WOYWW 212 - Helloooo, Mrs B!

Another round of WOYWW - where does the time go?  Here we are, once again, on this worldwide voyage around the global desks of all the WOYWW ladies, courtesy of the wonderful Mrs Dunnit.  I'm not stopping for long though - I'm a newlywed, don'tcha know?  LOL

I have to say, the weather was amazing and the company great.  The wedding passed at superspeed; I can't remember much about it other than gazing into a certain Mr B's eyes, and having the hugest quantity of Chinese food on the table!  The party went with a swing, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  Mission well and truly accomplished.

Well, I promised a picture of the finished bouquets once the great day had passed..... and here you are....

Here's a couple of gratuitous hat and shoe photos....

And one of Lil Miss B' looking gorgeous....

Regrettably, there is no desk picture this week.  Who am I kidding?  Regrettably?  I'm delighted there's no desk picture this week.  I'm having a well-deserved week off....

WOYWW 211 - last call for Roberts!

Hellloooooo!

 

Late posting today.

 

And I don't really have a desk for WOYWW, that wonderful creation of the fabulous Miss Dunnit.

 

I'm still a little bit busy, as The Big Day is this Friday and I get to take a new married surname instead of using my old married one.  I could have gone back to my maiden name but I'm a cheapskate.  There, I said it.

 

Anyway, I don't really have a desk so I've posted up a picture of what I HAVE been working on lately - two nights this week, I turned a  marzipaned fruitcake into this.  I don't have to worry if it will eat alright - my Mum (bless her) made it, and having had about 70 years practice at this kind of thing will no doubt have turned out another awesome work of edible art.  She makes the best fruit cakes I know of.  Apologies to those who have already seen this cake on Facebook yesterday.

 

 

The second picture is something else I'm now working on for the wedding - hair slides for myself and  Lil Miss B... I'd be lying if I said the bouquets were finished but they're 99% done, just requiring a needle and thread on both, and a few more buttons/beads on one.

 



 

 

So - enjoy your hopping, my apologies that I don't reciprocate with any visits and comments,  but I really think I'm going to be otherwise engaged married this week!

 

 

Disaster...........

Oh my

 

Trouble is brewing

Anyone who knows me over the last year knows that I've been plagued with car trouble.  So much so, that last year it nearly put the mockers on the whole wedding thing when our silver Clio blew up.

Guess what.

Yup

Curse of the cars strikes again.

This time, we have - in the blue corner - the Renault Grand Espace.  Fault - something horribly wrong with the clutch.  Quote - £900 to fix.  In the red corner - the Renault Clio.  Fault - unsure, possibly the electronic control unit and a vacuum leak coupled with immobiliser woes.  Quote - £unknown, with a starter figure of £105 for work already done that didn't cure the problem.

So that's a cool grand before both cars are anywhere near fixed. 

And what have we here?  Oh, just a wedding reception!  With about £2k to pay on it still, money that is all we have, sat in the bank.  Waiting...for a wedding reception....or a broken car.  Or two.

It may just be that we have to cancel the reception.  Or downscale it.

The next 12 hours will tell - watch this space.

WOYWW 209 - post crop

Tsk.

After all the excitement of the weekend, I forgot to set up my WOYWW for this week! (For deets, go here).  Last night when I should have been scheduling a post for today, I was busy working on wedding things in Photoshop.  Silly me… hehehehe

 

Well, the Crop was amazing, but you’ll have seen Julia’s and LLJ’s photos by now at least, if not the myriad of others by Kyla and H and…. so I won’t bore you with mine.  Not that I have any to show you this week – they’re all still in the camera! 

My desk this week is a teensy bit different.  Some new RUBs that I’ve not found a home for/decided what’s going in them.  Cutouts in card for our wedding favour boxes (guess what’s happening in my house this weekend…. a marathon box-fest).  General stuff and stash as per usual.

The bouquets are coming along by leaps and bounds.  I forgot to get a picture of Doone’s hard work; at the weekend she hand stitched the ribbons on most of my buttonholes while Flo and I made more flowers.  (Sterling job Doone & Flo, thanks!)  At the Big Crop I sat/stood/meandered whilst making more flowers and I think all the lovely attendees made at least one each.  Thank you ladies!  It’s so nice knowing that a little part of all my friends will be so close to me on the big day.  Soppy, I know, but it’s still nice.  The bouquets are not quite finished yet, but are definitely on their way and are starting to quite literally take shape.

 

Between the pair of them, Doone & Flo have finally inveigled me into joining Collabor-art, basing their efforts on the fact that I should have more time on my hands come late August, and will therefore be able to join in occasionally.  Ulp.  Been a long while since I last did any proper arty stuff!  Here we go – feet first………

See you on the hop!

WOYWW 207

A flying visit from me cos I nearly forgot to post this, even though I remember to grab the photos this morning.

My desk has been taken over by a big white box with a purple blob in it - drying out the royal icing prior to sanding.... yes, sanding.  That's what I thought too, but apparently it's de rigeur when making a cake to sand it between layers.  Go figure.  My Mum never did it but then her icing bouts were usually peppered with lots of swearing and trying again. 

 

The lounge desk has been de-camped to the floor for the moment.  Twisting all that wire is playing up my carpal tunnel something shocking, so I can't do too much.  Guess what my Hens are going to be doing this weekend..... hehehehehe.........

 

In case you're wondering why I'm nattering about desks in particular, head here for all the deets.

In the meantime, I actually got around all my visitors last week, plus a few.  So you might just see me this week!  As Queen Julia and the lovely Doone are two of my Hens, and we're doing something craft related, I'll make sure I post a couple of tasteful pics next week!

