Can you believe it !! LOL

Guess what?

Even I've got to laugh at this one!

Well, after having a sulk and a tantrum last night about my camera lead going missing -No, i still haven't found it!  I think hubby's posted it with some of his electrical stuff, but that's just between me and you ;o)-

My camera has stopped working today!

Can you believe it?  LOL.

Honestly, it's just stopped focusing altogether, and I've had it less than a year.

Luckily it still comes under the guarantee, so I can get a lovely new one to take lots of gorgeous pictures with. But it means any blogging/etsy pictures will have to wait for a while now :o(

I bet you're all really sad about that aren't you ;o)

Anyway, my little pink camera went when I was photographing two gorgeous vintage/thrifty finds.

A vintage Irish Linen table set -still in it's original packaging and never ever used!

And the most gorgeous honey pot by a company called 'Heron Cross' pottery.

Has anyone ever heard of them?

I know that my honey pot was sold a good few years back by Fortnum and Mason, but other than that I can't even find anything out about the backstamp unfortunately.

Maybe a phone call to the pottery will yield a few results...

Anyway, I have got a couple of photo's already on my computer that I want to show you (Now come on, stop groaning :o)

When my little lovelies are at school I used to pootle around on my little pink scooter ;o)

Yes, i've even got a pink fairy crash hat!  LOL

But, last Friday I had to sell my little scooter...well you see, it wasn't being used. My eldest daughter is just part-time schooled now, and her seizures are getting worse, so when the school called me when she had her 'biggy' seizures, I was having to go home, swap the scooter for the car, then drive to the school, and the ambulance always beat me there! (which is good!  :o)

But now I just drive our little new car, I can beat the ambulance there! (like today!)

So some good has come out of saying goodbye to it, and I know it's gone to a good home :o)

Anyway, I'm gonna leave you with a few more photo's of beautiful Compton Acres.

So if you've kindly read this far :o),  and you don't like gardening, I suggest you click onto your next blog now.

But i will say the Japanese garden at Compton Acres is supposed to be one of the best in the country, and it was fantastic! Honestly I wish I could have it in my garden! ('cept my whole bungalow and garden would fit in that one ! LOL)

Any way here it is my lovely people.

I'll leave you with the photo's, and the knowledge that I'm going to pick up my old, horrible coloured, cheap, drop leaf table tomorrow for my sewing machine, and I'm very excited!
Hopefully it won't stay old, cheap and horrible coloured for long, but we'll have to see!
And obviously I can't do anything about it 'cept clean it till I've got my new camera, cos' you've all gotta take a peek haven't you!  :o)

Take care everyone,

Love Donna xx

Some of these fish were enormous, the children were stroking them!

The bamboo's were  gorgeous. I so love their pretty stems.

Below is a view of Poole Harbour and Brownsea Island which is a National Trust Estate in the middle of Poole Harbour. It's home to our most beloved red squirrel.

Once when we visited there we saw 11 of them which we thought amazing!

Have a lovely weekend people :o)

Un-blogged!

Well evening lovely people!

Hope you're all fine and dandy this 'longest day of the year'!

Yes, there already.

Anyway, I digress.  I just popped in to say I had planned a lovely fabric-ee post for us all for this evening. But unfortunately, the lead to my camera has gone missing, so I can't up-load any beautiful fabric-ee pictures for us to gaze at :o(

As soon as my lead appears as mysteriously as it disappeared, I shall pop the photo's on, and Bob's your Uncle, a lovely fabric-ee post shall appear in place of this one :o)

Take care everyone, and hopefully speak to you soon.

Love Donna x

Long time no see!

Well, heeellloooooo lovely bloggers!

How are you this wet and windy June evening?

I hope this post finds you all fine and dandy and ready for what life dishes up next!

Honestly, nearly halfway through June already! This year has flown by!

My garden is just bursting with growth and colour. It looks so lush and green too.

The runner and french beans are doing fabulously.

My tomatoes are growing nicely.

And all my dahlias and lupins etc.. that I planted from seeds are coming along a treat, along with all the little flowers I planted in my belfast sink.

