I have to say the last few weeks have been a tad OMG!!!
We have moved from Pixie Towers to a wonderful place much closer to the ground O.o for us pixie's without wings the ground is the best place for us !!!
So we are safely ensconsed in Pixies Rest and am busily unpacking boxes as fast as we can as we have the new craft groups starting asap ... and I sooo can't wait for that next week!!!
However this weekend will be taken up with writing all sorts of loverly craft sheets and making a picket fence for inside our corridor to keep any faelings in one spot and if I am lucky I might jsut be able to get some of my painting done on the walls teeheehee and yes I will post piccies once they are done.
Right now though I am a bit knackered I do have to say ... this week has been a bit rough Agoraphobia wise and to be honest I feel quite drained. this move this week has been a bit of a comedy of errors in many ways but my poor Beloved Himself is also knackered and not very well due to having moved most of our gear by hand on a parcel truck in the rain on some days.
I have to admit though actually being in this space has made things that much better but I have found myself wondering quite seriously "How the heck did we get all this stuff into that teeny ickle flat we had in Pixie Towers????"
I now have a workroom and Homself has an office and the girls have thier room and our room is HUGE .. big enough to have a sitting area with a 3 seater couch in it and the coffee table and we have 2 storage areas and I'm still hard pressed to find room for everything .... tis the weirdest thing ... oh well I'm sure it will be sorted out soon enough ... Monday at the latest HAHAHAA!!!!
On the up side however it looks like we are about to be the proud parents of an allotment here in town thanks to an un happy precense up there who has scared most of the allotment people away after he started walking around nakey !!! I have to say if I'd been up there he would have been on here like a shot!!! Weeelll i figure I haven't got a photo this week and anyone brave enough to sleep at thier allotment and run around nakey in amongst a bunch of women with pitchforks deserves a shot of infamy... it must be said though he has been removed from up there and the ladies and thier eyeballs are safe again.
I don't know about you but I LOVE living in a small town stuff like that happens every day and the joy of now living int he centre of town is we can see it for ourselves if not hear about it within minutes of it happening. Teeheehee
No I do not condone gossip but a bit of town news never hurt anyone!!! Now that I have started helping out at the local charity shop on Friday's I gets more than I ever did (Town news that is NOT gossip) and it's amaizing what the folks round here get up to.
Anywhoo I am now off to my nest I have had a massive week and am a bit knackered and hurting. I did however want to catch up quickly and say things will definately now be back to normal as the internet is back on and all is well here at Pixie's Rest.
MAHOOSIVE HUGGLES to all
Love and Light xox
Friday, 26 October 2012
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Bloo on Green ~ In which I start the making of something quite fabby !!!!
Hellloooooooooooooo me Loverlies
Here we are again looking at homemade things that are a bit more than special and fun and hopefully better for our world in some way.
I had a thought about candles the other day. I am not sure if i could get away with candle making up here unless it was the loose bead variety but i desperately wanted to do something. Candles are something we use quite alot of and it's coming up to that time of year where candles make all the difference and can make a room not only feel warmer but actually warmer as well.
How was I going to do this ??? I had no idea until looking through an old herbcraft book I can upon instructions for herb candles. Herb Candles ??? really ??? I continued to look realising that you used bought pillar candles and could dip them in water to place the pressed herbs into them ... Well I have to say I think I might jsut be onto something this time. Our budget is worse than little it is non existant right now, however at times we all have a loose £1 coin in our pockets and this is when the £1 shops come in handy. Himself is now under instrudtions that when he picks up the girls in Exeter on a Saturday he is to pop into the pound shop and pick up a tower candle. I would love to go but it is another bus fare and that bus fare would be our electric for a week so that isn't happening!!!
Instead what I have started doing is pressing the leaves to go on the candles. No I don't have a special posh press that everyone thinks they need to do this I have lots of huge massive doorsteps of books and that combined with some tissue of whatever sort you have in the house in our case it was loo roll will do the job nicely.
Here we are again looking at homemade things that are a bit more than special and fun and hopefully better for our world in some way.
I had a thought about candles the other day. I am not sure if i could get away with candle making up here unless it was the loose bead variety but i desperately wanted to do something. Candles are something we use quite alot of and it's coming up to that time of year where candles make all the difference and can make a room not only feel warmer but actually warmer as well.
