Good post. Bad poster.

Oh I'm just useless!!! I've forgotten to put a title on the last two blog posts and have broken the CF again. Really sorry Mr Media. I'm on my last warning so I really, really must remember.

Oh well.... On a happier note I had some fab post this morning. Three parcels to be exact. OK so it's quite obvious what one of them is... While I can't live the reality (yet), I can read the magazine and dream of living by the sea. I shall also be living there temporarily, for the weekend at any rate, as we're going to see my sis this weekend. Yippee!!

The other two are a bit more mysterious. One of my parcels of felt that I won on eBay had already arrived, so what else was I waiting for?.....

Ah ha! Three fat quarters of fabric. Also an eBay win. They are for a project I am planning but it's a secret. I will post hints and snippets as I go, but you will have to wait and see the finished result.

And the other parcel?

It's from my blog buddy Wardi (Carina). She was offering these off-cuts of felt the other day so I snapped them up. I don't yet know what for but they will adorn some dolly or other shortly, I'm sure. As a surprise she also sent me some of the actual cut-out shapes too, and the postcard is one of her illustrations. Ooh I do love it when it's not all DL manilla envelopes that come through the letterbox. Thanks so much you lovely lady. Take a lookie at her blog and her etsy shop. She has some gorgeous, happy-making stuff. You look at it and can't help but smile.

Ooh. Some fab news to tell. I will soon be appearing on a new website, courtesy of incywincy. She is having a revamp of her website and wants to sell my felt/silk brooches. Woo hoo! I have been looking through my stash of silk ribbon this afternoon and I have loads of ideas for designs. Can't wait to get started.

Hope you've had a Happy St George's Day. Off to MiL's for dinner, hence the quickie.

St George's Day

Happy St George's Day.

See you for tea and cakes at 4pm.

4 new little Silly Girls & 1 great BIG one!!!

new sillies
Originally uploaded by ethel and edna

Well here at last (hopefully) are the 4 new girls. They are relaxing in the sun on our front garden bench. Think the one with the white hair looks a bit shifty. :0)
Further to my last post, I have realised that we haven't been hacked or infected with a virus. One of the suggestions from Blogger to help the photo upload problem, was to delete all cookies! This included ALL remembered IDs, passwords, etc. Now hands up - who was shouting that at their computer as they were reading?! hehe I'm just not cut out for this computer lark, am I?

Techno-Strife Rant.

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Flippin' technology!!!!!!

Flippin' computers!!!!!!!

**stamps feet**

**has a mega massive tantrum**

And rest......

Sorry about that but I've just had the most fruitless half hour. It all starting when I tried to upload my latest pics here. Blogger sent me a rude message and refused to do it. So I left in a huff to watch 'Waking the Dead'.

Came back and had another go at 10pm thinking it would all be fine. But no! Same error message coming up, so I went to Blogger Help Group and found that lots of poor Bloggers have been having the same trouble for the last day or two. I reported the fault like they asked and then thought,

"Hmm. I'll be a clever little Blogger. I'll upload the pics to Flickr and then blog 'em from there."

Ha! Fat chance! I tried to log into Flickr and it's forgotten my 'remembered' ID, and can I remember my Yahoo account details? Can I heck-as-like! So, I followed the security steps to recall my forgotten password and it wouldn't agree with the personal details I gave it. It was arguing with me about my date of birth!!!! I ask you? Who knows that best - me or flippin' Yahoo?!!!

Sorry - must remember to breathe. Calm......

So I gave that up as a bad job and decided to just come and make a post without photos. To just have a little rant to get it off my chest. And flippin' Blogger has also decided NOT to 'remember' me. Luckily we were able to agree my username and password so here I am.

And now I've run out of steam and need a little lie down.

Seriously though, it has made me slightly paranoid. I'm wondering who has hacked into our computer and is planting viruses and trojan horses, trying to unearth all our deepest secrets and steal our identities and our millions (haha). Do you think I took 'Swordfish' too much to heart the other night? :0)

OK. Let's get onto more serious things. Tomorrow I am going to make my first purchase on etsy. What am I going to buy?... At least one of these little beauties from Paper and String. I did consider NOT putting a link so that noone else could get there first. They are SOOOO fab!
Form an orderly queue behind me if you want one. :0)

Right. I'm off to try and enter negotiations with Flickr/Yahoo to see if they'll let me back into their gang. Maybe if I talk nicely to them.....

Mugshot.

Last week Carina (who's blog I love) decided to kick off with a little meme type thing. Every day we have to post a picture of a mug in our possession and a mug we would love to own.




I forgot yesterday - oops! - so here are two day's worth in one go.

This is my first-one-of-the-day-coffee mug. Nice and strong and one sugar, thanks.




