Let the fun of the school holidays begin!!!!

Or how long until the first fight breaks out?

Well am I prepared?

 To be bluntly honest with you, no I'm not ready I could do with another six weeks of preparation before I'm any where near ready

So what are my plans for the summer holidays then? 

 1. Try and not spend a fortune keeping them entertained, weather take note! 

2. Make sure they don't have too many fights, my husband (dh) is also off for the first two weeks of the holidays, which will cause some friction between them.

 3. Try and do plenty of cheap days out, we have got a family and friends railcard which saves a fortune on rail fares, it has been the best £30. I've ever spent!

And this is the summer holiday box that I've done for them it contains:-

2 sketch pads, 2 notebooks (one each), lots of stickers, a large box of chalk and a water balloon pump, with plenty of water balloons. Hopefully they will be entertained and give me some peace 

Must go as youngest daughter is currently planning world domination in the back garden again!!!!

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Project secret knitting and other things

This is as much as I'm going show of my secret knitting project at the moment,

I will reveal all when it is finished 

The reason why it is a big secret is that it's a pattern that I have designed myself, I'm still at the stage of is it going to work or not? If it turns into a big disaster it will be sent to the to be frogged pile, I've got one of those piles too!

Moving on

I've started to make a top for a party we are attending in a couple of weeks time, it seems like an appropriate type of summer top to wear in this weather at the moment. But I have a feeling that when the girls finish school on Friday we're going to get six weeks of rain, which usually happens when the schools finish. 

As for keeping the girls entertained over the summer holidays I'm doing an activity box for them for the rainy days or days that we don't go out. Of course there will be days out, but some days it's nice to stay home and do things like reading, baking and making things, as well as normal housekeeping chores which don't go away for the summer holidays.

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Trying to get back on track again

Hello again! This must be the third or fourth blog post this year? But there have been many more attempted tries at writing a post.

Well what has been happening since I last posted? Well a lot some good and some bad which may explain my absence, let's start with the good bits we've had a new bathroom roof, along with a new bathroom suite fitted, which were needed and a new boiler finally, we now have a boiler that is not living on lifesupport (hurray!!) Don't ask me how good the heating is because we haven't needed heating for quite a while, as you can see from the above photo which is the current state of my lawn, a combination a lot of sun and no rain!

Well after the very cold winter (see photos below) we get blessed with the hottest driest summer in a long long time.

My poor primroses took a severe battering 

The slight calm before the beast from the east struck 

So what has been happening on the craft front then? 

Not a lot 

 I Started this granny stripe blanket, but it got too warm to have it anywhere near me, so it is now currently in hibernation for the summer.

Made four pairs of pyjama bottoms for the girls (no photos) that were badly needed. Tried to make myself a top which went wrong, so that is now sitting in the sulking pile, defiantly no photos of that one and yes I do have a sulking pile. 

The only successful sewing project I've done recently is this small knitting/crochet project bag, I know you can't see much of it but currently it contains a secret knitting project that I'm working on at the moment, enough said about for that for now.

Well I suppose I'll have to talk about the bad bits, which I'm not going to dwell on too much, I will say I've had a lot of stress with the work we've had  done on the house. But also with the builders who have been working on the house next door for over 18 months and are nowhere near finished. I've had to put up with a lot noise and mess (dust) from them, the weather at the moment is a little on the warm side to keep the windows shut, so the house is full of brick dust, which makes me feel like giving up on doing any housework, the knock on effects of that is the decluttering is at a stand still and I'm not doing much crafting either, because everything  is covered in dust.

Well that's enough of my little rant, I'm off to make a cup of tea and see if my washing is dry yet, it's great weather for drying washing! x