monkeys

i was at a small craft fair today, well it was more of a sale of work as most of the stall were ladies who meet in on a tuesday morning and make some beautiful stuff between them and i had a ball sold a few bits and pieces and made some new friends and a bit of criac - but the bargin of the day has to be the things i got of the bric-a-brack stall for the church and the best bit was the monkey i bought for my monkey!!!!!!

have to say at 50p he is a great find and addy just loved him as you can see and now he has something to carry about other than the cats

not sure which monkey is the cutest?

baby update

well they have been here for a weeks now and have taken over the whole house !!!!!!
RJ is the one that rules the roost and keeps the rest of the house in order and is getting on very well with my old dog sophie - this is him below

but Hammy is the joker in the pack and always up for a play even when i'm trying to knit with the ball of wool he is carrying off

and as soon as the laptop is on Hammy gets up and sits on the keyboard

babies

i have been a cat person for many years and now as my boys are a bit older and able to help look after a cat i thought it was time to see is i could find one and as luck would have it one of the fellas at work was looking for homes for some kittens. so i told him that ifhe had any males i would take one and then i thought about it and as twos company i might as well have the last 2 boys and here is RJ in his box, bit like king of the castle and as usual Hammy is off exploring his new surroundings

now this is only a small cat basket and just about room for one cat (the boys are about 12 weeks old) but as Hammy seems to be the boss, even though he is smaller than RJ he had to get into the basket as well !!!!

and as for hubby, well he did the usual huffing and puffing about cats in the house and fur all over the place and the rest, and when i have my back turned he's on the floor playing with them!

now all i have to do is learn to knit with the 2 of them on my knee.(ha ha)

hearts

i had been into the local fabric shop to pick up some more stock and i found some really good stuff for halloween and i just had to have a wee meter and as i was wondering what to make with it the boys asked for bandanas - so when i had finished and was clearing up the ends i had a little left so i sat down at the machine and had a bit of a fiddle!!!

and very soon had a small pile and after a bit of lavender and stuffing a and as you can see the finished hearts modeled by char and i think they turned out very well - as always i take a few samples into work and the response was very good and even a few orders after the craft fair this saturday so i might have to nip into the shop and get a few more meters just in case (he he!)

the fixer

the boys finished school for the halloween break and as usual they have a half day on friday and a fancy dress party and this year addy went as a vimpire and dosen't he look a smasher

and char went as a hippy and he won the class prize for best costume!!!!!! he was well pleased as he had gathered up most of the stuff himself and he and addy drew flowers and things on the old pair of jeans his uncle had given him - as usual addy had to get into the picture somewhere

at last i think i'm up and running on the laptop front anyway and last night i managed to add the phone software so i can also add pictures -- and here is the lovely darren or the PC Doc as he likes to be known and he got me running again, he works with me and as usual was on hand to help. he's a big softie and a sucker for a sob story (just as well in my case as i'm a technophobe) and is easy to pay ( large chocolate cake ) thank goodness!!

sunday again

well it's just a week to my first craft fair for a while and as usual i'm up to my eyes in it !!!
have been busy making stock all summer and now i have to tidy up the ends and add the labels
and my friend arrived on friday with a large box of material that had been in a suitcase for 30 + years so i now have a load of new ideas racing around in my head which i won't have time to put together for saturday ######

now i've got my laptop back i need to gat the stuff for my mobile added on again so i can start to gat the pictures on here again

now off to bed 6.00 am comes a little to early for my liking

See they really are red

At last a picture of the famous red arrows pity it was such a wet day but worth the wait in the rain