Monday 28 July 2008

Its been hot....

.... the last few days. Too hot for me really but I must not grumble because its so rare!

We have a little visitor to our little garden



a little mousie who comes and pinches the bird food. he is so sweet. A mouse in the house no way! But as long as he stays in the garden I am happy for him to visit. A neighbour's cat does frequent our garden too so I hope they never meet.

I found out this week end I had been nominated for the creative blogger award by Raised by Poodles




Here are the rules of the award:
1. The winner may put the logo on her blog.
2. Put a link to the person you got the award from.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to the blogs.
5. Leave a message for your nominees

It is so hard to choose people to nominate and you may have been nominated before:

Renee

Sally

Shashi

Milly

Kate

Its nearly holiday time again and one of the big ssues for me is... toilets. I have a real problem with yucky ones but at the same time grumble at the fact that in some places you can pay as much as 50p for an inadequate standard. Well no more I received my latest copy of
New Internationalist

on Saturday and there are so many people in the world with no toilet at all and so many modesty issues for women that i promise never to grumble again.

I am going to be busy this week sewing beads on Mother Nature's leaves! Le Tour is over and so I must ge back to it.
I have also got to do a CV form form my teaching supply agency. How does a fed up teacher at the end of her career market her self? (Gosh how I hate that term)

Wednesday 2 July 2008

I did this.

Elizabeth bought me some brilliant things for my birthday in May, among them was this



It actually came as a kit with the bubblewrap, cloth and instructions on how to felt. So yesterday I decided to have a go and came up with this



It was great fun and although I probably was a bit impatient and didn't do all the stages for long enough,was over generous with the soap it came out OK. I resisted the easy option to do the flower design shown on the instructions and did my own thing. It looks better than the photo LOL

I have been busy since being home but its surprising how much time can be wasted faddling about with nothing much.

The second secret is coming along nicely. Mother Nature 2 has her head sewn on and her skirt and I am trying to decide what to do with all her leaves- leave them plain or embellish them.

The timeis going so fast, its our anniversary tomorrow (15 years) we are celebrating at the weekend.