How was I going to do this ??? I had no idea until looking through an old herbcraft book I can upon instructions for herb candles. Herb Candles ??? really ??? I continued to look realising that you used bought pillar candles and could dip them in water to place the pressed herbs into them ... Well I have to say I think I might jsut be onto something this time. Our budget is worse than little it is non existant right now, however at times we all have a loose £1 coin in our pockets and this is when the £1 shops come in handy. Himself is now under instrudtions that when he picks up the girls in Exeter on a Saturday he is to pop into the pound shop and pick up a tower candle. I would love to go but it is another bus fare and that bus fare would be our electric for a week so that isn't happening!!!
Instead what I have started doing is pressing the leaves to go on the candles. No I don't have a special posh press that everyone thinks they need to do this I have lots of huge massive doorsteps of books and that combined with some tissue of whatever sort you have in the house in our case it was loo roll will do the job nicely.
Work from the back of the book it makes it easier to do several layers, put down 2 layers of tissue on the right hand page.
Pick your leaves off the stalks. Today I am using Ivy leaves, they mean something to us and they will give a great effect to the completed candle.
Be choosey with your leaves though and don't use any damaged ones and put whats left in the compost of back where you found it as Ivy will regrow from these stalks.
Lay your leaves out face down on the paper. and give them plenty of room around themselves as you don't want them to stick together by accident, or curl wrongly in the pressing.
Carefully cover the leaves with 2 more layers of tissue and close the book by about 20-30 pages to start your next layer.
The book I used has over 1500 pages in it so I was able to use up all the leaves at one go with plenty of room in the bok for more should I want to press some more. Which I will do when I find the right ones. If you are going to use ivy use lots of different varieties I found 4 last night so I will have quite a variety. When it comes time to make the candles I will definately let you know. Until then leave your leaves to press for a good couple of weeks. I may take less time I jsut like to make sure. They can then be kept in an airtight container layered on the sheets they were pressed with to keep them safe.
Have fun with this one
xox Love and Light xox
Stitch and Bitch ~In Which Himself is Weaving and I now have something to Bitch about !!!
Happy Tyr's Day me Loverlies
Boy have I missed writing my Blog. Sorry about the absence again however I have things going on and things aren't making life easy for someone wanting to write a blog!!! Like serious meds now having to be taken until the specialists decide what to do with my back ... and are quite happy leaving me on crutches and slowly on the road to becoming a morphine addict because noone will do anything until it I can no longer walk because I can't feel my legs!!!
Yes grumpy sorry but hey thats what Stitch and Bitch is all about getting the bitchies out ... so here goes another one .. this is the second time I have written this blog ... I published it an hour ago and since I was here and able to I was getting a jump start on tomorrows and whoops I appear to have deleted it O.o GRRRRR!!!! Is it Monday and no-one told me or something !!??!! cos it sure feels like it !!!!
Anywhoo the wonderful and most fabbytastic Himself has taken over the loom. It isn't a huge thing can sit on your lap and was a gift from a former flat mate a couple of years ago. I finally brought it off the shelf the other week and dusted it off only to find the instructions in German O.o My wonderful long suffering man that he is Himself translated the whole lot. Let me make clear what he did. He typed out the manual by hand into the Google translator thingy and it took him a goodly couple of hours and then popped the translation into a document in English so I could read it !!!
.... and I still couldn't figure it out o.o pfft!!! so we called upon a friend who teaches weaving at a fabbytastic place locally and she came over with her wonderful little sprout and we figured it out together YAY!!!!! and then it fell to pieces after I had ma\de it long enough and we tied off the ends O.o .....
This is where Himself decides to take over and I helped him keep the tension tight on one end while he threaded the warp around cos the stoopid thing isn't one of these wonderful massive easy things that you thread it individually noooooooo you have to weave it back on itself in one long thread ....
Many rude words have been said about the person who invented this machine ... by myself and our friend and even Himself at times, however he seems to have taken to it and is at the moment making fabby cloths for the girls under thier lamps for thier bedside tables. Now to me thats a real dad !!!
