see I know my French up to eight, but might not get much further than that!

So here we are Day Eight of the holidays, the quote so far,

“I am not going in the Co-op with him looking like that!” said by Edward to me, while William stood by wearing a plastic police helmet and mirror sunglasses, he did have a point, but I didn’t have the energy!!

Anyway, on the children side it ranges from lovely to despair, but the fort/castle is getting there,

We did the platform and the seats around the inside at the bottom of the posts, it was hot, and on Friday, we should almost complete it, when we clad the outside in timber, and it will suddenly look a lot more castle like. The blue, is the blue it will be all over, it looks great against the green of the wood behind.

Onto my fabric mountain….

I have quite a lot of fabric, but I could have more! I personally think it is an addiction, I love it, but…….

I buy fabric that I love the way it looks, and then when I have it, I don’t know what to use it in, or on, or I don’t have enough!

I think if you sew you have this problem, however I’m making some new bags which are going to have patterned linings, because I HAVE to use up some of this fabric!

I love them all, but with three of them until now I have either been unable to part company with them, or fit them into something (well that’s my excuse!)

So I am making four new across the body denim bags, like those two daisy ones, and I will keep you updated on the progress of those.

Hope to have some wip piccies tomorrow as there is no castle building or visiting my grandmother, which to be honest is too dull and boring to bore you with, and anyway my Dad might read it!!

Firstly The Dark Knight.

Saw this a couple of days ago, actually on the first day of release here, always a nice feeling : )
I have to admit I went into this film with quite a lot of anticipation, not only had I really enjoyed Batman Begins, I think Christopher Nolan is a fantastic director. Memento and The Prestige are amazing films I think, both play with head, and I love that in films and books, both also have slightly ambiguous endings, which I also whole heartedly approve of!

So that is how I went into the film, I had a level of expectation which had to be met, and I was sure it would be.

So, was it met, well yes, however, I can’t give it 10 out of 10.

One of the best things about the film was also almost its undoing.

Heath Ledger’s performance was amazing, and I have to say, he does deserve a Best Supporting Actor nomination, as whenever he was on the screen you were drawn to him and whatever he did, however awful, and dreadful he was being at the time.

And that was the problem, the other main characters just were not as interesting, where as in Batman Begins the character of Bruce Wayne/Batman was clearly the main role he did not dominate in the way that the Joker does. Christian Bale is woefully under used in The Dark Knight, and that is a great shame.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is far superior in the role of Rachel Dawes which is great, not enough Michael Caine or Morgan Freeman, but Gary Oldman was fantastic again, and I really enjoyed watching him.

So, a great film, fantastic set pieces, especially The Joker in a different outfit, you’ll know what I mean if you have seen the film!
It is a really good film, but I didn’t find myself as attached as I wanted to. There is loads of other stuff about it, but you should make your own mind up on that!

Right, Wall-E, we saw this yesterday morning with the boys, who were more excited about seeing a film than ever before, so the level of anticipation was huge all round!

Well it was amazing, so wonderful, and I would happy go and watch it again, right now!! To be honest I don’t know where to start, it was perfect!
I love Pixar, Toy Story 2 is one of my favourite films, I love Bugs Life, and The Incredibles, and Finding Nemo, so how could they top all of those? Well they did, and some more on top!

The characters in the film were spot on, the way it looked was amazing, I knew that Roger Deakins had been involved, and that I guessed sort of prepared me for the stunning way the film looked. The sounds of the film were created by Ben Burtt, a genius of film sound creation (if you love Star Wars you know what I mean!). I’m gushing, but I can’t help it!

There were references to many other films, references that children wouldn’t even notice, they don’t glare, they just add another layer of love.

Look don’t read this, go and see it, everyone will love it, everyone, and you know what, this should be nominated for Best Picture when it is the Oscars, it truly deserves it!

Oh, and I cried at least three times while watching it!

so we are into Day Five, the weekend, and it is all pretty ok to be honest.

Work has been started on the fort/castle the boys are having at the top of the garden,

quite warm out at the moment, but still in the shade up there, thankfully : )

I will take some more photos later and put them in another post.

Yesterday we saw Wall-E, and it was amazing, just a brilliant film, and I cried at least 3 or 4 times! I will do a review of it later, with the other one too!

I haven’t got any sewing stuff to show you, I hope to be doing some bags this week to update the shop with, so I will keep you informed and show you some sneak peeks : )

see you later!

