six into the shop, and probably this will be the last update before the start of June, also if you do want one, please place your order before lunch on Friday, if not I won’t be able to send it out until after our week away : )

later, that’s when there should be an update to my Etsy shop : )

Thank you for such a lovely reaction to the washing line snippet, I love it and it is something I have wanted to do for ages, but just haven’t got round to it! So here is something else, I guess more like the other designs I have been producing,

and also,

I like them very much : ) But I guess I would say that! There will be 6 bags in total, and there there will not be an update for 2 weeks, as next week we are in Wales for half term, and when we come back I will have about another 6 to finish off. So if you are interested in any of them please remember that Friday will be the last posting day until after half term : )

Yes I should be doing all of those things, and shall try later, but for now, feast your eyes upon this,

I’m really pleased with this one, this is only a little bit of it, and it will be in the shop tomorrow with another 3 designs, which I’m also pleased with.

Hmm I sound too pleased with myself, I would like to thank everyone who has left such lovely comments on my last post, I think the most important thing at the moment is trying to keep an open mind, and be patient, it’s the patience thing I lack, but trying : )

Also a couple of other things, thanks Martine for writing such lovely things about me in her Mixtape article, so nice : ) And also go check out this blog by Lisa, she makes graphical handmade cards, very bright and lovely, she also had the patience of a saint by waiting for her Raspberry bags to arrive! So go have a look : )

And to everyone recently who has sent me awards and memes I have not forgotten they are there in a folder in my e-mail staring at me with beady eyes, I promise I will sort it out!!

I feel like I need to explain stuff, where I have been and what has been happening, but why would I do that? I mean, this is my blog, and I don’t need to explain myself to anyone, but I do, because writing this helps, getting stuff into writing moves it from my brain and hopefully makes it a bit neater and gives the rest of my brain space to move!

Hey what a great start! If I have not freaked you out or bored you, I shall begin….. To tempt you onwards, there is a photo near the end!

I think around the 20th of April I was really moaning about William and how awful he was being and how I took him to the doctors, well I did, and he performed as I would have expected, into everything, wanted to fiddle, wouldn’t shut up, and oh god it was awful, so bad that the doctor suggested that maybe he has ADHD, joy!

Well I don’t think he has ADHD, maybe some elements, but as like so many of these things, everyone exhibits some symptoms and to be honest it was an easy answer to a worn down mother and manic child!

From this we went back to school, and the lunacy continued, to a point that two weeks ago he was temporarily excluded. Now I know people from his school read this blog so I will not write everything I feel about the situations that lead to this event, however, I feel that he exhibited behaviour that we have seen at home, but he did it in school more extremely which caused the ‘incident’. I could go on about the problems of excluding a child, but really it is not worth it : (

This happened the Thursday before the Bank Holiday weekend, so he had 5 days away from school, and shockingly he did want to go back, and he has been pretty good I think, but I don’t really know if he is getting an education as such at the moment, and this is no disrespect to the school, but that element does concern me. He is pig headed and stubborn and he knows that there is only so much school can do : (

So since that break he has been pretty sorted, but I knew we had an observation looming from the Educational Psychologist and the Schools Paediatrician, which was on Wednesday. I wasn’t worried until the night before, and then I guess I started to think about it more and maybe too much, but actually it was good and really ok. They watched him for 90 minutes and then I had a meeting with them to discuss what they had seen, their opinions and feedback from me as the parent.

They want to him to have a Statutory Assessment which may well and hopefully (I think) lead to a Statement of Special Needs, which is what Edward already has, and has made a huge difference for his education. But there so far is no diagnosis, no label for him…. So we go on the waiting list to see the Clinical Psychologist and go from there.

So all of this had made me feel a bit mentally frazzled… But there are people out there, with so much more on their plate, that really I need to stop moaning and just get on with it!

Also running over this period of time I was approached by an agency representing a well known high quality card company if I could come up with some designs to submit, yay, you may say, but instead I was plunged into total creative block : ( I was limited by their requirements in a way I thought I could deal with and basically I just failed, my brain with everything else just seized up and produced stuff that I’m simply not proud of, and the way I work is that I’ve got to love making it and would potentially love to use it, otherwise why bother!

But yesterday in the last throw of the dice my creative mojo returned, and I came up with some designs I really like, but they didn’t, but now I can show you a peek : )

The three bits are actually from two bags, I’m sure you can guess which bits go together!

These will be turned into bags over the next few days, and I feel relieved in a way, I’m designing and making things for me and you, and you have all been so lovely as always that I can’t wait to share these with you very soon!

Thanks for reading the amazing amount of waffle above, and thank you for all your comments on the two previous posts, they make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!

More soon, I promise!

I have actually managed to get myself together enough to get the bags onto Etsy,

there is another as well, a very funky tree with groovy vintage berries : ) I hope you like them all, they are a temporary departure for me, all a bit pale, and all using vintage fabrics.

I have some more ones in progress, and when I can photograph them I will put some piccies up, thanks for your patience : )

a very short one,

I have found the past couple of weeks very hard, and still have little to show for it, so a glimpse of what will be going into the shop this week.

Working on more ideas, trying to turn them into good designs, that I am happy with

Maybe a proper post in the next few days…..