Milo...

Milo made me smile today :) I was packing orders in the studio and he decided he would get into the washing basket and make himself comfy! lol

The funniest thing was that when I got the camera out to take a photo he kept batting it, like he was embarrassed :D

hee hee

Silly kitty!

Welcome to the world Charlie!!!

My nephew was born this morning! 9lbs and 2ounces big! I am totally in love with him already and we haven´t even met yet! :) Being in Spain and them being in the UK, I can´t meet him till Christmas...which is a killer....but look at that gorgeous boy! Every second I have to wait will be more than worth it!

Welcome to the world Charlie Matthew Edward Boyle :) The 14th November will never be the same again!

Strange day...a mentally disturbed woman started a fight with me....

...I have to add...she won! :) lol

No, seriously, a woman approached me and got very cross and distressed when I told her "I´m sorry, I don´t smoke". All in all she showed herself to be disturbed and ran away when I opened my bag. Very strange and very random, made more scary in a foreign country and a foreign language!

So, I uploaded this image of my bitten gingerbreadman...this is how I feel right now! :) lol thankfully now, however, I am back home, safe and sound and with wine! I rang my mum (good old supermum to the rescue), had a cry, had a moan and feel much better! Unfortunately though, this has made me loose a few hours pulling myself together when I should have been sewing orders! Hey ho...tomorrow and Sunday will be busy days! :) The shop is doing well at the moment and I am on the verdge of turning away work (something I REALLY; REALLY never want to do) because I have been unindated. I´ll just have to make these fingers sew faster!

Hope your all having a lovely Friday! Happy weekend everyone! x

Holidays are coming....Holidays are coming...

Yay! to Christmas! This is my newest item on my shop :) www.samsshenanigans.etsy.com

The shop has been manic this month (even bigger Yay!) people are obviously starting their shopping early! 3 nearly 4 (currently convo-ing about setting up a custom order) all in one day! Wow! I´m going to be a busy bunny!

.......and tell me...where has this week gone?? Thursday tomorrow already?!? Crazy! I suppose it is going to do this from now on right? :)

You can´t catch me...I´m the gingerbreadman!

.....literally! I can´t seem to keep up with Gingerbreadmen orders :) I am not at all complaining though. I just never imagined they would be so popular! I have two big orders to rattle through this week and at a push next, and then I want to get creative as I haven´t had time to do anything new...but I had been stocking up on fabric over the last few months, so I have lots of things to play with when I do get a moment. I also recieved my gorgeous new business cards (see the super quick snapshot) and they are sooooooooooo cool! Very impressed with them...so much so...I ordered some more! You can never have too many business cards! ;) lol. I am quite amazed at how fast the week is going this week...it´ll be Christmas before we all know it! Happy Tuesday everyone!

Steph cae to stay...

I had the pleasure of my best friend to stay this weekend :) It was wonderful to see her as i haven´t seen her for nearly 6 months. It was nice to show her the sights and introduce her to important people over here. It´s just always so sad to say goodbye. Living abroad has any positive things to it, but the major downside is not seeing those important people as much as you want to or need to, and goodbyes are rubbish! :( I´m going to have to work hard to keep my sad face at bay today!

Bank "holiday" Monday...

So today was a very welcome bank holiday here in Barcelona. Unfortunately, i had to spend it catching up on the shop orders...I say unfortunately...but I really enjoyed it and get a great deal of satisifaction from it :) So, so far I have made 16 gingerbreadmen (I need 39 for orders and at least that again for a craft fair...!) and finally finished off my friend table runner...which I really hope she loves as it was a bit of a bugger to make! As per usual little Milo has spent the entire day sat sleeping and purring next me while I sew away...#gorgeous cat#

Tomorrow back to the day job, I have an early class at 9.30am and quite a busy day there after so no rest for the wicked! But roll on the weekend as my best friend is coming to stay :) YAY!

Happy Monday, oh! and Happy Novemebr everyone! I can nearly smell Christmas!! :)