A New Venture

About two weeks ago I saw an advert for a Crafty Opportunity and applied. You had to give up 3.5 hours to help run the shop in return for free space! This was too good an offer to pass by. Last Friday I went in and met Dee, the owner, who was so lovely and she agreed to take my bits of glassware and a few other little bits and I can go and help on a Tuesday am!

The space is in a garden center so it is open 10-5 everyday of the week! Dee has a lovely set up with lots of little dressers around with all different crafts.

This is a picture of my glassware once I had set them up, at the minute they are quite near the front of the shop, but they will get moved around to help create interest. 

Lets see how things go!

Yarn wrapped bottles

Again, something I have seen everywhere at the moment....yarn wrapped bottles. They look so pretty that I had to have a go in something other than raffia, so chose a couple of shades of pink!

As you can see the one on the right is slightly dodgy at the top. It absolutely refused to stick.

It was quite simple, as always, to achieve this look...a mixture of water and PVA glue was put onto the glass and the yarn wrapped around!

I think I may embellish some more and put another post up another day!

It does not take long either...you simply need a ready supply of bottles!

I had better get to work this evening when the kids are in bed as I have managed to secure a few shelves at a local garden center in their craft barn! I get the shelves for free if I agreed to do 3.5 hours cover for them once a week!!!! No brainer!

Will post pictures once I have set up in the week.

things to go! need to finish

Sorting through my kids wardrobes again lead to a few more items being gotten rid of! Plus a bag of about 30 kids size hangers which are just a little too small even for the Divas clothes now.

and I came across these little things....otherwise known as Squinkies! Each little ball contains a tiny little toy figure...I brought them off a fb page and used them as a prize whenever the Diva used the toilet properly whist toilet training. I think I brought about 300 for £15 and have well over 100 left over, a friend has asked if she can have these so she will pick them up later today!

A set of Zumba DVDs...Brought on a whim when I was doing a few classes. However, not that I regularly go to Curves at least 3 times a week I do not find time to do these as well as everything else...To much too do!

and some random books that are no longer wanted.

Charity shop here we come at the weekend!

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I am one very proud Mummy! My little A came home from school with a certificate and a letter saying that a poem that he had done at school had been put forward and was going to be published in a childrens poetry book! What a little love.

Here is his masterpiece, aged 5 when it was done.

My Senses.

Orange leaves

Banging fireworks

Hot soup

Brown conkers

Hot Bonfire.

I have already given permission for it to be used but as such I really feel that I should buy the book too! However, at £14.99 it is a lot of money....I was expecting £5.99 or similar....but I will bite the bullet and buy it I think. He will always have it then and you never know, he may go on to be a budding poet of some sort just like his great aunt!

Attempts at a mug...

Oh my gosh....how half term whizzed by...so much so that I totally forgot to post anything yesterday, which was also an inset day!!! However one of the things that I tried over the hols was this...

I have seen so many people that are making their own mugs with Sharpie pens and tried it for myself to no avail. (apparently I was using the wrong type of Sharpies and there is a special paint type of Sharpie pen. So, armed with my white mug....

and my own porcelain pens , which are essentially the same as the Sharpies, I think,

I decided to do a simple floral design to test the pens and see if they are actually dishwasher proof and worth while doing. If they are, then the possibilities are endless, Chrsitmas, Birthdays.....the list goes on.

After the painting stage, you have to leave the paint to dry for 4 hours at least. Then bake in an oven at 40 minutes....and supposedly it will be done....we will wait and see...

Well, the pattern stayed on! and it went in the dishwasher too! May try and do some more mugs when the season comes along...I believe ASDA I is where this mug comes from and at £1 a mug it is a bargain....maybe the kids could do all the rellies a mug for Christmas 2015!?!?!

More things to go!

Well, the end of a rainy and not too brilliant half term holiday! Somehow we kept sane and busy...visiting Grandma, cinema trips, friends houses and having a big tidy up...and I am somehow keeping up with 10 things a week at the minute....am sure it will become a lot harder as the year progresses...me thinks.

A random assortment of junk here...most of it will go straight to the local charity shop...they are doing fairly well out of us this year!

Pom Poms everywhere!

I have somehow managed to amass quite a collection of various size and colour pompoms! I keep them all in one of the old style proper tin tins of Quality Street chocolates and it is really full....

The Diva saw that I had them and requested to be able to use them in some of her art work....So I found a bit of cardboard ( the back of  a cereal packet) and gave her some glue and she got busy sticking...

You can see my tin in this next picture and how full it is. The Diva decided that she was going to do a counting board and stuck all the pompoms in neat rows them counted them to me.

Well, it's one use for pompoms I suppose....maybe next time she will follow my instruction and try to make a pom pom photo frame?!