Swaps, gifts, trolls and pampering

I took part in a Fairytale swap.

My partner was Rebecca from Few things really Matter

I chose to recieve Little Mermaid goodies.

Here is what i got!!!  Edible cake toppers, Felt and ribbons, A gorgeous handmade bookmark, lovely glittery table scatters, A plastic table cloth (i feel an under the sea themed bbq coming on), a badge, pencil (i love fluffy girly disney pencils!!), and 2 necklaces. Thank you so much Rebecca, i love it all!! xxxx

Rebecca chose Alice In Wonderland, i sent:

A handmade card and notebook, some handmade tags and bookmark, some felt, ribbon, and buttons, A copy of Alice in Wonderland, a postcard that i found in the lake District and some goodies that i bought from my Red Heart stash - A heart, candle and choccies (I now have another £10 to send off to the BHF from these items and some others i sent off in another swap).

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My friend and i went here on Sunday...we had a lovely pampering day (A present from our hubbies and kids from Mothers Day) It was great..i need another one!!!

My friend sent me this lovely card a few days after....i love her cards (i've posted about them before).

I keep saying she should sell them...What do you think???

(I know she reads this)

I made a bit of an extravagant purchase this week:

You can read about it here.

I hate body hair and shaving....so i thought i'd give it a go....If it works it will be well worth the money. Amazon seem to sell it at the best price. I'll let you know of my progress.

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My son has a pencil with a troll on it. He came home from school yesterday asking if he could have some little trolls to keep in his pencil case like some others at school do.....He was very surprised when i came down from the loft with this little lot!!!!

Theres a couple of big soft trolls somewhere too.

Did you take part in the troll craze of  the early 90's?

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What are you up to for fathers day??

We are taking the hubbie and his dad for an indian.

Little one came home from preschool with this cake yesterday...too long to keep it for Sunday, so the 3 off them had it last night after dinner.

Enjoy your weekend 

And Happy Fathers day to all the daddies

xx

Notebook Monday

- The Curious Caterpillar

Good value party bags.

- Chocolate ecstasy tours

Nothing else to say really...sounds good to me!!!

- Quote

This hasn't happened to me yet, but when it does i'll be thinking this:

' I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows'

Hee hee, made me giggle!

- Tip

For hard to remove wallpaper: Apply wallpaper paste, leave for a few hours and it will fall off.

- Quote

'A home is for showing expression, not for good impression.'

-Little folk

Beautiful personalised presents for children.

xx

New items added to my shop

New items just added to my shop:

You can find pretty pill boxes and pots like these:

Thimbles:

And this in the Kitchenware section:

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Gifties

I took part in Helens Fabric addict swap, here is what i was sent by my swap partner, Lucy:

Some fabric, buttons, thread, ribbon, a key fob and a fabric basket.

This is what i sent:

Some fabric, ribbons, thread, buttons, 2 bookmarks, some pegs, a thimble and a pin cushion that i bought from the red heart day stash (the money from that going to BHF).

I told you in my last post that i met up with 2 lovely bloggers:

They were very kind a bought some gifts.

Thank you Mary for the boys cups and Mel for the lovely goodies for me.

It was so lovely to meet you.

xx

Oh what a lovely time we had!

I am not going to do a Notebook Monday post this week as i have been on holiday, so have decided to tell you about that instead.

We went with family to a wedding in Scotland.

On the way, me, the hubbie and the 2 little boys stopped at The Lakes to break up the journey.

We stayed at the lovely Angel Inn

We had just enough time to visit The Beatrix Potter Museum and...

...Take a boat trip on Lake Windermere to the Motor Museum.

We had a whole week in Scotland. The wedding was held in St.Andrews.

We stayed in Creich.

These are the views from our bedroom window:

The house was lovely and large....to accommodate the 9 of us, and more for entertaining!!

Right next to the house are the ruins of Creich Castle.

Here is the littlest.....he looked so lovely in his little suit....even if he did manage to get grass stains on his knees before the ceremony even began!

The weather was wonderful!! We even managed a day on the beach!

On our journey home i was lucky enough to have a meet up with two lovely bloggy ladies and their families.

Now back home...it all went far too quick.

This week, i need to get back into the routine of mummy/wifey jobs, whilst leaving time to catch up with blogs of course ;) and spend some time adding items to the shop.

Eurgh!!! I almost forgot ...... the washing, unpacking, .................!!!

xx