So whilst I am here writing this and a couple of other blogs so i can keep up this week he is in the living room watching boy stuff and weaving hehehe.
It took ages to get him to stop long enough to get his phone out of his pocket so I could take the pics so I took another one hahahaha!!!!
Whilst all this was going on a Red Admiral Butterfly flew past my face knocking me off balance a bit and landed on one of our chalices on our alter !!!!
Being as this appears to be the kind of day I appear to be being taught things i figured I might just look it up ... and I might just look up the other creature that haunted me and chased me around the flat on the weekend too!!!!
Spiders normally in this country don't bother me I've lived in Australia and the ones here are nothing compared to what you have to put up with over there, but I am telling you this thing would've grabbed the remote given half a chance and cracked open a beer and watched the game given half a chance!!!!
So lets look at the nice one first
The butterfly is the symbol of change, joy and color.
It is the symbol of the soul. They remind us that life is a dance, not to take things quite so seriously. They also remind us to get up and move. Dance brings the sweetness of life. Butterflies bring color and joy to your life. Look at them and remember what joy is in your life, if it's a lot or a little, it is still joy. They teach us that growth and transformation does not have to traumatic; it can occur gently, sweetly, and joyfully.
Spider: Creativity and Weaver of Fate
A spider totem teaches you balance --between past and future, physical and spirit, male and female. She is strength and gentleness combined. She awakens creative sensibilities and reminds you that the past is always interwoven with the future. Tarantulas (and all spiders) are the keepers of the primordial alphabet and can teach you how to write creatively. Her body is shaped like the number 8 and she has 8 legs, which is symbol of infinite possibilities of creation. Her 8 legs represent the 4 winds of change and the four directions of the medicine wheel. Spider's message is that you are an infinite being who will continue to weave patterns of life and living throughout time. Do not fail to see the eternal plan of creation. Those who weave magic with the written word usually have this totem.
http://www.linsdomain.com/totems.htm
Just in case you want to check any out yourself there is the link this is a great site for suiuch things
Also I have just been taught an important lesson just cos it looks icky doesn't mean it is ... I kinda like that me thinkies. Makes me feel better having a reason for crawlies about the place!!!
Anywhoo I must away have plenty to do and 2 other blogs to write before I am lynched by you lot for not keeping up with it again.
Have a fabbytastic day no matter what you are doing
xox Love and Light xox
Boy have I missed writing my Blog. Sorry about the absence again however I have things going on and things aren't making life easy for someone wanting to write a blog!!! Like serious meds now having to be taken until the specialists decide what to do with my back ... and are quite happy leaving me on crutches and slowly on the road to becoming a morphine addict because noone will do anything until it I can no longer walk because I can't feel my legs!!!
Yes grumpy sorry but hey thats what Stitch and Bitch is all about getting the bitchies out ... so here goes another one .. this is the second time I have written this blog ... I published it an hour ago and since I was here and able to I was getting a jump start on tomorrows and whoops I appear to have deleted it O.o GRRRRR!!!! Is it Monday and no-one told me or something !!??!! cos it sure feels like it !!!!
Anywhoo the wonderful and most fabbytastic Himself has taken over the loom. It isn't a huge thing can sit on your lap and was a gift from a former flat mate a couple of years ago. I finally brought it off the shelf the other week and dusted it off only to find the instructions in German O.o My wonderful long suffering man that he is Himself translated the whole lot. Let me make clear what he did. He typed out the manual by hand into the Google translator thingy and it took him a goodly couple of hours and then popped the translation into a document in English so I could read it !!!
.... and I still couldn't figure it out o.o pfft!!! so we called upon a friend who teaches weaving at a fabbytastic place locally and she came over with her wonderful little sprout and we figured it out together YAY!!!!! and then it fell to pieces after I had ma\de it long enough and we tied off the ends O.o .....
This is where Himself decides to take over and I helped him keep the tension tight on one end while he threaded the warp around cos the stoopid thing isn't one of these wonderful massive easy things that you thread it individually noooooooo you have to weave it back on itself in one long thread ....
Many rude words have been said about the person who invented this machine ... by myself and our friend and even Himself at times, however he seems to have taken to it and is at the moment making fabby cloths for the girls under thier lamps for thier bedside tables. Now to me thats a real dad !!!
