happy hallloween

uh oh....Halloween tomorrow and I haven't even bought a pumpkin yet.....I'll add it to my list of urgent things to do....

play time

An amazing thing happened today.... I took the little people to a play gym....and they played! And I had a hot chocolato and read Grazia magazine from cover to cover! Nice one!

bed please

Half term + ton of work = late nights and one knackered mummy.....bed here I come... before midnight woohoo!

weekend!!

I haven't done any work all day.....because I deserve a day off!!!

domestic goddess

Today I have cleaned the house (not all of it but good effort!), done the ironing and baked cookies with the kids...they were supposed to be heart shaped but kind of grew a bit in the oven and blended together ever so slightly to form one giant cookie....we hacked them up and decorated them and they look fab now!

....and now I am making Jamie Oliver cauliflower cheese soup!
Just putting off the inevitable....got a load of work to do tonight.....

enough thanks

I've worked and worked and worked and had no life all week and I'm still doing the never ending garment design (women's wear range now arrgghh) and I'm so tired and the kids finished school today for half term and I've had a couple of glasses of rose and I really really can't face starting work now.....
SO.....work? Or another glass of rose and bed??

STILL very bloomin' busy

Working lots of late nights.....soooo tired.....loads more to do.....more late nights.....busy time of year....zzzzz....gonna be up late again tonight.....

AND I've signed up to the sketchbook project and my sketchbook arrived on Saturday and I'm dying to get started on it but I just haven't had time....

very busy

My very busy and chaotic week was followed by a very busy and chaotic weekend

....and I still have a TO DO list as long as my arm......

primark bibs

More of my designs spotted whilst shopping.

These were on bibs in Primark.....

This is how they looked when I did them....

*copyright belongs to Primark*

little friend

Think I'll go with a penguin for this year's Chrimbo card....might add a little friend to go with him though....

nicking off work...

Feeling very guilty cos I haven't done any work tonight.
It's cos I'm just not enjoying what I'm doing...I feel like one of those people who moans a lot about their job...need to get it out of the way quickly!
Did these instead....

and then I did this to match last night's distraction.....

pick up a penguin

Tonight's Chrimbo character ideas....

...but christmas in October is fine ha ha!

Not really!
Still hate those annoying people who start christmas early and show off about it ... but.....
I design my Christmas card every year and I normally print them out myself which is a right pain and takes forever - and I always leave it too late and end up wishing I hadn't bothered.
So this year I'm gonna get Moo to print them cos they did a super job of the stickers.
Figured I'd better not leave it till last minute so this week I'll be trying out ideas.... did some snowmen tonight...

my weekend...

...one pink party, two thousand pounds raised, long walk in the park with one sister, five kids and one dog, dine in for two for a tenner, one trip to Tesco, cinema with eleven girls and Sunday dinner for twelve at my mum and dad's....

shopping trip

I'm going to a Breast Cancer fundraiser tonight....dress code: pink.
So off I went today to buy something pink and lovely.
Well clearly pink is not this season's colour....I could've had no end of brown, black and sludge coloured clothes but apart from the odd pair of pj's the shops were devoid of pink!
So....pink vest, pink nails and pink bra it is!


While I was there I saw loads of my designs, including these in Pumpkin Patch...

This is how they looked when I did them...