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Some Friends Are………

5 July, 2010 by Heather

………..a bad influence. Take Sally for instance, she’s been put in the naughty corner; actually I never put her there, she took herself there, along with her stash LOL

Sally updated her blog with her latest purchases and one in particular caught my attention, Poinsettia Tree by LHN and so I popped along to Down Sunshine Lane to take a look. I never came across that particular design, but I did stumble upon Robin Hood and with my 7 year old daughter standing behind me at the time ‘oh Mummy look, Robin Hood, I want it NOW. Please Mummy I love you very much’ and Marion got her wish. I purchased it, along with some more Piecemaker needles because I’m on my last one and I’ve been wanting to purchase some more for a while (it was a bit pointless just purchasing needles on their own).

Not that I mentioned anything on my blog, but Marion and the rest of the year 3 went to Sherwood Forest on a 3 day camp. They stayed in the youth hostel and all the rooms are named after characters from Robin Hood. Marion and 3 others were in Guy of Gisborne. She had a fantastic time, saw where Robin is buried, measured trees, did rubbings and various other activities. This chart will just add to the memory for her.

Anyway while she was away, I did some more stitching on the letter I and this is how far I’ve got. It’s almost complete, so I may sit and finish it tomorrow evening.

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Alphabet UFO

1 July, 2010 by Heather

The other day when I was looking for the chart for my blackwork Japanese lady, I came across my alphabet sampler, which hasn’t seen the light of day for many years.

It’s by The Cross Eyed Cricket.

I forgot to take a ‘before’ photo, but I finished stitching the ‘H’ and have started on the ‘I’. I haven’t done much, but I plan on sitting down tonight and stitching as much as I can.

I still haven’t found the chart or one of the colours for my Japanese Lady, so it looks like I might have to purchase another kit so that I can complete it. When the kit arrives, I plan on stitching on her until she’s finished, because she’s half completed.

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Bullying

28 June, 2010 by Heather

I completely agree Missy about it being harder to do than say. The boy is still doing it, telling anyone that comes to knock for Marion that they’re not allowed to play with her because she was mean to him (she called him a loser) and he couldn’t understand how anyone would want to be friends with her after that.

As a victim of bullying in primary school myself, I know all too well what is going on in her mind.

The boys used to spit at me and call me names because my surname was Heeps and I can still remember my so-called friends trying to strangle me with my satchel strap and me running up the school field hardly able to breathe just to get to my Mum waiting at the gate. It took 2 parents a knife to get it off me and the following day the headmaster blamed me for their actions.

I was able to ignore them at school, I just took a book into the playground, sat on the wall in the corner and stuck my nose in it until the end of playtime. Apparently they’re not allowed to take books to read in the playground at this school (even if it’s one from home).

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The Bug is Back

24 June, 2010 by Heather

Or it is at the moment.

As the kids were let out of school yesterday half an hour early for the England football match, Marion went to play out on her bike. Two of the kids were also on their bikes and she went to go and play with them and they started being nasty to her, calling her names, telling her that her bike was childish and rubbish and then her friend Megan ended up being called names by them too. I did tell them both to ignore them and just stay away, afterall bullies want the attention.

Then Megan left to go ice skating and Marion to Activ8 and she went on her bike. When I returned, Alex and Jasmine saw me, but didn’t realise Marion wasn’t with me and they both yelled “quick, let’s get out of here before she sees”. When I got to the front door I noticed an A4 sheet of paper hanging out the letterbox. They’d drawn a no entry sign and put Marion’s &; Megan’s names inside it; to the right of that they’d put “you are suckers” and then underneath all of that “you are not aloud on the drive”. Of course the pair of them had gone hiding into their houses.

While Marion was at Activ8 I went to look for a new needle and found a chart I thought I’d got rid of and I just decided that would be small enough to get my teeth into, to get me back into stitching.

When we came back from Activ8, Jasmine and Alex were back out playing, so I said something to them about expecting better from them and that I didn’t appreciate the note I’d found, Jasmine stopped to listen to me, but Alex just had a stupid grin on his face and carried on riding his bike, she strongly denied having anything to do with it, but I’m sure she egged him on because she’s that kind of girl (all sweetness and light, but with a mean nasty streak) as she’d said earlier on that nobody else was allowed to play on the street, only her and Alex. It doesn’t matter who wrote it, I didn’t appreciate it and I made sure they both knew that their parents would be informed if they did anything like it again.

Megan’s Mum was none too pleased either, but we told the girls to be the bigger person, ignore them and just stay away from them when they’re playing together.

I looked through my fabric and came across this one from Dyeing4U (it’s a great shame they’re not still around) called Innocence. I’m using a hand dyed thread, but there was no name or colour on the label. So this is as far as I’ve got – anyone got any ideas as to the chart design?

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Back to Blogspot (for a while)

21 June, 2010 by Heather

Well here I am back on blogspot, but obviously a completely new blog (I’m still locked out of my other one after 2 years of trying to get them to work out that it wasn’t a spam blog 😦 ) , moving back from WordPress.

Over the half term holiday they had to do a painting, collage or drawing of a flower related thing. Marion had seen a water lily in a pond somewhere and that’s what she wanted to do as a collage. I drew and cut out the butterfly, but the rest was all her doing with some help from her Granny.

Here she is showing off her masterpiece:

She was invited to a birthday party yesterday and she knew that Kieran likes pirates, so she asked me if she could make him a pirate birthday card, so I gave her the bits she needed and helped her a little, but here she is with the finished card:

Here’s a close up pic of the birthday card and we found out on the way to school this morning that he was thrilled to bits with it.

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A Baby Boy

11 February, 2010 by Heather

My Cousin is now the proud father to Thomas Andrew.

Congratulations Andrew and Claire.

I’ve got to find something in boy colours to make a card.

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Winnie The Pooh

10 February, 2010 by Heather

This design was a freebie in one of the magazines. The card was included, but I just decided that it needed a little extra something to make it stand out, so I added the little pearls to each corner.

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