OOOOoooooeeeeeerr...

....Look what I've done!!

Sorry, you haven't a clue what I'm on about have you?

Well, look down there on the right hand side of my blog...

See it?

Yes, not only have I actually listed in my DaWanda shop (only one item I know, but it's a start! lol) but, I've managed to link it to my blog! Hows that for clever? LOL :0)

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Have you ever heard the saying 'Little things please little minds?'

That's me!

Have a great day everyone ;0)

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Well, do you know....

I've been really busy since my last post. I named my blog and my 'shop' BizzyDays' 'cos I'm always so busy, but I didn't realise that I would be much too busy to blog anything, or to list anything in my shop!

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First picture below is of the 'obligatory' free Cath Kidston bag that came with style magazine this month. I love this floral print -I loved the other option too, but I had to choose! LOL

The next picture is a cutie! It's my birthday today, but we celebrated it yesterday as the children were at school today.

Last week, I made some 'boy-bunting' for my son's birthday which is at the end of May, (I'll put a picture on here on his birthday) My youngest daughter watched me make it, and kept asking for all the odd bits of fabric that were left. Off she popped to her room, and here is the result!

(She's kept this hidden since she made it!)

She's crocheted a ribbon chain, and made me my own 39th Birthday Bunting!

Sorry the pictures aren't too hot! She's tied the 'flags' on to the ribbon chain with mohair yarn.

It was a lovely surprise to open my eyes to it yesterday!


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This is where we went yesterday, to a little town called Shaftesbury.

It's the place where the 'Hovis' bread advert was filmed. Do you remember that ad?

It's the one where the bread delivery boy is pushing the old fashioned delivery bike up the hill.

Well, this is the hill.

Pictures not too sunny 'cos it was raining there.

There's a beautiful view there normally, but even though it was raining the view wasn't too bad.

This Wisteria was in the carpark on a wall entwined with the clematis 'Montana'. It looked so pretty growing together, I had to take photos :)

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Unfortunately, I still haven't had time to list in my DaWanda shop yet, but hopefully I'm going over there when I've finished this post to list some items!!

I'd like to thank you all for your comments and emails. It appears I'm not alone with my nasty migraines, which although it doesn't stop the pain, it does make me feel a bit better to know other people also suffer as much with them as I do! (I mean this in the nicest way possible !:0))

And I'd especially like to thank Jennie for not only all her hints and tips on getting my blog going, but also being a fellow migraine sufferer ! ;0)

Have a good week everyone, and lets hope we get some sun!

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Over the forest....

...We go every morning and every afternoon (and sometimes in the middle of the day as my eldest daughter is part-time!). This is the New Forest, and I have to admit we probably have one of the nicest 'commutes' to school, even if it is 20 miles each way! (at least 80 miles a day, -sometimes 120!)

These are the sights that we meet every day, which in the spring time when the foals are out, and I have both girls in the car (my son's not too bothered) takes us a while to get past, because obviously we have to go extra slow to look at the 'latest' new foal to be born....

This little darling we have named 'Star' :) And he was the first one we have seen this year...He's a couple of weeks old now though.

They are darlings though, and so are the little cows!

Photos a little fuzzy as it was taken through my windscreen!

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I got a single duvet cover out of my stash......

Can you guess what I've made with it?..

It was a beautiful old vintage one that had lovely bunches of roses on it ...

You know the type, lovely cottagy (is that a word?) roses, in beautiful cottagy colours...

With some lovely pale blue stripes to add interest when I had cut it up..



I have made a new bowl :)

About 8" diameter...

And about 2" high.

I've decided to start listing things I make in one of my many (see previous posts!)online shops. I'm going to try DaWanda, simply because it's free to list and money is tight at the moment what with moving.....

This is going to be the first item I list..then I'm going to add a few trivets and little bowls and I've got something up my sleeve as a signature piece....

Does anyone else have any signature pieces?

