Calling Lola and earth hour imminent

Calling LOLA because YOU have won the above brooch in the bloggiversary draw!!!! Hip hip hooray!!! I have tried to contact you several times and no reply yet, now you have 10 days from today to read this and e-mail or message me the address to which I will post it?

After this it will re-enter the draw for the other 5 followers. The smaller brooch has been posted to the other winner.

I finished Miss Y's cardigan by 22 March!!!!! Now I am writing up the pattern frantically before she chooses to wear it, there are stitch markers still in all the places where I did some shaping...

The above is a WIP photo , fear not it looks so much better now!

I am so very much more pleased with this new cuff, what do you think? Much better than the wee pink flowers I tried before and Miss Y simply LOVES iT apparently. Goody goody.

This was for Mothers' Day: I was so very pleased with it, made by Miss Y.

And 2 animated cards from Miss E, fuzzy pics , sorry... Got to dash now as EVERYTHING is being switched off for EARTH HOUR : in our house from 20.30 to 21.30 . We have candles and torches on standby and we are ALL going to bed early.... WHOOPEE!!!!!!

tHAT IS AFTER we have eaten the Delia rhubarb brulee which I have just made: scrummy!

The juices from the ginger and rhubarb I drained as per julia but I didn't throw it out, it's my hot drink mixed with white wine....LOVELY!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND evryone and see you soon, I hope.

ANNIVERSARY ALERT Prize giveaway THIS WEEK

Hey! I have been so busy ''being a rock'' and propping up the family emotions that I have missed, nay really really missed the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY ( 24.02.2009) of this version of my blog alltogether!!!

So I'm off on a jaunt to Southampton tomorrow but at the weekend: in fact on MOTHER'S DAY
I will do a prize draw from my followers for a crocheted floral hairclip or brooch.
Can't show them yet as I haven't made it yet, but it'll be in pinks with a bead or button centre.
So if anyone is interested: sign up now to be a follower and it could be YOU!!!

Photo of prizes will be blogged by Saturday 13 March and the draw will take place at 9pm on Sunday 14th March, Mother's Day.


GOOD LUCK!!!!

Dachshund diaries day 20 weaning starts...

Starting with a little brooch on a card for my mum which I made Wednesday night.....

We have decided we'll make Mother's day special for Pippa on Sunday!!!

As these puppies are now walking and that's a few days early as they are expected to stand by 3 weeks old- tomorrow- according to the books....
And they are licking each other which is in the photo above but he moved his head so you can't see the pink pupppy tongue- hence I thought we could start weaning them to give Pippa a break.

Well there was Jack who was NOT remotely interested. Kept yawning and only wanted to go back to sleep. Lucy had a quick lick at the mush on my finger but she wasn't keen either.

And then there was Tom who has only put on about 10 g ( vs 100g by the other two- EACH) today : he wriggled and wriggled and made a lot of noise but he liked the mush, ate several finger tip fulls and even licked it off a teaspoon! I was so busy feeding that we didn't get any photos of it yet.

Below is a boxfull of puppies who were moved temporarily so we can clean the pen and replace the newspapers. The ''rug'' got washed today so they were skating on the papers again: stand- ssslip, slide, stand, slip slide, stand oooh this is sssso ssslippery and frustrating!!!

The box is 45 cm by 28 cm to give you a sense of scale and they weigh almost 4kg alltogether now. Can you spot who lies where?

And finally for today a few pictures of Tom but as he was so very wriggly they are not quite in focus! Didn't use a flash either due to his eyes being open now and they are definately seeing !


He's also having some more weetabix'n puppy milk mush from a finger/ hand- lick lick lick.

And he was soooo adventurous he had a go at a white t-shirt too.