The Rainbow is finished!

Good Afternoon Everyone

I hope you are all well.  I have been busy as my kiddies have finished school (yes Northern Irish Schools finish at the end of June!!)

Poor children have 2 months of putting up with me hahaha

I have finally managed to finish my wee grandaughters curtains.  I am delighted with them ... and they line up AND are the same length haha!!  Miracles do happen!!

I now need to find something else to sew or stitch this week.  From Saturday its back to the good ol' cross stitch because Tour de France starts 😁

Conor, Katie and Cara wanted their hair groovy looking for the summer ... Why not ... you only live once!!

A few weeks ago we were baking cakes whilst listening to our favourite radio station. I sent in a request for a shout out. Anyway, Katie missed it ... so with the promise of chocolate cake she got another shout out haha

Here is the cake that Katie baked and decorated!!

It was an exciting day ... great fun driving 100 miles with a cake in the car hahaha!! 

Any ideas what I can sew?  Anyone want to give me a challenge?

Have a great evening, and happy 4th July to my USA friends

Hugs Heather
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We Have ...

B E A D S!!!  (At long last hahaha)  Ok just a few but hey its getting there!!

Summer Fairy as at 05 July 2015

Hi there everyone!

Well as you can see I am on the final run of Joan Elliott's Summer Fairy!!  Phew its been a long time coming!!

I've hunted out a few photos from the last few week ... hope you enjoy them :D

Ryan's very last day and moments of Primary
School. Photo taken just as he was about to
walk through the school gates for the
very last time!

Mark won the Award for
Manners and Conduct
for his year :)  Excellent!
Well done Mark xxx

                                                             

Mark - Sports day

               Katie Sports Day

Laura and Abby Sports Day!!

Cara Sports day- racing with her shadow lol!!

Walking to school bus stop

My Fav photo :)  My one and only photograph with all
5 kiddies all warning the same green jumpers!!
This was the one and only chance I had as
Ryan in big school next year and last year
Cara was in red Nursery jumper!!

Me after showing off my sticker from the
Headmaster after I 'worked' hard with
the Parents Council at school one Sunday!!

Conor on the plane off to visit
my parents with James!!  

I hope you enjoyed this little snippet into the events of the past few weeks :)

Now time to do some Pen-Pal letters :D  I love snail mail!!  Anyone else enjoy the good old fashion letter through the letter box?  There is nothing like it at all!!

Pen-Pals anyone? lol :D

Bye for now

Love me
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Family fun and Joan Elliott stitching :D

Hello there!

Once again the kiddies have been down with illness but they seem to have recovered from that thank goodness so we have had quite a bit of relaxation and fun for a change!  Well deserved I would say!! 

I have started stitching on Summer Fairy again and I am hoping to get this finished over the Easter Holidays :)  I do hope so!!  Most of my study is nearly finishes for a few months so its back to stitching :)  I need to catch up with Sal's and get teacher stitching done for June!!  

Summer Fairy as at 18th march

Over the last few weeks I have caught up with my studies and I am nearly completed one course in Autism :)  I also did a free on line course in PR so I can keep myself on the straight and narrow with my PR roll in the schools parents council!  I passed that course with flying colours :D Busy busy busy!!  

On the fun part .... Here are just a few photos :D

Mothers Day gifts for me

Abby trying to escape with my chocolates lol 

Ben in a Bow Tie!!
(Ask James ... lol)

Cara and her bread!!

Cara on a bouncy castle at a friends birthday party

Abby and Katie in a home-made ball pool :)

So as you can see we have just been relaxing and having some fun :)

Spring is here and the weather is so much better than the horrible snow and cold lol  There will be soon lots to do on our house on the hill :)

Have fun and keep safe everyone ... I'll be back soon :)

Love and hugs

Heather

xxxxxxx

DUCJC update and Joan Elliott SAL ... plus a funny slip up lol

Good Evening bloggers,

I hope you are all well and for those of you with the snow falling I hope you are not snowed in like we are!!  We have had a fun week with the snow and the school has even been closed on one occasion.

On Friday there was that much snow at school bus run time that we decided going out at a silly time in the morning in a fresh heavy snow fall was a little silly, if not dangerous!!  So a few hours later after a few cars had been up and down our road James and I decided to venture down to the shop as wee needed milk (and maybe some chocolate lol) Well we got to the shop and half way up our road home the car got stuck!!  James being the practical and forward thinking person he is had actually brought a spade lol  So dig dig dig to get the car unstuck ... but the car still wouldn't budge on the slippy road!  Needless to say I went head over heals on the slippy road lol James just laughed and laughed then took photos!!  Thanks James hahaha!! we left the car, walked home and then came back a few hours later once the snow started to melt.  Thankfully we got the car home in time because then it started snowing heavier ... now we are under about 8 inches of snow!!  School on Monday is looking like another no-go!!  

