April already.....

I really need to get back into the swing of blogging again.

I seemed to find myself lost for words (YES! finally!)

Where to start....

Ah yes! 

A couple of weeks ago my son Ben who is 18 (soon to be 19) trotted down for his sty  bedroom and informed me he was feeling crap unwell.  A bad stomach he informed me, very painful.  Now Ben never complains about feeling ill.  He has suffered with both eczema and asthma since he was a baby and I have nearly lost him a few times as the asthma was so severe.  He hadn't eaten, and I thought maybe he had just picked up a bug (where from I haven't a clue as he spends all his free time in his pit gaming!)

I got some paracetamol for him and no sooner had he taken them, then oh boy! a nuclear explosion of what I thought was sick, but was in fact blood!  & lots of it.  Yikes.

2 minutes later we where in the car off to the A & E Dept.,  This was on a Sunday and about 11.30 pm so I thought it would be empty.   Wrong!  Full to the brim with many a drunken soul.  How nice.

After an hour we were called to the Triage, who on taking his temperature, heart rate & blood pressure decided Ben was quite ill and needed to be seen asap.  

His temp was very very high, blood pressure very low and his heart beat racing dangerously high.  He was prodded, poked ,had so much blood taken, every test conceivable and they still have no clue what caused it.  He is due to have a camera put down to see if there is any lasting damage.  He was admitted into hospital and given fluids and the following day was still much the same.  It then went (thankfully) not long after as quick as it came.

There has been a 'bug' which everyone seems to be getting and we think he had that, just a violent version of it. Fingers crossed the results are okay.

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I have made a few things...

Now hanging on my wall.

Made from an Abby Glassenberg pattern

Please click -  a link to Abby's shop on Etsy

I made one each for my grandson's.  

Note there is only one in the pic.  My other attempt - not so good lol.

I had a spare half hour this afternoon, so I made this.

I took inspiration from the fabric (on his tummy)

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At the weekend my Grandson Jack turned 1 year old!

An absolute joy!

We had a little party for him.  Good times.

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Birthday cupcakes for a 1st Birthday

For Jack

Birthday cupcakes for my mum's friend.

For a 1st Anniversary.  I made the cupcakes for their wedding and decided to replicate them for their Anniversary.

After a couple of months of colds, coughs & hospital visits I am hoping things will calm down.  Thank goodness all the snow has gone.  Beautiful sunshine for the last couple of days. Perfect!

I am about to sit down and watch Hope Springs.  

Starring Tommy Lee Jones (who I have a bit of a crush on)  Steve Carrell (who I have a bit of a crush on)  Dear me!

Any how I am hoping it is good as I have been looking forward to watching it for ages.

Also got to squash it in before 24 hours in A & E (channel 4) New series starts tonight.  Love it!

Have a great night. 

PHEW!........all listed...

I have finally finished loading all the moulds that I am selling on EBAY.

Here is the link if you are interested.

MY EBAY SALE OF MOULDS

I also can now show you the tulips I made for my Mum for Mother's Day.

Here is the background info from my previous post...

Tulip tutorial from I MauFatti

I have also made some cupcakes today...

Have a great night x

Where did they all come from?...

Is it just me it happens to?

I like to catch up with the (many) blogs I follow on a daily basis, otherwise it would too much.  Sometimes you just  know some are 'missing in action'.  Yesterday I had 'No more posts to read' but today I have 697! 

Where on earth were they hiding?

Oh well best put on the kettle &settle in... could be a long night ...he he...

Don't forget I am in the process of listing cupcake moulds onto Ebay so go grab a bargain.  There are many moulds that are not available anymore.

I am trying my best to get them all on by the weekend, but keep getting distracted (darn you other bloggers!)

Any questions please ask.  If you buy more than one please contact me so that I can see if I can offer a better postage discount.

HERE IS THE LINK

Some cupcakes...

Cupcake moulds are (nearly) on Ebay....

What a busy month!

My kitchen has had a makeover...

These are the 'after' pics...

Too embarrassed to take the before!

What a lucky lady I have been.

On Mother's Day my lovely  children got me...

Deary me!  I am beaming!

I looked into one of these beauties at Christmas and on Amazon they were £157.  Recently they had gone down to £129.  My son - now known as Bargain Ben - found it on offer at Carphone Warehouse for £89!!!  

I'm not normally any good with gadgets, but am finding it so easy to use and find I am spending far too much time fiddling!

I got my Mum a plant and made her some felt tulips.  As usual I was a little late in finishing them.  By Sunday morning I had completed ONE!  yikes!  I did eventually finish 9 (I think) although the intention was to make 12.  I was so late that I never took any photo's but will take some when I see her next.  I was impressed with myself lol.

Here are the lovely tulips that caught my eye..

(not my ones!)

Here is where you can find her...

I ManuFatti - Blog

 ManuFatti {cute & original handmade goodies} - Facebook

I manufatti - Etsy

There are some very cute tutorials on her blog and it is well worth taking a look.

I have a few WIP that are nearly finished and I cannot wait to show you.

Valentine's Day came and went (still struggling to get through all my card opening lol!)

I treated myself to this...

A Valentines card, which I framed.  

Here  are some links in case you wish to take a look...

Dastardly Daphne - ETSY

Dastardly Daphne - FACEBOOK

When I opened up the package it was beautifully wrapped with a hand written receipt in the most beautiful handwriting. 

As mentioned in my previous post (which was far too long ago!)

I am having a clear out of some of my cake/cupcake moulds.  Some of which have never been used.

I am currently in the process of trying to upload them all to Ebay and hope to have got them all on by the end of the week.  

Some bargains to be had!

My Ebay Sale

Here are a few of the many on offer...

Unfortunately my internet connection is so slow at the moment, it is almost at a standstill, Virgin are upgrading the speed apparently!

Oh well to Ebay, and the joyous job of uploading!

Have a great day x

It's been a good week...

I have been very lucky on the 'giveaway front'...

For a long time now I have been a fan of

Anatomically Incorrect Creatures on Facebook,

and 

Anatomically Incorrect Creatures on Etsy.

I am also a follower of their blog..  and entered their giveaway for 

Mr. Tiny Deer-Moose

and was extremely lucky to have won!

He arrived very quickly and soon found a home on my wall.

Isn't he gorgeous!  Super quality and I am so so pleased as I have been oggling all of the goodies in their Etsy store for ages.

Well worth checking out.  You won't be disappointed!

What do you think?...

I have also been busy knitting my square as mentioned here

I did make a couple of 'boobs' but on the whole I am pleased with the outcome.  Only another 89 to go!  I did give in and subscribe and received my first shipment (numbers 2-7) and am looking forward to getting started.

My nephew celebrated his 11th birthday on the 25th January and I made him these...

They ended up larger than I initially thought and would not fit into any boxes that I have so I had to improvise! 

Thankfully I got them there in one piece.  I did base them on some cupcakes that I had seen on Facebook and for the life of me I cannot remember whose page it was.  Which is a shame because she makes gorgeous cupcakes and is well worth a look.

I am going to have a sort out of my cake/cupcake moulds and will be listing some on Ebay if anyone is interested.  I will post details on here before they are listed.

I cross stitched him a card too...

I popped into my local Primark last week whilst out and about with my mum, daughter & grandson....and look what I managed to pick up!...

I love them and they were only £6 each!  bargain!  Really well made too.  Although Millie (the dog)  has taken rather a shine to the nose of the fox! 

I have just got back from picking up my new car, (well new to me).  Freedom again at last!

It's (or should I say 'she')  been round the clock but for running about locally should be fine.  I'm over the moon.

Have a great night...x