**~**

I've been really busy on my lovely new sewing machine too, but I can't show you what I've made yet as the makings are presents, and I know the lovely person who they are for reads my blog and it will give it away:o)

So you'll have to wait a couple of weeks for them.

I have been around blogs, but as you must all know blogger wouldn't let many comments through, so sorry if it seems I haven't been to you a while.

**~**

I had another Birthday treat this week. We went to visit some gardens called 'Compton Acres' in Poole, and they were absolutely beautiful!

I've taken a few (over 400!) photos to show you, but don't worry I won't be posting all them :o)

Here's just a few of the best bits..

This was the Italian garden.
A most beautiful landscaped pond with lovely water lillies..

There were bridges,

waterfalls,

and the most gorgeous flowers everywhere...

HUGE peonies...

And can you guess what flower this is?.....

Yes/no? 

Well, it's the top flower of a foxglove!

I've never seen foxgloves like this, but it wasn't a fluke, as there were dozens of them!

Has anyone else seen foxgloves like this?

It was well over 6ft tall, and I had to get hubby to take the photo of the top flower ;o)

I'll post some more of the gardens on my next post.

Honestly, they're well worth a visit if you ever go to Poole, Dorset.

I can see us going back there. It was a lovely late birthday treat.

And as a reminder, we bought a lovely little blue iris and a black leaf grass to go with our pink sea thrift that we already have.

**~**

I haven't really been doing much, just life you know?

Here's a couple of new foals in the forest.

Aren't they just so sweet?  They're always so inquisitive. Bless 'em :o)

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We have been busy sorting our cars out though.

They've been  a right nuisance, and I hate buying new cars don't you?

(I don't mean new new cars, I mean new to us ones)

I nearly cried when my beloved Voyger went. Honestly, I think the bloke who bought him thought I was a bit loopy or something, as my parting words were " Oh you will look after him and treat him nicely won't you? He's a good car, and if you're nice to him he won't give you any trouble".

He had to go though, as he was costing us about £100 per week in petrol!!!!

Yes, and that wasn't doing many miles I can assure you!

So now I've got a new one, and we'll see how we get on getting to know each other..Fingers crossed eh? :o)

**~**

I haven't even done any thrifting lately to show you I'm afraid :(

I've been a dull girl haven't I?  LOL

Still never mind, hopefully I can get on with things now.

And guess what? That includes buying a table especially for my sewing and crafting!

Oooo, I'm excited about that!

I'm looking for a dull, old fashioned drop leaf table. So that I can keep my sewing machine on the top of it all the time, and just lift a leaf up for doing the sewing.  If it's in too bad a nick, i'll be painting it too, which I 'm kinda hoping it is so I can play :o)

Anyway that's it for me tonight people.

Sorry I haven't been about much, things weren't too good, but that's life eh?

We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and off we trot onto the next thing :o)

Take care all you lovely people, and lets hope for a bit of June sun this week eh?

Love Donna xx

Todays the Day !

Evening lovely bloggers :o)

I hope this post finds you all fine and dandy, and you've all had some sunshine today :o)

The tomatoes that I planted up a few weeks ago are really flowering away now, all the sunshine we've had of late has really brought them along..

This is some of the plants from the outside of the conservatory looking in..yes that is me in the reflection lol... And these are the french beans in pots outside (with some tomatoes). But they don't seem to have grown hardly at all!

Here's my lovely peonies with one of the most gorgeous smelling roses with such a lovely scent!

My peonies were going over, so I thought it was time that I brought them in to enjoy!  Especially as 'Todays the Day!'

Yes, i'm 40 today! 

I've had a up and down day. I received some of the most fantastic cards, best wishes and gifts, but also we've had a bit of a down as my eldest -who has epilepsy- has had a very nasty seizure and fall today, and has a really horrible head injury and a few others on her too :o(

So we've been nursing her today bless her.

But alls well that ends well. That's life, and i'm sure we'll have many more too.

