A very late last ORT Photo ...

Here is my full jar of ORTs for 2013 along with Katie and the Christmas tree :)

Christmas Tree 2013
with Katie and ORT Jar

Cara wrote some Christmas Cards and put them under the Christmas Tree lol! She is a little Cutie Pie!!

Today Cara went to see Santa with the Pre-school she attends.  She totally loved it and all the little preschoolers looked so cute on such a big bus. Katie did her school play today and she did a wonderful job with her speaking part!

Well better get some children collected from the school bus stop as I don't think they will be impressed

Happy stitching and crafting
xxxxx

Another letter done plus a few e-mails!! And Tusal

Hello there,

First of all I have finished the letter H on my Charlie bear sampler oooo yay!!  He is a little cutie :)

Charlie H

The kids have been away this weekend so I have stitched on Summer Fairy.  I am concentrating on the wings then get the ribbons completed.  After that I think I might start on some of the backstitch before doing the bottom half!!  

My TUSAL for November ...  

November 

The e-mails ... well they were about the house!  I looked into the company that have taken over the house to see on behalf of the bank that repossessed from the landlord and the company is a massive international corporation.  I spent a while going through their website and reading up what they exactly do and part of their organisation helps re-home tenants!!!  

Well this hit a nerve with me because I was having problems finding another house big enough within the area we as a family need for schools.  The only places I could get that would take 5 young children (they didn't count in Laura or James because they are classed as adults) where too far away, with no bus to their schools so it would be a case of 40 minute drive each way for all but Cara as she isn't allowed on the bus with being a Nursery child or change their schools!!!  So with Cara I would have to go back to collect her at 12.15 when Nursery ends ... I would spend the week driving lol

Change of schools is not an option because the landlord not paying his bills is not a life changing situation for us .... way should it be .... so I e-mailed the company and explained the situation plus quoted parts of their website about how they help the tenants and asked why was I not offered this help!!

Hey presto ... they have put off having us move before Christmas as I could only afford the move or Christmas.  Why should the kids suffer????  They will help re-locate us and it will be done in my time so we do not end up somewhere silly and out of the school bus route!  So its all happy happy happy here :-) Christmas is back on!!!

It has been a hell of a week, plus the kids have been off for Half Term so not much else done!!!  

Well its is off to get a memo done for school as I am running a Coffee Morning in the school on Thursday ... a coffee morning organised by parents for parents ....  That's a first :)  Looking forward to it!

Have a great Sunday

See you all soon

Love me

xxxx

P.S I have not forgotten about the give away .... with everything else I have been run off my feet!!  In fact I will set that up once I have this memo done :)  Watch this space!!!  

October TUSAL

A day late ooops sorry lol ....

TUSAL
5th October

In the back ground there is a Tourists souvenir of the Eiffel Tower that James bought me many years ago :) I just love it!!

Have a wonderful crafting day!!

Love me
xxxx

TUSAL and first painting

Good afternoon all

Again, not much to report as no stitching done again but now all has settled and the days are getting back to the 'In School Routine' I will be busy busy busy again asap!

Here is my TUSAL for September .... Doesn't look much different from last month other than the kids have messed with it and it was all squashed up lol

TUSAL 5 September 2013

Cara has had another fantastic day at Nursery and here is her first painting!!  She loves to paint and draw :-)

First picture :-)

Well, I am going to get some tea sorted out for the monsters coming home from school lol

With luck there will be some stitching done tonight!!

Bye for now

Love me
xxxxxx

Fairy Grandmother and TUSAL

Good Morning all,

Well over where I am it has been lovely weather until last night and then it poured with rain for hours!  It is still raining slightly which is a pain as I am off into town to get my hair cut this afternoon and then go and get most of the kids uniforms for September!!  Not long now until they are back in school!

The kiddies sound like they are having a blast with their father. Ryan has phoned everyday so far and sometimes phoned more than once lol!  Think he is missing us :-)  Spoke to the others too! Monday was a strange day as it was his birthday and there was not celebrations, cake or anything here as no one was home :-( James is still having a great time at my parents!!  

Yesterday was TUSAL day and I only remembered about it late last night!  So here is my TUSAL with all the threads so far from this year .... 

TUSAL as 6th August

I have spent a good few solid days stitching away on my Fairy Grandmother that has been a WIP for a long time!

At long last my Fairy Grandmother has a face!!  Her head will float until the very end as she has a collar of beads but I wont do them just yet.

Fairy Grandmother
as 6th August 2013

I hope to get more done on her over then net few days.  I will get some of the metallic threads in to fill in the gaps and make her look a little more full and complete!!  Also I will make a start on the second wing.  Lots of colour changes in the wings!  

I have a few exchanges to get finished too.  All systems go with the stitching this week!!

Have a great day all

Love me

xxxxx

What a weekend!! and TUSAL

Hi all!!

Oh yeah ... the man did it!!!  Totally delighted and the cheers went u in my house!

Conor seems to have taken a great interest in Tennis over the last two weeks ... Great stuff Conor!!

Congratulations to Andy 

Needless to say that my stitching has taken a back seat the last two weeks but over the last week I have got a little done on the surprise for James

As 7th July

Here is my TUSAL ...

As 8th July

Ryan is waiting for the computer so I5 will leave it here for now and get some stitching done whilst its calm and quiet here!!

Have a great day all

xxxxx

TUSAL (a few minutes late)

Hello bloggers,

Here is my TUSAL ... just a little after the 8th June!!

TUSAL as at
8Th June 2013

I have put my cancer wrist band around  the top of my TUSAL jar.  I was wearing it but the fabric kept catching on it!

