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So I hate shopping, no not shoe shopping (that I love, and so does my two year old ;) ) but food shopping!. But I just found a new toy on the internet, my supermarket and it is brilliant. It brill you can compare all the supermarket prices and you can also earn cashback on some purchases which is awesome! If you haven't used it yet then you must give it a go, you never know you might like it! Link is below and if its your first time, if you like you can use my code and we both get £10 off our shopping, of course that's only if you want to. http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/ GV-SHOVQUXUZF Now I'm off to look at little shoes I can buy with my savings and cashback for little missy, or I might be good and pop it in out piggy bank for something special. Take care till next time SJ

OK my first post on the matter of saving money when you have a two year old that likes to shop (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!), Is about tutu's. Me and my daughter are taking a holiday in a few weeks with her grandparents to Devon and every year the site has a fancy dress competition. Now naturally I want my daughter to look the part so I ordered her a hand made tutu in the style of Cinderella, It drop kicked by bank balance by £38.50! now don't get me wrong its lush and I love it, but it got me wondering if I could do it myself. They would be perfect for Christmas presents for all her little friends and no doubt little miss is going to want a lot of dress up stuff too!   So I looked to see if I could get the stuff and do it myself, and guess what?   Of course I could!   This tutu cost me £6.60 to make and I have enough fabric left over to do another!  Its made with Two 6inx 25yrd rolls of tulle one pink one purple and a waffle crochet...

By the sound of my title you would think i was unhappy and stuck it a rut but i assure you I'm not, quite the opposite actually. I'm looking forward to this year but not because things are going to change, i don't wish that at all!. I have a wonderful daughter who never fails to make me smile, Her daddy may not be perfect but neither am i and if he changed he wouldn't be the man i fell in love with. my family is close and supportive and i really couldn't think of one thing i would change. So this year i think im going to wish that nothing changes and that i can say the same next year and the year after :) Hope you all have a great 2012 All my love SJ

Now for days I've been complaining to my partner about the post and how most of the stuff I've ordered for Christmas has not come but this morning i got a lovely surprise as all my parcels came, plus one i didn't know about so imagine my smile when i pulled this from the packet! This is Izzy's first stocking and i must say i love it! Her great Nannie , the woman who spent many hours teaching me to stitch after my mother laid the foundations, made this for her and may i just say that i have never met anyone faster or as perfect at stitching as my Nannie (although sally does give her a run for her money!) Take care SJ

My baby boy! He's noisy, tiring, demanding, never stops crying and yet he's everything i wanted.... We named him BOLT, Don't ask me why his daddy liked the name so i said OK because we'd already been though 100 others, plus the other hundred we went through trying to figure out a name for his sister, who has a new home with my BF's dad. We were actually looking for a border collie for his dads 50Th birthday prezzie but i fell i love with this little guy so ray bought me him! His sister is named bonnie after about a week and a half of having no name and being called puppy! no pictures of her as yet, because she never sits still! Bolt, on the other hand seems to sleep more than anything else! I swear he actually believes he's a baby! We've had him two weeks now and he's already learnt where he can and can not pee, and so stop and the road side when told! lol (can you tell that he has taken over my life?) However there is one bonus to a dog that likes to sl...

...Where did you come from? :) I wondered why it was so cold at the caravan last weekend! Well now i know, apparently we have entered October with out my knowing it.OK so this post is mostly just to show you what two 18 year old girls (plus two) get up to when we get a caravan to ourselves for the weekend! We get really, really, really silly and decided to go in the sea, which is freezing and get funny looks off the people all rapped up and warm walking past! He he i never said i was sane! (please note that while doing this the guy pictured below sat on the beach being a wimp!) Amy and Gazz got to spend some time together which was nice because they both work a lot! Gazz got all excited seeing her! Haribo decided to play dress up for the camera! oh yeah and Amy totally rocked the wet and freezing look! lol:) not showing the pic of me seeing as it was just awful! In all a totally cool weekend! So what did you do this weekend? Take care SJ

I knew there was something i had to do! lol sorry for the long pause, its just i haven't really had that much time to post or even stitch for that matter!. I've been helping my friend move homes, getting ready for my trip to wales (more about that in a minute) and generally freaking out! It feels like I've lost a week somewhere along the line but cant think how! Oh well there is nothing i can do about it now;) Right first of all I'll explain the trip to wales, its for a job interview and it last all weekend from the 12th till the 14th, i have to travel all the way to wales for the interview and them on the Sunday I'll find out if i get the job! if i do i say for an extra weeks training and then i come home to collect my stuff ready to move to which ever center i get placed in. The job will be an activities instructor with a firm called kingswood, where we do everything from climbing to archery with kids. I've been waiting nearly a hole year to apply for this and...

Well as most of you know its only four whole months away from Christmas and if your anything like me you'll have a list a mile long of the things you wanna make for it, so what better time to get started than now :) These are just a few bits I've been playing with, the two above are going to be Christmas cards and this below is either going to be a blanket or a wall hanging i haven't decide which yet :) Also this week i turned 18 which was quite fun :) i didn't do anything major just hung out with my family and got some really great presents :) Including my Super Junior album that arrived just after! I was so happy when this came though the post from Korea :) yeahy! I also got this really cute money box and snow globe from the Beatrix potter collection, and lots of other gifts too! I fell in love with this the moment i saw it :)

*EDIT--- Ok the title to this should now be totally and completely freaking out now, god i feel so sick this worse than the GCSE result wait two years ago! Good luck every one and if you would like join me in prays tonight lol* After spending a really great week in Blackpool with my family, a trip that i had planed to miss until 10 minutes before they left on Saturday morning. I'm now safely back at home biting my finger nails, pulling my hair out and maybe getting just over 3 hours sleep due to being completely freaked about getting my a-level results in four days time! This is it the moment of truth and i really don't want to open that envelope on Thursday, maybe I'll just leave it closed for the rest of time :) But then the not knowing would kill me. Now as i said before i had an unexpected trip to Blackpool this week, which for the most part was really quite fun! i took over 190 pictures of are trip but the really memorable part of the trip proved to risky for my camera...

Last wednesday it was my best friends 21st birthday, we've been friends for almost seven years and its scary because we know each others thoughts and have been known at times to finish each others sentences! For her birthday we thought of going bowling and then came up with 100 other ideas only to go back to bowling in the end, and im glad we did because it was by far one of the best nights i've had in a long time! These are three of the best pictures taken all night, there are alot more because we had two camara's :) This is amy, very funny and very lovable....... she helped me in teasing zoe alnight which was quite fun! :) And this ladies is the Birthday girl, who we would not allow to have her birthday presents untill she got a strike or spare! Lol me and amy both got one before she did, but she got there in the end and it was quite funny! And lastly the one pic of me that i did not delete because it was half decent and i had to keep at least one! The highlight of the...