New Lovelies at Last

Sssshhh, listen. Can you hear that ? Silence. And its beautiful. The children went back to school this week and now there is no more bickering and moaning and things are slowly returning to normal.

Monday was my little fellas 4th birthday so it was a day full of presents, playing, party food and Ben 10 birthday cake. Tuesday was back to work but in the evening I managed to get the light tent out and take some new photos of my Wedding Collection and the pieces I made the other week.

So here we have Linen Pendant a tag style pendant with a rolled linen pattern. It has then been oxidized to bring out the texture.


Linen Disk Earrings again with the linen texture, two dinky disks sit together and swing from handcrafted ear wires.


And finally, an addition to the Armour Collection, a hammered pair of Hoopla earrings. I love the hammered texture as it just bounces the light in every direction.

All three of these new additions will be added to the website in the next day or so. One thing at a time eh ?!

Slightly Smaller Lazy Bum

Its a classic case of the Funks that's kept me away for so long again. I think hurting my back was the start of it, as I just couldn't sit for long periods of time. I got to enjoy laying on the sofa and the lazy arse part of me indulged it for a little too long.

Then its the age old phenomenon of the more time you have the less you do. I got in a mood with myself for not doing anything but wouldn't do anything about it. I only have myself to blame. That and getting into the swing of thing with my new job - the one I told you about ages ago, I got it and (so far) I love it.

All is not lost though, as I do have a few pieces that I managed to get made which just need a little bit more love and for me to get my lazy butt in gear and take some pics and they will be up on the site.

Oh on a lighter note (get it, no ? you will in a second), about 10 weeks ago I started attending my local slimming class. As my little ones are nearly 10 and 4 I could no longer blame my excess weight on baby belly. My 30th birthday is looming this year and decided that I do not want to be "Fat and Thirty" it was time to do something about it. This week I weighed in 1st 6.5lbs lighter than when I started and im now half way to my goal weight. I'm so chuffed and this afternoon after going out any buying a few cheapy transition clothes I started emptying my wardrobe of everything that is too big for me. I now have a bin liner full of stuff the for the charity shop, and very little in my closet.

Big Grin !

Ouch !

I tell you I'm not having a good time of it lately. Ive had some pretty heavy stuff happen to me last week. Not all that I can share because it involves other people but needless to say its effected my greatly.

What I can share with you is why this post is titled Ouch ouch ouch. It all started back on Wednesday when my little sis convinced me to have a go on her Wii Fit. You see I'm on a diet and so far have lost 13.5lbs and figured it would be a good idea to start getting some exercise in - cue Wii Fit. After just one session my thighs were screaming at me, and I don't blame them, I haven't done any proper exercise in years. You know what its like for the next day or so, your legs ache and i was walking like i had no knees lol.

Bleary eye'd Friday morning I got up and started to go down stairs. My legs decided they didn't actually want to, seized up and I fell. From the top right down to the bottom, and boy did it hurt. I sat there some what dazed, and assessed the damage. Apart from a sore bottom, grazed arms and a thumping head there didn't appear to be much wrong so I carried on about my day. As the day wore on my back/bum just kept feeling worse and worse, until it became difficult to sit down without shooting pains through my backside.

After some gentle nagging (you know who you are) I made my way up to the doctors and it turns out I've damaged my coccyx. Boo :(

The doctor gave me some strong painkillers and I was told to rest. I didn't realise exactly how strong they were and ended up feeling sick and very drunk. Needless to say as a mother, its difficult to be in that state with children around so yesterday I decided that I cant take them and I'm just going to have to grin and bare it.

I had great plans for this week, but I'm just going to have to play it by ear. It hurts to sit down so the studio days I had planned for are going to have to go on hold and I'm going to try and catch up on all the things I can do standing up.

Bummer - literally !