summer! park! picnic

yeah! summer is here
we went to the park for a picnic and a chance to play on the slides
it was too hot for rounders :(

When are going to go on the slides?

where's the brioche loaf?

I like the park :-)

I'm burning up!!!

its too hot!

mmmm! yummy food!

what should I eat first?

where's everyone gone?

I'm lost?!

help! I'm stuck!

c'mon jump! I'll catch you! I promise

I'm back!

Its been a long while now since I've blogged here. :(
I was all set to blog every day when I started, ok maybe every "other" day... um scratch that... ok every week??? mmmmh as much as I can... yes that sounds more like it...ok...where was I?..yes...now I'm back!

What has been happening you might say,  ....I've been shopping heehee! (Just like Tammy in the flower shop below)....and secretly building my collection!

I have tried to cut down on my re-ment collection as I was getting a tad bit obsessive in my quest to get complete sets of everything!!! (still trying to find all the kitchen sets )  but a certain auction site soon put me straight.. ha ha when I got outbid quite a number of times.. so I'm on a re-ment hold for now :

I have been doing a bit of rearranging and making some furnishings too. I have recently discovered the art of crafting and so I have been creating mini pieces of artwork which I will photograph and put up soon... I hope

(Topper Dawn Dale Re-rooted by me :)

I found this Dol-toi tea set at a junk shop and it is simply adorable!

Been busy with the fimo too, I made the treats in the blue and white dishes! and the pizza on the chopping board too

update so far...

I love wooden cladding so I bought some balsa wood and scored it using a pencil and then stained it with strong tea to create the wood cladding effect :-) and then I used a strip of hardwood as a border.

I confess..............guilty as charged!!

I have an addiction and here's the proof:-

re-ment craze

Earlier on in a previous blog, I confessed to collecting re-ment from Japan, I have a dolls house basement full of re-ment as you can see...heehee and re-ment in boxes and on display in the dolls house.

These are 2 of the display shelves in the basement :)

These are some re-ment that have been opened and some still in the plastic packs includes sets from so many collections!

emmm! these are some boxed re=ment and all my reac chairs.

So far in the past couple of weeks I went crazy after I got my first 'le corbusier ' sofa and went on a "miniature designer chair shopping spree" well I can't afford the real size version yet!! :-)

I have a miniature wish list of about 2 pages long and I am slowly working my way down it. My Christmas list should have re-ment or miniatures on it but I want a wii for Christmas :-)

Well.....

I recently watched a documentary about insuring your valuables and I realised that I didn't have a proper inventory of my miniatures! wouldn't it be absolutely dreadful if anything happened to them and I couldn't account for what I had. Especially the tiny little bits of re-ment that came in little sets!

So these pictures are the beginning of my attempt at documenting my stuff! here goes......

I believe, I can fly....not!

OK! I should have had a much more meaningful title to this blog but for now this will do.

Its been half-term for the children this past week, and guess what I have been down with the flu'. How can anyone be down with the flu?

and why is it called the flu!

I didn't feel very much like flying, while I had the flu! and before you say anything I know the 'flu' is different from 'flew'! as in flying, but I deserve a little rant! especially since I was not allowed to fly properly...sorry!..ok puns excluded! I meant I wasn't allowed to be ill, cos I had to be "strong mummy" for the children....

Just when I was getting ready to sneeze, I'd hear ...Mum!!!! can I have some juice? to which I'd reply.....aa...choo ! yessshh you can! (flu speak) :-)

I wasn't even allowed to enjoy the high fever that comes with the flu! the time you get under the covers, shivering! before you break out in a cold sweat! great :-), all because I had to get up and make dinner! but the best part was when daddy got home and then I finally got to 'fly' properly and be waited on hand, foot and "nose"......mmmmm

sorry for moaning :-(

This first image represents chaos! too much to do, tidy...cook..put away.....but too tired to do it!

this represents peace, calmness and beauty! ahhhh! clean tidy just the place to relax!

My day today!

Its Wednesday, and its been raining most of the day! after a long summer holiday, all systems were go this morning as I rushed to get the kids to school for their first day back, believe me 30 minutes before you are about to leave the house is not the time to find out that your son has grown yet again! his trousers were a couple of metres off the floor OK maybe not that much :) what I mean is they were too short! and there I was, the "very able mum" (I wish) searching through the new sets I had got, to find one that fit. He is 5 and this morning he went to school in size 7-8 trousers! yeah :(

School shoes! mmm! don't get me started! we went shopping 2 days ago as I wanted to wait to the last minute just in case they decided to grow some more and yes just as I expected! they had! so they had all gone up a size! and with a lighter wallet, we marched off home, and I only went out for shoes but came home with some bags that just seemed to attach themselves to me! I didn't buy that!? surely I don't need any more bleach! this was "school shopping" trip but I can't seem to help myself, when I am in a shop I suddenly go through my "mental household list" of all that's needed,

"mum, can I have trainers instead"? yes dear ....while I am thinking "I must pick-up some plasters and tissue!" tut tut!

I was so excited when I got home today as the postman had left a note for me, I had 3 parcels to pick up from the post office and I hoped, a re-ment parcel I was waiting for was among them. As soon as I got back into the car I ripped a corner of the parcel just to be sure! lol! all the way home I had mentally unwrapped the parcel and ... anyway! I got home and opened it properly and this is what was inside

This is pharmacy drug/ medicine store set from re-ment! I am a re-ment addict! I confess! I collect re-ment!

who wouldn't fall in love with this "itty bitty" spray bottle! the attention to detail is amazing! well! considering I haven't taken it out of the plastic :-)