Plastic Tupperware Queen

4 Nov 2010

Every once in a while taking time out with the family for a day makes me smile. Love it.

Anyone fancy a cup of tea?

IN our house, the kettle is always on the stove as soon as my little legs can get me to the kitchen once the morning alarm has buzzed...

 

I love tea.... always a pot on the go in our house. Until recently I always drank tea which was on special offer at the local supermarket. Since moving house over the summer, I have surprised myself and found that my favorite cuppa is now that made of yorkshire tea.

 

SO when you stop by, please feel free to ask for a nice cuppa! I can make you a cup of coffee if you prefer but would much rather take you to Starbucks for that!

Ladles of love

WHEN I was younger, never did I think that my life would take me travelling on this path. A path that seems so far away from the list I made at about 13-14 saying that in 10 years time I would love to be flying with the red arrows! Never done that to date but amazingly part of my list was to have a family and to have a good man to love. That I have. He is amazing the man of my world. He is strong and courageous. He is steadfast and always finds a bit of extra love to throw at me when I'm not feeling it. He works hard. He cares but I still have to remind him to put the bins out! I love my boys. Individuals. But each beautiful.

SO here I am. Some days pouring out full ladles of love around to those in my world. Those days are easy as the pot is full and the pouring is easy. The love is warm and kind and satifys those around. Some days though, I have to work hard at scrapping the bottom of the pot just to try and get a little bit more on the ladle. Love isn't always that easy is it? Tiredness of what's happening around take over. But thankfully others ladles are plentiful and soon mine is too again.

Scoopful of pearls

SO many inspring, encouraging, homemade, vintageness all rolled up into daily blog reads that I have had the privledge to visit often and walk through the open doors of bloggers and enter their worlds. Friends that I have never met in person but somehow have become a part of my daily life.

THEY have become scoopful of pearls in my world. Ladles of love poured out as they write down their moments of laughter, tears, joys and sadness. Somehow continuing no matter what the day brings to still inviting us into their daily lifes. So here I am again. Ready for whats ahead. Ready to bring my scoopful of pearls and ladles of love to the table. No longer just about my old blog of the past but a new blog for today. A real me blog. Not just about items of vintage tupperware and thrifting bargains to hide behind. But me, my boys, the love of my life, my God and my saviour Jesus.

Hey its good to be back!

I'm now a back to work mum and have been working for the last 6 weeks or so.  Boy is it tiring!  Life seemed so much easier when I was at home all day.  The worst thing is that there is so much to do but I keep falling asleep at night.  I am in bed for 10!  Never has that happened for the last 6 years!

I don't mind working really on the whole!  The boys are in school all day but I have enjoyed being domesticated and a lady of leisure and that has been hard to let go of.   I miss all my friends now though - that's the worst thing about working.

I am working as we didn't ever get that move to Bradford to be nearer our church.  Summer seemed to pass so quick and things didn't quite fall into place.  It is the intention now that we will buy a little hidie-ho for weekends.  Bradford is quite near to Bronte country     (see here too)

Yes I know I should still have time to blog but I have no camera and seem so uninspired just to write.  I love making my blog colourful with beautiful pictures etc.  So much has been foing on in life too and so much is not being recorded.

Anyway off to ring some clients..... hope to catch up soon.  I am going to do an a to z of the things I miss tomorrow...  if I can stay awake!

Rocks!

What makes a day memorable for you?

Over Summer, one of my favorite days was taking 8 children out for the atfernoon with my lovely friend Paula. 

The sun was hot and the kids were happy but wet from the stream.  They spent time laughing and building a "dry wall" (to quote Lily). 

 

Ta dar..... one beautiful "dry wall"....

Honey I'm home!

Miel soy casero, Miel je suis a la maison, Hoing bin ich Haupt.

