Hello Hello HELLLLOOOOO!!!

Hello there!!

Oh I've missed  everyone and my blog!!

The move went well and we are all settled in, just having a little trouble getting the internet installed :(
We are having a new phone line installed and then with luck all should work at home!!  I hope so, if not I know know I can pop to the library and here I am ....  Brilliant!

So here I am at the Library since members can now connect their own Laptops/phones etc to their WiFi :)

I have done a little bit of stitching but not an awful lot as I keep thinking of ways to have the house and places to move things around too lol The only problem with that is I cant remember where I put things hahahaha :)

Laura is getting very plump and round with only 16 weeks until baby is due .... she has been told the baby is a girl but I just keep saying Grandbaby and not Granddaughter just in case!!!  I cannot wait and we already have a stock of baby things!!  Baby's daddy is helping with the stock pile so at least I cant get too told off for buying too much stuff .... he is as bad as me lol

All is well and I am still here!!  I must go and look at what mischief you have all been up to!!  hahahehe

Hope everyone is well .... I've missed everyone

Love me
xxxxxx

Oh my oh my oh my ...

Hello all,

Well this will be my last post for a few days or so as my internet will be going off from tomorrow until sometime around the 3rd Feb at the latest.  Then I will be up and running in the new house :)

I cannot wait because it will be a lovely fresh start in a lovely home with just myself and the kiddies ... nice new memories for us all!!

Anyway, as I was cleaning out my bedroom and packing way my stuff and by the time I had finished I had a box full of kits!!  There is no way I can now say I've nothing to stitch lol

Box of kits

I cannot wait to get my bedroom/stitching haven sorted and arranged in the new house!!  Its going to be brilliant :)

Well have fun and keep out of mischief until I come back because I want to join in the fun lol

Love me
xxxxxxx

Not a stitch ....

Hello there!

Well the last week or so I have not got a stitch done ... at all!! But I have the keys for my new home and have started shifting our belongings there :)

The kiddies have now seen inside the house and they cannot wait to move!!

We are aiming to move in by the 30th January so we can start a new month in a new house .... so exciting :)

I am having a couple of the rooms decorated tomorrow so when the paint has dried we can move stuff there in the cars over the weekend.  The more we can shift the less the removal men will have to take!  Therefore less of a removals bill lol!!

Well, I have a Uni essay to finish off before the weekend .... busy busy busy!!

Bye for now and keep safe

Love me
xxxxxxx

GREAT NEWS ....

Hello!  

I am sure some of you remember me posting about the house I rent being repossessed because the landlord did not pay the mortgage on the property .... well I received some great news ... a house I applied for a few miles down the road (8 minute drive!!) from where we are now and YES we actually got accepted as the new tenants!!!

Since I found out last October/November that we had to move from here, I managed to get an 8 week guarantee, particularly over the Christmas Period, that we would not be 'bothered' by the bank who have taken over the property and they would be out early January to measure/market/put up the For Sale sign.  In the mean time I have been looking  for properties but all the houses that were big enough for us to move into in the area I was told 'NO!' by the owners of the property because 'we would wreck the house' ... In other words because I have 7 children they thought we would destroy the house therefore they refused to let us look around!!

Then I was shown this property by a friend .... 

We are totally delighted!!!  

This is the back of the house

Front door and side view of the house
Gates to keep the children in the garden and away from the road

 The new house is a little distance into the Countryside BUT:-

• It is big enough for us all
• The children can still use the same school bus that they do now
• Has lovely gardens 
• No busy road at the back, front or side of us like we do now
• The children cannot get near a busy road like they can now when playing out

There is so much room within the house as it has been built to be very spacious and each of the rooms are 'away' from each other .... in other words we will not be on top of each other!!  Space, space, space!!

The kitchen is enormous ....

The part of the kitchen

The only disadvantage is that their father cannot walk to our home once every 2 weeks to collect the children!!  I have hunted down every property that would accommodate the size of the family and but the owner of this property has said 'NO' ... Nothing much I can do about it.  I was given 1 sort of yes by a letting agency for a house an hours drive away but that would have been a change of schools for the children and that's no good at all so i decided to hang on as much as I could .... so glad I did now!!

So its an 8 minute drive or an hour drive with a total change of schools etc.  I think the 8 minute drive cannot and should not be complained about lol!!  The children just love the look of this house!!  Just as well since the contracts are sorted and verbal 'yeses' have been said!!!  I will take then down either tomorrow or Saturday for a look around :)

We cannot wait ... a lovely fresh start to 2014.  Nothing could be better!!  Just look at this view, there is no better place than the countryside :)  Fantastic place for my kiddies!!  

The view from our back door

Part of our garden

Well its the early hours of the morning and I must get to bed!!

Bye for now

Love me

xxxxxxxxx

Easter Egg-Change

Hello!

I have joined the Easter Egg-Change over on Mii Stitch blog .... fancy joining the fun?
Click on the link and go have a look!!  :)

Have a wonderful day
xxxxx

Baby Sampler

Hello and good afternoon all!!

Just a quick up date :)  I have spent a day or so stitching the baby sampler Laura picked out!!

Well guess who wants one stitched for her too?  Yes Cara lol!!  She loves the teddy bear!!

I am getting some studying done later on!

Have a wonderful day

Love me
xxxxxxx

Turtle Trot January 2014

Hello all,

Here are the pics of my WIP's that I'm going to work through this year and with some luck get most, if not all, of them finished!!

First of all I am working, and will work all weekend, on Baby Sampler for my Grandbaby :)

Its not much but its a start

My other WIP's are:-

Air Goddess by Joan Elliott

Ladybird Fairy by Joan Elliott

Summer Fairy by Joan Elliott

Charlie Bear Alphabet by Margaret Sherry

Fairy Grandmother by Lavender and Lace

A Stitchers Sampler

Puppeteer by AOY

I still have another 2 photos to put up as I forgot to take them lol

I wonder how many I will get completed this year?

Have a look at the other Turtle trotters blogs

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful weekend :)

Love me
xxxxxxx