the mighty soy bean

Did you know there is such a thing as a candle made from soy beans?  There is.  How very strange.
I’m a bit of a sucker for a nice candle and having spied these soy candles I must admit to being a little curious as to how a wax product can be made from a soy [...]

a word of advice from the not so wise

Yesterday I did something that I am now regretting.  I went out for the evening and didn’t come home until 2am…oops!
If you’ve not yet experienced the full horror of children you won’t appreciate that 2am is not a respectable time to be coming home at.  It’s not at all big or clever.  There’s some sort [...]

creating bad karma

Sometimes I’m not very nice.  Sometimes I cannot be bothered smiling and being sickly sweet with people who seem to do nothing but stab me in the back and pretend they’re being nice but somehow manage to ooze hatred through every pore in their body.  It’s an effort and that’s hard when I’ve already expended [...]

confession

I have just realised that it’s now been more than a week since my last confession post and people have been coming and reading my blog, no doubt expecting a new post, probably with pictures of a finished rag doll, and I have disappointed.
I’m so sorry.  I haven’t done any more work on the doll [...]

arty farty

This weekend I have mostly been ironing plastic bags and making a wig…I know, I know you think I’ve gone slightly bonkers.  Honest I’ve not.  Let me explain.
The plastic bag ironing thing was brought to my attention by this fantastic tutorial at the Etsy Labs blog.  I don’t even know how I came to find [...]

cool custom avatars

If you’re into customising your mobile (cell phone) ringtone or if you just want a half hour of fun this might be of interest to you.
Wirefly is apparently the internet’s leading seller of cell phones and wireless plans and has some good offers on phones if you’re in the market for a new phone or an updated [...]

hell fire and damnation (and the paradoxical baby shoes)

Hell Fire and Damnation 
As I left work last night and headed off across the car park in my state of ‘I really shouldn’t be driving home but I have no choice’ I noticed some smoke coming from the woods next to the car park and a gang of youths surrounding a pile of pallets that [...]

look out, crabby mummy alert

Last night it was my turn to succumb to the evils of our devil child.  I was awakened at 3:30am by her squeals of delight, rapidly followed by her moans of going back to sleep and only seconds later by her screams of “help me mummy I’m sore”.  It was 4am when I finally gave [...]

road trip

Last weekend Iona and I accompanied my parents on the 250ish mile trip to my gran’s house.  My gran hasn’t been keeping very well and we all wanted to check on her to make sure she was OK.  Turns out she’s not quite as bad as my uncle (her youngest son) made her out to [...]

erm…what’s the best thing about blogging?

Apparently I’ve been tagged by Alasdair and I have to write about the best things about blogging.  I feel all warm and included now…
So, I’m trying to think about what’s good about blogging and do you know I’m struggling.  I couldn’t think why it is that I spend hours of my precious time writing about [...]