It's The Little Things.

Is it sad I got excited to see an email from my local library in my inbox?
Is it sad I got even more excited when I saw 11 out of the 20 books I ordered in last week had arrived?
I wish the heat wasn't so bad or I would be throwing thhe little girl in the pram and zooming out the door. But it is so hot. The girl needs her lunch. Maybe after lunch I can go?
Will I get sunnburned again? Most likely yes.
It will so be worth it!
So here is my reading list: (Who knows when silly me will find the time to read all of these!)

• The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
• 1001 Home Hints by Margaret Malone
• Amy Butler's Midwest Modern by Amy Butler
• The Anticraft by Ren Rigdon
• The art of making wine and liqueurs by Betty Sampson
• Cook, How to cook by Women's Weekly
• Bags, Bags, Bags by Dorothy Wood
• Breads & Muffins by Women's Weekly
• Canning & preserving for dummies by Karen Ward
• Caramel : 50 recipes for deliciously gooey desserts by Peggy Cullen (My hubby loves caramel!)
• Celebrating baby by Jennifer Bitto
• The Cheese Making Book
• Fashion Hats by Karen Henriksen

Anyone read any of these? Or have any good crafty/cooking books to suggest?

Wordless....

Fresh Listings

Yay I have managed to list some more items in my Etsy today. Was very happy to see yesterday I had sold two of my pendants!
I have so many more to put up there, just getting there slowly!
Here are the newbies.....

Beautiful vintage fabric pendant.


Sugar overload pendant.


Kiss Me Sweet Valentine pendant.

And this is what I saw when checking on the little girl yesterday. She was so tired and so grumpy and fell asleep with her bum in the air! Too cute!

Just a bit more resin....No way!

I have had some mould issues.......They have been resinated, frozen, beaten. Put that on repeat a few times and I guess it was inevitable they would eventually break down.
The latest batch had the mould sticking to them, in lots of tiny pieces. So I spent a long time picking away at it with a pin, then getting impatient and scraping off with a sharp knife. It worked, but has left some very small scratches. Time for new moulds!







Hopefully today I will find some time to play with more.....
So what do you guys think? My favourite would have to be the "I love my geek".
Because I really do love my geek)
:)

Fresh Out Of The Mold

Some new resin pieces I popped out today....





Played around with my new cross mould...







I have some more in the freezer waiting to be unstuck.... Will post soon!
So what do you think?
Do you think the top two would be better as fridge magnets or pendants?

:)

Finally Some Freedom!

For the last few days I have been stuck in the house.
Sick. Cough cough.
Rain. Trying to mow lawn before landlord goes nuts on us.
Broken tap. Being given a time frame of "today or maybe tomorrow". Unable to leave because of wishy washy plumber. (Yeah I did say that and I know it is bad!)
Plumber finally came. So did bath time.
Did I mention it was the hot tap that was dribbling away for hours?
We turned the water off, but then was told to leave it on while the waiting game was being played.
The kettle was utilized.
The baby cried. Tired, grumpy, hungry.
The bath was filled, shallow.
At the end of the day I sighed as I made my way to a hot shower.
Oh yeah....It heats up overnight. No hot shower for me.

Today as my first day of freedom (though I am still sick I just HAD to get out) I went for a walk and took some photos on the way....







Then I did a bit of light reading....



I LOVE this book. It was the best Christmas gift ever.

I realized for the first time since school I am actually using the diary I bought....



Maybe because it has such pretty photos of things I yearn for...



Someday I will bring in a basket of fresh veges from my garden.

In the waiting I also finally glued magnets to my resin coated scrabble tiles I made so long ago. I was going to make them into a necklace but I love them on the fridge.



They fit in so well with my other resin magnets...



And after days of trying to figure out why my camera would not connect to my laptop I tried it with our big desktop....And amazingly it worked fine! The laptop is pretty stuffed and full of nasty things so the lovely husband is wiping it tonight. He is just waiting for me to get off the computer......

We Have Winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered!
It was great to read so many comments and ideas for changes for my shop.
I have already started to implement a few changes.
I played around in photoshop for a while and have created a few banners so sometime soon I would love to post them and get people to vote on which they like best. I am terrible aat choosing as Ican't help liking the all!
I am trying to regularly add new items, I do have lots waiting to be done but I have been so super busy.
My father (who lives in London) came over for a visit the last few days and finally got to meet his granddaughter. It was a great few days I wish were much longer.

And now onto the fun part!
I have done ye olde write names on paper and draw from hat method as I have seen way too many doomsday/terminator/robot movies to trust computers with such an important task.
Yes my imagination can run away with me but I promise you I am not insane. Well not completely insane. :)

So the names were ready in the hat.....



And here is the winner of the Apple & Orange Pendant Set:



KYM!!

And the winner of the Pear & Orange Pendant Set:



PERFECT BLUE MOON!!

Congratulations to the winners, I will be contacting you to get addresses and send your pendants out on Monday!