Little Cotton Rabbits

sleepover success!

The girls and I had great fun on saturday night / sunday morning. We had take-away pizza and ice-cream sundaes with all the trimmings, put on make-up, sang and danced along to high school musical, did some crafts (bindeez and shrinkles), they had a posh bath with bath fizzers and it was topped off with scarey stories and a lot of giggles very late into the night (I think I fell asleep at 12.30 and they were still whispering and giggling!). I thought they'd have a lie-in but there they were, bright as buttons at quarter to 7 in the morning. After a full english breakfast they dressed up and played the morning away and then at lunchtime the party sleepover was over. Needless to say we had a quiet afternoon and an early night yesterday.

I'm really glad that Amy enjoyed it so much but it will be a while before we do it again - it's definitely the kind of thing that you need to psyche yourself up for and have a couple of quiet days for recovery on the otherside! Thank goodness for monday mornings and knitting!

Happy Birthday to my Princess

I still clearly remember when she was a snuggly little bundle!

Luckily for me she wants a simple birthday party (far from last year's nightmare party with 8 girls-with-attitude who scorned my party games, jewellry making and trinket box crafts in favour of running around the house screaming!) This year will hopefully be more refined (and give me less grey hairs). Today we're having a little party tea and then at the weekend she's having a sleepover with just one friend. I'm putting together a little sleepover kits with lipgloss, nibbles and crafty bits and we've got the high school musical dvd ready to go so we're all set for a girlie night of mayhem and fun (Toby and H are escaping to the Grandparents).

I am really looking forward to some special time with my special girl.

knitting corners of my home...

Monkee maker started this a few weeks ago (I'm always late to the party!) and I've really enjoyed seeing where other people get knitty with it. So I thought I'd share a few knitting corners of my home.

After the kids are off to school and I've made a cuppa I'm to be found curled up here in the lounge - with the morning sun shinning through the window behind me it's a nice spot. (note the clever angle that I used to take this shot which avoids the dust, crumbs and other detritus strewn across the floor)

In the afternoon the light is better at the back of the house and you can find me sat here in the trampoline viewing gallery whilst keeping an eye on the kids if they're out in the garden. (Please try to ignore the view outside the window - both the mess and the small bottom - you get used to both around here!)

After the mayhem that is teatime my next knitting stint comes at bathtime:

Luckily for me Toby likes a long and playful bath!

I'm glad that knitting is so portable and that I get a change of scenery throughout the day. I can also knit in the garden (when it's warm and dry) and that's probably my favourite. I do however quite envy some of the lovely craft rooms that I've seen on my travels through blogland especially Heather Bailey's, and Manda's and of course Katie's awesome shed. Maybe I could persuade H to find the lawnmower a new home and commandeer our little shed as a little cotton rabbits craft oasis (I wish) but in all likelihood I'll have to stick to being a knitting nomad!

Take up the Monkee Maker challenge and show us where you do your thing!

New email address!

Yesterday I had around 800 bounced back emails pour into my inbox - looks like they were part of a mass mail out with my email address configured in as the return addres - how do they do that? Anyway I've decided to dump my email address and take on a new one. To contact me you can either leave me a comment here or click 'email me' on the left which links into my new email account. Hopefully that will sort the problem - fingers crossed!

My email address has been hijacked!

Just a quick note to say that I may not get your email if you send it at the moment as my email address has been hijacked by some xxxxxx and so my inbox is constantly filling up with returned spam emails!

I'll try and sort out a new address and post details soon.

Anyone else had a similar problem? If you have any advice please let me know!