Happy Hopping!
 

WOYWW 206 - more buttons - progress this time!

Just a quick one from me as I'm now at work and I'd forgotten to set up my WOYWW desk last night.  For all the deets, visit Queen Julia HERE.

 

My desk is currently in the lounge because I can sit there and work and am not segregating myself from the family.  It also means Lil Miss B can help out with the makings...

 

So, here we are - my desk space.....

 

 

and my progress so far....

 

 

 

I was foolish enough to decide to make buttonholes for all my actual wedding guests AND try to personalise one or two of them (Royal Artillery button, anyone?).  I need to finish these before I finish the bouquets because I need to make sure I have enough buttons.  Strangely enough, I don't think I do..... ulp..... must buy more.....  ROFL  The buttonhole on its own is for my beloved groom.  Ooh - and the cogs you see?  They're that set of Xcut Chronology dies, using mirri card.  I have to say, they are now my most used die set after Labels 4 from Spellbinders.  I wholeheartedly recommend them.

 

Sorry if you don't see me this week - we have just 37 DAYS LEFT...... and that means I'm a tad busy.  Tonight we're hitting Hobbycraft for some bits and pieces including foam core board for a "polaroid" frame.  Check it out on Pinterest.... This weekend will be spent up to my elbows in royal icing working on our fruit cake. No I don't mean Mr B.  At least the wedding dress is now ordered/paid for, we have all Mr B's and Lil Miss B's clothes, and the rings are in our possession - everything else is just gravy....

 

So, happy hopping - you might just see me this week!

 

WOYWW 204 - pretty much the same as last time actually...

Hello!  Here we are again for another week of WOYWW - for deets go here - and I figured it was about time I joined in again.

I'm hoping you'll all forgive me being a bad blogger of late but I have been a little bit busy doing...stuff.  Organising mostly.  Cleaning a lot.  Entertaining a HECK of a lot.... LOL.  I've lost track of where I am and what I'm doing and who's visiting.  Except I am VERY much aware that it's only 7 weeks and 2 days to the wedding.  Eek.

So, a quick flash of what is currently posing for a desk....

It might not look like I've done much in the way of "flowers" since I last posted a pic, but I have and there are more there than you realise.... Minxy - your packet now have pride of place on the lap tray, top left hand corner!

Finally - I got the wonderful opportunity to actually, finally, meet Minxy last night!  It just so happened I'd won something off ebay (love Ikea Expedit!) and it was in her town, so it would have been rude not to pop by and wave frantically and manically at her from the car.  I did actually get out, and we had coffee and a chat, albeit rather brief as we'd left the 12 year old at home (no space in the car for her!).

Before I left, Minxy also gave me this fab hanging for my craft room..... Thank you Minxy I love it - fave colours!!! 

WOYWW 197

Happy WOYWW!  For newbies to the acronym, head here for all the details and to join in.

 

 

Just a quickie from me this week!

 

As you can see, my picture (apologies fo the size etc, it was taken on my mobile) is showing my desk in the middle of a button frenzy.  For those not in the know already, I'm making my wedding bouquet from buttons and assorted bits and pieces (feathers, silk flowers, beads, cogs, you name it) and there's a couple of pieces already made sitting in the tin can.....

 

I really ought to get organised though!

 

Happy Bloghopping today!

WOYWW 193

 

Hellooooo!!!

 

Long time no see!

and technically still no see, cos I don't have a desk to show you for WOYWW (deets here).  But I hope you'll forgive me that.

You see, I'm rather busy at present, and my desk is piled high with huge stacks of buttons (thank you to Doone and Zoe amongst others), card, ribbon, bling, envelopes as well as the bed having fabric on it (I'm working on it Jo!).  In fact, most surfaces in the house have things on relating to craft and/or the wedding as Mr B and Lil Miss B pitch in on the wedding invites with paper trimmer and Big Shot in hand.

Just a shame I can't share any of it with you.....

I CAN share the front page of our website though (that has to be done before the invites go out) as that is something else I've been working on.  Busy busy busy.

On that note, I have to run.  I'm going to apologise now because I simply can't get round to many of you this week, so please don't leave a comment if my lack of a reply is going to upset you.  It's not that I don't want to, it's just that time is limited (I spent my lunchtime yesterday getting quotes for portaloos - I lead such a glamorous life!) and it's being spent doing other things. 

Hope you are all keeping well - me, I'm doing great although I need another op apparently!  Nothing to worry about, just a precautionary measure.... LOL.  Hope they sort it soon though....

TTFN - Happy Hopping!

Dah da di daaahh, dah da di daaah.....

I know, unusually for me, we have a post between WOYWWs.  This is cos I didn't want to bore everyone on WOYWW, so if you've come here via WOYWW, bless you!

So, I have news.

BIG news....

On Saturday (yup, sorry, couldn't get on the blog before now!) the man of my dreams, love of my life, my soul mate, mo anam cara....


PROPOSED.

And he did it all proper like, on bended knee.

The deets - we were out for a meal in the pub two doors away from us, with his parents as it was Mater's birthday.  I disappear off to the little girl's room, and when I returned he popped up out of his chair and said

"As you're on your feet, and I have the people I love around me, would you do me the honour of becoming my wife".

Mater cried.  I cried.  He cried.  Lil Miss B cried.

Oh..... I also said yes....

We have set the date, always assuming the registry office is available, as the 21st June 2013, with a big knees up on the 22nd.  No doubt it will include a visit to Stonehenge on the Solstice, and quite possibly a handfasting too.  Watch this space for more info at a later date!