tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234800072024-02-19T12:07:13.353+00:00Adventures in CreationlandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-84224216542956932262008-12-30T12:11:00.003+00:002008-12-30T12:13:52.570+00:00My new(ish) BlogWell - I say newish - it is quite a while since I moved to Typepad but if you are looking for updates then please check out http://www.koolkookykreatures.typepad.com.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-82368725012147637722007-04-18T12:06:00.000+00:002007-04-18T12:36:41.564+00:00Not a lot of people know that...10 things about me<span style="font-family: arial;">Ok here goes -</span><br /><br /><ol> <li style="font-family: arial;">I used to pretend to be a budgie when I was 3. I was most distressed when my teacher wouldn't hold her finger out for me to perch on as I leapt from the climbing frame flapping my arms wildly.</li> <li style="font-family: arial;">I once recited a poem standing on a bench in the grounds of Chesterfield's Crooked Spire to three policemen and 20 assorted enebriated personages at 3.00am one Saturday morning after a few sniffs of shandy. The poem was entitled 'Bertie the Bat' and it gained me a round of applause from the policemen (and anyone else present who could actually match their hands together in order to clap.)</li> <li style="font-family: arial;">I used to work as an undertakers secretary. I once sent in the obituaries to the local rag and unfortunately the photo's became detatched from the obits. I then had to walk around the deceased trying to identify them to the reporter. Me: "Oh this gentleman has ginger hair" Reporter: "Sorry Miss - all the photo's are in black and white."<br /> </li> <li style="font-family: arial;">Another job I had was as a buyer for a nuts and bolts company. Many happy hours were spent ordering "greased nipples" on the phone to an equally embarrassed trainee salesman.</li> <li style="font-family: arial;">I once ate a lemon (skin, pips and all) at a Radio 1 roadshow in order to win a portable cassette player and a cassette by Culture Club. Yes - I really was that desperate.</li> <li style="font-family: arial;">I gained my gold medal in Disco Dancing and yes I can do the pointy hand dance from Saturday Night Fever. Burn baby burn!</li> <li style="font-family: arial;">I once rode a donkey on Skegness beach wearing no undercrackers. I was 2 at the time.</li> <li><span style="font-family: arial;">My first huge crush was on that famed heart throb..........John Denver. He really did "Fill up my senses". I even bought the round glasses and a guitar (which I learned to play just so I could sing Leavin' on a Jet Plane) Ahh the memories! My other crushes were David Bowie, David Cassidy, David Essex and David Soul (known collectively as The Four Davids) but John was my passion!</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial;">My top three favourite films are: Nightmare before Christmas, Dead Poets Society and The Wizard of Oz.</li> <li><span style="font-family: arial;">I am an embarrassment to my children. I love to listen to very loud music ("turn it down Mum - You're giving me a headache!"), skip and sing in supermarkets and generally create mayhem. My DH says he has three kids not two but my girls' friends rated me as "coolest mum" so that can't be too bad can it. I was also voted "most barking mad mum" too but we won't mention that...ahem!