Allotment

 My dad had last week off work so started teaching Ben how to ride his bike without stabilisers ,Ben's been doing really well and I'm sure it wont be long before he finds his balance and is whizzing about .Especially with Molly to help .

 About 2 months ago i got a phone call offering me a allotment :) after lots of squeals of joy we accepted and I'm now the very proud owner of a allotment... yay! Its on land given to the people of the village by a mill owner so not owned by a council so we can pretty much do whatever we want with it we don't have to keep it neat and tidy and grow rows of turnips we can keep any animal we want on it even cows and pigs ! and we can have bonfires camp on it etc etc i so happy their isn't lots of strict rules its all very laid back . Ive got plans to get some raised beds and grow some yummy veg and plant lots of flowers but mainly leave it just as somewhere for me and the pixies to come and play and relax and enjoy the peace and quiet.

 This is my grown up girls Wendy house :) and me trying to dig a hole .

 This is the view from my allotment :) its so quiet with just the sound of the sheep chickens and ducks i love it ,i just wish summer would last another couple of months so i can enjoy it more .

 My dad found this at a charity shop for the pixies to play with on the allotment .

 Molly May relaxing with a book . She absolutely loves reading books shes not fussy what she reads i even found her reading one of my dads old maths exercise books , i think i should of called her Matilda.
This is the first ever plant to be planted on my allotment its a little raspberry plant a very proud moment however when we cam back the next day some naughty rabbits had eaten most of the leaves ! so we quickly put a little chicken wire fence round it to try and save the rest .

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 More little knitted cuties.

 Mr clown did have lots of green hair but i must not of attached it properly and now hes just got one green strand of hair but he doesn't seem to mind but I'm always finding him with his pants missing though !!

 the owl obsession continues :)

 Needle felted friends

 i bought this chair at a car boot sale it was a horrid dark wood stain colour but i loved the little heart cutout in the back of the chair . so after lots of sanding and painting it looks much better i think . i also made the spotty pink cushion.

 I bought some air drying clay for the pixies and while they sculpted monsters i made 3 little hearts .

 Yes more hearts ... these are made from clothes Ive bought from charity shops for the sole purpose of cutting up and making into lovely things .

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 These are all things ive made to brighten up Daisy and mollys bedroom they share together .

 Still havnt added' Mollys room' to the other heart ooopps!

 these are some wooden hearts off ebay i painted them added spotties and hug them up with some hairy string .

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  This is all the crafty things ive made in the last year and a bit, well most of it theres been the odd jumper knitted that accidentally got felted in the washing machine....oops!

 These little owlies are inspired by some i saw in a shop and money being tight i decided to make my own instead. Finding the perfect twig for them to sit on took longer than making the owls .

 Knitting is still my favourite crafty pastime its so relaxing and i love the slightly wonkey skwiffy little character that i create they look not much like the pictures in the book but i love them and the pixies defiantly love them.

 I made this little family of spotty monster in a weekend out of some super snuggly fleece.

 The little baby one is called Mumford after the band Mumford and sons which was on the radio just as i finished making him .

Daisy's 4th Birthday

Last weekend Daisy turned 4years old so as a treat for her birthday we went for a day at a wildlife park in the sunny forest of Bowland.
The little Meercat sat on the castle tower was my favourite :)

 Daisy pretending to be a Alpaca.

 not sure what the pixies ae doing here, the Alpaca looks very confussed !

 Daisy fell in love with this little chicky we spent a very long time stroking it and she wasnt even put off when it did a poop in her hand :)

 This is the closest so far ive come to having a photo of all 3 pixies all kind of looking the right way :)

 Daisy on the catterpillar ride which was brilliant fun a tractor pulled us on a track through the woods and we all got splattered with mud which Ben said was his favourite bit .

 A Wild boar baby.

a year and a big bit later ....

 Hurray! I've finally managed to get round to posting on my poor neglected blog :)
Its been about a year and 4 months ish since my last post and golly we've been busy ... we moved into our lovely new home last June   ,Ben started the village school last September and Daisy went to a lovely little pre school playgroup two doors up from our house .
Ive been busy trying to adjust to being a lone parent of 3 children which has taken a long while but i think finally I'm starting to find it easier .
 the photos are just a random selection of me and the pixies out and about , Ben might be at school some of the time but it doesn't stop us doing all the things we love doing as a family like exploring and crafting.