Friday I'm in Love

With: Sneaky coffee dates, be it with my Husband or my children(one at a time) there's nothing nicer than a good catch up and giving total attention to that one person. 

Preferably with coffee, hot chocolate and cake involved.

With: Finding a piece of a lost and slightly forgotten project, it gave me a huge smile and gave me a kick start into doing something joyous for me.

With: Finding beautiful flowers, uncaring about the cold and flinging their little naked bright coloured goodness around my fair city.

With: The trailer for Joss Whedon's take on Much Ado About nothing, has a huge geek and Joss fan there's so much amazing-ness in this trailer my little Winter froze brain cannot cope.

Even more it's my favourite Shakespeare comedy/romance. 

This film can not get to my cinema quick enough.

What are you loving on this dreary Friday?

I'm a little obsessed with...

..Fungi.

I see growth everywhere, spring into light tucked away in corners, growing on logs, in tree, popping up from the dewy grass.

Life, nature, growth. 

Circles, rhythms, patterns.

Amanda.x.

The One Where Amanda Gets Her Groove Back

So there was a time when I was a vibrant, bubbly, unstoppable lady full of ideas & smiles but then the never ending Winter arrived & that person vanished into her fluffy pompom slippers & PJs(but not a slanket, you have to draw the line somewhere). Smiles were by-passed for mumbles, aches, pains and really bad skin & hair.I believe I have the SAD disorder where your bady copes badly with a lack of Vitamin D & shuts down, the feeling of letharghy is horrid. 
The evidence below is plain to see, sad, old, grey mummy. 

Yucky Mummy.

But then something beautiful happened & on my birthday no less, THE SUN CAME OUT, & it stayed out I felt its warm glowing energy fill me up. Refeuled have I begun work again on building my own website for Maisielu, Spring cleaning the house to sell and generally doing some great stuff with my lovely family & friends.

Enjoying the park with Maisie & Lucas, I think Hubby 

was having more fun on this swing than they were.

Me(still looking haggered but joyful) at The Brickyard(local club) Homecoming gig, pictured with Little Stu who I've known for years & is quite talented but I wouldn't tell him that as his head wouldn't fit on a photo if I did.
He played as half of The Dementers, the other half being the another Stu who is very clever and amazing on guitar, they are based in Manchester now so its great to see them play & catch up. You can see footage of the gig here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9eJhvU6Pik sorry I wasn't that steady with the camera.

Maisie having a jog roung Hardwick Circus fountain in Carlisle,she's an adventure girl for sure, & tried to climb in a couple of times, those flowers smell devine.


Enjoy the tunes, & hopefully where ever you are some beautiful sunshine to remind you that life does go on.


Amanda.x.

Spring is here,Spring is here!

Awake, thou wintry earth -

Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!

~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

I hope you all had a lovely Easter, Spring has sprung in our house with some wonderful crafting, these were from a little Marks & Spencer craft set. My daughter had great fun with them, I especially like the chick with eggshell on his head. 
A Easter decoration for years to come I think.
And behind them the chillie plants we sowed in January, think they need transplanted now, jam for them I think.


Amanda.x.

WOW.
i thought i'd be alone in blogland for a long time and no one would be interested in my little crafty stories, and then today wham 6 followers and a comment. it's strange for this thrills me and also fills me with terror that other people can see that i'm a crafts person now, its hard to put your handmade stuff out there for public display after holding back for so long,
does anyone else feel this way?

i thought i leave a personal photo for today of my maisie boo, this sums up the season for me at the moment spring all wrapped up waiting to come out leaving winter behind it.
Spring is almost here i can smell it, or at least i can almost taste that strawberry.

Hi there blog, sorry i left you for so long i've been busy making these little things...

opening my shops on www.misi.co.uk and www.folksy.com, making more beautiful things(pictures to follow soon), doing my first craft fair, looking after little boo, getting my head around setting up my own business, chasing maisie boo, and generally thinking about the person i wish to develop into.

I hope to keep you as a new friend on my adventures into craft and blogging, and see where it all takes me, hopefully on a wonderful journey.