So whilst I am here writing this and a couple of other blogs so i can keep up this week he is in the living room watching boy stuff and weaving hehehe.
Spiders normally in this country don't bother me I've lived in Australia and the ones here are nothing compared to what you have to put up with over there, but I am telling you this thing would've grabbed the remote given half a chance and cracked open a beer and watched the game given half a chance!!!!
So lets look at the nice one first
The butterfly is the symbol of change, joy and color.
It is the symbol of the soul. They remind us that life is a dance, not to take things quite so seriously. They also remind us to get up and move. Dance brings the sweetness of life. Butterflies bring color and joy to your life. Look at them and remember what joy is in your life, if it's a lot or a little, it is still joy. They teach us that growth and transformation does not have to traumatic; it can occur gently, sweetly, and joyfully.
Spider: Creativity and Weaver of Fate
A spider totem teaches you balance --between past and future, physical and spirit, male and female. She is strength and gentleness combined. She awakens creative sensibilities and reminds you that the past is always interwoven with the future. Tarantulas (and all spiders) are the keepers of the primordial alphabet and can teach you how to write creatively. Her body is shaped like the number 8 and she has 8 legs, which is symbol of infinite possibilities of creation. Her 8 legs represent the 4 winds of change and the four directions of the medicine wheel. Spider's message is that you are an infinite being who will continue to weave patterns of life and living throughout time. Do not fail to see the eternal plan of creation. Those who weave magic with the written word usually have this totem.
http://www.linsdomain.com/totems.htm
Just in case you want to check any out yourself there is the link this is a great site for suiuch things
Also I have just been taught an important lesson just cos it looks icky doesn't mean it is ... I kinda like that me thinkies. Makes me feel better having a reason for crawlies about the place!!!
Anywhoo I must away have plenty to do and 2 other blogs to write before I am lynched by you lot for not keeping up with it again.
Have a fabbytastic day no matter what you are doing
xox Love and Light xox
Cookie's Corner ~ Crab Apple and Rowan Berry Jelly
Morning Me Loverlies!!!
Today's recipe is a fantastic traditional recipe, loved by millions over the centuries, not only as an accompaniment for hot and cold meats, or as a jam used in all the usual ways, also as a farmhouse traditional sore throat remedy that might jsut actually help the rheumatism as well in the cold months of winter.
Sounds like something that came out the back end of a cow I hear you say, but no it isn't. Big Pharma aren't allowed to patent natural growing plants, so they disregard them as a whole medicine and only use the parts they can synthesize and patent namely the chemicals. These are pretty much the same no matter how you package them only this way they taste better.
Now let me make this perfectly clear right now !!! I am NOT a qualified herbalist, or biologist or anything else with a fancy name or letters after it. What I do is read. ALOT. I read about things I don't know about and I use the books that universities use as thier textbooks and encyclopedias and internet sources and professinal sources for my information. I do not in anyway suggest you forgo seeing your GP or a qualified Herbalist as listed by NIMH. I am not saying ignore thier advice what I am saying is talk to them and see if you can use this in conjunction or instead of other medications that may not be necessary as this might work better than a strepsil and is half the price of a packet of them.
Personally for years I have had serious issues with my tonsils including 74 quinzies and uncountable numbers of tonsilitis. Yes I still have my tonsils and I will keep them as they are the first line of defence of your immune system and if they are inflamed there is a reason. Of course I reckon smoking for the last 22 years hasn't helped, but stop yelling at me i went cold turkey 6 weeks ago and haven't looked back. So NER!!!! Anywhooo I used to find that when "the scratch" used to appear a spoonful of this jelly used to help me out enormously!!! and in most cases a teaspoonful a day would do. Considering the choice between that and the pills they give you at the docs when you have a throat that won't swallow water, horses would bolt at the size of them!!!
The biggest thing I love about remedies like this is you don't realise it's medicine and nor do children if you handle it right. If your kids are used to your homecooked foraged recipes they won't even blink an eye if they come into you and you give them a piece of soft bread and butter with a spoonful of this on it and they will be more than happy to suck it on down.
Anywhoo I feel I must explain how this is possible and how it works ... you know the science of it .. well here is the easiest explanation I could find.
