open all hours

See, I told you I’d be back didn’t I?  I’m coming to the end of my six weeks summer holiday and if I’m honest, up to last week I didn’t have a whole lot to show for it.  Usually I start the summer holidays with a to-do list; things I want to get done that there won’t be the time or light for come September.  Not so this year.

There have been a lot of changes in our household over the last few weeks though.  And even though they haven’t been the easiest changes in the world to deal with (I’m being very cryptic here aren’t I?), they have had very positive side effects that have led to some pretty grown up decision making and the eventual launching of a mortgage fund with fingers crossed and wood touched for a move nearer the north for us this time next year.  And in an effort to raise house funds we are both getting crafty.  My end of the bargain has been refreshing the Etsy store and preparing for Christmas craft fairs galore. 

So below are some pictures of my new listings, I’m unlocking the shop door, flipping the open sign and inviting you all in to browse to your hearts content,

Wall hangings – things you hang from the wall,

Magic 8 ball keychains,

with your choice of answer on the back,

Fruity keychains,

Record player badges

and of course, rabbit ones too,

There’s more over in the shop, go check it out!  This weekend we’ll be raiding the car boot sales and eating Mr Whippys for dinner, I’ll regale you with our finds on the flipside x

oh to live on…

A walk in the mountains last weekend with my boy, my sister and man’s best friends,

We went to Llanberis and the fairly grey weather made the mountains look dark and brooding, like something out of middle earth.

My sister was up visiting for the weekend and in the tradition of Withnail and I, we went to Llanberis by mistake.  We’d planned on going somewhere with one of those typically impenetrable Welsh names that was halfway between Bangor and Conwy.  When we realised we were almost in Bangor we took the first turn off with the sign of a mountain on it that we found.

We ate fish and chips and ice cream, watched the steam trains pull into the railway and tried (mostly in vain) to control two very excited mutts

Then it was home, tired, muddy and very content x

slight return

To those of you lovely people who are still bothering to check in with the tardiest blogger in Liverpool; fear not, I will be back by the end of the week with much to share.  Thanks for hanging in there! x