I have to harden my heart to it a bit, otherwise it'd be breaking every day seeing her have seizures all the time.  Stiff upper lip and all that eh?  LOL.

Anyway, i bet you all want to know what was in that huge box that came back in March?

Well, it was this..

 Aren't I such a lucky girl?

I'm over the moon to have received such a lovely present! I haven't even tried it yet, but I will tomorrow when the children are at school!

I can't wait. The only thing that scares me is it's called a 'computerised' sewing machine. It has the 'c' word!  But the manual looks good, to I should be ok... LOL :o)

I received other amazing gifts too, like this most gorgeous vintage sewing box..

A new guard dog for by the front door....We have been walking past him for several weeks, and I jokingly named him (Spot) so I think my youngest daughter got attached to him and told Daddy they just had to buy him for me for *my* birthday as *I* must be attached to him 'cos I'd named him. LOl

Oh, bless her :o)

And I had this gorgeous vintage bottle to pop on my window..

With the most lovely crocheted flowers on..

It's so lovely. I love it :o)

I got so many lovely gifts and cards. I'll have to put extra photos on my next posts.

I'm getting a bit behind with my blog posts!

This post was supposed to be a sort of tutorial, and I've also been given a lovely award  from Little Blue Mouse which i need to tell you about!

And look what this fabulous person has written about me! Honestly, i couldn't believe it when i popped into lovely Jennies blog this afternoon!

I was actually gobsmacked (for a short while anyway ;o)

Such lovely things to have written about me.

Anyway, I'd better scoot off to bed now. We had quite a bad night last night, so I need to get my sleep tonight as soon as my eldest does, before she starts having her night seizures.

Have a lovely rest of the week all of you, and Thankyou so much to those lovely, lovely people who have emailed me and written on my last blog post to wish me a lovely birthday.  Honestly, I really do appreciate you and your kind wishes.  They really do mean alot to me :o)

Thankyou.

Take are all of you.

Love Donna xx

A lovely morning.... Part two :o)

Well hello!

Here's the final part of my lovely morning out :o)

I still haven't photographed what I actually bought there, but I will post that another day with other thrifty finds :o)

I have a new agreement with blogger ;o)  if I put a few photos a day on a draft post instead of trying to rush and bully him into doing them all at once, he will behave himself, and let me play with the photo's once they are on, so that I can make them all extra large for you to feast your eyes on all the loveliness :o)

Sounds like a deal to me..

So no more rambling....here's the pics...

Look at this most fabulous quilt..

This belonged to The vintage Bothy (I think it was called)..

Just look at that fabric.....*sigh*

The photo below is Lucy Bloom and her fantastic vinatge goodness...

This is the lovely Ted and Bunny stand below.

I so adore those pomanders.

I just had to buy one!

             Don't you just want to give her a cuddle?

I love this mini dresser on the Washerwomans stand..

I am so in love with this embroidery..Vintage chain stitch embroidery on silk....*sigh*

 And look at this gorgeous straw hat.  It was so pretty.

Well, that's it for now.

Hope you enjoyed looking at all the vintage goodies.

Next time I have a tutorial of sorts to show you lol.

You'll just have to wait and see:o)

Take care everyone, and have a lovely weekend whatever you do.

Love Donna xxx



A lovely Morning :o) Part One !

Well, hello lovely people :o)

I hope this post finds you all fine and dandy, and the lovely Mummys around the world had a superb day yesterday :o)

I've just had (well a few hours ago now actually ) the most lovely morning.

And it was all down to this lovely lady.

Today was the day of the second Vintage at the Village Hall fair.

Oh, it was wonderful, and I wish you could have all been there too :o)

I took tons of pictures, but I have to say I did feel a bit self conscious taking snaps today. I didn't see anybody else doing it at all, and believe me there were plenty of people there!

D'you think it's 'normal' (lol) to take photos everywhere you go?

When I said this to my hubby this afternoon, he said " Of course it isn't ".

But if I don't take 'em, you can't see can you?

And I do so like to look back on happy things, don't you?

Anyway, I digress!

