Proud Mummy & Daddy moment...

 ...yes, lump in the throat stuff....that moment when you realise that your little one understands the world a little better than you thought.

Today is the day Little Woo has her hair cut in order to donate it to The Little Princess Trust who make real hair wigs for children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment or other illness.

Here she is before.....

...and the moment when her beautiful locks were cut.....

...and there it is.....an amazing length of beautiful hair to be donated to a little one who has none.  And from the warm heart of a little girl who understands how lucky she is to have it, but how much better it is to share ....

So here she is with her new (slightly windswept) haircut......

And that is why we are the proudest parents.

With a warm and fuzzy bye-bye

Nora

xxx

Lazy Crafternoon Tea

A while back I told you about my lovely purchases in order to run a fund-raising afternoon.

I also promised to tell you about it and I apologise for my tardiness...but here it is....at last!

I invited some lovely crafty friends to pop along with any crafting dilemmas or new projects that had ground to a halt before they had really got under-way (you know that feeling, right?), I would ply them with tea, cake and cream scones and in exchange they had to dig deep and pay for their refreshments and anything else on my craft tree that took their fancy! (Sorry no picture of that.)

Want to see some calm photos before we kicked off?

OK, here we are, a charity shop find, a gorgeous yellow tea set..............

Set out on our garden room table covered by another charity shop find, a tablecloth...........

Hopefully there is something for everyone..........

Old school milk bottles with striped straws (bought from the Girls Own Store) for pink lemonade................

An eBay purchase of sugar tongs........

From the top...Cheesy Heart Puffs, Faerie Bites, Mini Scones and a no fat Victoria Sandwich......

I don't have a traditional looking Tea Dress (guess what's on the 'To Make' list for this year!?), so glamorous shoes and a dress were order of the day..............

We chatted, ate scones, chatted, did a little crochet, chatted, ate cake, chatted, drank tea, chatted and made some pillowcase dresses too!

In all we raised a fantastic £85 for Red Nose Day.  Thank you so much to the lovely ladies who made this possible xxx

I've decided to have another Lazy Crafternoon Tea in celebration of all the Children's Days there are in May and June.  It will be to get children into sewing, to sew more Dresses for Africa and all the money raised from the Tea & Scones will be used to make more dresses or contribute to postage getting the dresses to the distributor.  Can't wait!

I've got a lot of things to do by then, so I'd better stop yammering and crack on!

Until the next time, 

take care, 

Nora

xxxx

Some lovely spending!

Helloooo!

Yes, guilty AGAIN!

But, it's all (well nearly all) in a good cause, twice over!  It came from my local charity shop, Horsham Matters and is for me to fund-raise.

This coming Saturday I am holding a Crafternoon Tea for my lovely friends who like eating Scones, drinking Tea and Making!  We're going to be raising money for Red Nose Day in conjunction with Mollie Makes Magazine!

In order to put it on in my mad style, I have been searching the charity shops for some lovely bits and pieces and have been somewhat successful!

How about these....

to use as a little cover for the jam

to put the jam in!

for serving something delicious!

lovely little sugar 'shovels', one for jam, one for cream!

6 gorgeous little glasses, look at thee birds.....kingfisher

...tit....

..bullfinch?....

I also have a lovely tea set and 2 mismatched teapots.  I have bought sugar tongs from eBay and are currently searching out pastry or cake forks.....it's going well and (I hope) will all come together for Saturday afternoon!

You will also have noticed a pink gingham pillowcase....it's for another Little Dress for Africa...more about those another time.

I'll let you know how the Tea Party turns out!

Love

Nora

xxxx

Another round up, this time July!!!

I've already shared this post about my lovely friend visiting for a bit of TLC, gossip and making, but there were other nice things in this month too.

Tiddly Toes had to make a garden for school, so after considering making it in a shoebox or jam jar, we decided to opt for an update on the garden on a plate and go for a pasta serving bowl!

She painted a ceramic birdhouse in her two most favourite colours, we used a scrap of red and white spotty fabric to transform a light pull into a toadstool, we used a flower pot dish and a small mirror from a 'make your own hand mirror kit' she received for her birthday, a bit of dowel for line posts, silver thread for line and some mini pegs I found in my old paper crafting box.  We invested in 2 odd looking succulents, a grass and some gravel and set to work.

This is what we came up with...........

 

Crafty Friend bought her the little sign with her name on it to "Welcome All Friends!" to her garden.

  

I just love that toadstool and the 'pond'.

 

And just look at that dinky little clothes line for fairy friends!

 

Adorable!

I also had a trip to a local village for a new hair-do, whilst there I discovered the most wonderful charity shop, you'll have to excuse the screwed up look of the items, they were out of the bag and on the line (with the other washing) because I was so excited!

I found this lovely French Connection belted tunic...........

Just love that design and the colours.

I also found a lovely cotton cardigan which apart from being an incredibly lovely colour and fit may also become the backdrop for a pair of crocheted collars! 

Then partly for colour, partly for elastic(!) I fell in love with this gorgeous dress......

 

And last but not least was this small beaded handbag by East................. 

I love the colours, details, beads, design....what's not to like about that!

 

I also went browsing in another local charity shop that I know has odd bits and bobs and came up with this little gem in the bottom of a rummage basket...........

 

 

Isn't that just adorable?  Like most crafty things I buy, I have no plans for this, but I just know it will come in handy for something!

Sadly in July Mum-in-Law fell quite ill and Dad-in-Law just wasn't coping, so wonderful Hubs ran a mercy mission to them and ended up staying a week!  Whilst he was away it was mayhem here what with the end of term, the start of holiday club, the end of term BBQ, a very nasty allegation reared it's head (which I won't bore you with as people with sick minds don't deserve air space!) and functioning as a lone-parent, PLUS...it was our Wedding Anniversary!

My lovely Hubs sent me these beautiful flowers from my favourite florists called Stems.

 

So as a treat for my Hubs, I decorated the kitchen as a surprise for him,  what do you think?

 

That see-head wallpaper is on the opposite wall too.  It goes so well with our gloss white kitchen.

He was very pleased.

I have yet to make the blinds, I have the fabric, but I'm a bit caught up with Christmas making, which I can't show you just yet in case it gives the game away to an unsuspecting friend!!

I will be back soon, not sure what with, but I will be back (call me Arnie!!)

'Til then, toodle-pip,

Nora

xxxx

All bobbled out!!

Yes, we finally made it!

71 knitted and 1 crocheted hat for Innocent Smoothie's Big Knit 2013.....HOORAH!

Want to see?

Oh, go on then...........

TA-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!.................

 

My job this afternoon..........

 

Visiting the Post Office of course!  Let's hope they make it there by Thursday.

 

A very excited and thrilled Nora signing off!

xxxx

Innocent Hat Challenge

I'm a bit quiet on the blog front at the moment as there are some things afoot which I will share soon, but, at the moment I just need to keep head down and focused and this is one of the Challenges I have set myself..............

Thankfully I have been joined by lovely MIL who is a machine!  I have a lot of pom-poms to catch up on this afternoon!

We will be back with photos soon when abnormal service will resume as usual!!

Join us?  Please........

Love
Nora
xxxx