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Little Spotty Toadstool

~: Happy Birthday Adam! :~

Wishing my little fella loads of love on his 9th birthday.

He had a lovely day, trying out his new bike, playing together on the Wii, and enjoying his bowling party with his friends.

I can't believe my baby is now 9... only another year until double figures- how mad is that?
Love you so much sweetie. xxx

~: A Sad Day :~

Today was such a sad day I've not been able to talk much about it, and still can't much.
Today was the funeral of our beloved Nanna. She passed away on the 19th of November, and ever since I've felt a little numb.
In that time I've barely thought about Christmas, and certainly haven't done anything crafty.
We've had snow and ice, and hamster problems.
But I feel I've just been muddling through the day to day things.

But today has now been, and hopefully tomorrow I can start to move on, start to move towards Christmas.
I won't have forgotten, but hope now I can get my fuzzy brain back into gear.

We all loved you so much Nanna.
xxx

~: RIP Harrie the Hamster :~

Little Harrie the Hamster fell asleep peacefully on the 13th November 2010. She's now up in the Big Hamster Cage in the sky, re-united with Billie. She's slowed down so much over the last week that I knew this was likely.
But why do these things always happen when hubby is away for the night? Obviously I had two rather sad children here this morning, but they've already decided on what they'll call the next pair of Hamsters!

It's been one of those weeks really... what with me having had an extremely painful hydrocortisone injection on Tuesday for my shoulder pain. I'm glad I had it... but I do wish the doctor had made me even slightly aware of how much it was going to hurt when the local anaesthetic that is in the injection had worn off!

This morning Emily and Adam both played their parts in the Rememberance Service at the church. Emily got to be flag bearer for the Guides, Adam stood with his fellow cubs. Was proud of them both. No photos sadly as I only took the little camera and all photos are out of focus grrrr!

~: Whoop-diddy-doo!! Oh Yeah! :~

Oh wow! After over an hour of trying this morning to no avail- crashed ticket sites and lots of error messages- I tried again after lunch and we managed to bag four tickets for Take That in concert on my birthday next year!
How exciting is that?
I never was a fan in my younger days, but since their return I have loved their music had said that I'd love to go to one of their concerts one day.

SO looking forward to 5th July 2011 :oD

~: GoGo Bye-Bye :~

I just want to say a HUGE thankyou to the lovely Lorraine and Janice at ScrapaGoGo for having let me be on their Design Team for the last nine months.
It was a great honour to be asked, I loved being part of their fantastic team; and the kits were so wonderful to work with.
I am going to miss them all terribly- but it's not Goodbye, just "see you around".
xxx

~: W/E 10/10/2010 :~

Well that's another week flown by!
On the crochet front, having finished my bag on Monday, I then somehow managed to accidentally start on the Granny Stripe blanket! :oP

This pic was a couple of days ago... I am now 4 stripes further on.
And it's just looking so pretty and stripity! (sp?!!)
I just wish I could crochet it faster- but my hands will only let me do one row, maybe one stripe in one sitting.

Since starting reading the Attic24 blog, one thing I try to do is keep a vase of colourful flowers on my living room windowsill.
These caught my eye in Tescos on Friday-

The back of the house starts to look really pretty at this time of year...

The virginia creeper turns such lovely shades of red- just before all the leaves fall off and make a mess everywhere!

Yesterday we managed to squeeze in a trip to Thetford Forest.
I love to visit every autumn at least once- to walk through the crunchy leaves, to search for pretty toadstools to photo... and to generally mess around with the family.

It was a gorgeous day- with clear skies it was lovely and warm.
Every fallen tree had to be walked along.

Under one large tree were two rope swings... they were great fun!

James and the kiddies also made a den under the same tree- under there was beautiful, in the dappled sunshine it really had a magical feel.

Whilst walking around with camera in hand- I found this!

How fantsatic?! I was so thrilled to find a real life red spotty toadstool!

and then- just as we were about to leave- we found this...

... and this!

I just couldn't believe the size of them- a good 6 inches in diameter!
They just made a perfect afternoon out that little more magical :o)