Ooops!!
I just could not get up for laughing!!

My participation in Debbie's Ultimate Crazy January Challenge 2015 (DUCJC) is going good!!

I have spent a few days stitching on Round Robins and SAL's so there are not too may photos to show!  Plus I cannot show the RR's just yet :)  Need to keep them as a surprise for the recipients :) 

Day 8 Joan Elliott SAL

Day 9 Joan Elliott SAL

Finished the unicorn stitching but need to put the beads and metallic thread on but I will put them on each square at the end of the SAL!

Unicorn

Day 10 Round Robin

Day 11 I continued with the Round Robin

Day 12 Teacher Gift #3 out of 5 started

Teacher Stitching

Day 13 New face started on Joan Elliott SAL

Joan Elliott SAL
(sorry the photo is not the best!)

I will take photos of the others I have started and post asap :)

At the moment there is no other news so I will finish this post with a cute photo of my Grandaughter Abby :D

xxx Lovely little Abby xxx

Take care everyone and keep safe :)

Lots of stitching hugs and kisses

Heather

xxxxxxx

Best Day E V E R :)

Merry Christmas to you all!!  I hope you had a fab day :)  

We had the most brilliant day :D

Abby had a brilliant 1st Christmas :)

Everyone is very happy and content :)  Other than Christmas Dinner I planned nothing and we just 'went with the flow' of the moment.   I think the highlight of the day was Katie opening her present off James!!  The squeals of delight at her Frozen songs CD and the tears of joy completely took everyone by surprise lol  She was just so happy and could not contain herself at all .... bless her ;) She was so happy and quik to run off to her CD player that I never even got chance to take a photo haha!!

Christmas Eve

Cara and Katie

Ryan

Katie

Erm .... the mess ... with Ryan and headless Mark lol

My 'Under the tree present' from James ...
Such a sweetly written gift tag :)

last but not least ...
Baby Abby :)

Hope you all had a great day too xxxx

Take care and 'see you soon'

Christmas wishes and love

Heather

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Such a long time .... (Lots of photos)

Hello to all my lovely readers,

Oh my I have been away from my blog for such a long time! Where has the time gone??  Who stole my weeks??  lol  It is hard to believe that Baby Abby is 7 weeks today .... 

Abby Having a picnic in the park :)
A nice big cheesy bun she pinched lol

But that means my kiddies have had 7 weeks of the summer holidays off school already .... 2 more weeks to go until school starts again and guess what ... I have hardly done a stitch :(  

I have managed to finish off Abbys birth sampler and complete Round Robin pieces but thats about it!!  Roll on school starting lol

Abbys Birth Sampler

But we have had a good few day out and in particular a beautiful day at the park with a big picnic tea!  We had a ball and again time was lost but whos counting the hours?  Not us!!  lol We have been to the park a few timeas and the kids love it there!!  

Yummy yummy Picnic food :)
(we scoffed the lot too!!)

Cara and Conor

Cara and James

Ryan and James having a climb!

Katie with yummy ice-cream

Laura and Abby

Having a rolling time down a hill!!

Ryan rowing away with mark (red top) and
Conor swinging the day away lol

Laura, Mark and Cara

Katie and Me having a 'selfie' lol

Whilst the children were away at their fathers I decorated Katie and Cara's bedroom .... with the help of Lily! I am waiting on a few bits and pieces to arrive in the post to complete their room but so far so good the girls love their new room!!  cara is now also in a full size bed and she loves it!!

Lily the painting boss!!

Cara and Abby giving Cara's new bed a try!!

I spent yesterday doing school uniform shoping for all 5 children! My purse is now a few hundred pounds lighter :(  The kids and I had a ball going around the shops getting all that they needed!! Cara cannot wait to start school but the teacher she was meant to have has left, Im gutted becasue she is a brilliant teacher and I so hoped Cara would be in her class.  At this moment in time we have no idea who her teacher will be!!  Its a wait and see I guess .... I hate the unknown!!

Today my friend Karen popped in with a lovely surpise for Cara ... A fab knitted hat for her :)
Cara loved the wool that Karen was knitting a blanket and cardi for Abby that Karen decided to knit a hat for her :)  What a lovely friend she is xxxx

Well, I think I have waffled on long enough.  I hope you enjoyed the family photos :)

Happy crafting weekend all 

Love me

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PS for all those in my exchange ... I will update who has send/received and for those who have not recevied (myself included) I will be in touch with you asap ... If im not quick at contacting you please e-mail me and let me know you havent received xxxx  Lets hope we all do xxxx