Weekending...

My weekend has mostly been a scramble of decorating, sewing, crochet, much much tidying up and rather a lot of football. I haven't taken any pictures of the decorating because a) who wants to see pics of decorating? b) painting over a  white wall with more white paint is incredibly frustrating! We are going to be moving house but ours needs a bit of TLC before we put it on the market, hence a large amount of 'touching bits up' filling holes and generally de cluttering ( that last one could take a while, I'm quite the collector of clutter!)

I also got chance to finish my bag

 and do some more work on my rainbow heirloom blanket ....

Saturday we had really stormy weather and spent most of the day inside snuggling and watching films..actually the kids went swimming with Martin and shopping and to the park and I did the decorating but *some* of it was spent snuggling under blankets.

the sunset was beautiful though *almost worth the torrential rain*

Sunday we took it in turns to take Jamie to various football matches he was playing in. Some people ran around the garden in their pants, and some people lounged in the sun, neither of which were me!

Right need to get on now, my 'to do' list is double sided and I've only managed 3 things so far!  xxxx

Hello, Hello!

I'm back! Again!

Lets have a little catch up shall we :)

Here are the little lovelies

Here is lovely no1 Maya- now 13 ?!!! How did that happen? Yes thats a mermaid scarecrow!

Here is lovely no2 Jamie, looking casual with a parrott, he's now 10!

Lovely no3, Sonny is 8!!

And the littlest of all the lovelies Millie is 3.

How everyone has grown. Maya loves to bake and draw and sing and dance,Jamie is mad on football and minecraft, Sonny is still my lover of all living creatures, but has swapped dinosaurs for lego and bushcraft and Millie is a wonderful, funny happy, bolshie little 3 year old. We've still got our little van ( although its possibly going to be sold now due to being a very old quite poorly little van who needs lots of expensive help) we've built a cob oven in the back garden, my dreads have gone, and been replaced by short hair which is currently lilac, and me and Martin are still happily un married!

 Since my last post 2 YEARS AGO, wow, I have started a little business with my lovely friend Kirstie. Its a web based Eco shop called EcoCreate. Its an online marketplace specialising in UK, Handmade, eco friendly arts and crafts. You can create your own shop to sell your crafty creations( or just buy other peoples )  There's lots of other stuff on there too, tutes, supplies, books vintage etc etc. I could go on and on but I'll shut up!It is here if you'd like a look ;)

www.eco-create.co.uk

I've got a shop on their myself too. The Captain & Lovely where I really get to indulge myself in all things yarny and teacuppy!

I've really got into yarn dyeing recently too. So now I can supplement my yarn obsession ;)

What else do we have to catch up with, well we've still got the chickens, although only two now as Terra ran away, and we don't have the hammy hamsters anymore. Still loving the green smoothies, still obsessed with craft and still having lots of fun and mayhem with the lovelies. Lets not leave it 2 years until the next post!

Sharing some pics in attempt to work out how to get them spaced out rather than all at the end of the post :-/

Chattering away ...

'hello mummeee ' 'look mummeee' 'cat!' 'hello cat!'
And already at the age of 18 months ' Millie quick come here !!! '

'why?'

Where did my tiny baby go ?

Cooooeeeeeee!!!

hello ! im back , all be it with bad punctuation and no capital s ( why phone? why ? )

we're all good , my little lovelies are now 11, 8 ( tomorrow !! ) 5 and 1 !! that lovely little baby is now a robust , climbing , exploring , cheeky little , boobyfeeding , babyworn toddler! i will add a bit more later but really i want to check this actually works ( posting from my phone dontcha know ;)

4 months

She is nearly 4 months old !!!!! Doesnt time fly when your having fun ........

Still here

We haven't disappeared of the face of the earth . We have been very busy with Yule,Christmas , my birthday (33 eeeek!) new year , tonsilitis , possibly scarlet fever, bronchiolitis , a hospital stay, tears , laughter and quite a bit of driving . Oh and i'm not sure where i've put the camera so we have 1 photo .
Millie is 11 weeks old now , i cant believe how fast the time is going , i want it to stop and keep her this age forever , but then i think that at every age. The little home born baby has stayed in hospital for the first time now , and having stayed there for three days it just confirmed how right it was having her at home.
She is much better now , now if Sonny can just recover from his mystery illness we should have a full bill of health. It seems that we have gone years with out any illness to speak of only to catch everything going in the last few months .booooooo.
Anyway we are still here and full of new years resolutions that haven't quite kicked in yet , to be on time (hhhmmn) to declutter ( desperately needed!) to put things back where they came from ( altogether now!) to eat better ( slipped a bit) to get fitter ( cough) to keep Trash and the Folksy shop updated ( done see link ) and finally to get up earlier ( hahahahahahahah) well a girl should have something to aspire to.....

http://www.folksy.com/shops/MamaTrash