today I took part in the Winchester Art Market,

(er, yes that is me, semi-hiding!)

I had no expectations of the day, and so I enjoyed the day, rather than fretting, which is how I used to be! It was cheap as I shared it with Kate, and so we split the costs, and had a nice time : )

It is odd doing it a bit more, I’m not trying the hard sell now, only if people seem interested, or look scared to touch, I think touching my stuff is important, unless of course you are covered in dirt!

This past week has been pretty grim, we had three days at the Tribunal in London for Edwards secondary school placement. Our witnesses and representative were amazing, and the blobs from the County were pretty poor, so we have our fingers crossed. Once it is over, we hope to get the decision in the next few days, I want to blog about it more. Mainly because I want to be able to describe the utter disgust I have for a number of people involved with this!
The other thing that amazes me over this, is the amount of money the count have to fritter away on all of this, I’d love to know how much our case and the others have cost them!

But I shall leave that for another day, and just feel positive about the day I’ve had!

don’t get excited, they aren’t listed anywhere yet, but I thought I would share the love I have for them with you!

They are ‘handbags’ (I HATE that description) and they have an adjustable strap, so they can be used on the shoulder, or across the body.

I think they are great, but I guess I should : )

Need to take some good photos, and soon, if not I will fall out of practice again!

On the school front, thanks for the kind words, though today didn’t get any better, if anyone reads my blog who works at HCC in Winchester, in the education department, I have this for you…..

get a grip, and stop moving the ruddy goalposts!

Thanks for that!

I would just to say thank you for all the people who still patiently visit the site hoping to see something new!

I have so many things going on, but one has finished for about 8 weeks, and that is Handm@de : ) Thank you to everyone who too part, and made it one of the most successful ones so far, here I am looking a plum!

Our next event is on Saturday 13th November, and more will come in time about that!

The next thing on the hit list, is work tomorrow : ) And then Edwards tribunal, which I’m looking forward to like a hole in the head : ( There are 7 children going to tribunal for the school we want for Edward……..

I want to say something positive, but all I can feel is despair at the way the County feel they can treat children and their parents in what they consider is an acceptable manner, maybe when this is all over I can really say how I feel!

Anyhow….. stuff to go into shops soon, I have stock again!!!!

something new : )

even though some things are quite hard at the moment, namely the whole thing with Edward and appeal/tribunal, I have actually felt quite positive today : )

I guess as we have had an extra day, today has been a nice relaxing day, with no expectations!

I played with my new camera,

but didn’t sew, but Rome wasn’t built in a day!

I don’t want to promote the place I work at on here, this is my own blog, which I love and have not dedicated enough time to recently, however, I would like to draw your attention to something : )

On Domesticali and Little Cotton Rabbits there is an offer running on a meat box that I designed for a family of four, if you would like to try it out, while it is on special offer, go take a peek here and here!

Hope that hasn’t offended anyone!

but when I say that I want to finish it with ‘for Hitler‘ every time, and no I’m not being politically incorrect unless you call loving this film politically incorrect : )

This past week has been beautiful, and even though we do need some rain, could it just rain at night please!?

Need to motivate myself a bit more at the moment, no sewing going on here, but I want to, does that count?

sorry no Auntie Mabel though!

for the first time ever all our blossom is out together, I guess this has happened because of the cold winter, so we have the plum, almond and cherry out together, the one above is the cherry, and below is the plum,

at least with the plum it actually produces fruit, lovely Victoria ones, but the cherry and almond are just ornamental.

The cats are also enjoying the lovely sunny weather, and rolling around in the grass. I managed to catch Eddie in between the snapping of blossom : )

I have also started something in the past week, which has made me feel better, I get up at 6am to go for a 3 mile walk! It is so lovely, and quiet, and it makes me feel so much better, so I can recommend it! I get back home, have a shower and make brekkie, and be more motivated than if I stayed in bed until 8am!

Lets hope the sunny days carry on for a bit longer!

I know, you get excited, you think you are going to see a photo of me in my knickers, and no, not at all, just some old drawers…

We went down to Cornwall for a weeks holiday before Easter and that image is of the lovely spice drawers in the Tropical Biome at the Eden Project. It was a great week, and even though the weather was very odd, hail, snow, bright sunshine, all within about 30 minutes! We had a lovely time, visited Fowey, St. Ives, Truro, and lots more.

It is very busy here, with work, Handm@de, and the continuing struggle to get Edward into the right school. Also we are now having the displeasure of finding that many high street clothes shops seem to consider that boys stop being boys when they reach the age of about 14, should say that is ’size age’ as Edward is only 11. Also why do Next not stock the clothes in the shop that they sell online, and by that I mean, online they sell up to 16 years, in the shops, that stop at 12 years, now where is the logic in that!??!

Gah, oh well, I will try to blog soon : )

you know you can never go wrong with cake, can you!?

no, you can’t,

ever get it wrong,

however many you ‘have’ to try!

I would like to point out that these were all tasted/tried in the name of work, good god, it’s a hard life sometimes, that and ice-cream!

So that is why I’m currently not around so much, almost working full-time, so less time for blogging, twitter and sewing : ( But I do get to eat cake!

Today was quite nice really, weekends for us are always difficult, the boys are together for longer than normal, and well it can be tricky. Though this morning William made me play his ’strategy’ game,

I think the main idea behind this game, was that no one would understand it and so therefore he would win! Saying that, he really had made lots of effort designing the characters/actions etc, but had then not really worked out how you would play it!
Maybe tomorrow I will see if I can beat him!