The Norty Corner

Well i have been clickety clicking away ... i have felt a bit under the weather this week so after doing all the chores i have been ensconced on the settee wrapped up in my nice throw watching the box set of friends that my eldest son bought us all last December as an early Christmas pressie. Inspired by Mrs Bond of woolly words i have been busy knitting and then re knitting as things regularly went wrong...odd sized legs, knee joints in thighs..head knitted in wrong color wool...(typo pattern error that one) , but finally.. not perfect by any means of the imagination, i have knitted my first ever project...so with great Tralaaaa's i introduce Geraldine... She was knitted in Dk wool that i picked up nice and cheap from the Range, and the pattern is a King cole Halloween one, there are also patterns on the sheet for pumpkins, cat and spiders.... i may knit a cat to keep her company as now my project is finished my hands are twitching for something to do. ...

Its already the 15th of April and the month is half gone, who has the last 14 days??? So i'm trying to rack my little brain cells and think what has passed since i last blogged. well the wedding and the pictures are still at the forefront, such a lovely day that you cant just forget about it in a hurry. i have found an album in my stash of crafting goodies that will be a perfect little keepsake so i shall start working on that soon, I've managed to get some really nice pictures so with a little bit of cropping and editing i think i will have a lovely album to give as a special gift to my brother and sister in law. The boys have been home from school but i have been at work on and off so once again i have done boo diddly squat with my little men. They have contented themselves mostly with bouncing on the trampoline that hubby rebuilt... the springs are a bit rusty where they had been hiding in a black bin liner, but it is working well, i just need to get a cover to go ove...

Well the wedding was now 2 days ago and what a fantastic day it was. Groom and Bride looked fantastic, location was amazing, food was just divine and there was plenty of wine so it just couldn't get any better could it? well yes it could because the weather was glorious as well. The wedding was held at Wyck hill house and spa at Gloucester,  which is definitely a very special place indeed, especially the grounds and all the little places you can just sit and chat. We didn't stay over as we had to be back as hubby had work in the morning plus we needed to pick up our puppy dog.Many of the guests booked rooms though and we did see my parents room which was just beautiful, and so spacious . I think my lounge and conservatory would have fitted quite nicely inside their bedroom!!! here is a picture of the very happy couple; Mr and Mrs Speller. I was a tad embarrassed because i was thanked like a billion times for the bits and bobs that i helped wi...

well what simply gorgeous weather, i cant believe how wonderful it is to wake to Mr sunshine and feel his warmth all day long. Well a week of activity has passed and i have gone through and still going through several stages of learning to walk again...or so it feels. The Gym membership is as i feared torture!! Well the first lesson was a bit of a nightmare to be honest, mirrors everywhere so it didn't matter where i looked i could see this overweight wobbly red faced person who looked straight back at me with horror on her face. I kid you not i was knackered half way through the warm up and only sheer determination and the fact that i was stuck right at the front of the class and couldn't escape without trampling down much fitter and toned people than me, saw me survive my first class... did i happen to mention that i HATE SQUATS!!! LBT  is code for squats !!! I never liked them in my fitter days so now they are just evil personified. I struggled ...

so am i!! Today i had my epiphany... is that the right word??? i think the normal saying is my light bulb moment...when i realized after years of going through the same feelings and emotions especially at the full moon stage of pmt, that i do not value myself highly enough..and i should............. and i have (as i'm sure to document over the next year..because that is my commitment to pain and torture),joined a health club . i know it sounds stoooooopid but it takes me quite a lot of courage to divert from my usual routine of school drop off run and home and the school pick up  run and home with a little bit of diversity to the supermarket on a Friday morning, so actually wandering along the road and into the health club was a little bit of a challenge..no i'm not kidding because i think i'm a bit of a phobic.. but i'm not sure which one i fall under. Anyway they asked what my main reason was for joining... well to be honest i c...

Well here i am at the end of another week and i am feeling shattered, probably due to the fact that i didn't get to bed til 1am this morning as i had to make my youngest sons party invites for him to take into school  today and i did PROMISE... plus as it is Mothers Day on Sunday, i am hoping that the love and toil i have shown will be rewarded... i am saying that with a tongue jutting out my cheek ............... Anyway he was pleased with me this morning and had his invitations clutched tight in his hand as he wandered across the playground feeling all important. Here they are.. excuse the mad pixel-ling on them you don't know who is reading in cyborg land. i will have 8 around in total, i am consoling myself that  it is only a few hours and not a sleepover as middle son had last month..so i am going to have a trawl through the internet for a few more wacky games to play. I went shopping today and bou...

OMG and once again with a mahoosive sign of drama...OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well the bird cage and candles have arrived from sister in law to be... so love getting her random buys and hearing hope in her little voice saying work your magic on it... well as is expected, the gems aren't flat backed and as luck would have it refused point blank to stick to anything...well i lie.. i managed with a whole tube of glue to fit them in the flower recess on the cage. then the candles proved non stick able to the gems... however double sided tape and crystal headed pin tips were a big success....plus i have added some nail gems to the ribbon around the candle just cos i thought it would look cool lol....although it isn't shown in this picture. For the little void up in the the roof of the cage  i had the brainwave of creating some turtle doves... i know these flashes if inspiration really alarm me sometimes. i haven't entirely decided on t...