‘Day Two’ (said in voice of bloke on Big Brother), all is quiet in the house’

and actually all is quiet at the moment, but I did have a wooden fort thrown at me earlier!

But, I have managed in between breaking up fights, avoiding large marbles and wooden forts being thrown at me, to do number five off my list – Design and make up some across the body bags with closures. Woohoooooo!!!!

These were a request from a friend, for his twin daughters, so I think they are quite cool : ) And look, look,

magnetic clasps! oh yes! I’m really quite pleased with myself about this, and it was so easy, I’ll shut up now : )

So hooray!

I will review The Dark Knight later : )

ok, so I’m cheating, it is the start of day one of forty one holi-days : )

But I know today will be quite stressful, so I have stuff to show, so I thought I better get in there quick!

I have just got these,

They are from the lovely Michelle aka CicadaStudio, I love the little lily of the valley one, so lovely.

So far on my list I have almost completed one thing, arghhhh, but I have a list to work to now, so lets see how it goes : )

We are going to see The Dark Knight later, and I’m very excited, very very! I think Batman Begins is a great film, and I’m hoping that this one will be even better, but trying to not get caught up in the hype! I might even do a review of it later : )

I think I must have written about it almost being the end of term at least three times already, does that give an indication of quite how much I’m worried about it?!

But it isn’t just yet, today is the last day for this academic year, and so Edward has gone off with a paper bag full of pressies, and as they shouldn’t be be reading my blog at work, I feel it is safe to discuss them!!

If you are a long time reader of my blog you will know all about Edward, and getting him into a new school, a school that could meet his requirements, rather a school trying to make him meet their requirements.
Edward has been as his ’special’ school for a year now, and what has happened is amazing, yes some days at home are still not great, especially when he is tired, but overall he is so more content, calm and happy.
He can now walk a distance without complaining, he will write and read without moaning, he can get dressed quickly (socks are still a problem, sweaty feet I think are that problem!), and he is happy, did I say that already?!

So I wanted to show the teacher and LSAs who work with him every school day in his class just how much they mean to me, us and especially him.

I wanted to make something a bit different, and was struggling, and was looking for inspiration. A couple of weeks ago I went to the Contemporary Art, Design and Craft Fair at Winchester Cathedral, and I found these,

Aren’t they lovely, little ceramic magnets made by Josephine Middleton, and with this design I had my inspiration, I hope she doesn’t mind!

I have already showed little glimpses of what I was making, but here they are, three little bags, full of love,

Inside each bag is one magnet, a linen bookmark made by me, and some choccies from Hotel Chocolat, and for his teacher I made this,

Because her she has been so lovely with him, and us, she has said the most lovely things, and she is leaving, so next year he will have a new teacher, who I’m quite sure is just as lovely and will continue the great work that has taken place so far. I hope she likes the corsage : )

I had intended to make some chocolate brownies to take in for everyone at school, but with everything else, I failed on that, so I’m sorry, but I will make some next term I promise!

as I have blogged about recently, had lots going on, and only one more day of term left…..

But I have managed to complete one of the things I had to do, this lovely cushion, a commission,

very much inspired by the cushion designs by Aunty Cookie, I hope she doesn’t mind too much : )

I would like to make some more cushions, and so far they have been quite successful, so I might try some more : )

this with you : )

go have a look at the other here if you have cats, this is so perfect, and if not you will laugh at cat owners!

I like the weather how it is today, it feels very calm, almost like it could stay like this forever, or maybe that is because the stillness it how I hope it could stay!

The boys have their last day on Wednesday, and to be honest I cannot say I’m looking forward to the holidays, they fill me full of fear of the unknown, and not a good unknown!

This weekend it was our local village fair, no ordinary fair, it only happens every four years! So that took up some time, as did cutting the grass : )

That is our back garden, the slope is a hill! And at the top is another quite large piece to mow, yesterday to took two and a half hours to cut! I guess the grass was quite long, but even so that is quite a long time, so between that and all the other stuff going on, not much sewing got done!!

So today has been doing some more stuff off the list and getting stuff cleared for the noise that will fill out house from Thursday!! So something to show you tomorrow I hope : )

ps I’m not complaining about the size of our garden, but I just wish the boys would use it more : (

if you would like to know more about image, have a look here, and I hope you have had a lovely weekend : )