Toodlepip Caravan. . .

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening to wherever you are in the World... Yes it's Paper Saturday again today and I'm on holiday for two whole weeks...YIPPEEE!

As I have two whole weeks off I thought I'd go on a little trip. 

SO....drum roll please.... ta da.... I made a Gypsy Caravan, with  lacey curtains and all.

Little ol' me, Master Fox and Pony are off in Toodlepip Caravan for a two week long trundle round the world, to see what we can see.

Our first stop is over at Paper Saturday to see Lottie.

Lottie luv, get dressed and get that kettle on.....we'll be there in a jiffy!

Good Morning Sunday Sketches :)

Join me for a little Fun and Nonsense...

Paper Saturdays with Lottie. . .

It's Paper Saturday with Lottie today and every Saturday from now on...

Last week Lottie sent me a little message to tell me about her Paper Saturday get together. Just bring paper she said! 

Ohhhh what fun! 

I baked some little cupcakes last night in Princess's new Pink Aga...

Hopped into my little boat and sailed off very early this morning to join in the fun at Lottie's Paper Saturday party....  there's room in my little boat for passengers...so come with me :)

 Lottie luv...get that kettle on, I've made cupcakes and  I'll be arriving any minute now. ..

I  love a bit of Fun and Nonsense...
and I'm sharing this with Sunday Sketches...busy weekend  :)

Scary. . .

Bonjour... I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and are now enjoying eating all those wonderful chocolates that the Bunny left in the garden.  Of course there will be the inevitable "I've eaten too many chocolates"... and plaf! plaf! a few extra pounds on each thigh...the Easter bunny didn't get to be the size she is by eating lettuce leaves.... 

My life at the moment is littered with little scary moments. The out of comfort zone moments that have me in a panic.  I know it's silly but I have the ability to make mountains out of molehills.  I tell myself that it will be ok. I just need to be prepared and plan things. My mountains are mainly getting lost and being late. I managed to get lost in a Chinese Restaurant once...went up a flight of stairs to the ladies and came down (what I thought were) the same stairs and walked through the kitchens....back out to the restaurant.  I have to go on a course for work in the next few weeks and I'm in a tizwas.

Something I don't usually panic about is when my Mojo goes on a tea break...I know it will come back, I just need to go off and do something else...

This weekend I had a bone chilling, rabbit in head lights, panic moment when I stared at a blank sheet of paper and NOTHING.  Well actually there was something , it got rubbed out several times.

I really started to worry...obviously had eaten to much bloody chocolate and it was playing havoc with my mind...

I ate more chocolate and mooched around Pinterest...something caught my eye and my little crow girl came out to play...

The moral of this "Fun and Nonsense" story is...don't be a demented wally, most things can be solved by eating chocolate or not... :D xx

Bunnies and hens spells.... Easter :)

My little Easter bunny says...Happy Easter to you all!

 Have had a brilliant week at school this week.  On Monday Maitresse (Teacher-Miss) and the children built a hen house. It came as a kit with excellent instructions....phew!
We live in a rural area so chickens are very common, most grand-parents have them.  Non the less our children (a class of 24, 5 to 7 year olds) were really excited about having chickens...(Actually, Maitresse wanted chickens more than anyone).  On Wednesday, my day off. No school on Wednesday for Primary school children. I went and got two laying hens....we want eggs.

 Ta da.......to fat hens...perfect Easter present for the class. Les cocottes are now waiting for the children to give them names.  We are all becoming Chicken experts...soon there will be nothing we don't know about chooks... :)

My Fun and Nonsense for this week....pop  over to Sunday Sketches and enjoy all the wonderful artwork.. xx

Bumble Pink arrived yesterday. . .

It's a beautiful crisp Spring morning here... My bumble girls are buzzing about and Bumble Pink popped out of her cocoon yesterday and dried her beautiful gold shimmery wings in the sun.  She has now joined the other girls and is busy buzzing about waking up all the Spring flowers and helping the little birds with getting their nests ready....  I love Spring :D

Just a little Fun and Nonsense...

Please leave a comment, the Bumble girls and I would love to hear from you.....

Bumble girls, owl and Spring. . .

Wednesday saw the first day of Spring...yippee!!!  The calendar may say that Spring has sprung but in my corner of the world it has been a little slow in coming out of hibernation.

Happily today, some bumble girls popped in to see me, to tell me that Spring was finally rubbing the sleepy winter dust from it's eyes and would be down for breakfast very soon. Spring has decided to have a bit of a lie in...

In the meantime my bumble girls are buzzing about telling the flowers and birds and me that we need to start getting ready for Springs coming out parade :D

Owlette plopped down from her perch to see what all the buzzing was about. . .

A little Fun and Nonsense goes along way. . .

