Crafty day n spot the difference

I'm waiting for spooks to start so I thought I'd write a quick blog so here I am. Hello blogettes.  Hope you are all well. I've been sewing again this afternoon, more shoppers for the fruit and veg shop and another one for the lady who cleans at hubbys work too. She's already bought one for herself and her sister in law, her daughter bought one too, now she wants another for herself so she can keep one in each of her two bags she uses when she goes out shopping to save her having to keep swapping it from bag to bag.

I finished a mans hat I was knitting yesterday and got hubby to model it for me so I could put the pic on busymitts. Eily made the rather amusing suggestion that he had a look of Colin Farrell in it I didn't think so and said the only similarity I could se was that they both had stubble lol, but when I told hubby he said 'It's the thick eyebrows that look the same'. Well I suppose they are both bearers of  thick fluffy eyebrows lol. What do you think, are there any other similarities do you think??

Who's who lol

If you see the workout police don't tell them where I am

Well its a wet and dull day today and it's making me feel very wintery. I was supposed to be going shopping today with my mum but we were put off by the bad weather and have decided to try tomorrow instead which hopefuly will be drier. I'm not a fan of the wet weather and trying to shop with an umberella is such a pain, so a day at home was called for instead. I've just finished a couple of hours sewing, I've been making some more shopping bags for the fruit & veg shop as they are running low. I've only made two today as time got away from me this morning and I didnt  get started till after lunch so I'll have to make a couple more another day.

Now I'm blogging while I wait for hubby to come home from work and munching away on cinder toffee which is sticking in my teeth terribly. I'm sure it's a really unhealthy thing to be muching on but it is nice and it does say on the bag it has no artifical colours or preservatives so thats something at least eh. I think I've probably undone all the good my wii workout did this morning with just a few pieces of this stuff though lol.
Yes I'm still at it with my wii workout, hard to believe for me but I'm still sticking to it, just like this cinder toffee is to my teeth lol. I must confess I did miss out on doing any this weekend though so I'm a bit worried the workout police will have a warrant out for my arrest. In my defence though saturday was a rest day and sunday I woke up with a really bad sinus headache, just moving my head made me feel sick so I didn't fancy a workout.  By the time the tablets kicked in and I started to feel better it was lunchtime and we were off out to pick mum up for a visit. Hubby, mum and me did go out for a walk for an hour on sunday afternoon though so I did do some excercise and I was back at it on Monday so please Mr Workout Policeman let me off with a caution.

More excercise and a bit of sewing

I was up quite early and excercising again this morning, I think I'm getting into the groove now with it. I was supposed to be having a rest day today but I was feeling a bit fed up and off it when I got up and thought a workout would wake me up a bit and it did.
The workout still keeps changing and new excercises keep being added to try too which I think is good. Today I did volleyball which I've never played you have to mimic the moves you would make to hit the ball over the net at a target, I din't always hit the target as my aim is a bit off but at least I was still burning calories. I'm quite enjoying doing my workouts now which is something I didn't think I'd ever say.

After my excercises I had a phone chat with a friend and an online chat with my sister from another mister Eily and then this afternoon I did some more sewing. I made another two shoppers for the fruit and veg shop using some of the new material I bought yesterday.

I had a lovely day at mum's, I bought some new material from Dunelm and a few new books from tesco while we were out and we also a look around B&M which is on the same row of shops I didn't buy anything in there but mum got some wrapping paper for christmas. A couple of the materials I bought were on sale so I got a bit of a bargain too which is always nice isn't it.
I'm planning a bit of a lazy Sunday morning with a nice read in my jimjams with a few cups of tea and one of my new books. I got a couple of chick lit books and a mills & boon, yes I do read mills & boon!!!!!! I like my reading easy and slushy lol.

My new material & chick lit

Now Im off to catch up on the blogs I follow and then do a bit of knitting while I watch tv.




