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Tuesday 24th August.
This afternoon I had another order for a Humf, these little fellas are proving very popular, which I'm more than pleased about. Pleased because I designed them myself, and it feels good to see them selling well, and more importantly VERY pleased because each one sold goes to support Rich's memorial fund.

http://sunflower.tributefunds.com/fund/Richard+Derek+Meese/


A few makes from yesterday, well the smiley monkey was a while ago, I just forgot to post pics of him lol






We went outside to see Emma and Dan off last night, this was the view from the front door, they thought I was mad, dashing in to get the camera.I think the moon looks amazing, although I don't think my camera is good enough to pic up the colours and the textures.



I'm just adding the finishing touches to my latest creation, I would add pics, but I'm really not happy with part of it, you know how you think it looks okay, then you take a photo and see it from a different view point? That's what happened lol, now I have to undo it and start that bit again.


AND FINALLY
I love this clip, so funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Y0I91rubg

And now finally I just found this.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/starttheday/4727418295/

Now that's a cosy!!

Post that makes you smile

Everybody likes to get smile-worthy post, I have been lucky enough to recieve this little lot recently.







I won this amazing paperbag album off Ali, for helping her choose a new name.(memories are made of this was my offering)
http://magicmakinghands.blogspot.com/





Yesterday I had this package of patterns, off the lovely Laura on the Crafts Beautiful forum, for no reason other than she thought I would be able to use them in my fundraising knitting.






Todays post brought these lovely things off Lyn, we were swap partners on Lisa's Blog
http://periwinklepark.blogspot.com/






And finally, this stunning set of earrings and keycharm off Caroline, again on the Crafts Beautiful forum. I entered my snail in her insect challenge and it was a runner up.

Bags of time

http://www.creative-crafting.com/

I visit this site regularly and love to read the magazine. One contributor Diane from http://www.folksy.com/shops/crawlin gives loads of knitting tips. I liked her beach bag and decided to have a go.I've never knitted a bag before, don't know why, just haven't.
I made this my "In bed" knitting, I have to have some thing to knit when I can't sleep, this can be midnight or 3am onwards. It was so easy, such a simple yet effective pattern. I even carried on with it when I wasn't in bed. IMAGINE THAT!!
Eager to finish, I hadn't got any D shaped handles, but adapted the pattern by adding an extra bit to support the top, then I lined it with some vintage fabric, I even added a tiny pocket for my keys. (Could have been deeper this bit)
Anyhoo, thanks Diane for sharing your pattern, and here they both are.
(Diane will remove your image if you want me to)

UPdate on Kitties

They are now a very cute and active 10 weeks old.
This morning, we had a visit off the gasman, so we put them in the upstairs bathroom. They were shut in there with food and litter tray for about 1hr as he needed access to check boiler, fires, heating etc.
OMG somehow the little boogers had managed to turn the tap on (you can do it with yur elbow)and had paddled through the litter tray and onto the loo seat, the cistern even the window sill. Everything was covered in a lovely pooey mess. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry so I did both lol.
I was all for giving them away there and then lol maybe to the gasman!! but then you look at their ultra cuteness and forgive them.

Oh My

Well haven't I been lax in blogging!
My excuses are:
It was Rich's 26th birthday on May 20th, I think I went into another emotional decline in the build up to and from this day.

Belle had kittens on Steve's birthday May 28th

Then I was 50 on June 6th

I went on a Team building day with year 5 (they needed it not me lol)

and I am going to the Wyre Forest with year 5 on Monday.

SO what you really want to know about are the kittens?


as I said it was on Steves birthday and our clever cat had them all on her own, in a space outside no bigger than a sheet of paper.
We managed to track them down and get them inside, she had 3 little ones.




They are (as best as we can tell) all girls and are so cute.
So far we have only named two of them Callie the little calico one and Rusty the little one with a rust patch on her head. Emma is trying to decide what to call hers lol.

Yesterday they were 5 weeks old and look like this:


Callie in front, walking away from Miss No Name

Typical, you can't see her rust patch on this pic.

Little Miss No Name


Cat lover or no, you have to agree they are cute??

And finally one of the very clever mom Belle

BLOG GIVE AWAYS

Both of these lovely ladies are offering you a chance to win something just for checking out their blogs.
Lou is offering 15 handmade cards, if you haven't bought any of Lou's cards before, then you are in for a treat http://scrapphappylou.blogspot.com/
and Renate is offering all of this:



http://hobby-paleis.blogspot.com/2010/05/verjaardagscandybirthday-candy.html