Fantastic Plastic

Whilst sorting out my photos out for March and April I came across these photos of recent plastic purchases which I had forgotten to share.

First up is a set of snack boxes I bought as part of a friend's birthday gift, purchased from dotcomgiftshop. I'm not sure if I like the deer or the toadstools most. Thankfully she liked them all and the extra little gifts I popped inside each of them. Too cute.

And from the toy section(!) in Sainsbury's I bought these star and flower shaped cake cases. Although I have baked cakes since buying them I have forgotten to use them, good excuse to make more cakes I reckon!

I have spent a very frustrating time this evening with Blogger as apparently I have used up all my free space.
So I have been looking at various options. I have now begun to delete my posts from the start of the blog to the end of 2009 as I have converted them into a PDF and saved them with a view to printing them out. It's something I was thinking of doing at some stage but this situation has made me get on with it.

Bank Holiday Weekend

Not the busiest of weekends. The wet weather, like it has been for lots of others, has been one factor and another is that although G is getting on well with his recovery a day out would be too much for him at this stage.

Saturday morning S and I went to a craft fair. This was a fundraising event organised by a friend of mine. I bought this Jubilee inspired brooch/rosette kit which I made up and pinned on my Cath Kidston bag. I am so in love with it.

G's mum and sister came to visit on Sunday. G's mum gave me this beautiful bunch of tulips and G had his own special floral gift too....

....a painting she had done for him of a field of poppies.

Miraculously there was some of this this afternoon, blue sky!

We went for a short walk to Telegraph Woods in the hope of finding some bluebells.

Just like the blue sky the bluebells weren't plentiful, we found more of a trickle of blue than a sea of blue, 

but all was not lost as we found a lot of mud to get stuck in

a recently cut tree stump with all the lines showing up so perfectly

and a rope swing which provided a lot of fun and laughter

and washing. The other side of S, which can't be seen in this photo, was caked in mud when she fell off!

Happy highlights from a wet weekend.

Thrifty Thursday

I have had some really good buys during this past week, dare I mention even a couple of brand new items at very reasonable prices which will be Christmas presents for S.

Here are three of my favourites.

First up a water jug for £1.00. Can't believe this was left on the shelf of the charity shop I volunteer in for over a week, but I'm glad no-one else bought it so it got to be mine.

Star patterned fleece for £1.50. This may be used as a picnic rug, or it may stay indoors for snuggling, haven't decided yet.

Card organiser/filing box for £2.00. I have seen these many times before in the Phoenix catalogue and drooled over them. The selection of cards I have, that were in all jumbled and stuffed away in a drawer, have now been stowed away much more neatly and I feel a bit more organised.

Sunshine and Showers

There has just been so much rain recently and at the weekend it was a case of if you can't beat them join them as S and I had a bit of a crafting session and made our own rain clouds complete with rainbow coloured raindrops inspired by another Pinterest pin

Yesterday we did have some sunshine which tempted G outside for the first time since his op. Thank you to all who have asked after him, he is doing well.


More sunshine arrived at the weekend, this time in the form of an award from Marina. Thank you so much for nominating me for the Sunshine award, it made my day. Please pop over to meet Marina and her lovely children at her blog where she writes about her life and all the things she loves.

April Scavenger Hunt

I haven't managed to collect all the items in the scavenger hunt this month and so I am posting a day early. I am pleased with the ones I did get, though I blame the weather and the various hospital visits for lack of opportunity to complete it in full!

So here are the 9 out of 12 I did do.

Spring- spring flowers in town, planted out as a Union Jack in honour of the Queen's Jubilee. I love this so much I have started to use it as the wallpaper on my laptop.

Multi-coloured- multi-coloured plastic eggs hiding Easter chocolate treats.

Sticky- S had a sticky face after eating this candyfloss.

Direction- we went bowling during the school holiday back at the start of the month and so here we have the lane markings pointing in the direction of the remaining pins which will hopefully soon be in a downwards direction!

On the move- the sun was out and it was so warm when I came home from work on Friday I didn't want to waste it so S and I went down for a walk along the shore. The Queen Mary was on the move out of the docks, no doubt to somewhere an awful lot warmer.

Smile- smiles all round on Saturday afternoon when Saints were promoted to the Championship! This was hastily snapped off the TV.

Rock- half a stick of rock which was in the fridge. Part of a thank you present from our neighbours to us for feeding their cat when they went away.

In/Out- I was so pleased with this one which again I took during the school holidays. Some of the tulips are in bud and some are out in bloom, some in the sunlight and some out of it.

Tangle- this is S's hair brush, we use a tangle teeser as recommended by the hairdressers for her lovely curly hair. Apparently it was a product idea which was rejected in the Dragon's Den but which the inventor has gone on to be very successful with. Certainly works for S.

The ones I didn't get were 'amazing', 'can't live without' and 'indulgence'. All of which I could say there are plenty of on this blog already, they can be found within the hundreds of photos of my wonderful little family!

A Right Royal Cuppa

Could not resist buying this box of tea bags from the 99p shop today.

No idea what they taste like as yet but I think I shall have to use my red, white and blue teapot when it's time to make a cup of tea or two.

Anyone care to join me?

Who's in the Box?

As a little treat for having to under go his op G ordered himself a new guitar. It arrived in a big box on Tuesday and so it was here for him when he came home on Wednesday. 

As we all know cats love boxes, 

but Malcolm wasn't the only member of the household who couldn't resist a little investigation!

Unfortunately although G did get to try out his new toy it was a brief experience as he went back into hospital on Friday morning. He was in vast amounts of pain and had to have a MRI scan to check that the discs hadn't re-ruptured or that any other various horrid things hadn't happened. Thankfully that all proved to be tickety-boo and so it is a case of getting his pain levels under control. Hopefully he'll be home tomorrow or Tuesday. And hopefully today the flat tyre I got yesterday can be sorted, just when I really need the darn car too!