6th Photo

In the 6th folder, take the 6th picture and post it on your blog.

Write something about the picture.

Challenge 6 new people to join this challenge..

I have been tagged by Teen!

So here we go!

This picture was taken April 2006 - I think!
This is a picture of Frank helping out with a bit of wallpaper stripping in a very cool hat.
Honestly it really wasn't that cold - I know it looks bad with the fleece and woolly hat!
He is very good at it, in fact they both are. Many hours have been spent with a scraper, spray bottle (best toy ever!) and whoops of joy, when they got a piece off that was bigger than a postage stamp!!


There has been lots of wallpaper stripping in this house as it was wallpapered to death in the worlds worst - even the ceilings!


We are getting it done but slowly. My bedroom, which was hideous shades of lilac with orange pine - yes it really was orange! The owner was very proud that he had not only made the wardrobes but managed to get all the woods to match....hmmm lovely.

Not the best photo as these were scanned in from the details. See the orange?? The curtains were a dark dusty pink velvet and matched the shagpile carpet. The curtains have gone, the orange wardrobe doors are now cream and the walls are too. I couldn't stand looking at the lilac/orange combo so they had to be painted out! Sadly when you look inside the wardrobes the orange is still there!

Soon, well ok this year - lets be realistic, it will be all done. We are in the process of decorating F+T's rooms. Yes, the year long campaign has finally paid off and they are getting their separate bedrooms.

I just hope they really do like being apart!

So 6 of you need to do this! Soooo..... take on the challenge! I don't want to nominate anyone but let me know if you have done it as I'd love to see and read your 6th!

9 years ago

It was decided that today was going to be your Birthday, you should have been March babies, but along you came along with a bit of drama.

9 years on, no one would guess you were so small. Of course a trampoline party was called for this year! Nothing like a bit of bounce for your last year of being a single digit year old!

Next year double figures!

Best memories of 9 years?

• Finally being able to bring you home from hospital, 6 weeks later, then both of us just looking at you and thinking.......what now?
• Your first smiles - it took so long to happen - hey 9 weeks is a lot of catching up for a little guy to do!
• Finding my sanity by joining (actually gatecrashing, as I was never a member!) my local NCT group and making life long friends.
• Walking home from the first meeting with N and a woman exclaiming ' Oh my, triplets!'......errrr? C. is still regarded as the 3rd to this day!
• Learning to walk - I didn't have to manhandle you both quite so much now!
• Our first holiday to France. Taking the ferry over, M+ I feeling very sea sick but running around after 2 year olds!
• I love that you are so different - in every way. I don't think i can think of one thing that you have that is the same - not one. How cool is that?
• Your imaginations. You can both spend hours playing with just random things and not need an actual toy.
• That some people think you are identical and some don't realise you are twins! It's true, the 'twin' word holds mystical things!

Happy Birthday my little men. I hope you have a fab day......errr, at school!

click

Something just clicked and has been mastered!

Sneak preview, will talk more when I have a moment longer!

cobwebs and red shoes

Firstly, before I whittle on, can I just say Thank You to your replies in the last post. I feel very touched and you are all very kind - even though a few of you made me cry!!

Before our world all returned to chaos of work and school we went for a huge walk in Epping Forest ending with a pub lunch - nothing like a walk on a frosty morning to shake away those cobwebs!

Ted hugging his favourite tree

Building a den

Desolate in Epping


Fungal with great colours!

Good things right now.

• I love wrapping my huge Dr Who length scarf around and around my neck so it covers my ears!
• Knitting, have just finished a scarf for myself - was going for the Dr Who length but the 3 balls wasn't quite enough!
• Wearing skirts and boots.
• Polishing off all the Christmas chocolates!
• The turkey has long gone but the last of the ham was made into pea and ham soup - Christmas is officially over!
  
  
  

  Good colour match!

I even mastered knitting moss stitch (or seed stitch in some books) so did big bands of moss stitch either end of the scarf with just a knit stitch in between. I feel I have had enough practice at all this knitting and need to accomplish more than scarves now!

This is my new little friend, Rosie. Mum bought her for me for Christmas. She had seen me coo over her at the Country Living Christmas Fair and secretly bought her behind my back!

I love her shoes!!

So another year! Hasn't this year gone by so very quickly?
Any thoughts on what this year will bring/throw at you?
I'm hoping for big changes with the main one being a buyer for C.B. We put it up for sale before Christmas. I know in this climate it isn't the best time to do such things but somethings got to give!
Although I knew it would come to this I found myself shocked and completely out of sorts for a while after. I feel like I have failed!

The reasons for selling?
It's just hard struggling with the children and I miss not being able to be there and enjoy them. We have very little time after school, with only one early day to get together with friends and enjoy ourselves. In the four years we only ever manage one week a year to go on holiday together as a family. The rest of the time we have to divide the time up to cover the school holidays or shipping them to Grandparents.
So I feel I am missing out on my own children - this isn't woe is me and all that - just a re-addressing of the balance.

What if we don't sell it?
Well we will have to have a look at getting people in and covering the afternoons and also the Saturdays. Or we scrap the ceramic painting side and open up a different sort of shop! Believe me we have gone round the houses with many ideas and even a list of names for it!
Someone can make a real go of it but I have lost my 'umph' with it.

Something else I'm thinking of doing is to try and sell my wares! Approaching local shops and maybe Etsy. I'm not very good at selling my stuff, I tried a few years ago and it is incredibly hard and the craft fairs are so expensive to hire a space that it doesn't warrant!
I generally make things for people I know and will give them away for Birthdays etc. Sometimes I'm so taken back that someone likes my things that I inevitably end up giving it to them or barely getting the money to cover the materials! The fact that someone likes it means more! Not good business sense there!
I think most people like what I make for them - and you can always tell those that don't! These are usually people who don't do 'homemade' stuff. They don't realise how much time and effort you have put in worrying about the choices of materials, the colours, even hunting stuff down! Occasionally, it's more that I love what I have made more!

Anyway that's me. I'm sorry I've blabbered on and if you've made it this far - good on you! Thank you for listening.