My water baby and Kate Middleton

Oh what a day.....it started at 5.45am as the whole of Beaumaris and Anglesey started to prepare for the Olympic torch coming through the town.  I was more than a little excited as it left the castle at 7am and went straight past the gallery a minute later.  We then ran down to the seafront and had booked a pod on the wheel which is in town for a fortnight and watched the torch head down the Menai straits on the lifeboat. It was such an amazing atmosphere made all the more exciting by the addition of HRH the duchess of Cambridge being present, on a boat!!!!!  Rumours had been spreading like wildfire all week that she would be here, as she lives just up the road.

The atmosphere was just amazing especially as the sun was shining from 6am and by 8am it was all over. A gang of us were sitting in our garden with coffee and croissants in the sun.  we then spent a fun few hours in the town paddling pool and on the beach, little R is definitely a water baby.

I have splurged on a new computer today so will be uploading some more photos tonight to show you the wondrous sights from the ground and up on the wheel, if you look closely you might see her on a boat.... I will also be announcing the 2 lucky readers to my giveaway....see you later folks x

three days in a row we have been in this paddling pool, who needs a holiday abroad?????

spots and stripes

I'm still testing the look of my blog, I am in love with picmonkey and have spent rather too much time on there today......but I love the polaroid look, keep commenting on my last post for a chance to win some seasidey goodies xx

whoops

Hi 


Whoopsy, I was doing a giveaway over on my facebook but apparently that is a BIG facebook no no.

So, I am doing it on here instead. I was offering three prizes and one has already gone but there are still 2 up for grabs. So, if you leave me a comment on here I will pop you all in a hat and pick out 2 random names for some of my lovely new soaps and my tea towel as prizes. Yipeeee, just beacause its sunny, its Monday and I'm happy.......x
And to any of my facebook likers, welcome to my blog........


p.s I will choose a winner tomorrow evening

Happy Sundays

Happy SUNday All, what a lovely treat this weather is, I feel like I'm on holiday, a bit giddy, or maybe that's the gin and tonic I just enjoyed. I hope everyone is enjoying the remainder of this beautiful weekend. Welcome to any new readers, I think I've got a few this weekend after sneaky Lucy sung my praises....blush, back tomorrow xx










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Blue

1. I love forget me nots
2. What wonderful weather
3. Will this ever be finished
4. I treated Raffy to this indoor outdoor tent after seeing it on attic 24. The best buy this year, happy house x

Have a happy weekend all x


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blue and orange

There's not much I enjoy as much as a good scavenge. We had a heads up that they had started pulling down the old sheds in our boatyard up the road so a friend and I headed off early this morning for a good route. No sign of the sheds coming down yet but I filled a huge bag with treasure, in the form of bits and pieces of wood and boat. I love looking round this yard. Its full of old fishermen and boaty folk and has such a great working atmosphere. Of course they thought we were mad routing on the floor for scraps and one even gave me an old mast, bonus!!! They allowed us a peek in their sheds and oh my, a treasure trove of goodness, my eyes couldn't take it all in. We had a quick coffee in the sun on the waters aede and I was back at the easel by 11 to finish a commission I will share in the next few days.

Got to go now, boys to feed but wanted to share

A smile

Vintage tea towel I had to have framed....doesn't this weather make you want to smile all day



Long may it last x



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Come on in

A little sneak peek of my little house, as promised, but please be aware I have done no tidying or styling of pictures because if I had really done that these photos would never have come so please take us as you find us, so come in, I'll put the kettle on x

I love my Orla Kiely crock pot, I could finally get rid of the plastic brown bin that found itself residing on our worktop but if I moved it it just didn't get used so now we are back to recycling and composting.
I'm embarrassed if you look closer about the hideous football bowl, but we all have the odd ugly thing slip in, right?  I couldn't banish everything hubby owned....

Hanging from the doorknob on the right is little R's race for life medal.  He got pushed, ran and toddled his way around 5km this Sunday and between him and his Mormor raised over £300.  I was due  to do it with them but had double booked with my VW festival (more on that tomorrow.) In case there are those out there who don't know but Mormor is Danish for Mum's mum, and as I am half Danish that's what my Mum is to him.

