After a year off competing since joining their new gymnastics club, Fran had her first comp this weekend. The club didn’t get regional accreditation until after the level she would have liked to do had gone past, so she revisited a Level she has done before to get back into the swing of things. It’s […]
Archives for November 2013
What's your favourite yarn shop?
A while ago I updated a post where I described the really bad service I had had from a yarn company. I was extremely angry to have been treated so poorly and took the unusual step (for me) of making a fuss about it on my blog. Today they asked me to remove it. Now […]
The one where I accidentally buy more yarn.
I’m blaming this entirely on Cosmicgirlie, who Instagrammed this T-Shirt yarn the other week. I REALLY liked the look of it and then I happened upon some of it in a large craft shop I refuse to name because they are a competitor *cough* and it was on 3 for 2 and I accidentally bought […]
The Angry.
Wednesday was a really tough day. Every so often, a grief day emerges, out of nowhere except a combination of events and hormones and co-incidences and moments of unexpected thoughtlessness. And Wednesday started, as it so often does, with a dream. I never dream about Freddie; I have barely dreamed of him at all; I […]
Lax Toddler Parenting #4: The Cardboard Box Edition
Now, obviously I’m a big advocate of toys, what with making my living selling them, but I’m the first to admit that a REALLY good cardboard box can hardly be beaten for sheer value. There are masses of post on this blog, I’m sure, of pictures of the girls in the olden days when stock […]
Review: trying Gluten Free Ready Meals by Ilumi.
A while ago we were offered the chance to try out some foods especially for allergy sufferers. My little niece had just been diagnosed as Coeliac, a condition that takes gluten avoidance to a whole level above what most people with gluten intolerances have to cope with. So I asked Ilumi to send some to […]
Tiny Changes to the Living Room
I’ve probably moaned a lot that my living room doesn’t please me. It has the nicest furniture in the house and is the biggest, lightest room. But somehow it gets covered in rubbish too often. Now the girls aren’t HE it is a little better and now Bene’s room is decorated there are less toys, […]
Lax Toddler Parenting #4: the big sister music edition
When possible, get someone else to entertain them would be one way of describing it. Or, harness the skills of other people in the household to offer stimulating and exciting opportunities to explore. Take your pick 😆 Bene loves Fran’s cello. It’s not a cheap cello either and also rather a precious one, for a […]
Favourite Fraction – not Fat and Forty.
If you know me on any of the instant gratification social media channels I live on, you’ll know I’ve been dieting. And I’ve been needily posting up my successes for cheerleading and praise 😆 If you remember back here when I was just starting out, I was already feeling a lot better. That photo was one […]
The ripple effect.
I’m determined to do more crafting from books I already own; even though I really want to create from my own brain, I lack the skills and the only way to learn is to practise. I went to a workshop a while ago and bought a book so I thought I would try a riff […]