So nice to be back in blogland with all you lovely bloggers.  I will be back to daily posting even though I thought I would never get back here from being absent all summer.  You get so used to filling your time up with other 'important' things.  I am looking forward to catching up with the goings on over the last few months.  I think one or two of you will be with child now, some of your little darlings will have just started school etc and there will be one or two summer weddings I am sure.

Well to start where I left off.  London.  We had a lovely weekend and I thought I would share a few of my favorite memories.

My London advice:  Don't take three pairs of high heels - just 1 pair of flats will do!  Lesson learnt here!

Hillsong London

I'm off to London with the gals this weekend!  Whilst they are busy shopping and collecting vintage knick knacks, I am heading for Hillsong London on Sunday.  Just wondered what's it like when you go on your own? It seems a big place....  Any tips for London on where is good to visit, eat out, markets etc??

Thanks :)

ps. I've not been posting as one the camera on my phone is broke and I am now pictureless and two THIS!! has got me all excited.   

Indescribable

The story so far is that life is indescribable at the moment!

Life is full on...

We are moving as a family to here because of this great place!  We have been checking out schools and potential places to live. Check out here and here too (links are for you mum).  We are renting our house out for a while so we have been busy sorting out buy to let mortgages, renting agreements etc... oh the list goes on (hence no blogging done for a while...)

I have been sorting out everything in the house.  I am a hoarder and so it has been difficult to narrow our stuff down.  I recycle everything I can and find it hard to throw things away etc (example. do I really need to keep all the pictures the boys have ever drawn/painted?) 

Anyway I'm going to make an effort and post/read blogs everyday.  I have missed so much of what you have all been up to. Enjoy the week.

I think I'll leave today with this!

From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creation's revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God

All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God

Incomparable, unchangeable
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

written by Laura Story/sang by Chris Tomlin

Frugal guilt

It was a normal Friday drop off at school (though now I am working for a before/after kids club so drop off is around 20 children - which isn't normal I suppose). 

I waved at the school bursar and walked out of the school gates chatting to a friend.  "Somerfield is closing down today" she said and told me about the cleaning bargains she had bought earlier in the week.

Well me being me, walked quickly across the supermaket and filled two hand baskets full of goodies (couldn't use a trolly as I didn't have a £1!)  I got to the checkout and paid.  It was only then I realised my car was on the other side of town (as we park and walk the children and walk through the town centre).  Luckily, I caught another friend's eye in the queue and she waited patiently for me and drove me back to my car.   

At that point most of us would go home.  NOT ME!  I had overheard the sales assistants saying that everything that didn't have a sale price sticker was being reduced to 50p when I was stood in the queue waiting to pay.

OBVIOUSLY I had to go back for more.  I managed to find lots more bargains. 

A the end of the pay I paid £17 and £23 for 132 items ; about 30p an item.

Friday was my FRUGAL day but I did feel some GUILT as lots of people have lost their jobs and I never shopped there in the first place...

...Look... look... though if you will at my frugal delights....

These wallace and gromit toast pockets are fantastic... the boys love them... 61p each

These match boxes will be used to create money boxes for all the children for Christmas.  Each box will be decorated and named (in tiny writing... see the big version from last year here).  Each box will contain a crisp £5 note as a present.

You can never have enough cough mixture.. 50p

Never tried these but the cherry tomato one has vodka in.  That won me over straight away...

I got alex some snicker and flapjack bars for him whilst he is on the go... a woman in the shop thought I was a bit greedy till I told her they were for my diabetic husband! 

I am not sure what this is but I assume I will find some use for it.  Why did I pick it up eh? probably because it was cheap! 37p

I

I am on a mission to find juice that isn't made from concentrate and managed to get these.  I would have got a few more cartons.  However, I spotted them on the first shopping trip and couldn't carry anymore of them.

Notice how I dealt with my guilt? A nice cup of tea! (oh.. and a prayer for all the workers)

   

Latest thrift

All this thrifting and much more for only £7 pounds!

