This week's smiles....week 322

Here I am at my usual weekly round up of my happy moments from my week....and there's been many thankfully.

Last Thursday morning the sun shone and our son, Mark his wife, Gina and little Theo's day started with the removal van on their drive.  The move went very well and by Saturday a lot of the boxes were already empty, the living room wall had been painted and....

.....the downstairs cloakroom's old carpet had been ripped up and Mark had already tiled the floor [when you have a little boy the floor is better wipe able].  Mark is just like his dad and really can turn his hand to anything...and does a lovely job of it too.....Proud mummy here.

Friday morning saw the same firm of removals at Shell and Brent's house and here they are with the ramp down to their new house.

Theirs is a new build so.....

....here are the twins outside their new front door with a big bow on it and.....

....each of the toilets had a bow on it too.  Apparently it's something the cleaners do after they have given everywhere a final clean.

Neither Mark or Shell has moved far from us.  Mark is about 15 mins away and Shell is just 5 mins away so we will still be able to see them all often thankfully.

Another smile was this one of Phoebe, Lulu and Steve posing for a photo whilst on their latest adventure in their campervan....I think they like to get me guessing where they are and I was able to confirm they were in Colwyn Bay....which always pleases them.

I love seeing them making the best of their new campervan and hearing all about their adventures.

Of course I can't leave my little Tuesday visitor out.  He has learnt to stick his thumb up and doesn't he look a cool dude with his sunglasses on?

Whilst playing with me this week we played shop and then I got out the quiet book pages that I made several years ago for the twins and he really enjoyed exploring the pages and doing each of the activities on them....I love how each of them benefits with the things I make in turn.

I hope you have enjoyed my shares this week and will leave me a little comment before sharing your own smiles below....I may struggle to leave you comments this week as we are off on an adventure so will say sorry now ;-)

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

Hello to all my wonderful blogging friends.  So many of you joined in with my Friday's happy post this week and many more left me really special comments....trust me when I say I really do appreciate all your love and support....hopefully the house moving saga will be coming to the end soon so I have been working hard to finish the second stress busting, knitted quilt this week....

The finished one is on the back of the chair and the second one just needs the last little bit of purple border doing to finish it.....I've really had enough stress to last me a while so am hopeful this time our sale goes through uneventfully.

I had my little twinnie munchkins yesterday and have them again today so have no more crafty pics to show you this week.  They are both full up with really miserable chesty colds so we have had lots of cuddles and many quiet times with...

Lexi is putting the spots on the ladybird on one of the quiet book pages I made for them.....they all get lots of playing with so every minute making them was well spent.

Sam loves his jigsaws and has spent hours doing them over and over again.

They both know almost all their letters so jigsaws become real fun searching out their favourites...Here's Lexi showing you J for Josie jack-in-the-box :-)

I bought several of these scribble travel toys for £1 each and I have to say they have been the best money spent....all 5 of my grandies love them and here is Sam showing off the octopus he's just drawn.

As you can see we have really fun days with all sorts of activities and my desk today will be full of more of the same as they are here for an extra day this week.

If you leave me a little hello message I will pay you a visit either later today or tomorrow depending on how exhausted I am after playing :-)

Hugs,

Annie x

 ATC reminder

As those that join in the Wednesday fun will know we are coming up to our 5th year birthday celebrations....If you want to know the details click on this link to Julia's wonderful instructions.

I usually offer a swap to any that would like to swap with me as well as the one after me on the list on the day and this year is no different.  I've made my ATCs well in advance this year and will be putting them ready to post so if you'd like to swap with me please leave me your name here in the comments and email me your details to wipso@toucansurf.com........I'm sooooo excited already :-)

This week's smiles....week 35

Phew!  My feet really don't feel as though they have touched the ground since last Friday and even though it's been a really manic week I have still found lots to smile about.