</span><br /> </li> </ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-57720819958518332862007-03-08T17:51:00.000+00:002007-03-09T00:38:54.190+00:00Mini Etsy<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.etsy.com/etsy_mini.js'></script><script type='text/javascript'>new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(22902, 'shop','thumbnail',5,5).renderIframe();</script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-55450058264280908722007-02-20T11:04:00.000+00:002007-02-20T11:08:13.385+00:00Latest Listings<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tiPoPb2boINR0Jy3GlOBwTQ5d0PpTt3QDQmbgV90KKAZ-MF-7c1Y9hagwuvpxQcY_fk8wzdqPfesrXrWGc6aRwwVngG4uIn1Lscp8EWHmhd1X-xtxMLuOfxibTp8qH4FCC-t0w/s1600-h/DSCF0018.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tiPoPb2boINR0Jy3GlOBwTQ5d0PpTt3QDQmbgV90KKAZ-MF-7c1Y9hagwuvpxQcY_fk8wzdqPfesrXrWGc6aRwwVngG4uIn1Lscp8EWHmhd1X-xtxMLuOfxibTp8qH4FCC-t0w/s320/DSCF0018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033571253074230082" border="0" /></a><br /></div> I have so many ideas going on right now that I am falling over myself trying toget them made..lol!<br /><br />Here is the latest Padfoot Dog listed on <a href="http://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-50972762716664378252007-01-21T12:32:00.001+00:002007-01-21T12:38:01.625+00:00The Padfoot Dogs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeKLE8jMiN74aMx1qXX7ixnsdF52SJdvYwg0G9SnpRoRVbwKD43KHimFDP7NvG-LzYkw5GAWNC_SgIaRfIBlUexMNVh2stXsZk6ygaW9k0KZIGrVqavmCi7ONpDw0izMHDUr4Nhw/s1600-h/DSCF0081.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeKLE8jMiN74aMx1qXX7ixnsdF52SJdvYwg0G9SnpRoRVbwKD43KHimFDP7NvG-LzYkw5GAWNC_SgIaRfIBlUexMNVh2stXsZk6ygaW9k0KZIGrVqavmCi7ONpDw0izMHDUr4Nhw/s320/DSCF0081.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5022462037514006514" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AXOe_MDvNJ-yLnvzzqO8UadTCeIagWWUX1cmgyPeE_AdvDBpnKDJC6X6R9DT7tWIqoSOqTGDIqEmJEV9HhXea9rD4snDq7l6M3-mVMUJMY6-LdOvVAgkj7niA3IAgadvHX-tmA/s1600-h/DSCF0071.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AXOe_MDvNJ-yLnvzzqO8UadTCeIagWWUX1cmgyPeE_AdvDBpnKDJC6X6R9DT7tWIqoSOqTGDIqEmJEV9HhXea9rD4snDq7l6M3-mVMUJMY6-LdOvVAgkj7niA3IAgadvHX-tmA/s320/DSCF0071.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5022461758341132258" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XMqlROvwWcY-tXI55rVLn5C5Nke0aBVqsALam3z1pxUw6D7KkjxABWkT4HoGC0IpLbNv6dSClbEy16VI6ImOWfPTf2eQMa3Anq89vaUrXbx4v9l7CbM56g9tFp7_QA_AYzmPfQ/s1600-h/DSCF0025.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XMqlROvwWcY-tXI55rVLn5C5Nke0aBVqsALam3z1pxUw6D7KkjxABWkT4HoGC0IpLbNv6dSClbEy16VI6ImOWfPTf2eQMa3Anq89vaUrXbx4v9l7CbM56g9tFp7_QA_AYzmPfQ/s320/DSCF0025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5022461552182702034" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcx0awBpbERWC-_Ng8uJ665JBPF9S_fuApxnT2Q0L0_TtyXRz1y4AlJClxrjR_XaFU0DYyxdEEIvL5g8hdi8OC0XoJqRL3KNvD7phKe8gPhnDKUluoYSwssdvhV01FjaRO46sQ_w/s1600-h/DSCF0018.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcx0awBpbERWC-_Ng8uJ665JBPF9S_fuApxnT2Q0L0_TtyXRz1y4AlJClxrjR_XaFU0DYyxdEEIvL5g8hdi8OC0XoJqRL3KNvD7phKe8gPhnDKUluoYSwssdvhV01FjaRO46sQ_w/s320/DSCF0018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5022461311664533442" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3J1uKwhQtBK2xN68-sL35fCrJ2E3ss6AmjUIjSuOhYaF5ZOVQwvHLgM_jkECcqGZvAfqDueoAQQSBj1eQupvW96ob2WgUMVrf7eQ4TLktWls5vdLna-a1UjyOjF004X7qAL2tDA/s1600-h/DSCF0015.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3J1uKwhQtBK2xN68-sL35fCrJ2E3ss6AmjUIjSuOhYaF5ZOVQwvHLgM_jkECcqGZvAfqDueoAQQSBj1eQupvW96ob2WgUMVrf7eQ4TLktWls5vdLna-a1UjyOjF004X7qAL2tDA/s320/DSCF0015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5022461161340678066" border="0" /></a><br />Here are my newest items on Etsy - The Padfoot dogs! These are all needle felted by hand onto a wire armature.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-16595860069531677282007-01-21T01:06:00.000+00:002007-01-21T01:07:24.956+00:00<a href="http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/ninjatext.asp"><img src="http://r2.fodey.com/138b9fd35cbb7442a80a57079368fd8e6.1.gif" border="0" width="535" height="108" alt="Ninja!" