Sunny Saturday and oops! I forgot to put this one on a post before...

A couple of weekends ago I was lucky enough to be out and about with my gorgeous fella and he spotted this fabulous place on a sign. Mummy heaven, vintage items coming out of my ears, cupcakes and bunting too. What more could a girl want lol
If you hop on over the Happy Loves Rosie she has some more lovely photos of it all scroll down too 10th of May and have a looksie. (but it's out little secret shhh!)
I've signed up to their new letter so hoping there will be another one very soon, I'll start saving the pennies now, there was so many things I wanted to get. I did come away with a vintage pillow case that I plan to sew a pretty fabric edge on. Photos when I'm done. x

Now on to sunny Saturday, there is something special about hanging the washing out on an old vintage wooden airier, this is my latest yummy find on Ebay and the funny thing is it came all the way from Oxfordshire I seem to be drawn to that area Cheltenham being my favourite place and I've made a lovely new friend from buying this so if you've time pop and have a look at Sam's Ebay page The Gates Ajar for lots more lovely vintage goodies. Thanks Sam for all the trouble you went to in posting me the gorgeous airier. You're a sweetie. And I'll pop the photos of the girls playing tents with it very soon. They had hours of fun and the cats had a look too lol

It was the perfect day to strip the girls beds too and get it all out on the line.

Here are the little ones having a nature lesson from big sister Jade, bugs, bees and butterflies. And snails, snails and more snail so many I've thought about collecting them and selling them for escargots, any offers? lol (sorry to any veggies).
I just don't want them eating all our yummy veg we're growing. Tips on getting rid humanely all welcome x

With the weather being so nice the girls got out the sandpit and turned our patio into their own private beach hehe!

I'm not the sort of mum that gets in a fuss over a little sandy mess and love to watch them express their creative sides. It can all get swept up after.

So it was a lovely sunny restful Saturday, nice not to have to rush around anywhere and just stay in and enjoy our home together.

I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend.

Hugs.

Catherine x

Getting his hands dirty lol

Last week one of Ben work friends offered us some of their left over turf and looking at the state of our poor weed and moss excuse of a lawn he jumped at chance and said yes please we're take it. So a big thank you to Mirja you are very kind and as you won't take any money for it because you where very happy that it will be used and not dumped, I'll be baking up a batch of yummy cupcakes for you to enjoy. Just as a way of saying thank you for your kindness.


As you can see Ben had plenty of help with the job in hand. Thomas sat on the garden table keeping an eye on everything happening.
Daisy's pointing where each piece needs to go. "over there Daddy" "no right a bit, no left a bit"

Two little foremen over seeing all the work being carried out by their Daddy. "Good job would you like tea?"

Daisy's wearing the right protective footwear, one welly and one dolly shoe, both on the wrong feet, just right for working in the garden. And Jim-jams a gardening must have hehe! This seasons new look.
Now on to the watering, no! not the cats lol run Thomas!

That's better just like Daddy. Sprinkle, sprinkle.

After a lot more watering the lawns looking nice and green. Now the girls will have somewhere nice to run and play on. And Ben can stand back and say I did that. I think he enjoyed it really getting his hands dirty. But he'd never say so.

Any tips on helping it grow would be very grateful, we have been watering it every evening and the joins are starting to disappear, so fingers crossed it will all take. Can you see our compost bin in the corner, I was over the moon when that arrived. What with all the recycling we do and now composting I'm pleased to say that our rubbish is down to only one or two small bags a week. I only wish the rest of the road did the same. It makes my blood boil when I see 5 or 6 black bin bags outside one house. Oh well I can't change the world but I can do something about in my own home and teach our girls the right way to do things. After all it's their future we're doing it for.

The going green bug continues and now we have pots of onions, herbs and strawberries. I'd like to get some tomato plants as well. And then one day chickens for eggs but not while we live here. For now we're happy with our very little plot of veg, fruit and herbs. Every little helps and the taste of home grow is the best.

I'll post some photos later next week of all the new plants and pots.

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend. Lets hope the sun shines for all of us.