We have 4 litres of the Crab Apple Liquor left so we is out tonight getting some more Rowan Berries before they are all gone to make some more!!! I am wanting to have 5 jars to sell at the market in the next month or so. We shall see how we go.
Have fun today no matter what you are doing
xox Love and Light xox
Today's recipe is a fantastic traditional recipe, loved by millions over the centuries, not only as an accompaniment for hot and cold meats, or as a jam used in all the usual ways, also as a farmhouse traditional sore throat remedy that might jsut actually help the rheumatism as well in the cold months of winter.
Sounds like something that came out the back end of a cow I hear you say, but no it isn't. Big Pharma aren't allowed to patent natural growing plants, so they disregard them as a whole medicine and only use the parts they can synthesize and patent namely the chemicals. These are pretty much the same no matter how you package them only this way they taste better.
Now let me make this perfectly clear right now !!! I am NOT a qualified herbalist, or biologist or anything else with a fancy name or letters after it. What I do is read. ALOT. I read about things I don't know about and I use the books that universities use as thier textbooks and encyclopedias and internet sources and professinal sources for my information. I do not in anyway suggest you forgo seeing your GP or a qualified Herbalist as listed by NIMH. I am not saying ignore thier advice what I am saying is talk to them and see if you can use this in conjunction or instead of other medications that may not be necessary as this might work better than a strepsil and is half the price of a packet of them.
Personally for years I have had serious issues with my tonsils including 74 quinzies and uncountable numbers of tonsilitis. Yes I still have my tonsils and I will keep them as they are the first line of defence of your immune system and if they are inflamed there is a reason. Of course I reckon smoking for the last 22 years hasn't helped, but stop yelling at me i went cold turkey 6 weeks ago and haven't looked back. So NER!!!! Anywhooo I used to find that when "the scratch" used to appear a spoonful of this jelly used to help me out enormously!!! and in most cases a teaspoonful a day would do. Considering the choice between that and the pills they give you at the docs when you have a throat that won't swallow water, horses would bolt at the size of them!!!
The biggest thing I love about remedies like this is you don't realise it's medicine and nor do children if you handle it right. If your kids are used to your homecooked foraged recipes they won't even blink an eye if they come into you and you give them a piece of soft bread and butter with a spoonful of this on it and they will be more than happy to suck it on down.
Anywhoo I feel I must explain how this is possible and how it works ... you know the science of it .. well here is the easiest explanation I could find.
Rowan or Mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia) is a
species of the genus Sorbus, native to most of Europe except for the
far south, and northern Asia. In the south of its range in the
Mediterranean region it is confined to high altitudes in Balkan
mountains. The red-orange rowanberries are ripening in from
July to October.
Rowanberries are rich source of antioxidants. An
investigation of rowanberry flavonoids showed the presence of rutin,
quercetin-3-glucoside and quercetin-3-D-galactoside. Quantitative
analysis of berry flavonoids showed quercetin-3-D-galactoside as a
major compound, being 24.55 mg/kg fw (2).
Human food
Rowan or Mountain Ash fruit / berries are too
astringent - unpleasant are not suitable to be eaten raw. The fruit
(berries) of Rowan can be made into a slightly bitter jelly but also
marmalade and juices. The fruit (berries) have many uses eg. to
flavor liqueurs and other alcoholic beverages.
Rowan berries contain sorbic
acid, an acid that takes its name from the Latin name of
the genus Sorbus. The bitterness is coming from parasorbic acid which
causes indigestion and can lead to kidney damage. It is important
that berries are cooked in order to remove bitter taste. Cooking
removes parasorbic acid making rowanberries edible.
Medical uses
In traditional medicine, the ripe rowanberries are
made into a decoction used as a gargle for sore throats. The berries
were used as a treatment for scurvy because of their high vitamin C
content. A decoction of the bark is said to be good for diarrhea.
So there you go there is the science and now onto the recipe and the fun stuffs with lots of piccies!!!!
Crab Apple and Rowan Berry Jelly
Ingredients
Equal measure of Crab Apples and Rowanberries
Juice of a lemon
Sugar
Put Rowan Berries in pot no stalks or leaves, 1/2 lemon juice, and just cover with water.
