This post first appeared on Petits Haricot, the blog of my lovely friend Helen and occasionally her dh Chris. Helen is kicking off my 10th anniversary with this post, which had me a bit weepy and all glowy 🙂 Thank you Helen – for everything. Merry /Mrs Muddlepuddle, queen of hama, friend and blogger has […]
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Time not so long past, I was a woman with a gaggle of little girls at my knees, following me baby-duck-like, wherever we went. My whole girl famili-ness defined me as much as Hama Beads and crafting and selling things and always having two too many things to do. Slightly scruffy, free spirited but not […]
Out, out… Damn clutter.
So along with building 2 new websites, learning to use eBay and etsy again, crocheting a blanket, bringing up a baby, settling a child into school and facilitating the education of several others, I've been on a bit of. Mission. This is not the current computer based alien killing my husband and children are doing, […]
By the Smurfs! Maddy is 13!
I think I got my cake making badge today. Maddy turned 13 in the week, celebrating it on a day out to the Spring Fair with Max and opening the latest ever family birthday presents at 9pm 🙂 She let me save the cake till the weekend so I had more time (thanks Maddy) and […]
Why I'm quiet.
There are all sorts of reasons. One is I’m spending my evenings listening to the Wee Free Men books while making this. Another is I’ve been making these. Because I really want to get back to selling handmade things this year and I have masses of plans and not much time. Then there is crawling […]
Our Christmas.
Apparently I say to my friends every year that I’ve been more frugal this Christmas. And I never have been 🙂 Well, this year I wasn’t especially frugal in £’s but in present terms we went more minimalist. There weren’t really toys this year, only Josie and Bene got anything toy like at all; everyone […]
November you can kiss my….
It seems November is determined to compete with April for crapola. It's been a really tough month. For the sake of argument we will include here the last two events of October. First there was my cork plugging op, which sadly did not go entirely as planned or hoped. To the best of my knowledge […]
The Voice.
I have been a very flawed parent over the years, busy, impatient, a little too wrapped in my own agenda, tired, easily annoyed. Three things have altered that until the current, not too bad model emerged; the endless companionship, support and influence of my husband Max, who is the calm ordered opposite of my flighty […]
It's been a proper home ed week.
There has been lots going on here this week, even though I had a day out (more to come on that!) and we spent a day interviewing for new staff. As well as the geography day we did there has been lots of crafting of various sorts. Maddy, Josie and I have put together these […]
How my children see me meme
Dear Sian and Tara, One day I will introduce my children to you and they will describe to you in graphic detail how glad they were to be torn away from the geography to do these drawings. All I can tell you was I never knew how much they liked geography. This is how my […]
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