Hurry up and slow down !

It's been one of those weeks where I have been running constantly and getting nowhere .

Life has been very hectic helping with the Mother's Day stall , the kids starting winter sports so training has begun , trying to finish projects , stuff for tech , packing patterns at all hours of the night , trying to keep my home running sort of smoothly, oh yes and I work too !

At least Sunday is Mother's Day and I will sleep in and be waited on all day , won't I ?

It's lovely to have a whinge , no one listens to me here , sniff ....

The nice thing that has happened this week is that my friend Clare from Clare's Crafts gave me these two cute awards . I love them Clare , thankyou very much . (Yes I know you all think I'm loopy and talking to myself but I'm not , I don't think )

I would like to give both of these awards to these bloggers ,

Kylie A BITE OF COUNTRY CUPCAKES

Vikki Sew Useful Designs

Joy JoyPatch

Gen EWENIQUE TREASURES

Fiona Dragonfly-Crafts

Rosy i cant sew

Linda two pink possums

Kathryn our shabby cottage

All that whining I almost forgot to wish you all a Happy Mother's Day !

An award and a glimpse of craftiness .

Rosey from" I can't sew "(and yes she can ) passed on this really cute award to me the other day and now it's my turn to share it around . If you are one of the blogs I follow or if you follow my blog , please take this award . Thankyou very much Rosey .

Now before anyone thinks I'm a fraud and I'm not really crafty here's a glimpse of one of the magazine projects I've been working on . I love these colours so happy !

An award on my birthday !

A while back I came across a blog called , wait for it - Clare's Crafts ! I had to check it out and found a blog full of lovely cards and bits and pieces . Clare and I follow each others blog and keep in contact . Clare gave me this great award that I need to pass it onto 10 other blogs . Unfortunately it won't be today cause it's my birthday! Thankyou for this award Clare .http://clarescrafts.blogspot.com/

Don't bother about trying to count the candles as this was my futile attempt to shove 47 candles into one of the kids school recess muffins . I should have made the muffins MUCH bigger .

An award for ????

As promised (yes I know I'm late ) here are the blogs I would like to pass my Lemonade Award onto .

Rosey http://agapanthasandgoldsworthy.blogspot.com/

Cam http://curlypops.blogspot.com/

Linda http://twopinkpossums.blogspot.com/

Lin http://paperanddolls.blogspot.com/

Christinahttp://rustictarts.blogspot.com/

Allisonhttp://bucknchooky.blogspot.com/

Christyhttp://sweettidings.blogspot.com/

Sam http://missymack.blogspot.com/

Have a lovely lemonade on me !!

A winner and an award !

Some of you may have realised by now I'm a bit of a ditz ! I'm fairly new to blogging and I had heard strange mutterings about random number generators or something like that .
As I needed to draw the winner for my stitchery pattern I spied a number of the random generation (my 13 year old son )and grabbed him saying " Give me a number between 1 and 44."
He was a little worried and blurted out TEN and then ran for his life .
So there you go the winner is number 1o Simone http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/
Simone has a lovely blog with lots of interesting things going on, well worth a visit .
Thankyou to everyone who left a comment I'm pretty sure I got back to all of you with the exeption of a few ladies who have no blogs ,thanks to you too .

Now for some more exciting news . Caroline from http://patchworkharmony.blogspot.com/ has awarded me this lovely "Lemonade Award" . Caroline is from the UK and if you want to see some beautiful things go there for great interior design ideas .
Here are the rules of the award -
1. Put the logo on your blog or post. 2. Nominate at least 8 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude 3. Link to your nominees within your post 4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog. 5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.
For me this has been a very long post (ditz) so I'll let you know tomorrow who I will pass the award onto . Thankyou very much , Caroline .

Another very special award .

I received another award from a special friend of mine Kyliehttp://abiteofcountrycupcakes.blogspot.com/

I didn't tell everyone about it straight away as it would have run into my 50th post and then my giveaway would have gone wonky .

Anyway it is a very important award and Kylie gave them to a group of us and it was great to be selected with the other ladies .

Really not too sure who I will pass them on to but when I know I'll let you know .

The inscription below is what this award stands for , thankyou Kylie .

This blog invests and believes in Proximity- nearness in space, time and relationships.
These blogs are exceedingly charming
These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends .
They are not interested in prize for self- aggrandizement!
Our hope is that when the ribbon of these prizes are cut ,even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!

It never rains it pours , lucky me !

Can you believe 2 awards in 2 days! I had been sulking quietly that I had never received an award and now I have TWO !

Not only that but now I have won a giveaway , can blogging get any better?

The lovely Priscilla from Casa Bella Chic gave me the award . Have a look at her stuff, talk about a great imagination !

Janelle from Janellybelly was hosting the giveaway . Janelles blog is fantastic and I love to visit her .

So the hard part is passing on my wonderful award to 5 clever crafters here goes -

Deni -http://misspudge.blogspot.com/

Kyliehttp://abiteofcountrycupcakes.blogspot.com/

Rosey- http://agapanthasandgoldsworthy.blogspot.com/

Karen-http://pksmokey11.blogspot.com/

http://craftybitsandbobs.blogspot.com/

Now for some more good news , this is my 49th post and I did promise a giveaway on my 50th .

Come back for a visit very soon , leave a comment and you too could be a winner !

Thanks everyone see you soon .

My very first award .

Surprise I got an award . My very first one ! I 'm really very excited about this and just had to show it off .

Treann from http://treannsplace.blogspot.com/ sent this award to me and the conditions are that I list 5 addictions and pass on this award to 5 other fabulous bloggers . Both lists could go on forever but I will narrow it down .

Addictions - 1.family 2.crafting 3.coffee 4. cricket 5.reading (these are in no particular order)

Now the really hard part choosing only 5 worthy bloggers .

Vicki http://tozzscorner.blogspot.com/ Barb http://barbscreations.blogspot.com/ Jeni http://withneedleandthread.blogspot.com/ Priscillahttp://casabellachic.blogspot.com/Michellehttp://theroyalsisters.blogspot.com/

Thanks Treann .