Firstly I must thank all for joining in the fun last week and tell you which blog I am featuring this week.....It just had to be some oldies but goodies that Sam posted this week.  As they say.....out of the mouths of babes eh?  :-)  Thanks Sam, I certainly had a good chuckle at them.

My photos to make you smile include snaps of my 5 gorgeous grandchildren and their Mummies who all came to tea this week....the first time I've had them all together to test out my Fun pages so lots of photos were taken to share with you all.......

 

As you can see the fun pages were a huge hit with all the munchkins and I have to admit I sat grinning from ear to ear watching them all playing with them.  Hope you have enjoyed my smiles for this week and will link up to your own smiley posts below.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW...

Here we are at another fun Wednesday exposing a little of our crafty space to the world thanks to the wonderful Julia.  Do pop over to say hello, link up and join in the fun.

I am having to do a quick show and tell today cos this is one of my Wednesdays when I've got...

.....some serious jigsaw making to do and lots of fun to be had with my little twinnie munchkins today.

I will be doing my best to pay you all return visits tomorrow when I have a little more time.....between the rail full of sewing jobs I have already got to do [boy it's been one very busy week for me].

I have now finished the 5th of my quiet book fun pages to amuse the little ones with.  This has a cute little wooden bee on it and he has already become a firm favourite with the twins.  If you want a closer look you should be able to click on the pic to enlarge it.

There are more ideas in the pipe line for other pages but we have spent every spare minute tidying, dusting and cleaning for folk to come to view our house this week.....not saying too much at this stage but pleaseeeeee keep everything crossed for us.

The last thing I want to share with you today is what came through my letter box this week.  These are the 5 stunning cards I ordered from my blogging friend Fi over at MarmaladeRose.  They are prints taken from some of her amazing felted pictures that she has been busy making lately and I just love them.  If you would like to grab some of your own then please follow the link.....trust me when I say you wont want to give them away.  :-)

Hope you have all enjoyed your visit today and leave me a little hello message.  I promise to do my best to pop over to yours to say hello as soon as I can.

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

Thanks to all who called by on me last week.  I'm sorry that I was unable to make any return visits but as most of you will know we paid Jozart a surprise visit up in Liverpool last Wednesday [pics here for those that missed them].  I had to play catch up all day Thursday and Friday with all my customers sewing and didn't get a spare minute to pay you all visits....I really do hope I can do better this week but of course Monday and Tuesday were both spent with my little twinnie munchkins so I shall be playing catch up with my sewing today again....I seem to spend every day chasing my tail lately  :-)

I do have a few pics to share with you of what I have been sewing this week....

Here is the bag, zipped purse and zebra sock puppet I made to go with my LillyBo quilt number 9....cute eh?

We took our latest two quilts up to Jozart last Wednesday....she was so thrilled to see them too  :-)

Please follow this link to find out more about the LillyBo quilts and hopefully some of you might like to have a go at making one for this great cause.

 

You will have seen my first page for Nanny Annie's fun folder with Mr Potato head on it last week and this week I have made 3 more pages to share with you...

They are all made in felt and fabric and the pages all have button holes in the sides so they can be put in a big red jumbo file.  This means they can easily be taken out to be laid flat for playing with and can be shared by my 5 grandchildren....as you can see I've only made 4 pages so far so I need to get at least one more made so there is no falling out when they all come to Nanny's to play  :-)

As they are all made from snippets I just might link them up at Pixies Crafty Snippets Playground this week  :-)

I hope you like my latest pages....if you want a closer look you should be able to click on the pictures to enlarge them.

The last pic I am sharing with you is this one of .......

My new toys.....a huge cutting mat, a 6"x 24" clear rule and a rotary cutter.  I know a lot of you card makers will have similar but mine is for cutting fabric.....I'm so excited and can't wait to use it all.  It will be brilliant for making the LillyBo quilts and quiet book pages.

Can you tell I'm easily pleased?

Thanks for calling by.  I will do my best to pay you all a return visit this week....customers allowing  :-)

Hugs,

Annie x