Craft Cafe

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

EDIT: this give-away has been extended till the 16th march, as i have been informed this post has not shown up as updated. thank you steph! OK so I've been like the worst blogger in the world but i promise I'm going to make it up to you all. I wanna know why you love a certain person in your life, it can be anyone, mother, daughter, son, Nana, husband, partner, girlfriend, boyfriend, dad, sister, brother or friend. (get it) any reason in the world. I'm gonna give you three weeks to enter meaning this ends on 10th of march. when i get back from my trip to London i will pick my favourite and that person will receive a gift bought from the arts and crafts show that i just happen to have tickets to lol (cant wait!!) picture taken by curlgirl1 on flicker I'll start by telling you why i love....well....my hole family, its mostly because their dysfunctional, crazy and all we do day in day out is wind each other up. its are way of showing just how much we love each other. Secon...

Just logging in to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Take care of yourselves and I'll see you all in the new year! :D SJ

OK so I'm really happy because my cards sold, i had my doubts! but they sold so.....Yeahy! I've started a new set to put out in the shop but haven't gotten to far et so nothing to show you guys other than the chocolate cake i baked tonight, recipe from my nan in london :) I dont think it will taste as good as my nans but it will have to do untill i get to go down and see her! :) Yum Chocolate!!!!!!

ok so as im writting this post outside there is a massive down fall of hail stones... i think winter has finally set in! The only bad news about this seeing as i love winter is that i walk to work on a morning and it takes me 45 minutes to get there so im guessing that im going to have to do some serious shopping and stock up on wooly jumpers and wool tights to keep myself warm! lol :) Ok so this is going to be my halloween post as i wont have time to post tomorrow. Im planning to watch horror movies with a friend and stuff my face with sweets and toffee apples! Yummy! I hope you all have a great halloween and i would love to know what you all have planned? Also despite having an eye infection this week and feeling like every time i blink my eyes are being cut with glass i have managed to get some more stitching done on 'the first day of spring' by sarah kay and i have found that i acctually have my stitching drive back! how good is my timing! hehe (if you ever get an eye infev...

...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

OK not all distractions but this one I'm sure you will all love ........ And lastly....................yummy This little distraction is inspired by a comment i got of Rosie from Hope Holistics , she was reading through my blog and got distracted by last years MR Christmas contest :) some of you will remember that (and yes there will be another one this year, more on that at a later date). Ok distraction over.....................................................................now, lol i would like to thank Ginnie, Rosie, Laura, sally and Glenna for your good luck wishes for my interview that was last weekend, however i did not get the job which to my surprise i am happy about because i don't think that i was ready to move so far away from home and leave behind my family and friends and most of all my guinnie pig skittles :). it was a good weekend and i made some memorable friends. I also learned that when your starving after two days of eating nearly nothing harib...

Hey everyone thank you so much for all your kind wishes :) I got my results for my A-Levels on Tuesday, and after refusing to open them at first, i found that i passed all four in classics, history, religion and general studies :) I'm really pleased and i thank you all again for wishing me well :D Now i know i promised something crafty in this post but i can show you what I've been up to just yet as my mum might see it and then it would be ruined. As soon as its done and given to her I'll finally let you see what I've been doing other than reading :D Oh yes and i also received an award from sally Thank you sally I'm glad you like my blog so much :) i love reading your comments! and i thank you for all your support :) The rules are: 1. Put the logo on your blog; 2. Add a link to the person who awarded you 3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs; 4. Add links to those blogs on yours; 5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. My nominees are: Steph at Chasing T...

wow, I never thought id get here but i have and its really quite amazing, I've have finally posted 100 posts including this one :) Although many of my older posts are out of order due to picture editing and some have been deleted completely from this blog this still counts as my 100th published post! Now i know its very popular to hold a give away on the 100th post but I'm not, and the reason for this Will become clear in a couple of posts time so you'll just have to wait and see :P I do have one thing that makes this post memorable to me and that is the completion of this.... Ladies and, well ladies, i give you the complete Christmas angles for the last time. i finished the back stitching just before i wrote this post and like many of you stitchers out there i hate back stitch. i actually fell asleep one evening doing it! but its all done now and that means i can start a new Christmas piece! yeah, i wonder what I'll do? Any suggestions? Edit: Also thought id try a ne...

Ok so i have'nt got anything crafty to show you as what i've been upto the last couple of weeks is a suprise for my 100th post which will be the post after this one :D, i cant believe i've writen 99 posts and am still addicted to this place :). I thought i would show you all some future projects that i am planning to take on when i've finished some of the ones that i already have going! I found these two books in the liberury and just fell in love with some of the patterns in them! This is a japanese inspired pattern that i want to do for my bedroom wall, the pattern is different and very pretty and appealed to my deep interest in asian culture :) And these are just some of the socks from this book that i want to make but first i have to learn how to knit with three needles :) which i think is going to be very interesting, fun and at times frustrating I not completely finished and ready for my hunderth post suprise so it might be a few more weeks before its done :) till...

First let me just say... Thank you, thank you, thank you and thank you stephanie i loved every thing you sent to me its all great! The quilting bee, a kit, chloe and louise stitchette is so cute and i cant wait to start it! The Embroidery stitching tool and glue look like their going to be very interesting in figuring out how to use them! :) And i really love the colours in the threads you sent, they are going to go to good use on some of the projects i have planned!! Thank you again steph you have just given me alot of things to do during the summer break and i cant wait to get started. Also thank you for your kind words in the letter you sent, i love visting your blog because it lifts my mood and i know its going to be new, colourful and interesting every time i vist!!