This is an Emma Bridgewater I Love... mug. I used to have a Beetle which I sadly sold just after Evie was born, and I've missed it ever since :0(. Maybe one day I'll get another but in the meantime I would love this mug as a stop gap (even tho' my bug was bright green).



This is the mug I've just had a cuppa in with my lunch. It actually belongs to OH. He is addicted to Walnut Whips and this mug came with a WW Easter egg last year. (Lunch was a ham buttie if anyone's interested :0)...)

hehehe Just found this while Googling mugs. I love Dr Suess books and so does Evie. The drawings are just great as well as the stories. The best stories are the Sneetches and Daisy-Head Maizy, but we also love the foot book. We both know it off by heart. Altogether now,

"Left foot, right foot, left foot, right.
Feet in the day. Feet in the night......"

The best man for a job is......

OK, so you all remember that back in the mists of time we swapped our bedroom round with kiddie. And that this meant we have had to buy new wardrobes and drawers for ourselves. Well thus far OH and I have made each item as a team effort. I have opened the packages, checked the contents then told OH which parts he needs and handed him the screws, etc. This has worked fine for a triple wardrobe and two bedside chests of drawers. However......

.......last night I was ironing (are you listening swirly!! hehe) while OH decided to tackle the 5 drawers chest. Well I don't want to be smug or anything but....

Can you spot the deliberate mistake? :0) Oh how we laughed......
He is now trying to wriggle out of this by saying that he was distracted - he was watching the film 'Swordfish' at the same time (and Halle Berry got her chest out a couple of times). Hmm... Nope sorry.

I haven't got an awful lot to report to day as I have been at work. The girls got a nasty wake-up call this morning when they realised that they only have four weeks left until their final BIG assessment. Its always a last-minute panic to get work finished in time, but I think this year it's going to be frantic to say the least.

I'm going to finish my four Silly Girls so that tomorrow I can concentrate on badge-making.

Short but sweet - like lemon meringue pie ;0)

'Want to come and play at mine?'

Do you know the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph? It's the one that starts,



"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple..."



Well this poem was the inspiration behind a doll I made for my mum for Mother's Day a couple of years ago. The doll's called Jenny - what originality of thought!!! I followed the poem as closely as possible but with one or two amendments to make her personal to mum. Rather than 'satin sandals' I gave Jenny brightly coloured, patterned wellies as mum loves jazzy wellies and has several pairs for walking the dogs in. The black tights are because at the time mum used to wear black opaque tights all the time. And the hat was meant to be one of those inca-style woolly hats with the tassels cuz she wanted one of them.



Since then I have made several more for mum's friends when they've hit BIG birthdays, altho' not as detailed as mum's. I just thought I'd post some pictures of her to show that it's not all belly dancing. :0)





Aren't kids toys these days fab?! We have just swapped bedrooms with kiddie as you know, and while I've been getting her new room straight I've been looking at some of her stuff. I know a lot of it is merchandising for films and TV but even so, the detail is fab. I wish I was a kid again.



Having said this, sometimes older stuff is better. A couple of years ago we decided to get Evie a Barbie house for Christmas. But, when we started looking, the actual Barbie stuff just didn't seem as good as the Sindy equivalent I used to play with as a child. Everything was moulded in plastic. There weren't proper sheets and pillows on the beds and it was ALL Barbie pink!! So, I hit ebay with a vengeance and bought Sindy stuff instead. The next few photos will appeal more to the girlie girls amongst you. A definite trip down Memory Lane.



On the roof terrace - fame comes to the house as The Sugababes are visiting Barbie.



The dining room and lounge where Sharpay and Troy from High School Musical are chillin' out.



The sumptuous boudoir with four-poster bed.

Me and daddy bought the house and a couple of rooms of furniture, then other family members paid for another room or two each.

We have some brill, if rather blurred, photos of me, mum and sis playing with the house on Christmas Day. The urge to push Evie out of the way so we could play was strong! Oooh cruel mummy!! Bet you wish you could come and play now, don't you? hehehe

So the other thing I mentioned last night was a competition. While lurking in Blogdom a couple of days ago I found this link. Basically your need to design a pair of baby booties using Michael Miller fabrics through Craftzine. The prize is a Singer sewing machine. I confess I haven't read any further than that yet as I've got a couple of other things to sort out first but it looks great.

It's awful to realise how 'out of it' I am with regards to patchwork, etc. I had never heard of Michael Miller until I saw this contest, but searching for him on eBay quickly showed me what I've been missing. Yummy!!

One of the 'other things' I'm sorting out is the doll swap I'm taking part in. Meecrafty drew the swap partners names last night and I am paired up with I'm a Ginger Monkey. How fab! Her dolls are lovely. Take a look at her blog and Flickr pages. However, the pressure is on now to make something for her that will be as good. I have a month to design, make and despatch the dolly. My thinking cap is very firmly on my head!!