Evening all :0)

Well hello lovely people.

Hope this post finds you all happy and well.

I've found some lovely new blogs this week, and I see I've got some lovely new followers too, so Hello to you all as well :0)

I've had a very busy week this week (maybe I should have kept BizzyDays as my blog title lol), and I was had a very stressful day yesterday which was so bad it brought on another bloomig migraine Gggrrr...I hate migraines, they are just so debilitating! It's just in it's final stages at the moment, so hopefully it'll go tomorrow :0) 

Well, I've eventually got my secret PIF's ready and waiting to send off, just one or two more things to get, -sorry lovely pif people, I know I should have it ready by now, but time ran away from me ...-

I've been and ordered my new pair of reading/close work glasses, these are my first ever glasses, and it's taken me since October 2009 to go and get the prescription made up! Trouble is, i think my eyes have got worse since then lol..so when I get them tested again this October, I know I'll need some stronger ones..why didn't I just get 'em done in the first place?

I've been listing my new brooches on Etsy too..

They've got some really cute vintage buttons in the middle.

I've also got some new vintage fabrics from the CS.

I'm thinking of making some sort of cute toys, but the trouble is, I just keep making again, and not finishing and listing!

My hubby's amazed I got several brooches finished and am in the process of listing them at the moment:0)

Isn't the weather gorgeous in the UK at the moment?

We were out and about at the weekend enjoying the sunshine.

This is my youngest two cycling off up the path.

We followed the stream along the track..It looked a lot prettier when we were there!

Here's our new family members Honey and Nibbles having a little sleep in one of their tubes..Aaaawwww

Well, I'm off now, you all have a great weekend.

Take care,
Love Donna x

Total photo overload ! :0) and new family members :0)

 Well, Good evening lovely people :0)

How are you all this dreary Friday?  Hope all is fine and dandy in your world :o)

Now, you must all know by now about the little squabbles I keep having with blogger. So this week, I've tried to beat him at his own game, and nearly every spare moment I've had, I've been trying to upload photos onto a blog post..( when you eventually get to the end of this post, you're going to think that I have an enormous amount of 'spare moments' in my life lol :)

So, this post is chock full of photos that I've been wanting to show you, but blogger hasn't let me. They're nothing important at all, and if you want to stop reading/looking now, you won't be missing much. Or on the other hand, if you want to carry on and have a nose, I suggest you nip and get a nice cup 'o tea now :0)

In my last blog posts, I've had a bit of a whine at the lack of flowers in this new garden. Well, we got up on Tuesday morning (which was beautifully bright and sunny here,) to be greeted by a whole tree full of beautiful pink blossom :0)

Next up are the continued photos of my very unsuccessful fair :)

The lady below did knitting, and she made some gorgeous hats...

And she also knitted childrens shrugs and lovely handbags...I have to say they were the nicest knitted handbags and shrugs I have ever seen. The attention to detail was second to none...

I can't remember if I showed you this jewellery and bag stall...

Next up, was the handmade card lady..

And this lovely lady had driven about 35-40 miles to get to the fair and not sell anything!.....

Goodness, I'm glad my youngest daughter didn't come to the fair, she would have wanted all these sock monkeys. The lady made them herself, and she didn't sell any either :(

And lastly, I totally resisted temptation.....

Now, here's the other photos of the rag crochet bag I finished at the begining of the week...



And this photo of it...see that big, hhuuuggeee box my bag is sitting on (notice the crocheted scarf  that I'm currently working on poking out :0) I always seem to have one of these on the go at the moment)  well, I'm not allowed to see in that box...OOoooooo, how exciting....It came on Tueday, my hubby had ordered it, and it's my BIRTHDAY present.... I couldn't believe it! (It's not my birthday till May) What d'you reckon's in it? Well, I know what I would have liked , but I didn't think (well, I know we don't) have the funds available for that at the moment, so I was so surprised when this arrived, and now I feel like a little kid, just wanting to get in that box ! lol   And, it's kinda the size for what I would have liked too...Ooooo.. lol

Still, you'll just have to wait the same as I have to :0)

Next up is the little Plum Tomatoe seeds I planted. I planted them five days ago -just before this piccy-, and this morning they were up already..yummy :0)

This is one of the triangles (do the triangles have an actual name in their own right?) of my youngest daughters birthday bunting...