Up early again, it's so not me..or maybe it is

Morning all I thought Id write my blog in the morning for a change, I mostly write them at night but I haven't been going online as much of an evening lately so consequently I haven't done my blog as much. I'm just sitting waiting for my brekkie to settle a bit before I do my wii workout for today. Im still doing it although I must admit to missing out on Sundays workout, oh the shame :-( 
I didnt go to bed while 3am on saturday night as I got caught up reading a book so I didn't get up very early on sunday and felt a little rough when I did so I didn't do them then thinking I would do them later. Unfortunately I didn't though as mum came over for lunch and Matt and his girfriend were here too so after lunch we were all together in the living room, well theres no way I was going to huff and puff and lunge and jog in front of everyone besides which space would have been a bit tight (too many peoples legs for me to trip over during my workout). I thought I'd get them done after tea when mum had gone home but mum and me were helping Matts girlfriend remember how to knit and before we knew it it was 7 o'clock.
Mum wanted to be home and settle ready to watch something on tv that evening so we took her home without any tea (what terrible hosts we are) and by the time we got back and got our teas it was 8 o'clock and so we sat and watched x factor with Matt and Abi and then it was after 9pm and well I thought ooh bugger it its too late to be excercising now.
I know thats naughty and I should be ashamed of myself and to be honest I was a bit. I kept thinking about it when I was in bed that night, I was scared that the wiii would tell me off when I went on it on Monday and maybe make me start the 30 day challenge again but it didn't . I got up yesterday and after brekkie I put it on and all it had done was make sunday another rest day!!!!!!!! It didn't even tell me off! I felt a bit cheated to be honest lol.
Well I best sign off now and do todays workout, Im on a tight schedule today as after Ive done my workout its straight up in the shower and get ready cos I'm off to mums. We're going to Dunelm mill store today which is a short walk from mums. The fruit and veg shop I have been making shopping bags for wants four more this week and I'm getting quite low in material so I made two with my exisiting stock yesterday but decided I'd make the other two in some different material. Hopefully I'll find something nice today and then I can make the other two tomorrow.
Right I'm off to workout now hope you all have a good day xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

getting active

Whew am I hot and bothered tonight, I've been excercising for the first time in months and boy I'm unfit. At the weekend hubby and I bought wii active to try and do some excercises and hopefully get fit, well fitter anyway.

It looks quite good and comes with a resistance band and a leg strap to hold the nunchuck while you workout to register your leg movements. You can set up your own profile with your sex, age, weight and height and then design an avatar like yourself (mines a wee porker poor little love ) Then you either pick workouts from a list, customise your own, or take part in a 30 day challenge which is what hubby and I have plumped for (hehe very apt choice of words there andie).
When you take part in the 30 day challenge it sets you a workout of excercises which you can accept as they are or delete any you know you wont be able to do. Which I did today as my workout included lunges which I just can not do as my knees wont bend that low quickly, so I had 14 excercise to do today. Then you choose whether you want your trainer to be female or male and then off you go.
Our workouts started with  a run which I was puffed and sweaty at from the off, then it would have been the squats, which I didn't do but hubby did, he's very good at them too (squat swat) then more running which was hard for me as I hadn't recovered from the first one yet lol. Some more excercises including bicep curls, sideways lunges,target boxing, bend over rows, a bit of inline skating and then the squats,curls, lunges, target boxing bend over rows, and inline skating again, plus some shoulder raises and then onto another run to finish. 
The wii times your workouts and shows the calories you're burning too and then records it. Each day it mixes up your workouts a bit so you don't get bored or so it says, I hope not as we're not very good at sticking to excercises. Hopefully we'll stick to it and I'll tone up and lose a bit of weight and then me and my wii avatar can both go down a size. The poor thing does look abit of a sight, especially when shes running which means obviously so must I lol.
Before excercising this evening I made another shoulder bag this afternoon for the daughter of the lady who bought two last week and then I wrote and sent out the newsletter for my jewellery website. Hubby has wrote me a list of instructions for producing my newsletter which I write and add pictures with links back to my website using html code. I didn't know thats what I was doing until hubby told me today as I'm not big on computer jargon but given simple instructions I can usually manage to do things.

I feel really lucky to have my computer savvy hubby who not only wrote and designed my website for me but also set it up in such a way I can do things myself quite easily. I can add new items, link matching pieces together, write my newsletter and lots of other things I need to do all without having to bother hubby all the time.  There are still a few things I need him to do for me on it though but then again I like to make him feel needed lol

Back into baking

I've been back baking again today I think I'm getting a bit of a  taste for it, well a taste for the results anyway lol. I hadn't done any baking for years apart from my christmas tart baking and now here I am on my fifth baking day and I'm already thinking about what to make next. 

Today I made some chocolate butterfly buns which if I do say so myself taste pretty good. Hubby nephew and I all had 1 when they came home from work today (hubby had 2 greedy man lol) and I think we all enjoyed them.

I did enjoy making them, the measuring, mixing, decorating and of course the most fun part.... scraping the bowl out afterwards. well it makes washing up quicker lol

I had some good news today about my bags I made, the fruit & veg shop I made them for has sold 3 already and I also got a request for two more of the shoppers with long handles today so I'll have a good excuse to get my sewing machine out again next week too. Yay.                                                                                  I also got a lovely gift in the post today from a lovely member of busymitts, she sent me a mug with a cute knitted cosy on and some sweets and drink sachets inside and a magazine too. I feel like a princess lately with all the lovely gifts I've received.