Bring to boil fast and keep cooking until the berries are really really soft
Repeat this process for the Crab Apples
Place the Rowan Berries in a jelly bag or like we did in a piece of muslin or similar and hang over a bowl for about 4 hours.
Repeat for the Crab Apples
Mix equal amounts of the juices and add 1lb (450g) sugar for each pint (600g) of fluid in a pot
Stir on heat until completely dissolved
Cook fast til setting point is reached
Skim froth from top and seal in jars
We have 4 litres of the Crab Apple Liquor left so we is out tonight getting some more Rowan Berries before they are all gone to make some more!!! I am wanting to have 5 jars to sell at the market in the next month or so. We shall see how we go.
Have fun today no matter what you are doing
xox Love and Light xox
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Hellooooo Again!!! Monday Catch~Up
Hello Loverlies
Sorry I have been away for a little while but soooo much has happened and it jsut keeps happening and keeping me very busy between then and now. However I find myself with a bit of free time on my hands so I doing a mahoosive Monday Catch Up for you all !!!
Soooo last time we chatted I was off to the Acoustic Festival of Great Britain... which by the way was AWESOMES!!!! It also taught me a great deal of what to make sure we have and are doing for our events. Just remembering that everything is a learning experience helps you get through the worst of nightmare situations and trust me there were some close situations at the festival this year.
However there were some awesome ones as well ... meeting up with old friends and meeting new ones. All a great thing and a great time was had by all. Hiccups over and done with, and end of the Sunday being beer o'clock makes everything much better hahaha.
So here are a couple of pics of us at the Acoustic Festival :~
Me and Tink
Me and Lisa Fairy
I love these ladies they make life sooo wonderful and to find them both at the one festival does make things awesomes !!!
I work with Lisa at faery festivals during the year but Tink I only have the honour of meeting up with at the Acoustic so its loverly to catch up with her :D
So after a fabbytastic weekend of booking in bands and taking care of them i was knackered for the rest of the week .. not surprising really but I had lots of stuff to do for the Edge of the Moors Faery Festival
Not to mention the fabby few days that the Pendle Faery and Pendle Pixie came to visit us here at Pixie Towers YAY!!!! oh boy did we gets up to some stuffs ... and yes there are pics hahaha!!!
This of course is coming up fast however not before I had a fabbytastic
week up in Lancashire with the Pendle Faery and Pendle Pixie .. which
was awesomes!!!!! I just got off the bus and was dragged up Pendle Hill
:~
This is what happened the next morning O.o
It's amazing what happens when you go up magick mountains on the Solstice!!! I'm just glad i didn't get to the top I'd look like a Smurf!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
..... so anyway this brings us to the Pendle Faeries Mad Hatters Tea Party !!! Oh Boy what a day that was HAHAHA!!!
Sorry I have been away for a little while but soooo much has happened and it jsut keeps happening and keeping me very busy between then and now. However I find myself with a bit of free time on my hands so I doing a mahoosive Monday Catch Up for you all !!!
Soooo last time we chatted I was off to the Acoustic Festival of Great Britain... which by the way was AWESOMES!!!! It also taught me a great deal of what to make sure we have and are doing for our events. Just remembering that everything is a learning experience helps you get through the worst of nightmare situations and trust me there were some close situations at the festival this year.
However there were some awesome ones as well ... meeting up with old friends and meeting new ones. All a great thing and a great time was had by all. Hiccups over and done with, and end of the Sunday being beer o'clock makes everything much better hahaha.
So here are a couple of pics of us at the Acoustic Festival :~
Me and Tink
Me and Lisa Fairy
I love these ladies they make life sooo wonderful and to find them both at the one festival does make things awesomes !!!
I work with Lisa at faery festivals during the year but Tink I only have the honour of meeting up with at the Acoustic so its loverly to catch up with her :D
So after a fabbytastic weekend of booking in bands and taking care of them i was knackered for the rest of the week .. not surprising really but I had lots of stuff to do for the Edge of the Moors Faery Festival
Not to mention the fabby few days that the Pendle Faery and Pendle Pixie came to visit us here at Pixie Towers YAY!!!! oh boy did we gets up to some stuffs ... and yes there are pics hahaha!!!
