Silent Sunday

no bizness i know!

Hey hey there bloggeroo's (channelling Ned Flanders from The Simpsons there)
First of all apologies, my i on my keyboard is broke, so i am copying and pasting it


i decided that i'd write a wee review this week, no - i did not get any money for it, and it's more of a recommendation than a review.

As most of you parents know soft play areas are HELL, or is that just me!? i always find that there are loads of kids running around, screaming, getting hurt, etc. (i know kind of the point, right?) but this means its always REALLY busy, and Rachel finds it hard to enjoy herself.

We decided instead of going to the big adventure today we'd head to Braehead and go to Monkey Bizness The price on the door seems expensive, i'll give you that, but the prices for the food and drink made up for it by a long shot

i got cake - huge slice of chocolate cake, pot of tea, large jug of cordial juice (they said it had 10 glasses in it but it has way more, Rachel drank 8 glasses and it was only half empty!) and it was the princley sum of £5!

i sat on a nice red leather sofa, took my shoes off and sat there, rachel returned and asked to have a shot on a rock climbing wall, so off i went, fully expecting it to cost yet more money, as most things in kids places tend to, nope included in the price.

You can stay there as LONG as you like, so we stayed for 4 hours, all in it cost me £14.00 not too bad considering 2 hours at the big adventure has cost me MUCH more than that.

i loved the place, with the couches, it had bean bags too, for kids and adults to sit on you just grab one from the corner. i felt comfortable and relaxed, read my book and the staff were on the ball, they kept the kids under control, no mean feat when there's loads of them.

Can not recommend this place enough, will be going back without a shadow of a doubt!

i have never recommended anything, especially not soft play.

i may take pictures next time!

until later xxx

It's time to relax

So, first of all, two blog posts in a week, aren't you lucky?


What's going through my head? This


I've had an utterly exhausting day, so I decided I'd chill out and relax

so I decided

A nice cup of tea



and my footspa where in order, yes I know I'm a wee bit middle aged




I'm also wearing my Pyjamas (they're grey jogging types, no picture sadly)

I'm also watching terrible TV, which consists of beauty and the geek

and in case you're wondering - which i doubt, the thing in my background is this



Its shaun the sheep, it's a footstool and it's FREAKING awesome, It's a bit dirty, cause I use it loads, but I love it

So what do you enjoy relaxing with?

Cat Tastrophe

Firstly, I'd like to apologise, I've not updated since November, had some rather pressing personal issues, so my poor blog got neglected. I'm sorry blog, I do love you, honest.

Then today, I was reminded why I love Blogging by Lisa Hughes Lisa has just made her blog all pretty, it's very much like her, lots of cake and tea. I am a fan of both cake, and tea.

So...What have I been up to?

Well alot actually. I made some cake for my friends birthday, with fake cream filling, which was fun to make



and then I headed off to her birthday party where I had a rather lot to drink...





Not all my booze, but a selection of booze


I also saved a sparrows life, hence the blog title, my little monster cat caught a sparrow and it wasnt dead, i let it go free. Hooray for sparrow saving!

I also applied for a job, with the RAF, I'm actually a little terrified, why? Because you need to be SUPER fit, It's avionics mechanic job, I'm just about to send away my application form, just need to hit submit, just building up my courage first. Cough! This is the role I am looking at, at the moment, scary stuff.

So, again I can only apologise for my tardy blogness, it's been a tough few months, but I do have you lovely people and my blog to keep me from going nuts.

until next update, take care folks.

Exhausting

So, how are we all?

Me I'm knackered

I love my job, I honestly do, it's epic, the staff are starting to relax and get to know us better now.

We had an EPIC party for Frasers birthday, i kinda got drunk and forgot to take pictures, woops!!

We had a birthday party for Rachels birthday, which I will eventually share with you lucky, lucky people.

We're going out this Friday for dinner to The Witchery In Edinburgh, then the birthday surprise, I will take pictures, so expect an update on Saturday/Sunday :)

This week, I've been mostly doing outcomes, got 4 to do, two rewrites and two submissions, who said college is easy going? Well not rewrites, just expansions.

I've been getting epic migranes recently, I dont like to complain, but the nausea pain is starting to drive me MENTAL!

Also been having more issues with mini/school lately, her teachers not very professional and when I tried to ask her questions, I was accused of threatening her, needless to say I contacted the head teacher, I'm not a fan of being lied to, never mind by a professional.

I've not seen anyone in absolutely ages, I bought myself an embroidery kit from the publishers works, so I think tonight im going to start that and drink apple tea from my tea pot. MM tea pot.

i tried to sign up to lisa's xmas swap but for some reason my emails idiotic and didnt sent it, Sigh.

Other than that, im awesome, as always

Oh also....this is the only picture you're getting because




I MET GOK WAN!!!!

I'm amazingly pleased about this, I had been following the book tour for ages, and I wanted his book anyway, because well ya know i love him.

I went to Braehead, the times where 12:30 to 1:30, 1:15 i get there, find the BEST parking space ever, get in, am the LAST person to get my book signed and I'm now amazing.

Downside? I had an engine oil handprint on my face, I smelt like 9,698 mile old engine old/sweat, and was wearing a tech support tshirt, joggy bottoms, a digital watch and my vans.

I am class Personified.

Talk soon

Lush for life...

I've been super busy and neglecting my blog for a bit, so what have I done?


HUNDREDS. It's going to be picture heavy as I have done hundreds, so bare with me...!

I made myself some awful slippers, the picture honestly doesn't capture just how shocking the wool is for this :)



I ordered myself some new boots



they where an obscene price £250.00 here, so i got them from USA via my friend Jeff, saving me about 120 bucks.

I got mini two new pairs of boots

the school pair





the sensible pair, well for out of school, they are not however this horrendous purple colour, they are chocolate brown, which is awesome :)

I also got a new car







It's a 2.5 litre v6, loads of torque and BHP (I can see the non car folks going HUH right now...)

Its a lovely colour dead nice to drive full service history, ching ching, costing me a small fortune to run, but it's pretty and fast so I don't mind so much...!!


I booked minis birthday party, 24th October she's going to be 7, feart that we won't have enough kids showing up though and we need a minimum of 10! She's having at the Science Centre in Glasgow from 12-4 on her actual birthday, excitement :) we've invited 14 kids but it's October week so Im struggling to contact people at the moment, joy.


My boyfriends birthday is on the 8th November, we are going to the witchery for dinner and doing another thing, "the surprise" (haha Fraser hope you didn't think i'd tell you on here, nosy man) There will be pictures


finally I got a job, I now work for Lush in their Buchanan Street Store. Currently I'm a christmas temp, but hopefully I'll get kept on after xmas!!!

I want to take loads of pictures at work and run their twitter, as it would be amazing and I'd love for it to be really popular.

I think thats it from me, other than that

Hope you're all well :)

Happy Birthday Lisa

On Friday 20th August it was the wonderful Lisa's birthday


This Girl Is


That is her blog there, I recommend you read it, it's a marvelous blog full of sewing, crafty goodness

Her husband, Dave told me on Wednesday that it was her birthday this week (next time more notice Mr Hughes)

So I decided to make her some ribbon roses

red ribbon rose

Two gold ribbon roses



two tiny blue ribbon roses




I made these into hair slides, so hopefully the wonderful Lisa will like them!!





gold hair slides


big red ribbon rose






I also got my boyfriend to make her a card,




here is a little tutorial to make your own ribbon roses!!!


Not a very good video


Ribbon rose tutorial

Anyway!


Happy Birthday Lisa xx