Thank -You!

A big thank you to sharon at http://thecraftytrundler.blogspot.com/ for making me a beautiful Home sweet home pic for a very very reasonable price! It is so cute and hand stitched and i just love it, but i'm sorry the pic is really bad....!

She also made me one of her pink heart framed pics with the words 'always kiss me goodnight...' which will shortly be hung in my little girls bedroom.

I have been having a massive clearout and am doing a car boot on sunday, im hoping to make a few penny's for our 2 camping trips booked for this year at http://www.motheriveysbay.com/, a really gorgeous place that we have been to several times, no cheesy clubhouse and naff gimicks here, just a private beach beautiful landscaping and a short drive to Padstow harbour......Can't wait!! have a look and you will see why I am so excited!

Today I have had a trip to the birmingham Children's Hospital with my little Eva, you see she has a strawberry birthmark on her eyelid just on her lash line, and although its not big red and obvious you can just see it like a little pea. It doesn't bother me in the slightest that it is there as long as it's causing her no pain or harm, as she's had it since birth I took her along to the GP who reffered her on to the eye unit at the local hospital, who in turn referred her to the childrens hospital in the big city! They have put drops in and examined her eye very well and today was the follow up to see if it had grown since September....thankfully it hasn't and they are confident that it will now start to shrink and be gone by age 7.

The reason they keep an eye on her (no pun intended) is that thy do not want it to put pressure on her eye and cause sight problems. They have offered a variety of different options to us to remove it but they all sound quite scary, the first was a steroid injection into it under a general, but it can cause thinnning of the skin and will leave a mark worse than the birthmark...! And the second was to give her Beta blockers......which can cause low blood pressure breathing problems and all sorts of nasties, so we agreed not to have any of those treatments and to see how it goes and only interveene if her sight becomes affected! Sorry for the ramble!

So now we are home after a long afternoon of sitting around in waiting rooms, Eva has gone to bed, and Joe is sat here by me with his craft box, making a pirate treasure chest.

I hope your all well and having a good Monday....

Em xx

Treasures

glass Jug - charity shop £1
Alfred Meakin Booter bargain!
Coalport horseshoe booter bargain!
Hello, happy Sunday....
what have you all been up to?
I got up at the crack of dawn this morning and went to Cheltenham racecourse car boot, it's quite a big one, in the summer its huge but obviously not many people want to stand out in the cold!
I found a lovely Alfred Meakin hathaway cottage cup saucer and plate in great condition for £2, and a coalport posy horse shoe for £2.
we then went for a drive to Stow on the wold in the cotswolds they have a fantasic little market town full of shops selling Emma Bridgewater etc etc...heaven right?! i went into a charity shop and found a lovely glass jug for a £1 that i thought would look lovely with some spring flower in....
little one has now gone to bed and tother one will be going shortly, im having a lovely cuppa and have my baking stuff out for later, which will be done after the dishwasher, ironing, washing and hoovering that i havent done today!!!
have a lovely evening
Em xx

I'm in the mood for......Spring....

hey, today i am mostly thinking about Spring...my fav time of year, whats not to like, daffs and pretty flowers emerging, my birthday, and my childrens birthdays, having the windows open, washing drying on the line, cutting the grass for the first time, things growing in the greenhouse, and being able to get outside and do stuff in the garden!
So today i went into the local market town to the florist and bought a lovely pot of hyacinths in a metal bucket and also some grape hyacinths in a normal pot but found the wire pot in the shed, i remembered i had kept it from a rose that someone had bought me, they are so pretty and i cant wait for them to start flowering.
Also took a trip to homebase as i have an old chair that i want to paint in the same Farrow and Ball that i did my dresser but its dark wood so needed some undercoat, while i was there i picked up some more bulbs at 3 for a fiver i chose lily of the valley, lupins and liatris, so will be planting those out the first chance i get.
so what have you been up to today??
Em x

My Laura Ashley bargain

So as i was musing through laura Ashley yesterday drooling over the wallpapers, my attention was drawn to the childrens bedroom section, where my eyes gazed up to the top shelf and there sitting pretty was a beautiful quilt for a little girls bed....
i quickly dragged it down to see that it had a 50% off sticker but no other tags. Sooo off i ran to the till to see how much it was.
the assistant had to flick through the winter catalouge for a price and she said it was £60 and i would have to pay just £27 when she put it through the till! to say i nearly bit her arm off is an understatement!
so then i had to have a new spring catalouge too and when i got home i found that they are still selling the quilt and that they have put the price up to £70! so i really do feel like i have had a bargain now. And i cant wait until Eva moves into a bed now and has her lovely quilt at the end of it....
its really gorgeous with quilt stitch around gourgeous white butterflies on a soft pink background, sorry the photie is a bit rubbish...:0)
Em xx

Dreaming of....wallpaper

Yes I'm sad, i know...but i went to Laura Ashley today for a nose around their sale..unfortunatly i have been thinking of doing up my hallway for a while and well going in there was just asking for trouble at £32 a roll! but now my impulsive little heart is set on it and i want it now!

Hello 2011....

Hi there, well i am useless at posting as you can see its been over 12 months since my last!! I am very good at reading other peoples blogs though!!
so christmas has come and gone and my children are now a year older... a lot has been going on here, a new job, for me and Eva has started nursery this week, she loved her first session..
we have been having a clearout here and maybe i will get around to doing a car boot in the very near future, to get some holiday pennies for our trip to padstow in may half term.
i have been looking into going to a few vintage fairs this year to indulge in my passion for all things old and beautiful...does anyone know of any good ones local to them as i dont mind travelling as long as its good!

we have had quite a lot of snow here in Warwickshire since november, i'll post a couple of piccies...
have a great weekend

Em x