the special "for losers" giveaway!!!

That's right! In honour of my newest giveaway win (thank you, Heidi-Hats!!) I am hosting my very own, very first giveaway. The winner shall receive their very own made-by-me little something. That means I haven't quite decided what it is, yet. It's okay, though, it'll be cute. There are a few conditions to entering and they're quite stringent, I hope you don't mind.

condition 1: for shipping reasons I can only post to Arkansas state. Don't ask why, it's just because, okay?

condition 2: since this is a special little something I need to know you'll take care of it. Therefore entrants must be responsible for the care of a small creature. Like say, oh, I don't know, an excrutiatingly cute white kitten or something?

condition 3: we're having an eco-drive at work and I've already printed the address label. So all entrants must be named Susan. Saving the planet one address sticker at a time, baby!!

Leave a comment saying why blondes rock (ha!!) and the winner will be randomly picked by one of my pet rats on Friday 11th at 3.30pm GMT. Good luck!!

(disclaimer - this is obviously a bit of fun for a friend who never wins anything - there WILL be a proper anyone-can-enter affair on this very blog in the new year. That is all.)

all I want for christmas is yooooooo - AGAIN!!

It is STUCK in my head. I don't even like it!! This is my favourite Christmas song.




The blurb says it was first released in 1975. I was 1. Heh.

P.S. I'VE WON A BOOK IN THE ORB QUILT ALONG!! I never win anything and that's twice in 6 months. I cannae believe it!

Nearly there.

With the gift sewing, I mean. Yahoo! This is for my Mum (can we all cross everything that she doesn't suddenly become PC savvy in the next 2 weeks!!). There is a fabulous tutorial here at Cluck Cluck Sew. I would leave more white space next time but it's surprisingly quick to run up.

And this wee sneaky peaky is for someone who knows someone who reads here.

Just the pony quilt to sort and I AM DONE!!! Just a quilt. Ha!!

ungrateful scuts!!

I bought the boys a couple of fantastic alien covered hammocks from FuzzButt (and yes I know I could have made them but I have NO TIME!!) and where are they sleeping? On the shelves. hmph.

oh, tannenbaum!!

This year's Christmas tree is a bit of a mish mash of all my favourite things. Pink and blue and purple and green and for the first time has a fairy on the top - there's usually branches of holly berries parading up there.


The Gisella Graham fairy (up the top) was bought by my Mum for the Chookie when she was about 4 - for years her favourite colour was purple! A strange choice for a toddler. The huge green butterfly was also from Mum a few years ago - 2 of my favourite things!

My absolute favourite bauble, though, is the wee Tinkerbell we bought in the Christmas shop in the dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyland Paris when we were there in 2007. She has a mended arm and wings where a certain 5 year old dropped her!

I love putting my tree up - that and the wrapping of my gifts is my favourite part of the winter celebrations.

R.I.P. precious Sniffy.

I had to do another vet intervention today. Poor old Sniffy finally seemed to reach the end of her looong tether with her dodgy back legs and sore eye. She was a poor looking wee thing - thin fur and a bloody face, 2 gammy back legs and a big hip lump. And she smelled. The most fastidious of our girls was, not to put too fine a point on it, honkin'.



I checked back my photo files and found some cuties - she always was our favourite (which always made me feel guilty, not supposed to have favourite pets, are you?). Here she is the day we brought her home, all big ears and cute nose.


And later that same day sparked out. That's Rizzo behind her (the blog banner star) and Riley's white bum!

Me and the Snifter having an eskimo kiss. I especially like the toy pram in the garden - it is tiny (this is 2 and a half years ago)

But Sniffy was really the Chook's first pet. Bought for her 5th birthday and as friendly as the day is long. They were buddies from day one. Bless.

So, rest in prawn crackers precious wee creature. You made some special life long memories for a wee girl.

all I want for Christmas is YOOOOOOOOO!!

Yup, it's official. Santa is coming soon! I am at this very second hearing my first play of the vocal gymnast that is Mariah Carey (ack!), I saw the Coke "Holidays are Coming" advert this morning and it was minus 3 here last night and my car door was frozen shut. IT'S DECEMBER!!!



Proper post with photos of my tree later - my favourite part of the season is putting the tree up! Woop!!