Rain & Prettiness.............

When I woke up this morning it was raining, not the winter rain we have had but bright rain.

Almost like April Shower type rain,big fat clear drops of rain.

So bright that when I left our drive a rainbow was waiting for me in the sky.

But let me show you what brightened my day before the rainbow brightened my day.

 On my kitchen windowsill I have a few little pretties.

Some lovely pink tulips.

Randomly uploaded upside down!

A gorgeous smelling Basil plant.

Some Hyacinths waiting to grow & some crocuses which were a Christmas present.



Another a random upload ......

I am also loving my new tea spoons which I got in the CS on Saturday.

I think they will be perfect for sorbet on a Hot Summers day......

Ohhh, when will the sun start shining.....

So after the Monday I have had!!! these little pretties really did help to brighten my morning.

I hope you all had a happy Monday?

Luv

Making ...................

Well it is finally Thursday and the weekend is upon us Yippppppppppppeeeeeeee.

I thought I would show you some of the Christmas presents I made for friends at work.

My lovely friend H who I sit next to at work mentioned that she wished that she could find a mini hot water bottle one day, well that set me thinking.

The mission was set, find a mini hot water bottle and make a cover for it for her for Christmas & by chance I found a whole load whilst shopping in town one day.

So  I made her this for Christmas.

I made it out of an old jumper which I blanket stitched together and stitched a felt heart on the front.

She loves it, which is great. I like to give useful and needed presents.

I then had the bug and decided to make one for another friend at work out of an old shirt I had found in the CS, which was too pretty a fabric to throw away.

I washed it up and made her this.

She loved hers too, which got me thinking......

So as I said in my last post, I am thinking of selling on Etsy.

I came home tonight and had itchy fingers so made this.

I had some little Made by Chez Sophie labels made and I have set up my account, so all I have to do is make more pretties to sell.

I hope you have a fun Friday, I 'm off to work, then out to dinner with a friend and then it's the weekend!

Yippppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeee

Luv

Belated Happy New Year

Ok time for an update

Grab a coffe you might be here a while!

Firstly Laptop is fixed and back up and running, yipppeeeeeeeeeeee.

We had a lovely new year's eve, I cooked a Thai feast and we partied all night to Band Hero's on the Play Station fueled by raspberry mojitoes.

Back to work, busy busy busy............

I have just got back from my parents where I have spent a lovely couple days & been thoroughly spoilt.

Mum, Auntie Sue & I shopped till we dropped, we got some great end of Jan sale bargains and also had a yummy lunch out at Arlingtons, it is an old ballroom and a beautiful setting for ladies that lunch!  

We also went out for dinner that night with Dad to my favourite restaurant in Felixstowe Cafe Bencotto, great mix of Mediterranean food. ( Slimming world sort of went out of the window for a couple of days due to Dads great cooking as well as the eating out)

It was my Mum and Dads 33 year wedding anniversary yesterday, It was nice that I could spend it with them. I visited my Grandad in his new home, he has recently gone into a nursing home, it's strange to see him without Grandma. He seemed a lot older, the home was lovely and I know that the nursing staff are lovely and look after him very well. We talked about my garden and what I should plant in the veg patch this year.

Today I drove home and then went to work in the charity shop. 

I have been doing a bit of making in my spare time and my craft room is looking a bit tidier as Gav put some much needed shelves up for me. I made a lot of Christmas presents this year. I might open an Etsy Shop as I have really neglected my little blog shop.

What do you think of Etsy?

I have ordered some lovely things off it and I do like to support the crafting community.

So sorry no pictures, it's been a bit gray and rainy for photo taking.

I hope you all had fab new years and that special things happen for you all this year.

Luv

Happy Holidays

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas?

I have managed to borrow a friends spare laptop so that I can blog today.

I have to say I haven't had the most exciting Christmas as I have had a virus and been completely out of sorts since last Wednesday. I think I am finally coming through it though, there really are some nasty bugs out there at the moment so if anyone is under the weather my thoughts are with you and make sure you get well soon.

So on to some fun stuff, despite being poorly I did have a lovely chilled out Christmas day with Gavin, just the 2 of us except for his parents popping in for presents in the morning.

He thoroughly spoilt me rotten, I had given him a list in the hope that I would at least get a few things on it! but he really surprised me with things I hadn't even asked for.

I got one of these

Ive been cross stitching like mad to make the purse already.

This amazing cook book which I have to say I had never heard of but he had read up on the best books and this one had really good review and I can't wait t try out some of the recipes & visit the bakery on the Kings Road.

I have been hankering after one of these ever since Kelly from Recipes for Life told us about hers and bless him he remembered and found me one. Giant Cup Cakes here we come!!!

Some very pretty Cup Cake wrappers, so beautiful & intricate. 

I had asked for a bead for my Lovelinks bracelet he gave me for my birthday and I was presented with a whole set (above) called beach aren't they beautiful.

A dinky CK pin book & sticky notes set.

He actually went to the New Cath Kidston shop in Chichester especially and as well as all the above bought me a beautiful CK shopper bag in the brown spot, I haven't seen it on the web and haven't managed to take a picture of it yet but I will be my new lunch bag for work.

I have never been soo surprised by all my presents, I really wasn't expecting any of them, he really did do well.

I bought him a Scalextric which has been whizzing round the Living room ever since Christmas day!!!

So we were both very happy bunnies.

I hope you all received some lovely gifts too.

We had vowed to make or buy second hand all the family & friends gifts this year and so far they have gone down really well, homemade Chutney, Pickle, Jam, Chili Oil, Pickled Onions & Chocolates.

Vintage handbags & books were also received well as well as the handmade padded coat hanges I have been making in my spare time.

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that the New Year brings you Joy & Happiness.

Thanks for being great friends in 2010.

The blogging community is soo special, soo keep up the good work & see you in 2011.

Lots of Love & Hugs

Merry Christmas Everyone

Spillage.....................

Just a quickie to say sorry I haven't been around.

We had a spillage on the laptop over a week ago and it has had to go to the hospital as apparently it doesn't like squash!!!

What with the "difficult weather conditions" it may not be back for Christmas!!! 

Hopefully I can get it back and tell you about what I've been up to.

I hope you all have a fab pre Christmas week.

Luv Sophie

Frozen Shut!

I have been stuck at home today, as you may have guessed like most of the country we have snow!
It snowed all night and coverd the south coast.

I attempted to go into work but the Mini said noooooooooooo, Her doors were frozen shut!

So I have sat with my laptop all day on my work email doing work as & when it comes through.

I did pop into the garden this morning & thought about a snowball fight but unfortunately Gav made it to work so I was on my lonesome and you can't have a snowball fight on your own can you!
But the garden did look beautiful and it would have been a shame to rune the smooth snow, It looked like icing on a Christmas cake.
I did have some fun taking some photo's though.

I'm off to a wedding tomorrow!!
We have been assured by the bride that the main roads are clear enough to get to the barn where it is being held, so hopefully I will be at a beautiful  very White Wedding tomorrow.
I hope your all not too snowed in too badly.
Luv