Thanks again for all the get well messages, I'm feeling much better now and have just a bit of a cough left. So I'm nearly right as rain.

Hugs.

Catherine x

I'm in a hall of fame!

Thank you everyone for your get well messages, I'm still full of this nasty old bug and sitting here trying to type through sneezing, coughing and watery eyes. Oh moan, moan this is defiantly the man flu lol So I'm keeping warm, dosed up, plenty of hot drinks, tlc and telly watching. And I'll get over it soon. Reading all your messages help too, many thanks x

Now I have to share this with you, I entered the Cath Kidston paint an egg competition back in April. I didn't win sadly but look where I got too. Wow I'm in her Hall of Fame. If you click on the picture mines the green egg with little brown bunnies and flowers on it. Top right corner second one in. This has made my day. Did anyone else enter this competition? would love to see your eggtrants lol

I've been tagged today by the fabulous Tillyboo over at 23BeecHill thanks hun, I'll have a go.

And will try to send it onto another 6 of my favourite bloggers.

Here goes.

What was I doing 10 years ago 1998: My first daughter Jade was 3 and at playgroup so I was working part time at New Look as a sales adviser. I was a very small size 8 and could eat anything I fancied (awww those where the days lol).

What are the 5 things on my to-do-list for today (not in any particular order): Get washing on and hung out in the sunshine. Sit and do my blog and read all my favourites leaving comments on them. Take cold/flu medicine every 3-4 hours. Try and get some pegs painted for an order thats awaiting. Sit and sew while watching some old films. Rest and plenty of it.

Snacks I enjoy: Biscuits, Bananas, Cheese on toast and Cupcakes yum!

Things I would do if I where a billionare: I'd give to 3 different charties every year. Start a rescue home for battery hens. Buy a family home not to big just 5 beds, nice garden with room for a summer house, play area, veggie and fruit patch and chickens and Indian running ducks. The kitchen would have to have a Aga, butler sink, wooden work tops, barn door and wood burner. The bathroom big enough for a roll top bath and comfy chair. A playroom for the girls, work room for Ben, studio for me. And a attic bedroom for Jade with her own en-suite (she's a teenager and needs her space lol). We'd have to have a little holiday home by the seaside and beach hut, I'm thinking Whitstable or Broadstairs as they are our favourites. All the family could come and use it. We'd make sure that rest of our family are comfortable for the rest of their lives. As they've all given so much to us it would be lovely to return their kindness. I'd pay for Jade to go to the Brits School as it's one of her dreams. Ben would open a cattery, it's something he's always wanted to do. And me I'd set up a cupcake bakery with gift shop selling lots of beautiful handmade items and nothing from China! Well that was fun to dream and I forgot about my illness while dreaming of all these fab things. And who knows maybe this time next we're all be billionaires hehe!

Places I've lived: Maidstone Kent, East Malling Kent, London, Tonbridge and Chatham (for now).

Ok so now I have to pass it on to 6 other people, sorry if you've been tagged aready and not to worry if you just can't be arsed! lol

Tracey - tcalamity

Natalie - Summer By The Sea

Florence - Flossie Teacakes

Steph - Curlew Country

Alison - Vintage amethyst

Sophie - Sophie Stansfield Designs

In one of my other posts I said about looking for a new car well here it is. Ben's new baby lol We've called it Jack hehe! and isn't it lovely all new and shiny. Our poor old car will sadly be sold off for scrap, it has done us proud. But it was time to say goodbye to the old and hello to the new. And as Ben does all the driving, it's only fair he has something he's comfortable in and we had out grown the old car. Now Ben jokes there is even enough room for a real bubba Jack! hehe! it would take a whole lot of sweet talking and a sparkly thing for that to happen, this miss Mollycupcakes is happy baking only yummy cupcakes not bubbas (for now wink, wink).

Thank you again for all your lovely get well comments, they really mean a lot to me x

Hugs from arms length.

Catherine x

A lovely fair, some pretty find and a corner of our house.