The Pendle Faery, Himself and Bloo Pixie
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| Pendle Fairy, Pendle Pixie and Bloo Pixie |
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| Bloo Pixie and Pendle Faery going up the Pixie Path |
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| Norty Faes !!! |
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| Teddy Faes :~ the picnic was cancelled so we went to cheer up the kids and came as the teddies :~D |
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| Suzanne, The Pendle Pixie and Bloo Pixie navigating the cattle grid :~P |
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| Bloo Pixie |
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| The Pendle Faery, Freya Fire Sprite and Bloo Pixie |
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| Here are all of us after the Tea Party off to the pub for din dins !!! |
So then the next day Bloo Pixe, The Pendle Faery and Bindweed had a day out of nortiness in Morecombe.... wicked fae we was .....
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| Bloo Pixie, Eric Morecombe, Pendle Faery and Bindweed |
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| Playing in the Park !!! |
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| Utterly chillaxed looking cool overlooking Blackpool !!! |
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| Norty Bloo Pixie blowing razzberries at the photographer :~P |
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| All that horsing around got us all peckish so we decided to share an icecream teeheehee!!!! |
So there you go all sorts of norty fae games were played in the last couple of weeks ... but the best little bit on news to date is this one...
Matilda Leigh born 24th June 2012 (World Faery Day) my bootiful little Grandfae !!!
We had masses of fun making decs with the kids at the school for the festival .... pics will come later ... great imaginations making Faery Bells and Faery Houses and Peg Dolly Faeries been fabby this week.
The only issue we've had this week is that my back has done silly things to itself, so at the moment I'm running around on crutches. Which is a great way to make me slow down. Which I am .. and behaving as well ... well kinda ... sorta .. maybe .. perhaps hahahah!!!!
So there we go a complete catch up of the last few weeks ... will get onto this weeks Blogs asap !!!! xox
Have a fabbytastic day
Love and Light xox
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Monday Catch - Up ~ In which I find myself in situation CHAOS ... normal everyday again really !!!
'elloooo me Loverlies!!!
Happy Moon Day and yeap again it's Tyr's Day
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am off to The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain tomorrow so there will be no blog this week ... however next Tuesday's blog will be a BIG FESTIVAL CATCH UP with piccies and everything!!!!
At the moment and over the weekend I have been sewing like mad to get my cothes ready and fit for public display as my jeans are ripped to shreds !!!
So between making my Pixie Tool Belt and clotheses and doing paperwork and attending meeting tonight and going to pick up tent etc right now this second and Himself playing with the new drill .. it is all go here at Pixie Towers right now ...
I WILL make this all up to you next week I promise and in fact my entire Blog next week will be people I have met showing me how they do thier thing to fit in our blog
Have a fabbytastic weekend and week
Don't miss me too much
xox Love and Light xox
Happy Moon Day and yeap again it's Tyr's Day
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am off to The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain tomorrow so there will be no blog this week ... however next Tuesday's blog will be a BIG FESTIVAL CATCH UP with piccies and everything!!!!
At the moment and over the weekend I have been sewing like mad to get my cothes ready and fit for public display as my jeans are ripped to shreds !!!
So between making my Pixie Tool Belt and clotheses and doing paperwork and attending meeting tonight and going to pick up tent etc right now this second and Himself playing with the new drill .. it is all go here at Pixie Towers right now ...
I WILL make this all up to you next week I promise and in fact my entire Blog next week will be people I have met showing me how they do thier thing to fit in our blog
Have a fabbytastic weekend and week
Don't miss me too much
xox Love and Light xox
Friday, 18 May 2012
Ode to the Week ~ In which I have a fabbytastic week and realise that maybe I can do stuffs i fink I can
Helllooooo Me Loverlies and welcome to Freya's day !!!!!
Well what a week !!! I have to say straight away sorry for being a bit slow with my blog posts this week cos it has been all over the place chaos round here this week !!!
It's been a week of arranging 2 festivals and getting ready for another one. Ice skating dresses and clothes for the festival next week. Sorting our the websites. Fielding calls from revellers and would be stall holders. Paperwork, talking to sponsers, organising accounts, finding camping for festival crew and stall holders. Blog writing and working out new crafts and things around the house.In the middle of all of this, helping out with a family emergency, NO I did NOT make it worse!!! Sooo ner !!!