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-71084308114044756872006-12-12T11:09:00.000+00:002006-12-12T11:15:42.845+00:00Robotz!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhjKhfRgGvdILNUHwXA6bcEAU3LhZ7f4oSTxIBA22aqNe7ICpnfaf_EuNsoTKwb7MSxSCt1Yh5zugPAlxtN02oIDH0WgRu_57nCLWxxw2nBaN23LvxDQrEixIeLbWTVS3Njxc1Q/s1600-h/DSCF0005.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhjKhfRgGvdILNUHwXA6bcEAU3LhZ7f4oSTxIBA22aqNe7ICpnfaf_EuNsoTKwb7MSxSCt1Yh5zugPAlxtN02oIDH0WgRu_57nCLWxxw2nBaN23LvxDQrEixIeLbWTVS3Njxc1Q/s320/DSCF0005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007597074991522194" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjyaHi_fs3xWKzNrP1zUlG-vHnqnbYp96kR6f8PVJK6w8IHigBnotxm3b46Tmk_aW1MVtjBHUndcPnZxtAlYNK1EwpYhHI-pWjWhZkWKhybA9O7MtdMdvZmJv-HKZqSZlvAAyxg/s1600-h/DSCF0052.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjyaHi_fs3xWKzNrP1zUlG-vHnqnbYp96kR6f8PVJK6w8IHigBnotxm3b46Tmk_aW1MVtjBHUndcPnZxtAlYNK1EwpYhHI-pWjWhZkWKhybA9O7MtdMdvZmJv-HKZqSZlvAAyxg/s320/DSCF0052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007597079286489506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTr5VIPbJf5Lzjp7ZiGiGAPRWv9UUeu14ajdQo0xOv8L-HOY63REZGcvffsaxFdXks2OnAGBdqO4vjOKYwVF2ohg2U-Wgwdaz7rlCjXeYJtJi4k6gnmtoIMfnfecTpP57zn9IVA/s1600-h/DSCF0088.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTr5VIPbJf5Lzjp7ZiGiGAPRWv9UUeu14ajdQo0xOv8L-HOY63REZGcvffsaxFdXks2OnAGBdqO4vjOKYwVF2ohg2U-Wgwdaz7rlCjXeYJtJi4k6gnmtoIMfnfecTpP57zn9IVA/s320/DSCF0088.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007596821588451714" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtLqNA2PsFHj2puunf7AE14OzylgizUSb1BLx-Ofog4-34hsqmWF9xVpvbh1uofwhkhpLNqxVZBf8WtQdOWJWtd1C4HUoiWeGzWNyd1wqlmE9pptyfGJsH9CvtMDurhyJOsLMkw/s1600-h/DSCF0085.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwtLqNA2PsFHj2puunf7AE14OzylgizUSb1BLx-Ofog4-34hsqmWF9xVpvbh1uofwhkhpLNqxVZBf8WtQdOWJWtd1C4HUoiWeGzWNyd1wqlmE9pptyfGJsH9CvtMDurhyJOsLMkw/s320/DSCF0085.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007596576775315826" border="0" /></a><br />Here are a few pics of the robots that I have for sale in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=22902">Etsy</a> shop.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-1141649787699780012006-03-06T12:52:00.000+00:002007-04-12T18:04:47.340+00:00My new etsy store<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/1600/birdie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/320/birdie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/1600/Flower.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 168px; height: 227px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/320/Flower.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:black;">I have just opened a shop on </span><a href="http://koolkookykreatures.etsy.com/"><span style="color:black;">etsy</span></a><span style="color:black;"> and I have put a handmade card and Orangina the birdie up for sale</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23480007.post-1141605463410927192006-03-06T00:32:00.000+00:002007-04-12T18:06:28.199+00:00Birdies, birdies everywhere!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/1600/birdies6.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/320/birdies6.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/1600/Birdies1.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4300/2411/320/Birdies1.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">seem to be obsessed with birds lately. They seem to be coming from all angles and now I've even started knitting them...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Well - here they are in all their glory.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0