Oh why did you have to rain today?

This was the beautiful weather for last years first old rectory sale, they hold about 3 a year and this one was gorgeous sunshine but today's sale was no where near as a pretty picture. Sadly the heavens opened up on the way over and poured and poured some more when we got there. Fingers crossed for the next one in a couple of months time.

We didn't let it dampen our spirits and trooped on, looking through the wonderful rooms filled with anything and everything vintage. Little Granny came along this time, as she'd spied the poster for it on our fridge and jumped at the chance to come along for a nosy around. She bought us all cake to put even bigger smiles on our wets faces before we left. I came away with the beautiful eiderdown photoed above, it was my very last buy of the day and actually Ben took me back there before they closed to get it as I'd ummmed and awwwed about it and watched as it got wetter and wetter under the console table it was hiding on. Until i said to myself no be happy with what you've got already. But that lovely man of mine took me back and i said if it's there it's meant to come home with us. And it was, i think no one else had bothered to pick it up due to the pouring rain because as luck would have it there was only a tiny piece of it wet. And no marks or rips on it anywhere and at £35 it wasn't going to break the bank. I love it and am so happy to have gone back for it, it will be coming to feather down farms on our next holiday there in a couple of months. Just right for snuggles under the stars, don't you think?

I think i had my very pretty eyes on today because i also got these lovely 2 items, a old fashioned pinny and very flat seat cover. Which I'll be refilling and making all plump again.

I picked these red knitting needles up in our local little junk shop. Maybe now i have them i can finally learn to knit lol and i just couldn't leave the real French Bonne Maman jar with it's price in franks on it. I'll fill it with buttons or cotton reels very soon. Photoed them while the light was good, so i thought I'd share them too.

Now back to the sale and yes more books came home with us. We still have most (well nearly all )our books still packed away in boxes, as we can't put up any shelves they've kind of been forgotten. It's just finding that right book case. No luck at the sale today. The one i did see was already sold. One will come along that's right for us and it's fun looking in the mean time.

And even more fun adding to our collection lol The Country Compendium and Poultry Practice are for my farmer Ben. Did you know that a flock of crows are called a murder? And a clutch or chattering of chicks. It's good to know these things they may come in handy one day LOL

The cupcakes collection is growing bigger and bigger by the week too. They will need a bigger book case soon in their bedroom. And choosing a bedtime story is getting harder each time. One of my favourites is Alice in wonderland, this book is filled with the most fabulous pictures and i love the eat me, drink me part. And who knows Topsy and Tim? I've never heard of these before and am so glad I've found them now. They are just adorable little books. I can't wait to read them to the cupcakes. Their rosy cheeks put a smile on the dullest of days like today. Come sun don't hide away. Please come out tomorrow after a good nights rest lol

And on that note, it's time for me to wish you a good night and go and get a cuppa decaf myself.

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend, what did you do? and where did you go? I'll catch up with you all in the week.

Ps. To Mandy my friends swap buddy, sorry I'm so crap and didn't get out to the post office last week. Please forgive me, it will be posted bright and early tomorrow. X

Hugs,

Fabric Friday

I was just sorting through my fabric box and i thought I'd share some of it with you all. I also won this fab book that I've been after for a while now on good old Ebay. Now i just have to choose something from it and make a start. lol

I had a fab Wednesday out with the ever so lovely Claire from pixie land. Even though i was some what car, air and about everything sickie. Thankfully i wasn't actually sick. I think it was the close weather that day. I still managed to have a fab time and it soon went then we got to this wonderful shop, look at the pretty fabric i got in Miss CK's. Only £12 a metre, bargain! This will be on my craft table at the 2 fairs I'm doing this Spring and Summer. I also came away with a dress for Molly, Stanley cushion for Daisy and new purse for me. Happy times lol Thanks Claire for spending the day with a nearly ever so ill miss cupcake. We must do it again soon. Big hugs, X

Now my stash of fabric is no where near as wonderful as some of yours and i never know really know what I'm going to make with the pieces i buy. But they all get used in the end. I do hope that my lovely swap partner Mandy likes her handmade items, i really want to show you photos off it all but will wait until she's received it first.

For now here is some more of my pretty pieces.

Have a good weekend and enjoy what ever your doing.

Hugs,

FREINDS x

The postman knocked twice and handed me a huge box and little what was inside. A lovely range of wrapped goodies from my Friends swap partner. Thank you Mandy everything is lovely.

But my favourite things are the pom pom chicken egg cosy, pretty shopping bag, dotty hanging chicken and little blue embroidered box. I really hope you like all the handmade items I'm sending you this week. And please forgive any wobbly stitches, because I've made you 2 new things that i haven't made before.

Another thank you to Beki for doing this lovely swap idea and well done on it being your first. Hugs honey.

Lastly look what i won, some yummy smelling handmade soaps. I never win anything so was over the moon when i won the giveaway on Charlie's blog Thank you they look and smell lovely. Go checkout her Etsy shop and treat yourself to a little slice of heaven.

Going to go now, feeling a little ruff and sickie. I think it's the close weather.

Hugs everyone x

Fire up Monday nights

Oh how i love Monday nights now that Ashes to Ashes is back, after over a years wait. The only thing is i don't want it to end now, if they make me wait another year to find out if Alex Drake gets back to her Molly, I'll scream lol

There is something about the 80's. The clothes, hair and music. Oh to be that young again.

I'd of liked to work a long side DCI Hunt, is it just me or is there something about him? Please tell me I'm not the only one that finds him oh so yummy. (sorry Ben) i know you like DI Drake too lol

And have you seen him in the Calender girls? he's soo young. Fabulous film, i got it for my Mummy on Mothers day and she's watched it loads.