This is another made from one of her favourite tops from when she was younger :0)

And this is the whole set of bunting.. The other fabric is what Clara kindly sent me with the PIF that I won from her a while ago. My youngest adored this piece of fabric, so I saved it to make something for her :0)

I was going to put her name on the bunting, but i'll have to do that at a later date as I ran out of time :0)

This pot holder has been newly made, but not by me...

I found it just waiting on the shelf for me at my local Charity Shop (CS) for 50p. I just had to buy it and love it :)

I got these there too for £2.00.  I've already got one, but I thought the girls might like to try Knifty Knitting too :0)

I adore the pomander that I got a few weeks back. It's the first one that I've found out and about in the charity shops. I love them. I fell in love with them at the handmade and vintage fair that I went to last year. One of the sellars had a huge box full of them, and the all the colours and little floral decorations were divine...

Then I found one of my own :0)

It's funny, but the first rubber stamp I ever bought (they were very expensive all those years ago...) was a little tiny sweet violet....and this pomander just reminded me of it :0)

This is a lovely little Crown Devon vase that I spied in the CS for 50p

Now next up, get ready for the Aaaahh factor......

These are the newest members of our family....

Two little cute Dwarf Roborovski hamsters called Nibbles and Honey. They are only about 6cm-8cm long, and they are so tiny and cute ..(yes, the pictures above are both of them!)

We eventually gave in to wanting/pester power to our youngest daughter (it was her twelth birthday yesterday ) and bought her these two cuties. She's wanted a pet since she was about five. The other two haven't been that bothered about pets, but she's kept on, so I hope it's not just a phase :)

At birthday time and Christmas, (and any other special occasions) we have 'buffet' to eat in our house. It's our kinda tradition. I spend the day in the kitchen (or the day before) and then we have all the old fashioned things like vol-u-vents, cheese and pineapple, mini sausages (veggie of course) posh (just for Jennie :0)

triangle sandwiches (we call them posh, cos' for some reason I always cut our sarnies into squares) and salads, and crisps and cold pizza...well, you get the picture...(or you will if you scroll down :0)

Oh, this cake caused me grief I can tell ya!   (but that's another story ;0)

This is a picture of our Wollemi Pine. It's my favorite green tree, and we've had it since it was little. It comes from Australia, and was recently discovered (a few years back) as a new species.

These are the lovely red shoots of the peony bush that was here when we moved in...looking hopeful :0)

And that's it...

YOOOOHOOOO.....wakey, wakey....

You can wake up now :0)

Well, I hope I didn't bore you too much.

I'll be back on Monday to see how many of you want to do the Pay it Forward so far it's just two of you, but if any more want to join in, it's not big items that you have to gift out, just spreading abit of happiness, that's all :0)

So don't forget to enter on my last post  (or this one, just say you'd like to enter.)

Now you all take care, have a good weekend, enjoy the sunshine (hopefully) and take it easy :0)

Love Donna xxx

Hello lovely people :0)

How are you this sunny Sunday afternoon? (this should read Monday now lol)

I hope you're all fine and dandy :0)

I seem to be going longer and longer between blog posts lately.....

But I'm here now, and I've brought you all the details of my Paying-it-Forward bloggy business..

I actually managed to pick a few sprigs of flowers from the garden the other day..

I picked some forsythia and the only three daffodils....

I've also been busy crocheting...
From these fabric strips (kindly cut by hubby :0) )

I made a new rag crochet bag...

I'm sorry, but blogger won't let me load any more photos (it's taken me two days to get these ones on!!)

Is anyone else having trouble with blogger at the moment, or is it just me?

 I also crocheted a 'fancy' scarf for one of my daughters teaching assistants -this teaching assistant is amazing, and we so appreciate all she does for our daughter- it's her birthday and 

she always wears greens and rose colours, so I had this gorgeous 80%wool yarn that is so cosy, and I thought she'd like it.
(no photo...naughty blogger)

I'm a lot poorer (£ wise) this month as it's my youngest daughters birthday on Thursday, (12 years...how did she get to that without me noticing? lol) and my poor old car needed £400. worth of work to get him through his MOT. 

Now, my Pay-it-Forward...

To enter (OOoooo, I hope some of you lovely bloggers do enter !) all you have to do is leave a comment on this post asking to be entered. If you don't ask, I won't enter you, so don't worry if you're just leaving a comment, you won't get roped into anything by mistake :0)

It's a pif for THREE people, so I will then choose three of you from my furry hat, and send you the lovely little gifts :0)

Now, I'm doing this pif a bit different from others I've seen, in the fact that I'm sending out surprise gifts.

