have come on leaps and bounds and have settled so much it is like having different children living with me.

I was soooo soooo proud to see them up on the stage singing and playing their little hearts out.  So I am one happy mummy right now!

Over this weekend I hope to get my assignment finished and the last of the presents sorted then I will be back in full stitching mode for the next few weeks. No school runs or running about to do.  Just shut the door and enjoy my children and sewing.  What more can I ask for.  One happy content woman right now, such a big change from 12 months ago .... such a nightmare and thank goodness it is never to be repeated!  Life is brilliant right now.  

Well I had better get my 'homework' done or the kiddies will be grounding me and banning me from the computer lol

A girl cannot be banned from playing out over the holiday period now ha ha ho ho!!

Happy stitching, knitting, crocheting, Card making, Paper Crafting and everything else!!

Lots of love
Me xxxxx


Thursday 6 December 2012

Events of the week

Hello all!



How are you all doing?  All great I hope.

To start off, yesterday evening I discovered I had been awarded a blog award to I am over the moon :-)  This makes a great end to a great day ....

The yesterday Morning I helped out at the Year 1 & 2 Christmas play at the school ... well I dished out the mince pies but its a start and I loved doing it.

I also put myself forward for the parents Council a few weeks ago and I have been voted on as Vice Chairperson.  I cannot wait to get stuck in .... anyway back to the Christmas Play ...

My Katie is in Year 1 so she was in the play and she look adorable all dressed up.  

What a cutie she is

Yesterday evening I collected James from school and he did nothing but talk away and it was fantastic.  We went and did the shopping and once home Laura, James and I started to put up the Christmas Decorations but I must say more giggling and joking went on than putting up decorations!!  We had some good fun!!

James

Our Tree

My Stitching has taken a back seat at the moment as there are lots of things going on with school and Christmas things but by the end of next week I hope to be back with my needle in hand with nothing but Christmas Dinner to plan .... Lets hope my plans go to plan but if they don't then nothing really drastic to fuss over :-)  All school commitments will be done by Tuesday evening so its just myself and Santa to sort out and I've nearly sorted Santa out so he knows what he is delivering here :-)   

Ryan has challenged me to stitch ...

'Time To Stitch' from a recent Cross Stitch Magazine
I have made a small start but will dig into it and have a good stitching session next week on it and knock Ryans socks off with the progress I make!!

Well its bed time for me ...

'See' you all soon

Love me 

xxxxx

Wednesday 5 December 2012

I've been awarded the Liebster Award

I am really delighted to have received the 'Liebster Award'

Thank you so very much to myfrozensunshine for my reward xxx



What is the Liebster Award?

Liebster is German for 'dearest', and the award is given to up-and-coming blogger s with less than 200 followers who deserve recognition and support to keep them blogging.

Many, many thanks Lesleyanne for the award.  I am so delighted that you chose me :-)

I have awarded the Liebster Award to:-

Miss Linda lee

Chris

Ryan

stephie

fiorie


Here are the rules, if you choose to accept.

1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.

2.  Link back to the blogger who awarded you.

3.  Copy and paste the award to your blog.

4.  Nominated 5 blogs, that you enjoy to receive the award, who have less than 200 followers.

5.  Inform them of their nomination by leaving a comment on their blog.


Congratulations and many thanks once again to Lesleyanne for the award xxx



Saturday 1 December 2012

What a week!

Hello!!

Well this week has seen myself and a few of the kiddies with heavy colds but also a few things to do.

The most exciting being taking Cara to Open Day at Nursery.  She enjoyed being there to begin with but soon got restless and wanted to go and find her siblings .... oooo so cute of her!  I was amazed because with Katie being in a full day at school now the other children get the bus so we don't do school runs to school and haven't since last June. I am very impressed that Cara actually remembered going to the school!  Way to go Cara, clever girlie for a grand old age of 2!

Here she is in the car waiting to go!!

Take me to Nursery Mummy!!


This weekend sees me getting stuck into an assignment for my Open University Course then doing a bit of stitching :-)

Happy 1st of December all :-)

Take care, lots of love me xxxxxx