To make are last day in college memorable we all decided to go out on to the field during our free periods and play twister, trying to fly a kite and just some general messing around! The games of twister were quite fun but the kite did really wanna play lol We finally got it up in the end but i don't have a pic to prove it so you'll have to take my word on it XD. After finally being finished with all the revision and exams I've had time to nearly complete the Christmas angels project that has taken me a century to do lol All that needs doing now is the back stitching and then its done! yeahy hope your all having a good week

What's your favourite colour? do you have one, two or just colour in general ? Well mine is every colour imaginable because i love to look at busy , active colours like my new trainers! I love these babies, i never get board with Babycham because their just so cool and these only cost £20 which is not bad at all! I can't wait to wear them lol I've been starved of colour for the last two or three weeks because I'm a black and white note's revision type of girl so i also bought these as a small remainder of what colour looks like! lol . OK ladies if you haven't looked on eBay at the deals you can get on DMC threads then your crazy because i got these for 25p each and the seller has every colour and always has them in stock so go, look, spend and enjoy the fact that you haven't broken the bank in doing so (something students are good at is finding cheap deals) lol :p TTFN

Ok because of revision i have'nt done anything project wise so just to show you im still here i have done this little list that i got from janets blog! 1. What is your occupation? college student (yes the lazy ones who do no work and party all the time) 2. What color are your socks? now this is my occupation buying and collecting socks i have hundreds of them (not an over statement) but they have to be patterned lol 3.. What are you listening to right now? criminal minds on living TV 4. What was the last thing that you ate? Wildlife choobs 5. Can you drive a stick shift? I cant drive at all ! 6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Zoe my best friend 7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? i got it from Janet's blog and yes i like her she's cool! 8. How old are you today? 17 years 9 months and so many days! 9. What is your favorite drink? diet coke with ice, taboo, vodka and lemonade together (only on rare occastions) 10. What is your favorite sport to watch? ice ...

Have you ever noticed that no matter how good a picture is of yourself you cant help but be critical of the way you look, well i did the other night while i was at my best freinds. We decided that she needed some new pics for MySpace so we spent the night taking pics of her in total about 50. After we were done she got the camara and took a few of me(4) but i deleted them because i didn't like them lol! This one i love because it shows her fun, cheeky side And the one below i love because it shows just how pretty she is! Zoe is without a doubt my favourite model because she feels natural posing lol which helps alot with improving my pics! Have a funky week!

Last week was a bit slow as i had a tone of homework to hand in so i didn't get much stitching, reading or sewing done! But i did get my coursework results which have put me in a brill mood that with last a least a week as i got two B's yeahy!. However i did manage to get some stitching done on the christmas angel's not much but some... ... i only have a little left to do then i can start something new as im only allowed to have three cross stitches going at once (new rule i set for my self!) Have a nice week!!!! P.S. thank you all for your kind comments and for visting my blog!

I had a great time in london hanging out with my family, i only problem was that i forgot to take my camera so i could take any pic's which is really sad because i got to go to the natural history museum and i saw the dimond that Albert had recut for Queen Victoria and the arora dimond collection that glows in the dark. We also went to the Victoria and Albert museum, there was alot that i would risk going to prison for.lol I did make some progress on the stitching im doing at the minute, the unicorn is comming along nicely and the baby bee's, well thats making slow progress. These two are really lovely pattern's but they really do give you a head ache!

OK I've been tagged by Laura so its my turn to do this: 1. Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you. 2. Post THE RULES on your blog. 3. Post 7 weird or random facts about yourself on your blog. 4. Tag 7 people and link to them. 5. Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged. Seven random facts about me: 1.I always put things off until the last possible moment (this includes finishing coursework). 2.I hate clothes shopping with a passion. 3.I love colours and patterns but will only wear black, purple or brown. 4.I leave college in seven weeks and i have no idea what I'm going to do next. 5.I have a phobia of having my hair cut as I'm afraid that they will do it wrong and I'll have to have it all cut off (silly but true). 6.I have never seen any rocky or Rambo films which is considered a crime among my friends. 7.I'm afraid of the penguin in Wallace and Gromit (you know the one that pretends to be a rooster with the rubber glove, i...

Well today has to be the best day so far this year, why? you ask.There are three reasons 1) Is because of the beautiful gift i recived from sally , which i found waiting for me when i got home from college. This is my first stitched gift from a fellow blogger and i really love it, the design is really cute and i love the colours sally used, it's prefect for my machine bobbins, threads and needles. I alos recived some hand dyed floss. Thank you so much sally it is now sitting next to my sewing machine holding all my little bits and bobs! 2) Also when i came home i found three bags of new clothes from my mummy and new shoes all for my trip to london next week! 3)the wether was quite nice today after weeks a bad weather!lol sammyjo

My mum went out tonight so me and my sister thought we'd make her kitchen and her dogs victim to are cooking lol. We took a trip to ASDA and spent £10 on cooking supplies! We made cookie dough (Question: do americans eat this stuff or is it something differnt? would love to know so if you could clear this up for me i'd be greatful) Yum! Chel also made blue cakes, these things looked like little aliens when they were done lol Cute huh! I made easter themed ones that look like i've put creamed cheese on them lol(i havent i swear) And after we got stuck with the dishes lol Good night sammyjo