You will get a sewn gift, a crochet gift and a mystery gift :0)

They're just little ones, but you will get lovely little surprises through your door to open. And then you can pass on the bloggy goodness..right?  :0)
This pif is open to the world :0)

Now I've finally managed to load some photos (one day after I started this post!!) I've got to head off to Karate (not me the children lol) .

I was making bunting today for my daughter too, but I'll have to try and load some pictures in the week before I do my writing !

So that's it for today folks, short and sweet. (well, short for me :0))

I'll be ending the pif entries next Monday evening, so you've all got plenty of time to enter :0)

Take care lovely people,
Speak soon,
Love Donna xxxxxx

Ps. I think I'm addicted to making those little dotty, o, bracket smiley faces...sorry lol but at least you all know I'm sending you smiles :0)  -or frowns lol xxxxx

Guess what?....

Evening lovely bloggy friends :0)

Firstly (goodness, that's starting to sound like an acceptance speech, and I only wrote one word lol)

I'll start again :0)

Thankyou all so much, everyone one of you, for leaving such lovely supportive comments on my last post. They really do mean a lot to me and boosted my morale tremendously :0)

Well I know you all want to know how it went yesterday, so I won't keep you waiting  any longer...

I sold...

not a sausage.... :(

BUT,  I won't take it personally, 'cos ....

only 26 people came through the doors,  (yes, 26!!)

It was Sunday...

I was most definately not the only one who didn't sell a sausage (even though i wasn't selling sausages, and may have sold 26 if I had done! lol) )

and...., I had a day out which I spent mostly crocheting :0) and I don't often get to do that lol

and...., I can now fill up my etsy shop with all my goodies, and look about for the next crafty event where I can go :0)

See, so it wasn't all bad news.

here's the piccys....

My table was at the back beneath the stage, so I was able to pop Susan on there so I had someone to chat to if I wanted lol  ( I took her along just in case :0)

Here's two more tables that were there...

This was a childrens parties one..

and this was a bit n bobs one...

and bloggers not playing any more, which is probably a good thing as it's quarter past ten, and I should be in bed.

I'll be bakc in the week with the other stall holders pictures, and my PIF. :0)

You all take it easy, and have a good week.

Speak soon,

Love Donna xx

It's show time :0)

Afternoon lovely people :0)

Just a quick post (not a lot I do is done quickly, so bear with me on this lol) to show you my 'mock up' table for tomorrow as promised.

Now, i'll post after the fair on Monday with piccy's of it all (as long as I remember my camera).

And next week I'll also be doing my PIF that I'm continuing from lovely Clara

Remember?  I showed you a couple of weeks ago.

So, here's my table with it's goodies on for tomorrow....you have to use your imagination abit, 'cos I had to mock it up on the floor as the table at the fair is 6x3ft (well they used to be when I used to do 'em) and i don't have a table that big...

Left side......

Right side.....

This is my lovely charity shopped (95p) jug with my button birdy tree in it which is sitting up on the box on the right..you can just make out a pink birdy dangling from the tree in the picture above...

D'you like the button birdies? I got the idea from this lovely lady who blogged about them the other week...I just kinda flew (sorry lol) with the idea, and have more ideas to do with these whizzing around in my little ole' brain :0)

But, I've kinda run out of time on the making front now. I have hubby sitting in the lounge cutting crochet strips for me at the moment, so that I can whip up some larger rag crochet bowls this evening, once I've finished all the pricing and packing.

As probably is coming across, I'm a tad nervous about this fair. It's been a while since I was out there in the big, wide crafting world selling my wares! It took all my courage to open my Etsy shop and start blogging! lol but, i'm getting there ;0)

Now, please will you be kind enough to leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my table, cos' I'd really appreciate any advice/views on the matter -good or bad, but if they're bad, tell me gently :0)

I'll make sure I come on here tonight to take all your advice in hand!

Wish me luck, and you all have a lovely weekend :0)

Speak to you Monday.

Love Donna xxxx

PS... Bloggers just decided to play again so here's some more photos. :0)

Button birdy..

Drawstring crochet pouch, coasters, bowls, vintage egg cup pin cushion..

 Upcycled tags, crochet picture frames, crochet vintage style coasters (remember my 'doilies' flower motifs?) hats, more bowls, brooches..

 Pot holders, needlecases,

 Wicker rings, crochet tags, photo keyrings, vintage bits n bobs..

That's all folks!  :0)  xxxxxxxxxxxx