Goodbye 2015

What a year. I have never been on such an emotional rollercoaster as 2015 and hope never to be on another like it. Throughout the stress of Mum's cancer diagnosis, chemo, surgery, apparent cure, terminal diagnosis, more chemo (that almost killed her) and then her death at the end of November there...

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Catching up

I have had a few posts sitting in draft form for ages so though I would just do a wee catch up post instead of attempting to do a proper post on each thing. Exhibit 1: A blue silk circle skirt made for going to Prague in the summer. I made this some gorgeous buttery silk that is lovely to wear,...

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Sad times

I couldn't think of an appropriate title for this post, sad times doesn't even come close. As I have said before, my Mum was diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer on the 23rd December last year, she fought bravely for 11 months, went though huge surgery in March, was given the all clear in May then...

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When life gets in the way

It's been more than a month since I last posted here and I have been getting complaints... from my Mum! I would love to say that there were exciting reasons for not being here but life is just going about twice as fast as I can keep up with.   Mum's cancer roller coaster reached a new low 2 weeks...

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Sewing for Sanity

via This image was in my facebook timeline a few days ago and it sums things up well at the moment. I have been squeezing in some stress busting sewing time, I even emptied my to mend pile which has now reformed with the bits and pieces that didn't fit in the pile before. Some of that is paid work...

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Minion Bob Birthday Cake

Little e was 7 a couple of weeks ago and, after falling in love with Minion Bob after seeing the Minion film, asked for a cake like him. I made Husband a Minion cake a couple of years ago so used the same method, cook the top in a pyrex bowl to get the curved head and layer it on normal round...

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33/52

The kids took themselves off outside and made a table today. I did get them smaller nails after taking this photo, the 6 inch ones were a little large :) ...

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Why I don't have a Bucket List

The House of Pinheiro Sew Photo Hop theme today is Bucket List. I don't have one and here is why: We had some bad news 10 days ago, the cancer that Mum had surgery to cure is back. Unfortunately this means that there is little that can be done, oesophageal cancer is notoriously hard to treat, so...

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30/52, 31/52 & 32/52

I am so far behind with these post so here goes: Two weekends ago we went to Dryburgh Abbey for the day. It was not dry, in fact little e has renamed it wetburgh! We had a picnic in torrential rain then the sun came out for about half an hour and then it started to rain again, the joys...

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Prague - possibly the best city ever.

What can I say, Prague is an amazing city! We booked to go for 5 nights and had an amazing time. We opted for 5 days rather than more as I just wasn't sure how the kids would get on on a city break. I shouldn't have worried as they loved it! It is a beautiful city, the architecture is amazing. There...

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