I love these little I-spy books

I found some white 60's/70's WHITE tupperware in GREAT condition

These ice lollies will surely keep the boys entertained over the half term holidays

A lovely Alfred Meakin (glo-white) jug and sugar bowl

A cute duvet cover showing 'Blanche' the baby owl

 

Various (10) children's encyclopedia and composer books with lovely pictures and stories

Such as this

and this

and this

what is wrong in this street?

For my valentines (only joking), I thrifted him a book about electrical regulations.  I also found a neat little book about house repairs as we currently have a damp/leak/guttering/don't know what happening to the kitchen/dining room wall and floor which is being investigated.

I leave you with this...

I hope for valentine's day with your loved one you won't be doing this...

Nous avons du lait et des gateaux.
We have some milk and some cakes.

Though it does sound tempting :)

Happy Birthday to Me!

I'm.... cough.... erm.... I'm 34 today!

Snowflakes and Soup

Lots of you have been posting about the snow falling where you live and I have been really jealous as all your pictures look very beautiful - that is until 24 hours ago! 

...YES... we have finally had beautiful big snow flakes falling from the sky which we celebrated by making a homemade pea and ham soup :)

Unfortunately it wasn't deep snow that fell last night and this morning just mushy ice was left behind.  Here's hoping to some more snow and more homemade soup.

New Betty Jackson coat - should it stay or should it go?

It's my birthday on 25th January and I spotted a great bargain whilst out shopping with my friend yesterday! 

What do you think of this?

I really love these big buttons...

and these pockets...

and the collar is so sweet...

If I keep her (yes the coat is female as she is so pretty) I won't be able to get a camera!  As you know my blogs photos are taken off my mobile phone at the moment and they always look a bit pants!  My last camera was wounded and killed by a cup of hot tea spilt by another mum at mums and tots last year :(  I do have an SLR 35mm camera which is great with all different lenses but I wanted to turn digital to save on film processing.  Then I could get on with some cut out animation ideas.

So should my new Betty Jackson coat stay with me and keep me warm or should she be returned to the shop so I can go and buy a camera? 

She was a bargain

but still expensive for someone like me who usually only buys clothes under £10 to £20.

Should she stay or should she go?

Happy Christmas to you all

Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.  May you enjoy the season together with those you love and Jesus bless you richly in 2007.

This is just info for me so I don't forget!

Christmas Boxes for family children!

1.   R - Joke box
2.   J - Joke box
3.   S - Safari box
4.   J - Jungle box
5.   G - Princess box
6.   K - Knitting box
7.   M - Cooking box
8.   L - Writing box
9.   O - French box
10.  L - Insect box
11.  J - colour box
12.  Z - Zoo box
13.  V - cant say as she reads this blog

Outstanding:

- mount spray lids and get designs done
- buy Ingredients
- buy knitting bits
- picture design 1 - G
- print out L writing
- picture design 2 - J
- print out O design and letter
- print out sheets and make insect books x 5
- sort out file for recipes and print them out x 1
- print out joke books x 2
- white choc
- buy ingredients for M
- Bake cakes (need icing sugar and eggs)
- 10 oranges and 2 bananas
- jar x 5 holes in
- sissors
- glue

 

Christmas Tree

Life is brighter...

Just wanted to say ... thank you ... to all of you wonderful ladies ... your comments have been so encouraging ... and uplifting ... I never thought when I began blogging, I would have posted like I did ... it was suppose to be about vintage tupperware ... but somehow along the way, I have found myself amongst friends in blogland ... so thank you ... you taking time out just to post a little comment has been such a blessing ... I'm still giving God lots of praise and glory ... many blessings to you all ... the dull sky is not as grey ... and ... LIFE IS BRIGHTER ...

This is me...

Sometimes it is hard to write how you feel and the personal stuff of life when blogging! 