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I still haven't finished my lavender pillows yet, so I'm afraid I can't show you them...I've been busy sorting me eldest out who now has a cracked rib.... During one of her seizures, she fell against the bath...That's the trouble with her Epilepsy we have absolutely no warning about her seizures, and she has really suffered some horrible injuries from them...Still, that's life eh?..

On the moving front, we have found a chalet bungalow that is beautiful, and it is already adapted for someone with disabilities, how about that??... I don't want to say too much in case I jinx it, but I'm going to keep praying (although I'm not religious, does that count?) and keep everything crossed...Can you as well please? :0)

We won't be able to move into it yet though, as there are still tenants in there, but we're hopeful...

Anyway, better go now to get the children to bed, then swith telly on to watch Aly's Edible Garden, and Cracking Antiques...One hour of my telly a week isn't bad is it?

Take care everyone...

Speak soon...x

Uuuurrrgh....

I HATE migraines!!! I haven't posted in ages, and I've not been able to feed my 'addiction' of reading other bloggers blogs due to the fact that in 8 days I have had two of my migraines-they're not just the sort that are over in a couple of hours either...Oh no, mine last for two/three and sometimes even four days! And most of that time I have to spend in bed....UUUuurgh!

Now, rant over... :) (sorry about that!)

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Because I haven't been about much, I was unable to fulfil my promise to send some items to 'Cupcakes at Home' .

(I hasten to add that I will now be sending the items off on Tuesday morning:) )

This is a blogger who has a small animal charity. Unfortunately, I'm not clever enough to have worked out how to do 'links' (lol), but you should be able to find it by looking :)

Tracy who owns the charity has just rescued some abandoned sheep, and one of them was in such a poorly way that it no longer has any ears left!! And when one of them had been sheared, they had sheared all her teats off but one, so she can't feed her lamb herself.... Oh, my heart went out to them when I saw the photos on Tracys blog.

She is going to be having a raffle in June/July, so any items that you can send she would greatly appreciate them to put in the raffle.

I'm sending the items in the photo below, - a few trivets, flower appliques, a set of crochet edged tags and a couple of crocheted corsages.

Hope these help! :)

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I found the plates below in my local charity shop. I'm sorry to say, I had to leave them there... As we're moving, I just can't buy anything that's not immediately usable till we've moved. Still, I took some photos to show you :)

I love the 'retro' look, and such saucy ladies! ;)

I know you're saying I'm mad leaving them there...only £2.50 each!

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Here's a picture of of our first big butterfly that we've seen in the garden this year. He liked all the colours on the washing line..

And here's our lovely bluebells (and white bells) out in the garden.

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We have a guest who has been staying in the garage all winter...He gets in under the door, and comes out in the evenings to go and feed.

Just thought you might like to say hello!

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Hopefully by next post I will have made some lovely little lavender cushions that I've started on to show you..

And I'm experimenting with some new appliques for my pin cuchions which I'll show you next time..

Would love to receive all your comments/ideas...

And any advice on 'linking' would be greatly appreciated! :)

Don't forget to have a look at 'Cupcakes at Home' blogger if you get a minute.

Take care everyone...x

Special Offer....

I woke up one morning during the Easter Holidays

to find this 'Special Offer' stuck to our bedroom door.

It's one offer that really can't be missed, but unfortunately it

has to be put on hold, at least until we have moved house!

It reads " SPECIAL OFFER"

If you buy a dog, you get a FREE happy, bored-free child.

Buy now while stocks last !

Then there is a drawing of a dogs bowl with food in, and a cow! Yes, a cow! -This was stuck on our bedroom door by our youngest (11yrs) daughter who -as you can see- is desperate for a dog! I thought it was so cute, I had to blog it! The cow did start off as a dog, but it went wrong!

