I'm back

bet you didn't even miss me - see blink and I'm gone and back again. Some would say back like the proverbial bad penny, and others would just shake their heads and walk away muttering things under their breath.

OK so I could do with another holiday straight away, but isn't that what holidays are for - going away, staying up late doing things etc..

Well for those of you that are interested - yes I see you with your finger over that mouse button ready to click away to somewhere else - then we've been away for a week in not that sunny Dorset.

Had a nice time even though the weather could have been a bit better (OK make that lots better on some days), but the girls throughly enjoyed themselves and Sabrina was absolutely over the moon when we went Fossil hunting. At this point I have to tell you that my DH did make a rather rude remark about me when that was suggested - yes he did get kicked. Sabrina is absolutely dinosaur mad so the Dorset coastline which is part of the Jurassic heritage coastline was a fantastic place for her. Alanna enjoyed it too, but she hasn't quite got Sabrina's enthusiasm (yet).

Now we are back and it's just beginning to sink in that in under two weeks my little one (Alanna) goes to school, that's big school as she would say it. I'm not sure that I'm ready for it - she definately is, we'll find out if they are ready for her soon.

She's recently picked up a real accent and on holiday several times came out with " 'ere, oive got something to telly you" - we were picking ourselves up of the floor afterwards as it just sounded so funny coming from a 4 year old.

Anyway, not a lot else going on at the moment, got to sort out lots of US orders this weekend and make sure those that are outstanding are actually doing something so I guess I'd best make a start on that.

The picture at the top is one of the Jurassic Coastline at Charmouth

Just what the doctor ordered

I took the mobile shop to the South Wales crop yesterday and as I usually do there had a great laugh.

This month though I decided that I would have a play with some bit and pieces and also take one of the classes - it was just what I needed.

I felt more like one of the crop than just the shop keeper - and it was great.

Made a couple of bag charms for people and also played with some shrink plastic to make some jewellry bits, I love playing with bits :)

Dabbling with bits and pieces is great fun and it reminded me how much I love making my own jewellry - must dig out my box of semi-precious bits and all the findings.

Had a bit of a rush at the end of the crop though which I could have done without, must plan it all a bit better next month.

Thanks girls - you gave me a great day

I must be mad

and yes I can see you all sat there nodding your heads (especially those of you that may have seen my deleted post the other day *blush*)

Today Sabrina had some of her friends to the shop for a craft morning - So we had a roomful of young girls (aged between 3 and 6) doing sizzix die cuts, rubber stamping and general crafting - what fun, well it was actually. They had a great time and it was only for a few hours so I managed to survive without actually throttling any of them, although it was close with one of them.

I really do have the utmost respect for how teachers deal with other peoples kids day in day out without losing it - know I couldn't.

Where's the brick wall

Sometimes I swear blind that there is a brick wall out there just waiting for me to bang my head against it. And why do I think that, well when you've got a DH like mine who will not believe that he can do things when the world and his dog are telling him that he can what else do you do.

My DH is a keen amateur photographer, but mainly does wildlife photography. He is infact just about to have one of his photographs published in a photograpy book. However, as much as I tell him that he's just as good at portraiture photography he still doesn't believe me.

This week I designed a layout to teach at a crop today and used one of his photographs on it - everyone that saw that photograph thought that we had gone to a professional and paid for it. Shouldn't that tell him something, but no he still says he knows where all the errors are......

OK, so he can see where he could improve it, doesn't mean it's not blinkin good still though.

Here you go - what do you think