So this is me this week:- :( for many reasons which I cannot share right now

I will hopefully get back to posting soon (my camera is nicely full of a crafty fish and vintage tupperware waiting to be shared)

Lots of glue and sick

Thats what I feel like I have been doing this last week or so.  Its been a blustery sea with many waves!  Last weekend started out great with us catching up with some friends for a 60th birthday party and then I had that lovely walk with LIzanne but then.... busy life took over - too much too do and not enough time.

Oh and this little man has been ill... and no matter what he gets when he's ill is is always SICK as in PUKE...

(taken off a friend's photo on Z first day at school)

Finally I have actually made some craft!!!!!

I organised a homemade cake table at chuch last Sunday to raise funds as there are a few people going on a mission soon so.  One of the men going thought we'd only raise about £60 - but then he hasn't seen me in action...he hee.  We raised £263 from the homemade cakes!  I'm a hard seller and completely ruthless when it comes to bartering (as in barter - have I spelt that right?)  We also receive donations of £100 and £250! I typed up some sponsor sheets and suggested that we advertise for the sponsored bike ride that the mission team were going to do and that raised another £381.  So in total the day was a great blessing £994 (+ a few pence) raised in total. £60 indeed!

In true Lindsey style though, I forgot to take pictures of the cake table (it was so neat and organised as well) The table was beautifully presented for the folks at church but I did manage to take these..

I made some simple tags for each cake.  On the back it said 'donated by' and 'contains'.  The card was cream with nice grey/silver print.

Sorry the pictures are a bit dark - they were taken at night. opps.

Thank your Gbemi for the buttons!

I also made thank you cards.  Again printed with a nice little button attached and placed in nice little brown envelopes.. sorry I have taken out the mission bit off but it isn't my place to broadcast other's activities is it?

   

So there you have it - my offering to the craft world.  Little tags and notes made on the computer with buttons. Not really that crafty is it? Oh well.

I'm off to see what Zach has done in his bedroom as I can hear lots of banging! He really wanted to go in school today but I thought it best to keep him off for the day - don't want him being sick in front of his new teacher!

These feet were made for walking!

Today I was going to clean all day long ... but that didn't happen ... my friend Lizanne called and asked if I wanted to go for a walk with her and Lucy(the dog) ... some cleaning got done ... but this is where I spent most of the morning ...

I've just had a thought ...  there is a bunch of photos I could post.  Right then ... this is the day ... I'm off to flickr to set up an account and post the all these photos+ there!

Will update this in the morning and put a link to my new flickr photos :)

update:  I'm now on flickr Lindsey's Sony W800 photos (hopefully this will link you over there!)

Alphabet meme

A - Accent: common english
B - Breakfast Item: a cup of tea
D - Dad's Name: pain in the arse
E - Essential everyday item: contact lenses
F - Flavor ice cream: chocolate
G - Gold or Silver?: either as long as its bling bling!
H - Happy Place: Bed
I - Insomnia: Every night - I don't get to happy place much...
J - Job -  mum and wife but mainly professional shopper
K - Kids: So beautiful that they are
L - Living arrangements:  Little house, One husband, two boys and 15 fish!
M - Mom's birthplace: erm... from my Grandma?
N - Name your pets: RIP Dee Dillan Damascus
O - Overnight hospital stays: two births, vitamin c posioning from eating too many satsumas, 4 pacemakers and 3 heart related things.
P - Phobia: Spiders and pigeons (and working ha har)
Q - Question: Does my bum look big in this?
R - Religion: Christian - JESUS ROCKS!
S - Siblings: Victoria
T - Time you wake up: 6:45am
U - Unnatural hair colors you've had: Blonde, red, light brown, blue, green, purple (highlights).
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: celery
W - Worst habit: too many to mention
X - X-rays you've had: lots for Heart, Heart and Heart etc
Y - Yummy: Egg custard
Z - Zoo animal: Giraffe

Donna asked us to post a picture of our Happy Place: Bed... so here it is

Spooks

Yippee! the new series of Spooks started tonight and I get to go and watch the second episode in a few minutes - how exciting :)   I know a lot of you bloggers are into the wonderful world of Mr Darcy and the waltons etc but I just love this series.  The main characters are Harry, Adam, Ruth, Ros and Zafar.  My favorite character is Adam (played by Rupert Penry-Jones).  I think this possibly because my son is called Rupert?  I love the way they shoot the programme and edit the clips, the music, locations etc (that's the ex media student in me coming out there - sorry).