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All my crafting stash is packed ready for moving ; so after having a very boring, not-much-crafting-going-on kinda few weeks, I went and bought some secondhand fabric to recycle and make a few crocheted baskets and trivets :0)

This little basket has got two handles onthe sides. I love the blue that comes through.

Oh, the feel of the scissors cutting through the fabric, the feel of the hook as you're busy crocheting a way..... I'm either going to have to dig out some of my stash, or get to the shop...

The bowl above I 'prettied' up with some matching yarn.

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The sun was shining beautifully on my camelieas last week, so I couldn't resist taking a few shots of the sun shining on the centres of the flowers. It always makes me think it's got a light shining from the centre of the flower when I take photos like these.

Sorry my posts have been a bit 'hit and miss'. Unfortunately, I do have very 'bizzydays' :).

But, I will try and make more of an effort now the school run is again well under way until July! Enjoy the sunshine ladies..

Speak to you soon ..

I love Granny Squares..

They are so relaxing to crochet, so repetitive and easy to make once you've decided which type of square to make.

I was lucky enough to come across this first edition Womans Day magazine at my local book exchange... what a find! :) I couldn't believe my little eyes.

It was made in 1973 -so still a bit younger than me (lol) but aren't the pictures and pattern fab!

I just obviously I had to snap it up, and I just thought I'd show you some of the lovely patterns that are in it...

This is the 'blurb' part as my children call them.. I don't know if these magazines are still made in America? Do you?....

I just love these colourful afghans... I must get round to making another one..



Look at this gorgeous table cloth -maybe I should make this next .... I love the colours of the daisies..

Don't you think that the little girl down on the right is absolutely adorable?



Now this is my latest finished piece, It's just made from 'two round' granny squares that have been crocheted together as I go along... so I haven't 'blocked' it as yet. It's going to be a cushion cover when I get round to purchasing some natural cotton for the back...

This is one of my morning (and afternoon, and.... evening) visitors...

As soon as you open the back door, she flies down and stands on the edge of the doorstep , fighting off any other blackbirds.....

Then she stands on the edge of the door frame waithing for her raisins to take back to her babies. She's done this for the past three years!!

She has learnt not to hop into the kitchen, because if she get startled by the children running into the kitchen, she gets stuck on the window sill, and forgets the way out! So she sensibly noe stays by the door and then she can make a quick getaway if something makes her jump! :)

If the back door isn't open, she stands at the kitchen window looking in until you feel sorry for her and open the back door to offer more raisins or oats!

Do you have any visitors to your doors?

Hopefully this post will come out a bit better looking than my last ones, as I have taken all your kind advice and used it!! LOL

Have a good week lovely people...

Little owls...

Well, here's my second post -not so scary this time! I've played around with my blog/last post a bit since I wrote it, and I've discovered what 'gadgets' are (dohhh!), so I've added a couple of them -the easy ones, but it's a start :)

I just wanted to show you a couple of photos of some really cute owls that I picked up in the charity shop last week.

Oh dear, they've come out at the top again! (I'd really appreciate it if anyone can tell me how to put the photos in the middle of my writing?...)

Well, can anyone guess what they are?

They're salt & pepper shakers! Aren't they cute! And they were a bargain price, only 75p! I just couldn't resist! they've even got their original stoppers in the bottom!

If I can bear it, when I actually start listing in one of my shops (etsy, dawanda etc..) I shall put them in there.

Has anyone got any advice on all of the craft websites? There's quite a few to choose from, and I've got shops in them all (greedy I know, but I didn't want anyone to pinch my shop name! :))

-well, the ones I know of Etsy, Folksy, DaWanda, Misi, & Coriandr.

Etsy seems really professional to me - and theres already a few people on there selling the items I want to make and sell. I think you probably have to spend a lot of time on there promoting and getting well known. I mean once you are it would be worth all the hard work, but it's just getting the time isn't it ladies? :)

Anyway, I'm going to scoot off with out putting the other owl photos on, as I know thet'll just come out on top!

Have a good week : )