Been a while...

...Since I last posted a blog entry so I do apologise...

Well, last night I made JAM!!! Yep my Mum, Mike and myself picked some blackberries from around the corner of our house and I made some jam :oD I used Lyndsey's recipe over here
http://swirlyarts.blogspot.com/2008/08/easiest-way-to-make-jam-ever.html and it was super dooper quick and easy! Had some on my toast this morning and even though I wasn't too keen on the taste, it turned out really well :oD I will however buy a sieve for next time and sieve out the pips lol!! Mike tasted some and decided that even for him it was a bit sweet!!! And believe me, that IS saying something!!! So I shall reduce the amount of sugar next time, see how it turns out. Really looking forward to next year when the strawberries come out again - gunna go pick our own and make some strawberry jam :oD I'm really loving this jam making lol!! Got some plums from my Mum's garden this weekend - she has tonnes on her tree!! I might even make a small pot of jam from a few of them too... :oD who knows :oD I'm feeling the need to make pies and crumbles now too lol!!! So much for trying to *lose* weight!!! Hehe, oh well...



Went to a couple of bootfairs with my Mum too - bought quite a lot :-s oops!! But mostly things to alter and use in my crafting :o) ooh I found some cheap pearl bling too!! Obviously I had to get one of each colour hehe :oD They were from The Works in Folkestone and only £1 so if you're near one of their shops, check them out!!! Also they had some vampire books which I had to get 3 of (3 for £5) unfortunately they didn't have number 1 in the series so I got 2,3, 4 and have instructed my Mum to look out for the others for me lol!! I have plenty to read at the moment anyway lol. Oooh bargain of the century!!! I got a tube of Emerald Green Rub N Buff for 10p!!!!! TEN P!!!!! Can you believe it?!!?!?! Have never tried it before so I was like ooooh yes gimme gimme gimme!! Unfortunately it was the only one in the box so... Otherwise I would have bought them all and shared with my lovely youtube friends :oD

Anyway, I'm off to record my haul goodies from the bootfairs etc...

Big hugs to everyone!!! xx

Another Sleepy Day

Yep I wondered if it would happen and it did lol, spent most of yesterday asleep!! Well, I think it was yesterday, I'm getting confused in my old age lol :-p Ok, so I'm only 29 but hey occasionally I do feel old lol!!

Not much happening on the craft front and none on the craft room sorting front either. Hopefully I'll be a bit more exciting tomoro!!

Hope you're all having a crafty fun time :o)
big hugs xx

Just a little note...

...Coz I'm really tired. Been running around doing all sorts for the last couple of days. Scrubby's possibly had food poisoning and maybe a touch of the flu so I've been doing more around the house which has totally made my body wonder what's going on lol!! I'm hoping to hold out until he's better so that my body can collapse in a tired heap of achy muscles and sleepy sighs and then he can look after me lol :oD

Bought some more storage for the craft room so I'm hopefully gunna do some more to there to sort it all out - STILL!! I'll probably have a nap at some point to catch up on missed sleep and hopefully it won;t be a sleepy day like the other sunday! Not good!! Too much to do, so little time to sleep lol!!

Found some great bargains today craft wise so some are for me and some for my 1 year youtube anniversary lol :oD yeyy!!! Can;t believe I posted my first video almost a year ago!! As it was a tour of my messy craft room, I'm gunna do another tour of this room, one year on - hopefully it won;t be AS messy as before lol!!!

Anyway, sweet dreams xx

My New Etsy Store!!!

Woo hoo!!! Yep I now have an Etsy store to add alongside my Folksy store :o) I've only put one item up so far...

Here they are... 10 recycled envelopes from an old catalogue :o) it all started when I tore the front page off so I could cut out the flowers, then I had to wrap a guys present up and had no wrapping paper - so I thought a page of bras would be gratefully received as the wrapping lol (and it was lol). Couldn't bring myself to throw the rest away so I've been making envelopes with the pages instead :o) I'm gunna get some sticky labels and decorate them so they can be used as envelope seals and address labels to make the use of them more easy and more practical.

Not done much other than this, did a crochet round 'flower' this morning but still in the practicing stage lol! Really looking forward to getting some more stuff up on my Etsy : http://www.etsy.com/shop/StormCrafts and my Folksy too: http://www.folksy.com/shops/StormCrafts

Feeling full of oomph right now which is great :oD

Big hugs to you all xxx

The Accidental Flower

Well, the other day's plans didn;t quite happen as I had hoped - spent most of the morning asleep and had a really tired day instead. Since then tho, I think I have done a bit of tidying up and the craft room is sloooowly getting there. I did do a bit of crafting tho :o) I tried my hand at crocheting some flowers - didn;t quite work out very well (I shall take pics when I've found them again lol) so I decided to have a go at doing some simple circles/rounds instead. First attempt not so good as you can see below... But 2nd much better!!

Next are my "accidental flowers" I was doing rounds but didn't really know what I was doing in regards to increasing or decreasing etc so the edges became too long and went all wiggley :o) pretty cute tho - might put a button in the centres or something to funk it up a bit more :o) I feel I must apologise for the bright neon colours (even worse in real life lol!) my daughter decided to throw out her wool - and how could I possibly let that happen?! So... I rescued it all :o) ..... only to find that in her wisdom of a few years ago so much younger... she'd chopped it all up!! I had fun sorting it all out and putting into separate bags tho :o) and even found a few of substantial length too :o) Hope you like them :o)

Big hugs and crafty times for all... Altho for me I'm off to watch Eclipse later :oD woo hoo!!! Gunna wear my "I'm in love with a vampire" t shirt that my friend gave me :oD hehe

Byeeeee xx

Well...

Not really much to report on... Bought a few little bits which I might do a collective haul vid on. Been sorting out the house still - should be doing more on the bedroom but keep getting sidetracked by doing the craftroom instead!! Oopsy!! But tomoro I plan on doing 1 hour downstairs, 1 in the bedroom and then 1 in the craftroom too :o) hopefully make some stuff before I pick littley up from school.

Waaay past my bedtime and battery's bout to fall asleep too.
I shall say gdnight to you all and we shall both go and recharge our batteries to play some more tomoro...

Big hugs and sweet dreams xx

End Of An Era - New Chapter Beginning

Yep the day finally came... Yesterday was my final exam and the final day of college!! I'm so pleased I survived another year lol. Fingers are now crossed for good results - I did however find the last two papers pretty tricky, so I'm hoping the whole country agrees with me so they might lower the grade boundaries lol :o) well I can dream, no?

So today I have been really lazy - due to being really tired... Me and Scrubby were up til 1am moving pieces of paper without touching them and trying not to create a draft lol. Crazy it may sound but it was a lot of fun :o)

Operation Martha Stewart is gunna be initiated soon - hopefully tomoro I'll be up to it. Sorting out this house, it's so not tidy or organised so I'm hoping to have the energy to do that. Lounge first, bedroom 2nd then craftroom!! Maybe the kitchen in the middle somewhere too. I can't wait to get into that craftroom again and get creating!! It's been too long (and way too messy!!) but now I have nothing to distract me from doing it - other than family - so I have no excuse :o)

I really want to have a somewhat minimalistic look to this place but it's hard when you have naff all storage and too much stuff. I know I should get rid of stuff but crafters are notorious for being hoarders so it's quite tough to do so. Especially as I'm sure I will "need" everything one day!

Anyhoo, sleep is waving its magic wand over me again so I'm gunna stop typing before I start rambling and not making any sense lol.

Big hugs xx