I started and wrote a little book of Bloo Pixie Wisdom today all I have to do now is put in the pics and I can put it out ready for you to grab a copy of. So hopefully that will be done before I go away next week. Actually might get onto it this weekend. Himself is away tomorrow so I will have a loverly quiet day .. you know the kind you can work on the couch or curled up in bed and eat toast and cup of teas all day!!! mmmm heaven !!!
I have to admit I am feeling alot better than I was earlier this week. I tend to get a tad freaked out when making something new that is special for someone. I tend to worry to the point I give myself a panic attack until it is done and I see a smile on thier face and know they are genuinely happy with it. I have to admit as well because I make my costumes the old way with rolled hems and not using an overlocker because I don't like them. I feel that doing things the old way is better as it gives the seams 4 times more stability than an overlocked hem.
Anywhooo I tend to get a bit wound up, cos I'm not that confident always. Well this week I had been working on a piece with fabric I'm not used to and a pttern I have never put together for a young girl who has worked very hard to make herself well up in iceskating working herself to English team standard!!! There was no way I wanted to mess that up. I do have to say I was a bit of a mess. However when I saw the look on her face when she put it on. It made all the difference it fitted perfick and it looked awesome and she loves it !!! Job done and me calm again !!!
Sometimes I panic for the wrong reasons, sometimes for the right ones, sometimes cos I just does. I think now though after this week I might not panic quite so muchly. It also got me to wanting to make my own tops for the summer. So I figure job well done.
Don't let fear stop you from doing what it is you want to and can do. It's ok to be scared but don't let it stop you, do it anyway!!! I did !!! If this ickle fraiedyfae can do it i figure you lot can !!!
Have a faerytastic weekend
xox Love and Light xox
Well what a week !!! I have to say straight away sorry for being a bit slow with my blog posts this week cos it has been all over the place chaos round here this week !!!
It's been a week of arranging 2 festivals and getting ready for another one. Ice skating dresses and clothes for the festival next week. Sorting our the websites. Fielding calls from revellers and would be stall holders. Paperwork, talking to sponsers, organising accounts, finding camping for festival crew and stall holders. Blog writing and working out new crafts and things around the house.In the middle of all of this, helping out with a family emergency, NO I did NOT make it worse!!! Sooo ner !!!
I started and wrote a little book of Bloo Pixie Wisdom today all I have to do now is put in the pics and I can put it out ready for you to grab a copy of. So hopefully that will be done before I go away next week. Actually might get onto it this weekend. Himself is away tomorrow so I will have a loverly quiet day .. you know the kind you can work on the couch or curled up in bed and eat toast and cup of teas all day!!! mmmm heaven !!!
I have to admit I am feeling alot better than I was earlier this week. I tend to get a tad freaked out when making something new that is special for someone. I tend to worry to the point I give myself a panic attack until it is done and I see a smile on thier face and know they are genuinely happy with it. I have to admit as well because I make my costumes the old way with rolled hems and not using an overlocker because I don't like them. I feel that doing things the old way is better as it gives the seams 4 times more stability than an overlocked hem.
Anywhooo I tend to get a bit wound up, cos I'm not that confident always. Well this week I had been working on a piece with fabric I'm not used to and a pttern I have never put together for a young girl who has worked very hard to make herself well up in iceskating working herself to English team standard!!! There was no way I wanted to mess that up. I do have to say I was a bit of a mess. However when I saw the look on her face when she put it on. It made all the difference it fitted perfick and it looked awesome and she loves it !!! Job done and me calm again !!!
Sometimes I panic for the wrong reasons, sometimes for the right ones, sometimes cos I just does. I think now though after this week I might not panic quite so muchly. It also got me to wanting to make my own tops for the summer. So I figure job well done.
Don't let fear stop you from doing what it is you want to and can do. It's ok to be scared but don't let it stop you, do it anyway!!! I did !!! If this ickle fraiedyfae can do it i figure you lot can !!!
Have a faerytastic weekend
xox Love and Light xox
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