This week's smiles...week 422

 Here we are at the weekly catch up of the smiles from the week.  I manage to get my sewing machine fixed for £40 instead of the £220 plus parts quote I had been given....and that certainly made me smile because it's now running better that it has for a long time.  It's also been a week filled with pride for me.

Lexi was at a dance competition all weekend and came away with...

• 1st for her Lyrical dance 
• 2nd for her Contemporary dance
• 2nd for her Jazz dance and
• 2nd for her Commercial dance

Not only that her dance school won the overall first prize for the best dance school. :-)

Sam sang one of his solo exam pieces from Billy Elliot at the Shrewsbury Food Festival....his confidence keeps growing.

These twins never fail to make us proud.

This made me chuckle....I'm sure I'm not the only one who's going to live for ever :-)

Finally a few funnies to make you smile.  I hope you will leave me a little comment and link up to your own smiles below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 394

 It's been another lovely week filled with smiles here at Sewing by Annie's.  Our Grandchildren give us reasons to smile every week.  We went to watch Lexi perform in her Christmas dance show and she was amazing...she dances with an older group of girls now and is the smallest but she really keeps up with her performance and even won the team player award for her attitude with other dancers...

Here she is with her dance teacher recieving her award....so very proud of her.

We enjoy our time with Theo and Louie each week and I couldn't resist snapping them playing so nicely together.

We have put our Christmas decorations up and each year these go on our tree....my Mum knitted them all from the same pattern, yet they are all quite different.  They always make me smile.

We saw this postbox topper when we were out the other night and I couldn't resist snapping it from different angles...isn't is fab?

That just leaves me to add a few funnies to make you smile.  I hope these do the job and you will leave me a little message before linking up to your own smiles below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 383

 It's been another busy week here at Sewing by Annie's and I've lots to smile about....I hope you have too and I hope you will share your smiles by linking up below.

These are some of the photos taken at Lexi's latest dance competition.....aren't they amazing?

The girls appear to be flying in some of them.

We had a play day with Theo and Louie yesterday and as you can see we got lots of jigsaws out....he loves playing with all the toys we have here.

We have 6 weeks of school holidays now but have a weekend away with them at the seaside soon.....wahoo we can paddle and make sand castles :-) :-)

The twins bought me a packet of pansy seeds as part of my mother's day gift and they are now giving us so much pleasure by blooming in every pot....aren't they gorgeous?

Like lots of happy faces looking at me every morning....I love them.

Of course I have to finish with a few funnies.  I bet you can see why I don't have a parrot in my sewing room :-)

Hope you all have a great week.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 382

 It's Friday and it's another catch up with the smiles from the week...and I have several to share this week.

Sam has been awarded Student of the Year for Year 7 Design and Technology....He's doing really well at school and it's lovely to see him getting awards....Proud of you Sam.

He also took part in his school's Art Festival and played the part of the Cheshire Cat in a little Alice in Wonderland sketch.....This made me smile.

Lexi has entered another on line dance competition and she got first place in her Jazz solo....she's doing so well and really loving life.

Milly always makes me smile..... when I pull out one of my fabric boxes in my sewing room she jumps in.  I'm not sure if she thinks she's helping me :-)

Of course I also have to share some funnies with you....hope you find something here to make you smile and will then leave me a little comment before linking up to your own smiles below....everyone is welcome.

Hugs,

Annie x

I think we can all relate to this one :-)

This week's smiles....week 380

 Phew it's hot hot hot.  My fans have been working overtime this week and so have I but I'm still smiling.

On Sunday Lexi had another day of dance competitions, this time at Stafford University.  She entered into 5 different dances and came away with 4 medals....we are so proud of her.  She is loving life. :-)

Our strawberries are ripening fast and furious at the mo....this is the 3/4 time we have filled the colander and there's still more to ripen yet.  These have all come from about 10 strawberry plants and have been the best they have ever been.

The only other things I have to share with you are a few funnies ...I hope you find something to make you smile.

Please leave me a little comment and, if you can, then share your own smiles by linking up below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles.....week 378

 It's been another lovely week here at Sewing by Annie's....lots of sewing has kept me smiling plus lots of proud Nanny moments too.

We had a lovely day yesterday with the boys and after school they built a tall tower together to pose for me to take a photo and after we tidied away the toys we had special Nanny times reading poems.....

Theo really loves his poems and can recite all of The Owl and the Pussy Cat so it was a very special time for me with both boys on my knee.

Lexi had another dance competition weekend and did very well.....she really loves her dancing.

She also entered in the Spring Leap online competition and won  

• 1st for her Lyrical solo
• 2nd for her Jazz solo
• 2nd for her Commercial solo
• 1st for her Bloopers dance photo
• 1st for her Upside down dance photo
• 3rd for her Character dance photo
• 3rd for her Lyrical dance photo

Didn't she do well?  We are so very proud of her.

Sam is also giving us reasons to be proud....he's been cast as ' The Big Bad Wolf' in the school production of Shrek Jr.  He loves all things musical theatre and we are all looking forward to seeing him in his pink nightie when he dresses up as Grandma.  :-)

Of course I had to find a few funnies to share with you....I hope something makes you smile.  Please leave me a little message and link up to your own smiles below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 371

 Here we are at our weekly round up of the smiles from the week and even though life here is difficult we have lots to smile about.

Louie had an open day to celebrate his birthday with family and friends on Sunday and his Aunty Shell [and family] bought him a pop up fire engine and fireman's outfit....he loved it :-)

Lexi had more dance competitions on Sunday and proudly came away with 3 x 3rds and a 2nd......she really is loving life and we are so very proud of her.

Her twin brother, Sam was awarded the April Student on the Month in Music and in the category of Learning at school....he makes us very proud too.

Of course we also have to have a few funnies to make us smile....and I've found lots this week.  I'm sure something here will make you chuckle.

I hope you have all had a great week and have lots of smiles to share with us by linking up below.

Hugs,

Annie x