On Thursday Mr Mollycupcakes had the day off work so we could all drive over the Decorative Living Fair in Eridge Park. It was featured in last months Period Living Mag and I really recommend going next year if you're in the area. The whole setting was beautiful.

Just have a look at that view, wow it took my breath away. And look at all that bunting I'd died and gone to heaven with all that hanging around. lol

There was lots of lovely stalls with handmade items and beautiful plants for sale. Inside the marquee behind Molly and I in the photo and in the house too. One of the rooms was full of Carloine Zoob items and I forgot to take my 10% voucher with me oh well there is always next time. Another room had a stall with lovely fabrics and buttons. And Daisy wasn't to keen on one of the rooms and got very scared of it. Saying No!, No! then we walked into it, very odd. She was fine once we'd gone through but we had to walk back to get out and once again she got scared holding on to me and snuggling into my neck. How strange, she must of felt something we couldn't. Spooky!

Back outside there was a beautiful herb and flower garden the girls enjoyed running around and around that. Smelling lavender, mint and other pretty flowers. There were lots of my favourites tulips, stocks, scabious and pansies. Even on a grey old day like that it all looked lovely.

We came away happy and after saying goodbye to the lambs and sheep (sorry I forgot to put those photos on). They where in the two fields leading up to the house and came right up to the car. The girls loved that and screamed with delight when they started bleating at their silly mum who thinks she can talk to the animals lol (yes that's me lol). Just call me Mrs Dolittle.

Here are the goodies I got. A lovely egg box which I've been after for a while and will have to paint, some pretty ribbon, Gabriella Miller tea towel and below a lovely strawberry plant. So we're hoping that in a few weeks time we're be able to show you our very own yummy strawberries. Fingers crossed, they will be our first go at growing our own fruit. We have to do it in a pot because there are so many other cats around as well as our own ones and our gardens the size of a shoe box. No real room for vegs and fruit :(

I'll keep you updated on it's growth.
I'll end with some nice finds from boot fairs and charity shops. Cute plate for 20p, fabulous Famous Five books 85p the lot, I'm reliving my childhood with them, my mum used to read them to me before bed. A classic Wuthering Heights, timeless. And at 10p I couldn't leave it behind.

Some wild flowers we collected on a walk around our local country park in a 50p cup and a lovely cake stand from good old Oxfam £1.50

Pretty plates and cup and saucer for only £2.00 and yes more Famous Five 10p each, it's rude not bring them home. Lastly another classic, Jane Austen's Emma. I hope our little girls will enjoy these books when they are old enough to read them. For now their older sister Jade will take pleasure in reading them along with me.

I hope you've all had a nice weekend even though the sun left us and it was a grey old time. I'll catch up with all of you over the week.

I'm off now to have another coffee, some flu medicine and another taped episode of Grey's Anatomy. Yes I'm sickie with the nasty cold/flu bug yuk! I don't normally get colds but this ones got a good hold of me with it's runny nose, cough, sore throat, headaches and aches and pains. God I hate being ill and have no time for it. And poor Ben hates seeing me like this and wants to just stay home and look after me. But I say "no honey you go to work it's fine" ( secretly between me and you, I'd love him to have the day off so I can just snuggle in bed). And get well. I know I'll get loads of TLC when he gets home and look forward to that, it's the best tonic. The love of my man and the smile on his face when he sees me.

I nearly forgot here's a corner of our kitchen, it's my favourite shelf with lots of pretty plates, cups and saucers on it, a hanging wooden heart garland and some metal chickens.

I hope you're all bug free and enjoying the start to the week.

Arms length hugs.

Catherine x

A Sunny Bank Holiday.

Firstly I have to say sorry for being a rubbish blogger of late, the days are just running into one another. But I have been checking in on everyone and leaving comments for you all. I've just been bad at not doing my own post.
This ones full to the brim with lots of lovely photos of our Bank Holiday weekend last week, so I hope you enjoy it all.

Here is Jade getting the girls ready for the off. The sun is shining and we're off to the seaside. Yeay! they all cried.

We thought somewhere different, so Margate was chosen. And what a nice day to visit. There was a music and arts festival on. Live music from these guys was our favourite, they were very good. I love to hear the violin played well. And they where fabulous at it.

