The Norty Corner

OOOO how i love 6pm Sunday when i have done my weekend of zapping n ordering and date rotating n reducing and i now have 5 whole days off before i have to go back and zap things again. Cant believe how quick this last week has gone, i had a quick glance in my diary and the boys are off in 2 weeks for half term, they have only just gone back after Christmas!!! Not got much planned in the week ahead, have a trip to the hairdressers in the morning which is kind of a pamper session for me..hubby has done his usual " don't have much off its growing nicely", i don't want a lot off any way but i'm looking forward to being able to see again once my fringe has been attended too. Got a meeting at school tomorrow as middle son is sitting his stats this year, so will find out when they are scheduled for and then hopefully will be able to try and arrange a few days somewhere with all the kiddies and puppy dog!! Got to have something to look forward to i think... Have got t

Having a rather sad day in that i keep thinking about death...... obviously how and when it arrives and ultimately what it is like for those left behind. My eldest is into keeping fit and through researching stuff on the net came across a chap who dedicated his life to eating the right stuff, training, looking good etc etc.... i say dedicated his life...he died last yr of an undetected  heart condition ....he was in his early 20's. I find it pulling on my heartstrings in that there is widely available footage on this handsome chap, so full of life.... living his dream...and then the stone cold fact that he is no longer here and it was gone in less than a heartbeat. Of course death comes to us all, i'm not frightened of it coming for me..i don't particularly want to suffer shud i have a choice, and i would most like to be on this earth to see my children grow, be happy and have the blessing of children (and the worry) of their own. People , young, old, fit, sick,  face ba

oh my!!! I am so tired..but i thought i'd better have a little ramble on my blog before i head off to the land of slumber. Well i had a play on the sewing machine yesterday..took me forever to work out how to thread the thing.. but once you have done it ..once, twice and about thirty times its quite straight forward. Talking of straight i have managed a few straight lines now and a rectangle and a square... i was most impressed with myself. i had a few disasters in that i didn't realize that the cotton spool actually extended so when trying to load up the bobbin the cotton did fire off the spool n hit the cat, who then proceeded to pat it around on the floor for a few seconds as i scrabbled to my feet.Took me a little while to wind it all back up but then i was back in action. The only other thing i forgot was to put the foot down to keep my fabric in place... and the over zealous excitement of the foot pedal meant that i nearly stitched myself  via my sleeve to the fabric i w

Well i have finally purchased my very own sewing machine. The last time i believe i came into close contact with one was in my first year at secondary school, so you can probably guess i am a complete and utter novice. I have got as far as opening the box and oooing at it, and then found the instruction manual that i sat and tried to read and absorb. To be honest it made as much sense to me as it would had i been reading all the other language versions that were next to the English bit. However i am inspired by the fab reviews that my little machine has...its a Brother X5 and its apparent ease of use for even the most novice beginner so tomorrow will be test day after i have dropped the kids off and  popped to the local  haberdashery .My list includes sewing machine oil, pins, threads and some chalk or pencil oh and some fabric scraps. I will confess here that i do have a bit of a cushion fetish...and have found a tutorial on here that will (it promises) teach me how to sew and my fi

. ..apart from my head that is!! Had a lovely evening last night catching up with our most vintage friends The Bond Family. Thumbs up to Mr B and his new secret chicken disguised as lamb curry ..ha ha...the secret being.... chat way too much , open up another bottle of red and forget entirely your curry bubbling away on the stove.  Mrs B never failed again in her quest to find the most chocolaty dessert, and the evening then rounded off nicely with a little taster of Mrs B's homemade Sloe gin. Fab night Bondies thank you xx

Well we are already well over half the way through January , only a mere 47ish weeks now until Christmas 2012 :) So how is everyone doing with their New Years Resolutions? I was very cunning this year and didnt really make any... i have these half hearted thoughts of ""ooh this year i WILL do this and i WILL do that...and of course by the end of the first month ive forgotten what they were. The plan at some point this year is to declutter, i made a good start and have actually tackled 2 cupboards in the lounge that housed a jenga type mass of craft items that i had tried in a vague attempt to hide from not only myself but also my hubby :) The rest of the house is on a tick off list...but the big bad boy is the loft.... i am sure i have enough things stashed up there to furnish another house easily, my concern is that  the whole roof space will end up in the bedrooms if it isnt sorted soon . However my  big bold ticks arent looking quite as proud as they were early on in the