Sharing with Sunday Sketches

Teacup Mermaids. . .

My week started quite quietly.  Princess asked me to build her a dolls house. No problem, one dolls house coming up. 

We decided she needed  a few flowers under the window sill and mismatching curtains.  She had been reading one of my house decorating magazines and fell in love with the idea of shabby chic. I didn't like to tell her it was a fancy name for "we can't quite afford a matching set" so "we'll mix and match what we can beg or borrow or steal from Mum's house".  Princess wanted a pink Aga in her dolls house. So I drew her a pink Aga.  There is something magical about Aga's, especially pink ones she said.  

I agree!

No sooner was the last lick of pink paint on the Aga when  Toot a red nosed dog and his friend Lily-Bo moved in.  They like pink Aga's too. 

Two more for tea I said...

Over a lovely cup of tea, the conversation turned to Lily-Bo's bunny ears. Fluffy Muffin, my office fairy thought it would be a great idea if we all dress up as bunnies for Easter and have an Easter Parade.

Umm.....I was contemplating what I would look like, dressed as the Easter Bunny and was about to take another sip of tea, when I noticed my tea started to bubble in the cup...that's very odd.  We all started to peer at my teacup when  POP...up jumped a mermaid.

 Right out of my teacup....mermaids like to listen in on teacup chatter and this mermaid was all excited about dressing up as a bunny for Easter.  She had her bunny ears on and everything.... in the time it takes to have a sip of tea......

 I had mermaids popping out of teacups and teapots and milk jugs....all wanting to be in the Easter Parade!

My advice to you all, is, be very careful about what you say around teacups....you never know if there is a teacup mermaid living in your cup....or teapot...or milk jug.... I'm keeping a tight lid on the sugar bowl!!!

Just a little of my Fun and Nonsense to brighten up your week....xxx

Paper boats and lacey sails. . .

Thank you everyone for your well wishes.  My man-flu has gone, and left me very tired which is driving me mad.  I have so many things I want to do but have an overwhelming urge to lie down and sleep.  My brain is foggy and I can't concentrate on anything for very long...

My day has consisted of getting up late, watching The Waltons...ahh, I want to live on Waltons mountain and drive around in an old jallopy.  (I do drive around in an old jallopy but it's not as romantic as Pa Waltons truck).  After the Waltons I made Damper bread and had some for lunch...yummy.  I also made some Coffee Cremes for Mr Hollywood.  Did the washing and managed to finish my paper mache Princess.  I didn't know she was a Princess until she insisted I make her a crown.

She then sat down on the shelf above my desk and started to play with my paper boats with lacey sails.

The girls were delighted to have a Princess come to play and Alfie the pink elephant and Deirdre the giraffe wanted to know if the Princess knew where Timbucktoo was...

Anyway I've left them on the shelf happily playing while I go and lie down on the sofa.

I haven't got anything finished to show for Sunday Sketches, so I'm sharing what I done Wednesday... :)

Hope you are having Fun and Nonsense where you are....xxx

Baking. . .

I have spent most of the week in bed with flu. I had no ordinary flu I had "Man-Flu" (the nasty, all consuming, moaning, shaking uncontrollably, sweaty, smelly, splitting headache, crawling (yes there was crawling and dribbling) dying very loudly Man-Flu.  I'm sure at one point I did die but no-one was around to see it, so I undied.  Mr Hollywood thought it would be nice to share his man-flu with me. I love, that, man but sometimes I just want to whack him, if I had had the energy to open my eyes and move my arm I would have.  He of course soldiered on to work infecting everyone in his path who hadn't already been infected.  Got to love the generosity of the man....NOT!

I, me, myself, took my man-flu to bed and stayed there. I emerged yesterday like a crumpled butterfly, mangy moth more like and ventured to the sofa and stayed there.

Baker girl is the only thing I've manged to paint this week...hopefully she can magic some food into our empty fridge or it's bread and water till I go shopping on Monday...if I'm well enough of course...

Will be joining Sunday Sketches from the the comfort of my sofa....xx

Walking the dog. . .

Woof, woof, haahaahaa haa, please can I come with you?  I promise to be good. 

• I won't pull on the lead
• I won't sniff every gate post
• or tree
• I won't bark at the cat at No 34
• I won't walk in mud and get my paws dirty
• I won't jump up at Mrs Biggins, even if I know she's got treats in her pocket
• I won't roll in that lovely perfum that Mr Fox leaves for me, the one you don't like
• I won't swim in the pond and chase the ducks
• I won't sniff other dogs bottoms or growl at them if they get to close to you

I'll be on my bestest behaviour......doggy promise...

and a promise is a promise.... :)

Just a little Fun and Nonsense for Sunday Sketches... xx