cardboard creations..

...not doing very well with my 'do more blogging promise'...only excuse is I have my son just starting school , so have two weeks of half days..so don't where Im to...anyway thought I would post my latest fiddles... they dont have an end purpose but enjoyed making them !.. any suggestions ?!

woo hoo ... I am in the super special design delight that is the new print pattern kids book... if you have come to my blog from there - hello !  ... Im hoping to get back to more regular posts, so I hope you stick around : )

festival fun

I didnt get to Glastonbury festival..... but I did get to Goostrey Rose Festival.. a local affair and I saw these.. and I loved them, done by local children for the vegetable monster competition... brilliant : )
if we could have just got Kenny Rogers there it would have been just as good as Glastonbury Im sure....

Dandelions

is it me or is there zillions more dandelions than ever before.. ?!.. they seem to double their numbers in the garden overnight...  this isnt a picture of my garden by the way..... this is a walk we went on, on Sunday..

Went to Goyt Valley on Bank Hoilday.. in the SUN : )
Really nice ... but was amazed at seeing big frogs (possibly toads) swimming about... Ive only really spotted the odd one hopping round my mums pond... not in 'the wild'...  cool.

early easter bunnies....

its been a while since I bought something, just because I loved it, there and then and couldnt leave the shop without it... ( because things that I like in that way are generally too expensive ).. but I saw this in John Lewis  (for just £4.50 ) and LOVED it, so now he's home with me ...  I suppose I shouldnt mention I spent a good 5 minutes going through the stack to choose the best face......

to all freelancers

yes ... this blog (and me )  is still live... time just went on ... and then i wanted something ace to put on...
and then I thought of all the freelancers squirrelled away at home and thought Id send a message to you all !!!...
Im taking mine with a big fat foxes classic chocolate biscuit... make sure yours is accompanied by something...  hopefully be in touch soon....
- by the way this is an illustration by Esther Aarts   : )

flying jumpers

this really made me smile... from Silvia Bonanni, Im new to her work, shes Italian and has a few childrens books out, really fun

Mother nature gets it so right !

As usual, Im going to try to balance the fly rant with some beauty.....
(found via pinterest... but couldn't find the direct link)

Buzzzing

Is the buzz of a big fat horrid fly one of THE most irritating sounds... I hate them !!! they hate me, clearly, or they wouldn't keep coming in my house and dive bombing me... don't get me wrong, I love nature, only this morning I saved a drowning bee... but flies... the only thing for them is  a SWAT

if only we could ...

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Lovely walls

  Love this hand painted wallpaper.. its from a  four day workshop at a refuge for women in South Africa who have suffered from domestic violence, you can see the article at elledecoration.co.za

party shoes

I like to balance things out.. so after a couple of moany blogs Ill drop in something beautiful...
who wouldn't want to own these...
found via my friend emma on pinterest.. but tracked them back to www.jessicasimpson.com

pants pyjamas

Im in danger of becoming one of those ranty type bloggers... but why is there no choice of decent pyjamas for kids ? and between march and september  theres hardly any at all AND then it seems you have to go to bed with a horrible licsenced character all over you or nothing at all....

pinching pins

Now Im sure you've all caught the pinterest bug... and I know that the whole point is sharing but isn't there some kind of etiquette.... someone has literally repined every single pin from my board and recreated it as 'theirs' ... and Im feeling robbed !...

top butty box

....can you imagine opening your lunch box and finding this !!!... www.bentocentral.com
certainly puts the jam sandwiches that I sent mine to school with, to shame ! ...

rain rain go away

soooooooo sick of this rain..... trying to remember what it feels like to have sun on my face and sand under my toes....

introducing lady spoon and monster spoon

for no other reason than these make me smile...

beautiful things

 after the last grumpy entry thought would share some nice peaceful images... I came across these via pinterest, from a tumblr site - i love rain and coffee.. there were some truly beautiful photos and paintings on there... and much as I love what I do its nice to have a break from bears and bunnies and look at some grown up things ....

don't talk to me....

todays link is in tribute to the lovely blogger missy pop-i-cok.. Ive just read her blog and she had a grumpy day yesterday and its exactly how Im feeling today... Im having to redo everything and then Im still not happy with it... everyone I have spoke to has irritated me ...anyhow started to wonder if maybe the menstral cycles of fellow bloggers could be linked !???? as a few of pop-i-coks followers reported similar feelings....