Rupert Penry-Jones plays Adam Carter and he says (quoted from the bbc spooks link above) ...

"For Adam, I certainly wouldn't say things are easier for him this series! We really start to see the impact that Fiona's death has had on him and how it affects his work.

He's having to hide the fact that he's cracking up – especially from Harry. He's having horrible flashbacks to Fiona's death and having a really hard time dealing with his job and the fact that he's on the verge of a nervous breakdown."

So cheerio, I'm off to get Alex to make me a lovely cup of tea and get me a cosy blanket so I can curl up and preview episode two.

Hope you have all had a lovely weekend.  Our's has gone so quick.  I'm excited though as we bought a new bathroom suite this weekend.  It will have the toilet and sink fitted in cupboards etc.  I will post about this another day through! 

Alex is shouting 'she can't feel her legs, the car door hit her.  Quick its back on!' - bye x

Red Bull Air Race

Red Bull Air Race at Longleat, UK on Saturday 2nd September 2006

Memories of a rainy day

7.30 am - Got up and had breakfast in tent.  The kettle had to be put on stove inside the tent as it was lashing down with rain. Boys complained of the cold and I agreed it was very cold!

8.00am - Set off for Longleat which was 27 minutes away from our campsite in Radstock.  We used the sat nav and checked out the blue ticket parking route the day before!  Very organised!

8.30am - Arrive at Longleat.  Parked on a lovely field which was marked out with path lines etc. Still raining but now windy too.  As people were getting out of their cars, there was a sense of excitement in the air.

8.40am - I decided to wear wellies which turned out to be a good choice in the wind and rain.  Somehow I don't think flip flops would have worked -though I did take them with me thinking the weather would brighten.

9.00am - Heard of an accident that happened on the blue ticket route which made delays for many vehicles trying to reach Longleat.  So glad we hurried the boys along so we missed this. Phew!  Always pays to be early.

9.30am - Looked at the Red Bull vehicles out on display and checked out Longleat. Boys excited (at the portable toilets).  Rain heavy!

10am - Pit lane opened and so lots of pictures taken of the 11 aircrafts.  Zach enjoyed the helicopters. Rupert complained of cold.  Food supplies given to the hungry children out of the tupperware boxes! Still raining and windy.

10.30am - I laughed as people wore black bin bags over t-shirts.  We on the otherhand wore various wooly hats, coats, wellies and carried brollies.  We looked a bit mixmatched and stupid but we were warm and dry apart from our tiny faces!

10.30am - 12.30pm Wow the place seemed to get packed.  How many people? Still raining and windy.

1pm - We had been settled in viewing area 2 now for a very long time (remember we got there at 8.30am).  We had our brollies secured through the security barrier to shield our now chilly bodies from the rain and wind. We managed to keep our spirits up. We forgot to take the folded seats and so had to improvise sitting on the buggy raincover, a carrier bag, knee bending and balancing techniques!  Still raining and windy!

at this point we were happy:
- that we had arrived early as people seemed still to be trying to organise themselves
- that we had seem all the aircrafts, superbike, cars (oh how I loved the F1 car - it said don't touch but how I dreamed of jumping in and having my picture taken)
- we had gone for a cup of tea from one of the burger stall sellers before the queues got to long
- that we had found a nice spot near other spectators near no other children (does that sound bad?  I'm not good near other people's children moaning etc)
- that we had dressed in warm clothing
- that we had brought our own picnic (£3 for a hot dog...) and our bellies were nice and full.
- the family was away together and spending time laughing etc

at this point we were not happy:
- that the boys needed a wee and another so we took it in turns to climb further up the hill for toilets
- that the stewards did not have themselves very organised
- that it was still raining and windy
- unfortunately the Blue Eagles, Madador and HSV parachute displays had to be cancelled (better to cancel though than put lives at risk eh?)

