Pink Haired Princess

A couple of months ago Cath Kidston  (CK) ran a competition to design a room in a shoe-box. I'd kept the email about it for other reasons and it wasn't until a few days before the competition closed that I spotted the bit about the contest at the bottom of the page and so Mum and I set about making a room in an evening! It was one of the most fun contests I've ever done, getting to come up with ideas and do little craft things in doll-house size! As creative as I am, I've sadly had to let that part of my life go, over the past 10 years with being ill. I no longer sew or draw or anything like that and it is something I miss dearly, but I know I would get increasingly frustrated at not being able to do it, so it's better I stick to things that I can do. Anyway that aside, it was fun for an evening and I was super impressed (even if I do say so myself) at how fabulous our room turned out and how thrifty we were. We didn't win the competition (we were robbed ...

Hi! Still no computer and I'm starting to want to strangle the guys in the shop-no joke! It feels like we're being held to ransom though, because we've already been charged for the initial work they did and now our computer is sitting in bits (with them), so we could take it back and lose the money we've already paid and have a computer in pieces or wait until they properly fix it. Not much of a choice really. They assured me it would be ready on Saturday afternoon, but I've been hearing the same story for weeks. My parents are on their hols now though, so nobody can pick it up this week (I can't carry it by myself). So it'll be another week, I'm afraid. I thought I could try blogging a little in the meantime. I don't have my camera installed on my sisters laptop and both my camera memory cards are now full of photos I've taken in the past few weeks anyway-but I figured I could at least blog items that don't require 'real' phot...

I got such a shock this morning when I was (rudely) awakened (by a digger removing snow from the side streets). The snow here was starting to disappear, but another heavy snowfall all morning left thick, deep powdery white stuff over everything. It's stunning when it looks like that, the trees are especially beautiful I think. Anyway, Christmas isn't far away at all now and I'm pretty organised (only have 1 person left to buy for, 14 got). My Mum is a massive, massive Cath Kidston fan, well I love her stuff too actually. Mum treated herself to some of the new Christmas range and I thought it was all so pretty, it deserved to be photographed (this is the first of me getting around to sorting through these images I took in October-and yes, mother really was that organised, with some of her presents wrapped back then)! Spot ribbon £1.75 per drum ( green or red ), 20 gift tags in tin £9 and gift wrap £5 per roll. Set of 3 bell baubles £12, set of 2 wooden tree angels £5, ...