Here's just a few of the snaps I took..

This was one of the stalls that were outside..

Luckily the rain kept away today, and the sun even popped out for a while too.

I love the little basket crib at the front..

This pushchair was so sweet, when I had a last look round before I had to pick my daughter up from school, the pushchair had some cute little booties in front of it too :o)

I fell in love with these old cart wheels...

I should have bought one for the garden really..I know that they look nice 'done up,' but I would have left it just as it is and laid it against the old stone pots that we put out in the front garden at the begining of spring.

And just think, I used to have outside baths in tin baths the same as whats in this picture above!

I can't remember half the stalls names, but i know these gorgeous flowers below belonged to Jo of Hesta Nesta and her lovely Pugs :o)

See those little piles of goodness beside the jug of flowers?  See? Well, they're lovely little piles of vintage quilt pieces. 

Honestly, I wanted ALL OF THEM!  How greedy is that?  LOL

I mean it's not just the gorgeous feel and look of the vintage fabrics used the make the quilt pieces, but to me it's the history behind the making.

You know, like what was that scrap of fabric used for originally? Who was it who made the quilt? And these are actually someones else stitches here which they've sewn to make something so scrummy and precious.

I hasten to add that Jo hasn't just chopped up a load of precious vintage quilts! These are ones where by they aren't salvagable (is that the right word?) as a whole quilt :(   So she's saved the bits she can for people like me to enjoy :o)

And look at this kitchen cupboard! Do you remember having one like this when you were young? or did you know someone who had one?

I do. But the one I remember was yellow, and where this cupboard has got two lovely little scalloped window doors in the top,

the one I remember had a slidie-along-door.

I do love them though, and would love to have it in my dining room to keep my makes in:o)

Well, that's it for today people.

Blogger's not playing anymore, so I'll be back with part 2 in the week.

I had the most lovely time though, and I really could have stayed there all day..

Time seemed to just fly away from me.

If you'd like to see who was at the fair selling, just pop over here, and there's a list in the side bar letting you know who everyone was.

See you in the week with more pictures, and what I bought.

Take care everyone.

Love Donna xx

::Yes, it's still me :o) ::

Goodness!  May already!

Yes, a couple of exclamation marks there :o)

Only a couple of weeks, and it's birthday time when my lifes supposed to begin :o)

Don't know what I've been doing for the past (nearly) forty years, but I'm kinda looking forward to getting this birthday over with!

It's sort of been 'looming' for a while now...I just want to get there and be done with!

Did anyone else who's hit 40 feel like that? Or am i just being very miserable about it ? LOL

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Goodness, there I am yacking away and I forgot to mention what I posted for.

I had quite a big 'DOH' moment today! LOL (must be the age creeping up :o))

Well, as you regulars will notice I've had a name change to my blog.

I used to have a blog called 'Bizzydays'. Then in February I changed it and my etsy shop to a new name I decided on (bizzydays was too much like my life) which was Little Tiny Stitches.

I somehow thought that (as with etsy I had to open a whole brand new shop), I had to start a brand new blog too! 

But no, I didn't have to, I just had to change a few things about.. Doh.  Boy, did I feel silly when I realised that this afternoon or what!  LOL.

Still, it's done now and we're supposed to learn by our mistakes aren't we?  

believe me, I learn alot everyday :o)

I've been making more jar cozies today Jennie spurred me on with her post about her vintage bottle collection.

So whilst the children were doing their Karate I crocheted away. I forgot to take pictures before I posted though, so i'll pop them on in the week.

Anyway, that's it for me today.

Just a quick picture of one of my 'inherited' peonies out in bud. I have five buds altogether, and I've been zealously guarding them since they first popped their little heads up. (sad I know :o)

And here's my little lupin plants with their first 'true' leaves. I've got about 20 of these little plant's that I've been nursing along -since I sowed the seeds- for weeks now.

Honestly, I've got the smallest garden we've ever had, and I'm turning into a blooming gardener! :o)

Have a great week everyone.

Do take care.

Love Donna xxx