2pm 4pm - The annoucements from Steve Ryder kept saying that the airrace could not begin due to high winds and low clouds.  I was so excited to see him there and Alex went out of his way to get some footage of him on video.  It's not that Steve is good looking (he's quite old) but just that he is connected with F1 and there wasn't much else for us to get excited about. The afternoon went though periods of bad rain and wind and then more bad rain and wind etc.

I took Rupert off for an icecream and the toliet (again).  He got a tshirt and zach got a keyring from one of the merchandise booths.  £20 for a t-shirt would not normally happen in our house but the poor love was being ever so good what with the weather etc

The orgainisers opened the pit lanesearly for people to get the pilots autograghs.  Rupert and Alex queued for 40 minutes but Rupert was so pleased that he and Zach had got the books (that red bull gave out for free) signed by everyone.  Though it took over 20 minutes to get back up the hill due to bottlenecking down near the pit lane.  Where were the stewards?  The police seemed to be doing all the work!  Meanwhile Zach had a lovely long sleep! And I relaxed sitting on the rain cover.

By 4.30pm all had been cancelled and people started to go back to the car parks.  We stuck around and managed to get the boys Steve Ryder's autographs which made Rupert very happy.

We watched the prize giving.  A brit came in first (they took the score from the qualifying round from the sat - which may I say had a glorious afternoon).  We were ready to go but the boys (actually me) wanted to wait to the bitter end.  Well there was no point waiting in the car park queue was there? Zach had his icecream! And we did the toilets one more time!

We cheered, clapped and woowhood the winners! (not many around us did - why you boring lot?)

By 6pm We got out of the carpark by the police (not stewards...surprisingly) directing the queues!

What a great day... disappointing that we saw no aircrafts fly... raining and windy... but a great day and we are going again next year hopefully!!

Now for me to get on my soap box...
Somethings that really annoy me about the british public at longleat...

1. Pick your litter up and put it in a bin - dont leave it lying around! You dirty people (others have to walk around it and avoid it) Longleat is such a beautiful place and it was a shame to see it covered in litter.  Do you leave litter on the floor in your homes?

2. Why do some of you have to have such bad language when there are children around.  Yes you are disappointed but not all parents want their children to hear it!

3. What is the point of stewards? Admittedly we saw some stewards working really hard and paying attention.  For those of you who chatted and pratted about you didn't help one bit!

4. Why do you have to 'boo' just because you have to wait for a while to get over the bridge.  It doesn't put a good moral amongst each other does it.

5. When exiting your designated car park why can't you just wait patiently in line, in the queue.  Why do you have to drive over into other fields and add more chaos to those queues and put others in danger. Why do you have to bottle neck traffic? 

We came out of our parking space and drove to the end of the row of parked cars. Why can't people let you in the queue.  We were doing it correctly driving to the end of the row, indicator on to turn into the traffic.

Alex is a diabetic and we waited for over 10 minutes for someone to let us join the queue but just because you other drivers have been there longer you think it funny not to let others in.

Well eventually we had to reverse and cut across the middle of the field (which I have just moaned about you lot doing) to get out in a queue that was formed further up the field.  Why... because Alex is a diabetic and needed to eat.  Don't you British public think about others anymore?  For goodness sake the man needed to eat before he had a hypo!!

Well there you have it my ranting and raving finished...

One last thing... Thank you RED BULL for organising a great event that would have been even better if it had been sunny and we could have seen the aircrafts racing.  Looking forward to next year! 

Saturday ramblings

Ohh!  I got this post ready and then the computer crashed.  How hilarious! Anyway I realised that I haven't posted for a week:)  Too busy reading everyone's blogs and having summer fun with the boys.

