YARNDALE 2013

What a wonderful day we had! My mum, dad and I went to Yarndale in Skipton at the weekend. It was fantastic. lots of yarn yummyness all set up in the pens of a cattle shed. The whole place was decorated in crochet bunting and it looked amazing. The stalls were brilliant and all decorated beautifully...

There was even a lovely bus collecting people and bringing them to yarndale and even that was yarnbombed! Amazing!

Some of the stalls had live animals....Alpacas and angora rabbits and they were beautiful and unbelievably soft to touch!

 And my mum and I even got to meet Lucy from Attic 24...what a treat. We have been following this lovely ladies blog for a while now and her area was decorated beautifully!! A crochet rainbow it was fantastic!
We also visited Skipton ...what a lovely place and managed to get more yarn and fabric bargains form there too!!

Craft fair

Yesterday Gracella Sewing was at the Scunthorpe Museum. A favorite craft fair of ours organised by West promotions. There were lots of lovely craft stall holders there selling some lovely products.. here is a peek at our stall! (me and my mum)

And here is some more of our lovely handmade products that we had there too!

And here is my mum doing orders while there. I took a Christmas present to do ( a granny stripe blanket) managed one stripe and then realized i had forgotten the next colour i needed so didn't get much more done.

I havent blogged in a while... just didnt have the time when i had my baby girl and then i just kind of forgot about it! Well here I am again.
I now have a 6year old (Grace), a 4 year old (Ella) and a 22 month old! Last time i blooged it was 3 days before my youngest was born. (Isobel)
Grace has just started in year 2 today and Ella is now in reception and is starting her first year of full time school. The 6 weeks holiday was long but I didnt want the kids back at school. I miss them.
But now I have time to concentrate on my business (Gracella sewing) and to get on with driving lessons (eek)

 a short and sweet first blog back but i promise to blog at least twice a week from now!!!

not fully cooked?

This is me yesterday...I am still pregnant and feel like I have and will be forever. Its my due date tomorrow.
My first baby girl was born 5 days early, my second was born on her due date so I am guessing this one will be an over due one. I am going to miss been pregnant and will be sad it will never happen again but we have always said three and neither of us want any more and I am well ready to see what this little lady is going to look like. Don't want people to think I am selfish keeping her to myself haha.
Anyway I stopped taking orders on my Facebook page and website www.gracellasewing.co.uk this week... which is good really because i need to have a bit of an update of all my new products.

Because I didnt have anything to do I decided to try making a little playmat for the little lady to lay and play on when shes a little older.... I was very pleased with it :)

Lets hope next time I blog i have something very exciting to show you!!

Halloween and Bonfire night!!

This is my little ladies... dress up in there halloween outfits for the halloween disco at Graces school!! 
They look so bloody cute!! 
A few days later when it was actually halloween they dressed up again and we went trick or treating with their cousin and my sister in law!! They got LOTS!! 
 Heres the pictures!

How cute do they look?

Tonight is bonfire night and we went to my mum and dads.... it was a great night, great guy, great bonfire, great BBQ (yes a bbq) great company and great fireworks! ...heres the pictures!!
My brother on the BBQ¬¬

 

The guy my mum made!! poor guy hah

 Grandma and the girls (my mum)

The girls ready to watch the fireworks!!

 Beastie bonfire¬

 Sparklers!!

 BBQ time....yummy burgers, sausages and jacket spuds..ACE

What a good night.
Mums been making for Izzy over the past few weeks too.... A blanket , its going to lake AMAZE in my new pushchair and a beautiful keepsake patchwork blanket for her moses basket which includes a tag i got mum that says made by grandma!! sooooo pretty¬¬

Guess how old i am??

Yep....On Friday the 21st October i turned 25. It only seems a couple of years ago when i was getting sorted for my last year at school. It was infact 10 years ago!! 
i have done alot in that time tho. I married my wonderful husband! Had Grace, then Ella and now have little Isobel on the way in around 4 weeks! Its Crazy! 

I woke up on my birthday morning to Grace running in the room with her little sister following her.. she said "happy birthday mum, your old" bless her!Then they came back in with a cupcake cake with candles and they sand happy birthday to me :) ..i loved it!!

They brought me in a big white box... 
this is what was in it.

 How exciting!! 
There was also a little card in it from my hubby..

And here's what it was... my beautiful pink lining changing bag that i cannot wait to use when the baby arrives. My hubby also bought me a new sewing machine from him and the girls...but i got that a few months ago . Its amazing!!
The girls gave me my cards...here's the one from them ..

 Ella got daddy to write her side (the left hand side) and she went over it and Grace did hers all by herself! How blooming sweet! 
We decided to go to Dandilions (a soft play place) where Daves brother and wife (Dan and Layla) came with there children (Evie 3 and Alfie 5months)and Daves mum. 


Dan and layla got me a Flake cake and it was VERY nice. Evie brought me a bag with some presents and cards in... Evie had drawn me a lovely picture of me with Izzy in my tummy. Super cute! 
I got a box of chocolates and something i have been after for ages....the first gameboy they brought out with 3 games.. tetris, mario and mario 2! I will live on it! ha  


After having fun there we came home and i cleaned...damn nesting ! ha 

My mum got me some lovely slippers for my birthday and my favorite chocolate....yum. 
My brother got me a beautiful cake stand and matching mixing bowl set! I will have to use them very soon!!

 

I also got money from friends and family which i will be saving for when i have had this baby for some new clothes! 

I had a good day which ended with a visit from Em and Chris and a chinese ... duck pancakes and lemon chicken! Ace. Thanks hubby! 

Here's me with BOTH my cakes!

Also this week was Graces school Halloween disco! The girls dressed as nasty witches...so cute! 

 

Half term time now...yeah!!