Bless this busker he was funny and you can see Jade and Daisy popping a few coins in his case. Daisy didn't quite understand that you couldn't take out any change for what she'd put in lol

And who said that if you can play the guitar and harmonica you're a genius but add some cymbals and your a mad man lol He was very entertaining and not a mad man at all. And didn't get mad even when a flaming group of hip hop rubbish set up just a few feet from him, he just turned up his volume and carried on. Good on him we said, his music was a lot nicer than that horrible noise from that other lot. (I must be getting old hehe!).

Further down the road there was some dancing bananas, which the girls where scared of and so was Ben don't look at them he kept saying lol
And there was a few crafty stalls to look at.

Where we got chips from someone had made these lady figures out of shells. Aren't they pretty? You could buy them too. I over heard a lady telling her little girl she wanted one for their back garden and the little girls face was a funny site of "are you mad Mum"? hehe!

Daisy and Molly loved them and had a great time in running around them in circles, much to Ben's distress. He was scared they'd knock shells off them but they just enjoyed it even more once Daddy had said no! stop running around them. Poor Ben they do listen sometimes lol

Bellies full of yummy seaside chips we headed for the beach. On the way stopping to look at this art work on a wall. Daisy seemed to be fascinated by it. I think it was all the colours, it was very pretty. Aww an art critic already at such a young age.

There they go off to the sea for some paddling. While Ben and I have a sit and chat.

And then they're back again for some digging and cold drinks.

Then more digging. Well eating of the sand in Daisy's case, (oh I give up telling her not too lol). As she just looks and laughs then carries on. sigh!
We finished our seaside day with yummy ice-creams. Lovely!

The next day brought lots of fun and bouncing at the Kent County Fair. Tickets booked we hoped for a sunny, dry day and got one.

In one of the tents there was a rabbit show and one of the biggest bunnies I've ever seen. He was so soppy and soft. But I wouldn't fancy picking him up, would you? You'd put your back out or something.

You can imagine my delight when Ben spotted the sign that read "Hold a chicken" for 50p well we gave the little lad £1.50 because he was so sweet and told us all about his beloved chickens. And let all of us have a stroke.

Molly and Daisy would of stayed there all day given half a chance. And I'd of been right there with them. Bless him he was talking to her the whole time and feeding her too. She seemed a very happy chicken and I want one of these breeds now more than ever.

She's called a Lavender Pekin, she didn't have a name but if she was mine I'd call her bunty after my favourite thing bunting hehe!

Isn't she lovely. So soft and gentle. There was a photo above the girls one but silly me I've just deleted it when moving them closer together. But in it my face just says it all. I'm as happy as a pig in mud lol

In the chicken tent there was all sorts of other chickens for sale, oh I wish we could of bought the lot. Especially the little chicks aww so cute. One day my dream will come true. For now I have this fabulous day to remember. Did I say I loved the chickens lol

The rest if the day was just as nice and the girls enjoyed a fun ride with Daddy on this little train. I think Ben enjoyed it too ;)

There was lots going on to stop and watch, tractor and horse parades, dog trials, people going up in this ride that you wouldn't get me on in a millions years hehe! it was like a bungee jump in a metal cage, not nice and I wouldn't of paid £10 for it. Mad people!

Anyway after a yummy burger, sausage in a roll, some chips, homemade cakes and lots of free testers in the food and craft tent. And some more bouncing on a big yellow castle for the girls. Enough was enough and we set off home. All tuckered out but smiling of the fun day we'd all had. If your ever around for this fair I'd recommend it.

Our Monday was spent popping to a boot fair, a pub lunch and a look at the new shiny Cath Kidston shop in Tunbridge Wells. Ended by some car shopping (yes ours is on it's last legs but more about that another time).

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and I won't leave it so long in between posts next time.

Big hugs everyone.

Back next week with news of this weekend and lots of lovely items from the postman and fairs we've been too.

I'm so glad the sun's shining, everything seems so happy.

Catherine x