Birthday party stress at neurotic towers....

I've had a serious chest infection now for nearly 2 weeks. I'm exhausted and wish we didn't have 50 kids for the boys birthday on Saturday.

Today I have had 1 asthma attack, averted 1 dinosaur cake disaster, baked 2 dinosaur cakes, 50 chocolate muffins and either baked or in the process of being baked, 1 carrot cake for the grown ups, 1 banana cheese cake and several cups of tea!!


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Finally......

the first Yoda is finished!!

I say the first because there has been a steady stream of people, including a few kids (!!) ask for one!!

Was quite easy once I perfected the magic ring. Pattern was bought off Etsy here and wool was baby yarn from my local wool shop.

Tomorrow is the monthly crafty beer in Birmingham, I'm quite looking forward to it although a little scared as I'm doing a tutorial on how to make a crochet heart to stick on a card for Valentines! Quite nervous as I'm not the world's best teacher however I shall post it on here afterwards.

Wish me luck.........

When 200 years you reach....

Look this good you will not!!



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And so to bed....

sweet yoda goes!





Have decided that I'm going to add to our Christmas decorations by making the cast of star wars with Christmas hats!!!

Sleep tight oh wise one!

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Been a little busy...

Being poorly and fighting the school for them to meet our son's needs.
But I've been busying remaking his scarf. I got the tension all wrong on the first one. Too tight on the first row then getting looser and looser. But we're all happy and it's nearly finished!!
I've had enough of doing rows and rows of colours so I've moved onto yoda!!
That might be it off me for a week as the boys have a birthday party and I've gotta do all the cooking and baking. Am cacking myself!!

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Inspired the hell out of.....

By this!!




Next project me thinks!!

Off to buy all the wool here:




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Bertie's scarf

Feels like narnia here. The snow is drip drip dripping away and the temperature has risen to a massive -1!! Everyone back at school and settling back into term time life. It's my eldest son's birthday and he asked for a scarf before Christmas. I have finally gotten round to starting it. It's really hard to do random width stripes as they need to look like no effort has gone in to choosing what widththey all are!! Should he finished by tomorrow!





Off to sort the birthday invites out to be handed to the kids in the playground tomorrow!

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