Saturday 28 April 2012

Etsy Treasury Love

 I wanted to share with you this lovely treasury on Etsy where Heather Dodgers has kindly included my 'Baby Burp Cloths Modern Grey' in her Treasury
These have become my 'best' seller on etsy and have now been sent all over the world which feels quite odd really! And it is treasury's like this that help to get them noticed. 
This is not the first time they have appeared in one, but it the first time I have found out how to post the treasury on blogger thanks to this post here
Thank goodness the web is a wealth of information!

 

 

'Soft Grey Collection' by lanyapstudios



White Ancient Art S...
$15.99

chalkboard with dri...
$59.99

Set of two 18x18 Gr...
$30.00

Grey Lace Cowl / kn...
$40.00

Extra Large Grey Ye...
$88.00

Felt Flower Brooch-...
$12.50

Gray / Aqua Lake Su...
$36.00

Wolf MacBook Air 13...
$89.00

Melange gray wool a...
$93.70

Grey & White Pillow...
$32.00

Kindle Case sleeve ...
$27.00

Five Bunnies are Sh...
$22.00

Lace Fleur de lis H...
$9.99

Weekend SALE text g...
$68.00

Baby Burp Cloths Mo...
$22.00

Hakuna Matata Burno...
$28.00

Sunday 22 April 2012

A Much Needed Day!

So did you have a nice Easter, is the question I keep getting asked and my answer of no terrible is often met with surprise. You see we really did have an awful fortnight for on the first Sunday on the way to see family we hadn't seen for over a year and some who had never even met our youngest who is now 29 months we broke down leaving us stranded in a lay-by and with learning that our turbo had gone we spent a frustrating time waiting to be relayed home. The whole episode took 4 hours to get home after breaking down an hour away from our house! 
Not the best start to the holidays and we then spent the Easter fortnight without a car. Lets just say thank goodness for lego it saved the boys from getting bored in fact it was our holiday the boys loved spending hours wrapped up in their games. But if at that point we thought the holidays couldn't get any more frustrating or expensive we were wrong as our washing machine broke on the last Saturday of the holidays and a few days later a mechanic gave us the news that it was a right off and a new machine was needed so as our oldest confirmed "This holiday has been rubbish"!



To hear your child claim that there school holidays were rubbish is awful so we have been determined to have some nice family days out since getting the car fixed. So after reading that the National Trust was holding a 'free' weekend we jumped at the chance to go and spend a day out at one of the properties by us.


The National Trust seem to get it right time and time again. We spent an amazing time exploring an incredibly well preserved house that showed us glimpses of life 'downstairs' and 'upstairs' and by offering a 'find the trains' quiz for children it kept them going through 50 fascinating rooms and then after a hot chocolate in the stables we went exploring the grounds.


Considering we were dressed for the rain and watched the showers come and go we were very lucky to walk the grounds in the dry and even see glimpses of sun! And considering it was a dull early Spring April day the gardens were packed full of interest and delight.


 I came away full of ideas of how I would like to see the borders in our garden much to the 'delight' of my OH!!





 We are yet to become National Trust members but after having such a special day out like today where we can all come away feeling like we have enjoyed ourselves and have learnt and seen something new I can only think it is a matter or time!


And thankfully now after a day of exploring and climbing the 'rubbish' holiday seems a very long time ago!!