This week it has rained... and... rained... and... rained... and... rained!

Thursday was a lovely day though. Off I went with my 2 boys, Kristy and her 4 girls and friend, Paula and her 2 girls and friend to the art gallery to see a fantasic exhibition celebrating 50 years of MIFFY, created by Dick Bruna.

Unlike Kristy who puts loads of pictures on flickr, I don't so these are a few of my highlights of the day.  I'm sure Kristy will fill us all in with more photos later!

Miffy at the gallery (1994 silkscreen)

Zachariah being very scary

The buttons got Kristy all excited! 'Oh I have those horses in red.  Look Paula Look'

This was a moment of quiet whilst everyone had a go at designing their own button.

Can you find Rupert?  It was made out of paper and each strand was hung on a piece of cotton from the ceiling.  It was massive and we loved this!

Paula liked this by Anna Spencer (Around the world 2005, Mixed media including buttons)

Look...

I'm sure you crafty american bloggers would be proud of good old Mickey marking your country!

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear Miffy,
Happy birthday to YOU!

Rupert loved 'Jack Lights' made out of moulded plastic
Designed by Tom Dixon 1996
Produced by Eurolounge 1997

Obviously on the way back to the car we all got wet in the rain! (though we did get to stop off at a little chinese bakery in China town for some lovely teatime treats!)

ps.  We bought lots of lovely Miffy treats from the gallery shop. Zach is insisting that Miffy is a boy as his keyring Miffy was wearing a blue dress but I would just like to say to Zach for the final time 'MIFFY IS A GIRL!'

Izzy lizzy lets get busy...

After yesterdays post on missing (which was really about monday but I posted it late so it went into tuesday), the last two days have been filled with things to keep me and the boys busy. 

I look at it - no time to think no time to miss!

We washed the bikes and car, hoovered the house and car, hung the washing out and visited the reclycling centre to take the cardbaord, bottles etc (the dump! according to Rups). We also took a car load of stuff to Emmaus a charity which helps the homeless etc (a great place where me and Kristy thrift!).

We spent a hour and a half walking and jumping all bubble wrap.  I will post some pictures of us doing this as it is quite funny but we will all have a bath first if you don't mind.  Wouldn't like you all to see our dirty feet! ha har (oh by the way the boys use bubble wrap at karate!)

Oh and we did a bit of this:-

tip: use a tupperware spatula to mix

tip: a smily boy is rather helpful

tip: use different size paper cases

tip: whilst cakes in oven have a nice cup of tea!

tip: let smily helpful boy be creative (its a paw)

tip: let smily helpful creative boy clean up!

tip: whilst cakes cooling make some yummy butter icing

You will then end up with:-

and a very smily helpful creative clean boy

final tip: keep fresh in a funky tupperware cake storer

Zach's world in 20 frames

 

Lady Bean

This is Zachariah's little brown stone. It is called the "Lady Bean".   We knock it on the side of the doorframe to get in and out of the kitchen.  We have spent a few days doing this - holding the little "lady bean" in our fingers, knocking 3 times to enter or leave the kitchen. 

The "lady bean" has spent it's days resting on the top step of the kitchen step ladders sunbathing in the beautiful sunshine.  Sometimes the "lady bean" has gone for a little stroll in the sand pit or nipped up stairs to the toilet.  Sometimes the "lady bean" has been seen rolling around the coffee table watching Nick Jnr, cbeebies or the news.  However, as soon the "lady bean" has been needed, it hasn't complained about being banged about or the harse treatment it has received.  It has been a good "lady bean".  I have been thinking to myself what a clever boy is our Zach in making up an idea like a "lady bean".

Then

Rupert came home from school, he took one look at the "lady bean" and said to Zach "what a cool lady bean laser beam you've got".    "laser beam!"

How daft am I "lady bean" indeed!