I don’t know if spring is in the air, but I have been on a mission this last couple of weeks to organise and deep clean my house. My next job was the kitchen, so I have emptied and tidied all the cupboards, sent to charity anything we no longer use. Our coat rack is in one corner of the kitchen so I’ve reorganised that too.
I am extremely excited to announce my second competition, that marks me moving over to a self hosted blog.
I really want this blog to represent things that my family and I love! This is most definitely what I, and I know all of you L.O.V.E.
Charis of Name Art, is a very talented lady. Her art work is so creative as her drawings cleverly hide words in them. I have followed her work for around two years now. I remember with great pride seeing her artwork on X Factor, when Dannii Minogue was being interviewed or photographed. In fact, that Christmas Miss N was lucky enough to own one of her NameArt pictures.
Well I have the perfect competition if you, like me are a social media addict. Did you know that Theo Paphitis, Sarah Brown and Kirsty Allsopp have one?
You can have you own, or if you are feeling generous someone else’s twitter @ name on it to personalise it.
I have two, yes TWO addict mugs to give away, and here is what you need to do! Continue reading
This weeks post is slightly tongue in cheek, and not at all what I will be up to today. I need to get my house back in order, after the chaos of the half term break. I’ll be rushing around changing all the beds and have a least 5 loads of washing to do….but I can dream right?
I was given the idea by one of the lovely ladies from Stamptastic, if you’ve not checked out this site, and you have children of any age you must! They make identifying belongs a whole lot easier.
I had asked on twitter….
‘what would you like me to include on my I Love Mondays post?’
Their reply was for me….
‘to blog about 5 minutes peace, now the children are back at school! ‘
Well, with this in mind I tried to imagine what I would like to do, if I had 5 minutes peace today. I very quickly imagined a scene, and then virtually shopped to try and recreate it for you.
Well, it has been an even trickier week! I’ve had a bit of a chat to myself, I needed to remember why I am doing this project. So I’m going to concentrate on doing this for my family as a record of the year.
Wollaton Hall
I unbelievably forgot my memory card, so this is really the only photograph I got of our trip out, snapped on my phone. It is definitely creepy, however I liked the shadows on the ceiling and the way the hunting dog’s face has been illuminated…. Continue reading
This morning, the wonderful people of Not On the High Street did a shout out asking for valentines messages to your #tweethearts. Well….. mine was chosen, and made into a song!!
Here it is sung by the gorgeously talented band The Coopers. Thanks so much to you both, I am absolutely blown away, and can’t wait for my husband to hear it. Thank you for making our Valentines so very special! Continue reading
I am very excited to announce today. That I have a sponsor for Cybher 2012.
It is a sponsor, I am not only extremely proud to have, but feel it is perfect for Cybher, as Geek really is the new chic. 
So I can reveal that my sponsor is:
Yesterday we all went to Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, there was a Valentines Craft Fair being held. We love Wollaton, its a fabulous place, it reminds me of my childhood, walking around the gardens and making the obligatory trip to see George the Gorilla. It’s not just a place of summer. It is open all year round. Crowds gather as soon as there is any snow, as the sledging is legendary!
I only bought one thing, but I love it. It’s from Nice Nosh (Posh Pots) which sold brightly coloured spansh terrocotta cookware. Continue reading
I have found the project this week extremely hard. Mostly because, both of my girls have not been well. I also felt the weather drained me of imagination?
I have still given it a go, here are this weeks 7 photographs:
John’s Christmas Tree in the Snow
My husband (Tall Dad) twin brother sadly passed away in November last year. This is the tree that we bought as a memory. I love the patterns that the snow has created. Continue reading
I have a very exciting competition for you. This is not only one of my absolutely favourite designers but, Tina Crawford of Tobyboo has got through as a finalist to the Mary Portas/House of Fraser Homeware Designer competition. How’s that for a seal of approval!
I have featured Tina and Tobyboo on the blog before, you can read about it HERE. She designed a fantastic Glinda doll for my eldest daughter Miss N. It still has pride of place on her bookshelf.
If you haven’t seen any of Tina’s work, it really is a must! The latest work is quintessentially British home-ware. Working with free hand machine embroidery, to create the images, she then prints this artwork onto things like tea towels, cushions and tea sets.
Tobyboo’s unique design and production process makes every tea towel, cushion and blanket look like a one-off embroidered piece. This beautiful British imagery, and artful nostalgic images captured by Tina Crawford’s imaginative eye.
COMPETITION
There will be two very lucky winners, and each winner will receive a set. One tea towel (£12) and a roll of tape (£6.50) from the ‘tea time’ range.
To enter couldn’t be simpler : You MUST do the following
For 3 further entries to win, you need to:
Please Note: You need to leave a way of contacting you if you win e.g twitter ID.
Thank you for reading
