I'm just a bad bad blogger

Hello everyone.

Well I'm not very good at this blogging. Only just started and I fell off the wagon. Its been a whole month since I last posted anything!! So I thought I better just type something, a catch up if you like, even if it ends up being garbled rubbish he he.

My excuse first of all is the summer holidays. Having the kids to entertain leaves very little time for blogging. Just getting my head around twitter so have been spending time on there too. As well as my usual Folksy spending.

We have 6 more sleeps till our holiday too. Which we are all excited about. Maybe, in the future, I'll blog about what a personal milestone this holiday really is. Just maybe, when I get to know you all a little better.

I haven't forgotten about T52MMMC either. I have done a few crafty bits. Today included! Very proud to say I made some earrings and a bracelet. When The kiddiwinks return to school I'll do a big T52MMMC blog with pics :).

So a further round up in words of the summer holidays so far is:

Cooker broken, new cooker, illness for us all, kids at grandparents for 1 whole week, 1 week of freedom for mummy, new haircut, lots of Folksy buying, birthday party, trips to seaside, book club set up, curry night, dinner party arrangements, cheesecake recipe sourcing, lots of book reading, uniform and shoe buying (so expensive), clothes buying, visiting parents, parents announced new move, penpal searching (today) and all the other usual summer chaos of days out/in with a 7 and 4 year old.

Also will do blog posts about the fantastic goodies I received from WhimsicalWren (100th sale) and Trinket Box (giveaway winner). - apologies to these 2 lovely ladies for not doing one yet.

Next post will be after my hols unless I sneak another one in. Thanks for reading and enjoy the rest of your holidays everyone. Bye for now.

Michelle xx

Day 4 Doodle Schmoodle - The Gallery

My oh my is this an unbelieveable 4 days running. Yes it is. I'm just too blinking good lol. Well onto day 4 of the Doodle Schmoodle Challenge - My Gallery. Because this doodle is really pictures of my beloved kiddiwinks I felt it deserved a blog post all of its own. They make me so very proud :)

Doodle Schmoodle - Day 3 and journal cover

Hello I'm back again. Gosh 3 days running I am doing well. Must be the thought that after today I might not get chance to be on the computer much. Wow the summer holidays, I do hope the weather is kind :). So here's my day 3 doodle and to show you my journal cover. Although the theme hobbytastic did make me a little sad. Realised I had very few hobbies beyond my kids. Is that the norm? Or am I just being lazy? I'm not sure really probably a bit of both!!

Bye for now. Who knows when the little terrors will let me back on x

30 day Doodle Schmoodle Challenge

Yep another challenge I have taken on!! I must be a glutton for punishment! Art has never been a strong point of mine (I'm a number person), however, when I saw the 30 Day Doodle Schmoodle Challenge at Betty's Place I thought I'd give it a go. So what if they are not masterpieces, who cares, this is just for fun. Each day we are given the theme and off we go so to speak. So here's are my Day 1 and 2 - yes as I said not masterpiece's lol but I enjoyed them so thats what matters :)

Week 3 - T52MMMC

Well I made it to week 3!! Surprised myself. This one was a bit of an easy one but believe it or not I had never made them before. What you may ask. Gift tags - personalised ones with pics of my son and daughter on to use on their end of year/leaving presents to teachers. Conor is moving to year 3 and leaving his teacher (who I admire and have a lot to be thankful to for) and teaching assistant of the past 2 years. Emily is leaving all her pre-school teachers (8 of them) and her childminder. Yes she is moving to big school (primary) sniff. So although I didn't make the gifts, they were all purchased from Folksy and I recycled the gift bags from my purchases. Thankfully I had managed to take a few pictures before my camera went kerput. More shopping me thinks! Not sure what to try for next week so any suggestions would be gratefully received. Have a great week everyone x

Week 2 of T52MMMC - Phew I made it

Well I blogged before about my keyring disaster and despite your lovely comments I decided not to gift it to my friend. Two further disasters later, which I will not be showing pictures of as they are worse than the 1st attempt, I have a keyring I am happy to pass on. So creative try no 4 is shown in my pictures. I know I know the pics aren't very good but I am smiling here as I am chuffed with my efforts. Hope my friend is too!!

Thank you all for the support and I'm off now to try and put a picture on flickr lol.

Michelle x

Failure and Success

Well I did make a keyring yesterday for week 2 of T52MMMC but I'm really not happy with it. As my old textile teacher would have said "you must try harder". Started off so well, used some old offcuts of jeans (very green I know), one of my new buttons from Mushy Makes, ribbon from Patch and even recycled the keyring itself. Had a vision in my head of the finished product (note to self to live in reality more). However, when you have not used a sewing machine (yes I bought a new one of those and its lush) for such a long time I think more practice is required. So I will not be handing over the said keyring to my friend as I would be too embarrassed. So back to the drawing board!! I have included a pic of the keyring to give you proper crafters a giggle.

Not all was lost yesterday though. Attended my son's school summer fair which was fab. My daughter, plus her friend, son and of course me all enjoyed ourselves. Even managed to buy some crafty stuff for me to try out. Will keep you posted if any of the makes are semi-successful.

Twitter, yes I joined. Not sure I get it though. Think I need to keep at it and I may start to enjoy it. Any twittering/tweeting tips would be appreciated. As would some followers as I'm looking decidedly unloved on there he he.

The banana cake I made earlier in the week got me motivated to do more baking. Made a ginger cake (I know not appropriate for this time of year but hey ho) on Thursday and it is yum even if I do say so myself. Will be bigging up anything successful after the keyring disaster! Even had it for breakfast this morning. Bad example I know but it is the weekend.

I can see I'm rambling again! In one of those moods. But must get on. Have a fabulous weekend everyone. Just off to check Folksy before I log off lol.

Bye

Michelle x