Roll on next week's episode x fire up the Quattro

Spring pegs, some fab finds, some chickens, May fair fun and growing something new on the allotment.

Mollycupcakes as gone all green. With my new apple green colour for Spring. These dotty pegs will be in my new washing line range. The sets will be varnished to protect them in all weathers and i think will brighten up those grey washing days. Pretty pegs hung a line of freshly washed linens would put a smile on my face any day lol
Watch out for these little lovelies and some other items in this fabulous apple green http://www.mollycupcakes.co.uk/

A couple of weekends ago we picked up little Granny and went off to the Delting fair. Not much there this time but i did get a few nice bits. Another pudding bowl, don't how many of these i really need lol i must have about 5 or 6 now hehe! A cute red handled melon baller and butter pads, for when one day i can make my own butter blocks from our cow Florence (a girl can dream). I can just see me now in a green polka dot dress, straw in my hair, red wellies and a chicken under one arm lol
We ended our trip with a little picnic next to some sheep in a field, yummy sandwiches, juice and naughty cakes from little Granny. Perfick!

Now on to last Saturday, off we went to Badger-hill-farm, it's sort of our second home in the Spring and Summer months. We've been there so many times now they will know what we want before we order it lol

Ben loves the ploughman's, i love the cream tea (but have their real coffee instead) and the cupcakes big and small love any of the cakes.

And we all love the chickens lol

Cheeky lot they'll eat anythings that is going or on offer lol Daisy wasn't to keen on the cockerel's because they are just about the same height as her and she thinks they are going to eat her fingers hehe! But miss Molly and Jade just try to pick them all up for cuddles. Good luck girls they can run faster than you LOL

Any way we had a lovely time, it's well worth a visit if you're in the area or on you're way to or from Canterbury.

Rochester saw it's Sweeps festival this weekend and the weather was so nice on Saturday it was packed out in the town that's why we went off somewhere else instead. But on Sunday it was a little more unsettled until the afternoon. So i took the cupcakes big and small off down there to see all the Morris and May pole dancers. Go on the fair ground rides and eat candy floss.

Up in the castle grounds where the fair was we came across a fabulous fairy tent and paid the pixie on the door £2 a cupcake and then spent 45 mins listening to a fairy tell us a story of how making fairy crowns came about. And then we got to make our own. Making the wild flowers out of tissue paper because you can't pick any of the wild flowers for real.

Aren't they lovely even big sis made one. And she worn it all the way home too. She looks just like a fairy princess.

You can find out all about the fairy tents and wild flowers here and maybe even find the inner fairy in you.

I had to share with you this new sort of Daisy we're growing ready to plant up at the allotment. It's a very rare Daisy, the giggling and cheeky kind LOL She likes to be fed sweets and drinks lots of juice. Place in a sunny spot and water well...

No really this was the sight that i was greeted with yesterday afternoon, while sitting in doors chatting to little Granny and having a coffee. Miss Daisy flower with the help of Miss Mollycupcake. Dug a small hole in the garden, just big enough for tiny feet to stand in and filled it with rain water from our water butt. The words "oh my god" came from me and "look Mummy get the camera" from Daisy lol well how could i be cross with that. 3 photos later and she was in the house, washed feet and hands (because they couldn't be left out of the muddy water, sigh!) and she was all sparkly clean again. I just used to make mud pies and cakes not paddle in it. What will she get up to with the help of Molly next? Her skin is very soft now, so mud really does work. lol

Just to end this ever so long post, not bored yet are you? hehe! here are a couple of photos of our little patch at the allotments. And they don't look like this any more. Ben has planted lots of different veg.

And we've helped Fern (our neighbour that owns it) with clearing other parts too, which we can now use also. I love the digging, it's so good to see it all weed free. Argh! it's the good life for this cupcake family.

I'll get more new photos over the weekend, that's if the sun shines.

Have a lovely weekend.

And to all of you fabulous blogger's in my blogs i love to read list, sorry if I've not been keeping up with you, it's just been so busy here. And thank you and big hugs and love from the bottom of my heart to each and every one of you in it and those of you that leave me lovely comments. And i will try very hard to get back to you other the next few weeks.

Cupcake wishes to all x x x

Love x

I think the photo speaks for it's self lol

And this is just one of our cat Thomas's bad habit's lol

Hope you all had a lovely bank holiday, i think I'm about ready for the one at the end of the month now too. Why can't they run form the Friday to the Monday? wouldn't that be nice.
Hugs,

Oh to be a winner! but runners up place isn't all that bad

A while a go i made this Mothers Day card and emailed it to the lovely Cath Kidston for the make a mothers day card competition.

To my surprise here it is in the runners up photo, it's 4th down from the top on the right. (can you see it!) lol I can't believe i made it on to here again, does everyone that entered get on here or just a few of the favourites? I'd love to know as i was on here last with my paint an Easter egg too. Anyway I'm so pleased and thanks Cath if you liked it, you've made my day X

Did anyone else join in? please share with me if you did. I'm sure there must of been more than this sent in.

Hope you've all had a good week, yeay! it's Friday tomorrow and that means nearly the weekend again.

Right I'm off to paint some pegs for the fabulous Claire from Made In Pixieland or Elfie & Me. She's working on something a little special that will be on sale in her web shop very soon and has me on broad to help. Thanks sweetie for asking, I'm happy to help and am looking forward to our coffee and cake next week. Thanks for this afternoon I needed a break. It was good to pop round and chat. x

Big hugs,