I have finished off my Lizzie Kate RR and hemmed up the fabric. I must take a photo of it!!

Friday turned into a crazy day lol  Sports day was brilliant and Katie got 3rd in the 'Run with a beanbag on your head' race :-)  Mark did really well too but did get 'placed' in the race but he doesn't care which to be honest is the best way to be .... its the fun that's more important not winning!  

Ryan decided that since Katie and Mark could go home after sports day so was he!!  he arranged with his teacher to ask me if he could leave school when i go lol!!  Other siblings are allowed to go home when other years have sports day and Ryan knew I was going to leave him and Conor there (meanie mummy lol) so yes I saw the little loving face and caved lol!!  I went and arranged with Conors teacher for him to go too!  Cara was delighted seeing her brothers and sister arrive home nice and early.  

once home I decided to arrange haircuts for kiddies and hairdresser had a free appointment for one of the girls so I took Katie as I can take Cara during the day when Katie is at school.  Katie had about 5 inches chopped off as she is fed up with it being long.  I must get a photo of her.

Saturday Laura and Johnny took the 3 boys to the barbers.  It was either they took the boys or I did so we decided since Johnny's car was last up the drive way it should be first out haha .... oh shouldn't laugh I got left with the housework lol 

I must get some photos as the kiddies look brilliant with their new hairstyles!!  They went to a different barbers as their usual one was closed and they really wanted their hair cut as they were roasting hot and wanted the rugs on their heads chopped off lol!!

Well I'm off to finish my Father's day card order off on Moonpig.com then I'm off to bed!!  

Will post photos of the kiddies and stitching asap.

Oh yes .... shhhh... I got the Dictionary of Technology for James and will stitch it when he is away in Spain with mum and dad in July :-)  

Bye for now.  Take care in that hot sun!!

Love me

xxxxxxx

So excited, life is good, fun stuff and my TUSAL

Good Morning happy Bloggers and crafters

Today is TUSAL day :-)

TUSAL 10 May 2013

Yesterday evening was brilliant for my 7 children and me!!  We went for a family group photo!  I got the children and myself some new clothes for the occasion so we looked wonderful :-)  We cannot wait to get the proofs in about 2 weeks time.  So excited!!

Here is a sneaky peak at my little girls!  Photos taken on mobile phone so quality isn't too great but the kids are!!!

Cara and Katie
Sisters together and best friends forever 

"My Pretty" says Cara
You sure are my sweetie pie :-)

Today is going to be a brain day as I have my essay to finish off then I can stitch stitch stitch.

Just like the post title Life is fun, good and happy theses days!  Myself and the kids are so happy and have become even more close to each other.

Now Heather, get off your blog and do your essay then you can play!!  lol

Bye for now

Love me
xxxxxxxx

TUSAL 10th April 2013

Hello all!

Here is my TUSAL photo for April

TUSAL on 10th April 2013

I have spent a couple of evenings stitching on my Margaret Sherry Lovers Blog SAL 'Puppy Love'  I nearly have the first puppy completed.  This puppy is one of the biggest in the design so I hope to whizz along with the rest over the year :-)

I will post a photo when I have finished him!

Hope everyone is well and having a good crafting time!!

Love me xxx

TUSAL and Summer Fairy

Good Afternoon all

I hope you all had a great weekend!  I sent it reading, stitching and watching TV!!

Here is my TUSAL update!  getting loads of nice shades in there now :-)

TUSAL as at 11 March 2013

Yes you can see snow in the back ground!!!  Snow in March ... What a shock we got when we woke up this morning :-O

Here's an update of Cara's Summer Fairy.  I think she is looking good but the fabric has gone a little out of shape and I'm not happy with the way some of the stitches are sitting.  

Summer Fairy 11 march 2013

Well time to brave the snow and go and collect the kiddies from the bus stop!!

I think later on I will start on the teacher stitching so I don't end up in a big mad panic like last year lol

The school here end on the last week day of June for either 8 or 9 weeks depending on when the first Monday in September falls!!  End of June will soon be here!!

Have a great evening all.

Love me xxxxx

TUSAL 10th February 2013

Good Morning bloggers

How are you today?  All is calm and too quiet here with the 5 little kiddies away.

I stitched away most of yesterday from about 3pm for a good few hours then watched a few TV programmes then carried on stitching til about 1.30am!!  I just did realise the time lol

I will be stitching again very soon until the kids home at 5pm.  I thought I would get my TUSAL photo posted whilst I have a computer I can use without 'Are you nearly finished Mummy?' hahahaha!!!

So here is my TUSAL to today's posting

TUSAL as New Moon

10 February 2013

Blog the TUSAL originated from ...to have a look just click the TUSAL image on the right hand side of my blog


Have a great day all.

Will post a photo of my Summer Fairy stitching tomorrow :-)

Bye for now

Love me
xxxxxx

TUSAL 11 January 2013

(Totally Useless Stitch A Long)

Hello!

Well here is the first posting of my TUSAL for 2013!!

I bought a Kilner jar from Ebay and won it on a bid for £1.99!!  Delighted and it is one of the jars that can have a pincushion in the lid so I must get onto that over the weekend :-)

Here is my jar of bits of threads ...

TUSAL on 11.01.13

Laura has gone to do her voluntary work at Youth Club and this week Conor and Ryan have one with her.  My lovely friend's husband runs the Youth Club so she dropped her hubby and kids off then came her to collect Laura, Ryan and Conor.

Have a great evening ... I'm off to stitch Charlie for a few hours :-)

Love me

xxxxx