This week's smiles....week 11

Brrrrrrr it's been a cold one over here at Sewing by Annie's.  Not many of my customers have ventured out in the snow so it has allowed me two wonderful days with the twinny munchkins and an evening on Tuesday when we had all 5 of the grandchildren here together.  They give us so much to smile about.

Week 10's smiles were just brilliant....everything from cat's loosing their heads in bags or eating broccoli to dressed up scissors doing an impersonation of Jo and I  :-)

My featured blog for this week just had to be Jo's with the pic of her little Granddaughter on.....they obviously do things differently over in Germany!!!  :-) :-) :-)  What a poppet.

Thanks to all who joined in the fun and linked up to share their smiles with others.

My smiley pics this week are.....

The Chicken pox den Amy's three built under the stairs in their hall.  Thankfully Phoebe, although covered in spots, coped very well with her chicken pox and is now revovering well.  I guess it's only time til the other two get it though.

Do you think Louise should go into fashion designing?  Here she is playing dressing up.  :-)

There seems to be many boxes around in our house at the mo and I think Lexi was just making sure she didn't get left behind when we move.  :-)

I hope you have enjoyed my smiles for this week and will find a few of your own to share with us.  Please try.

Just take a snap or two during the week and link them up below so that others can share your smile.

Thanks and big hugs,

Annie xxx

Life just ain't fair...

You will all know that the twins had chicken pox a few weeks back.

Well....

They have confused all medical staff by getting the chicken pox twice in a month!!!  Two Drs said it couldn't happen but Shell took them both to see the same Dr that confirmed it last time and he said he had never seen it before but they both have it again......and this time it is much worse.  Sam is covered.....he has them under his eyelid and his nappy area is so covered that you can't get a finger tip between the spots  :-(

Every picture tells a story  :-(

Poor Shell has been up all night with them both....Oh the joys of motherhood eh?

WOYWW...

As most of you will know our little Lexi caught the chicken pox last week and was pretty miserable with it but being the loving, caring , sharing sister she is [and here is the proof]...

....she passed it on to her brother Sam so this week we have two little spotty dotties.

Thank you for all your get well wishes on Friday but can you now please double them up so they will both be fit and well again very soon.  :-)

So what is on my desk today?...

 I found another box with fabric I'd forgotten about [how could I forget about all this yummy fabric?] and of course it is just perfect for making the little LillyBo Quilts with.

So with these 3 boxes full to overflowing already we just had to do a bit of sorting and actually half filled a bin bag with bits just too small to do anything with....yes I'm being firm with myself now cos we are putting the house on the market soon to downsize to a bungalow so I can't save every scrap of fabric......can I?

We then emptied 3 sweety jars of ribbon out onto the table to look for 1" wide pieces to go round the little quilts and even with all this lot we didn't find many pieces suitable to use....I just might have to go shopping  :-)

This ribbon is now all sorted into..

• Christmas ribbon jar
• satin ribbon jar and
• patterned ribbon jar.

Time well spent and thanks for your help Jo.

Some of the fabrics are now sorted into LillyBo quilt project bags so when I've got a spare minute or more I can grab a bag and get making instead of having to search for matching bits.

And here's a sneaky peep to show you that quilt number 4 has already been started  :-)

I hope you have enjoyed a quick look into my world this week.  If you leave me a comment I will do my best to call by later this evening cos today Jo and I and several other friends are off on a girly crafting fun day together.

...wahooooo wahooooo [can you tell how excited I am?].

Hugs,

Annie x

Don't forget to snap a happy pic and link it to this weeks Weekly smiles post here.  Please join in the fun and make the world a happier place to be.

This week's smiles.....week 4

I am so thrilled to see that there are more and more joining in this fun each week and I thank each and every one of you.  It's so good to know that you will all snap something that has made you smile to share with others.

There are too many to do a full roll call this week and I hope you will all pop here to check out all that joined in this week but I will say the one that made me smile the most this week was Jo from JoZart.  She will turn her hand to almost anything for her gorgeous Granddaughters and this week's pics just showed that she is the girl to get hold of when you need ears making!!!!  Do pop over and here to check out what I mean.

My first snap this week to make you smile is of my little water babies...

A family swimming session always causes smiles for these three.

"Yes, Mum, it says high temperature and spots may well be Chickenpox!"

 Little Lexi doesn't have much to smile about this week cos she has Chickenpox but here you can see she is checking out her symptoms with NHS direct......and no doubt Sam will be next and even the three in the top pic will be joining the club cos they were all together at the weekend when she would have been contagious......better out of the way when they are little I know but it's not so nice to see them poorly.....Get well soon my little munchkin.

Now come on lets make this world one of smiles.  Snap away with those cameras and share the things that have made you smile.  Smiles really are contagious and that's one thing we all want to catch.