A Competition win

So I started entering lots of competitions whilst watching the soaps! 

I won a 3 course meal for 2 and live Michael buble tribute in The Bull in Long Melford.

I asked my mum to come with me. 

We decided as it was just over an hours drive we would book a hotel so we chose  The George and Dragon inn. 

The lady on reception was lovely and polite. The room was quite basic but we had everything we needed. 

After getting ready for the night out we walked a few metres down the road before we arrived at The Bull 

We sat down and was presented with the menu which was very impressive we expected it to have maybe 3 choices but there was lots to choose from! 

We chose our food mum had Pâté I had soup. 

For our main I had leek and potato pie and mum had lamb shank.

For pudding I had bake well tart and mum had apple pie. 

The food was Devine. I didn't leave a piece. By the end my growing bump and me were stuffed! 

By far the best meal I have ever had and even better was the fact it was a competition win! So a big thank you to the chef at The Bull and to all the staff for being efitiant and poliet. The tribute night was great and although wasn't all to my taste we had a sing song and it was nice to see so many people enjoying themselves.

We went back to our hotel and I had a very good nights sleep it was a bit noisy around 2am when all the drunk people were walking past but I soon fell back to sleep.

Breakfast the next morning .. Well what can I say it was by far the best breakfast I have had. All fresh and tasted beautiful.

Was very quiet and peaceful whilst we was eating which is just how I like it a perfect end to a fab night out. 

2015 - so far

I'm What a year so far. I don't even know where to start. Ellie is now 10! Mollie is now 7 and Rylie is 5. 

They all had fantastic birthdays and were very spoilt by the family. Auntie Kir took them on a shopping trip where they picked what they wanted and they actually bought really sensible stuff!

We sadly lost all our rabbits as Auntie Em

fed them leeks and they are highly toxic and none of them survived :( was a very sad time in our lives as Susan had just given birth and we had 6 five day old bunnies which I fed throughout the night 2 hourly. None of them survived but I tried my very best.

We have also gained 2 rats Rite and Ruth

Ellie bought herself  2 new dwarf hamsters. They are very sweet. I'm also get a new addition in just over a week! But will leave that a surprise and right a whole new chapter for our little fella! 

We also got mitsie are beautiful grey cat 

I also found out I'm pregnant I'm currently 14 weeks! Ellie Mollie and Rylie are all very excited to be big sisters/ brother!  

We bought a new swimming pool it is now 18ft and its huge adults can actually swim in it.

 Was my eBay bargain of the year. Very chuffed to have got it.

 

Christmas 2014

Wow it has come round so quickly. We have already put the tree up we put the lights on first then the tinsel and beads then the baubles followed by the glitter shimmer which adds the finishing touch. We then wrapped the Christmas presents and placed them under the tree. 

This morning we made paper chains we find if you pritstick them they hold a lot better than just licking them or using the peel off sticky paper they put on some. 

We have also made handmade Christmas cards. We do this every year as I personally think it's nicer to receive a hand made card. It means so much time as thought and effort has gone into them. This year we made finger print reindeers. We all had one finger print on then Rylie drew the noses eyes and antlers on. 

March 2014

Finally starting to see some sunshine, with all the wet weather we have had it does make a change. Especially to people's moods! On the school run this morning everyone was very cheerful, I've also noticed all the bulbs are coming out and the trees are all budding. I take great pride in my garden so all the bulbs I planted last autumn are going to make my garden look very colourful. 

I am excited to watch my garden change from a bare boring scene to one which has lots of colour and excitement. 

This year my aims are to plant more shrubs which attract the bees and butterflies and to paint the woodwork some bright colours. 

I also like to look after my birds my dad was a bird watcher and even though I can only feed a small part of the population it satisfies to me to do so, last year I had a regular visitor who was not your typical feathered friend, more furry. He was of course a squirrel. I bought some bird feeders to stop the squirrel eating all the bird feed and he didn't come everyday so the birds still got there fair share. I often smile when I see the birds on the feeder and know my dad would be proud of the tradition he bought us up around and although I'm not completely mad traveling the uk to see one "rare" bird I do always notice birds whilst I'm out and about. 

A life in photo's

When ever there is moment wether it special or not I always seem to have some sort of camera around. Photos are a life long memory of times,places,people, moments and history you can never get back. 

I lost my dad at 19 and I wish I had more photos of us together, my first pregnancy I have 2 photos because I hated having my photo taken. Both of these are moments and parts of my life that I will never have back. 

So I decided that I would capture pretty much my life in photos so that when my children grow up they have a story in photos and have there memories there that might otherwise be forgotten about. 

People have asked don't I get bored of taking photos? Answer is simply "no." 

I started doing this in 2008 when I had my 21st birthday party and since then I don't think I have missed many times from when we have gone out, celebrated stuff, hair cuts, holidays etc and I love looking back now especially with Ellie on all the fun times we have had together. People may get bored off looking but I am not doing it for them. I do it for my children and me. 

Photos are wonderful memories of your life that you will never relive again. 

Family day out.

 Holiday to Turkey

 Summer 2011

Rag curls

I was at a friends when I tried to do her daughters hair with curlers, within a few hours these curls had come out, so I decided there must be a way that you can do curls and them stay in. 

I looked on you tube for videos on how to do things as, it's always easier to follow a video rather than directions when it comes to doing hair. 

Rag curls are very easy to do but you have to be prepared they do take a while to do 

Firstly get an old t-shirt /tea towel infact any old bits of material. 

Wash you hair and do the following whilst it is wet for best results.

Cut the shirt into strips long enough for each one to be folder as if you was doing the start of a bow.

Next  you section off a piece of hair start at the bottom lay the hair on a piece of rag now twist up to the root ( whilst the hair is twisting around the rag. 

Once at the root tie both end of the rag as if you was starting  bow or knot. 

Repeat for your whole head

Once you have a groovy looking hair style spray with water.

For maximum results sleep on it, if you can't do that hair dryer it for at least 30-45 mins or leave naturally to dry for at least 2-3 hrs

Under the rag and then slowly pull the rag away from you hair 

Once all out run your fingers through each tight curl giving you an amazing look.

Spray with very firm hold hair spray or setting lotion. 

These photos show how rag curls turn out I will be adding some photos of the step by step

Process when I do this on my girls again. 

Straw Curls

Straw curls are just as good as rag curls and it's basically the same process but the curls come out a lot smaller and tighter.

You will need water in a spray bottle, straws, setting lotion or hair spray 

Firstly wash you hair as it works better on wet/damp hair

Section a small piece of the hair off, start at the bottom of the hair and wind the straw up to the scalp.

Then tie up as in the beginning of a bow or shoe lace. 

Repeat for your whole head until it looks like the above photo. 

Spray whole head with water.

No my personal preference is to do this at night and sleep on them as it has longer to dry but  if you can't sleep on them or don't want to wait that long dry with. Hair dryer for 30-45mins on a cooler heat setting or leave to dry naturally for about 3 hours. 

Please note just because the top parts feel dry after an hour or so the bits in the knot area of the straw won't be this is why I say it's best to sleep on it.

Undo whole head of straws first so it looks like photo above 

Run fingers through each ringlet. 

Spray with setting lotion or hair spray.

Such an easy way to make curls and these do stay in a lot longer than curlers or heated rollers. 

 

2015 - Some more curls that I did for my niece and friends daughter