There seems to be a lot of blue and white in our house doesn't there?

 trying to capture the gallery of family photos on our stairs is proving difficult, will try again. Its an ongoing project and I have at least another 30 to go up, but the only time we have for diy is when R's asleep and that is not the best time to start hammering.

 a rare splash of red with this cheap Ikea rug but it feels very seasidey to me. One of my very favourite pieces of art in the house is the print in the bathroom by Australian artist Beci Orpin, I saw it a few years ago on someone elses blog and just had to have it. Its so Scandinavian.

My small collection of Dala horses on the landing, I have quite a few others dotted around......and a couple of paintings by Sasha Harding, a good friend and most probably my favourite living artist. We do have 5 of hers, I just can't stop.....they definitely make me smile.

A very untidy little ones bedroom, but to be honest its not often very tidy so hey ho, maybe I should have tidied it for you. Its only going to get worse isn't it???

 I start off well with perfectly placed items but things just get shoved where there's a spare bit of shelf at the end of a busy day.

So thats a little peek, I will post some more when I get another sunny day as it really is a dark house, well not an awful lot of natural light xx

Any questions about where anything might be from I can answer in the next post. I'm sorry I just don't have the time to reply to each comment individually, much as i would LOVE to, and love your comments xxx

Betty Flo's big day out

So this was my weekend......I did our first...... and last VW show. Don't get me wrong it was fun to do but a lot of hard work on a weekend I normally spend with my boys. It was an early start...like car boot kind of early, eurrggghhhh. This is the kind of thing I would like to do on a Sunday, but be on the other side of the table. I love having my gallery and people choose to come to me, but putting yourself out there is a different thing altogether. You have to be quite thick skinned and when you are selling a quality product, handmade in the UK right next to a stall selling made in China, what can you do? Smile sweetly that's what but I think I'll just stick to my gallery in the future.

Thank god the sun was shining and a good friend sat with me all day Sunday, thanks xxx

 Someone had to help me rearrange.

 I'll just stick to our fun days out and picnics, talking of which, Its a Barbecue in Betty Flo kind of day.

A good mum day

Today I have been a good mum.....no, a great mum....Do you have days like that when you just have no distractions and can do everything you dreamed you could do every day with them. Most days I just muddle through, wing it, have some giggles along the way but also have so much to achieve in the day that I can't always give little R my whole attention and by the time his bedtime comes it's all passed in a whirlwind of happy chaos.
But today was all about us, me and him and flipping heck did we enjoy it.
We did start it a little bit adulty and went down to our local deli/coffee shop and started with a large double shot cappuccino in the SUN.....soon my Mum appeared and a couple of friends, that is what I LOVE about living here. As much as I would have loved to have stayed right there for a few hours in the sun there, nope it was our day and I was excited about that too, off to the Foel farm we went.
I decided it would be fun to take Betty Flo, our camper van, it always feels like such an adventure in her, so I put his car seat in the front so he was high up and off we went, yay. He loved being high up and therefore missed his normal car nap.

We arrived and bought a big bag of feed and off we went to the first shed, we were greeted by pigs and 8 piglets.  My little boy was squealing with delight along with them, he was a bit unsure of the cheeky goats, but he held onto the bottle as we fed a 2 week old lamb. I wish I had brought the video camera along as he was chatting to the animals like he was dr dolittle. He still doesn't really have any words other than mum, daddy and Buddha?!?!?!?!? But the gobbledygook he was chattering with these animals was brilliant.

We then had a picnic surrounded by chickens and after lunch we were offered a tractor ride to the top fields to see donkeys and shire horses. Raffy mooed at the cows with earnest but was a bit too shy to feed the horses but what fun.   We then bounced for a good hour on the bouncy cushion/castle, followed by another hour in the giant sandpit. I think I enjoyed it as much as he did, if not more. The sun shined and we giggled and smiled at each other. After another quick feed of the goats and a peek in the bunny barn we were both tired and ready for home. As soon as we got home he ran outside to play in our sandpit while I could make a good dinner for us with the doors flung open to our garden to be able to keep an eye on him.

Any easy bedtime followed and with a glass of wine in my hand I can reflect on a perfect day with my beautiful boy....happy summer days.
This is why I love blogging, I can record these special days for me, if anyone else wants to read then great but one day Raffy can read this and know that sometimes I can be a GREAT mum.
It's also made me realise How quickly time is flying, I have been working too hard recently in the gallery and he is growing quickly, before I know it he will be off to school so I'm keeping this precious little boy close. Work can wait.....these early years don't.
what has everyone else done this sunny day?
Thanks for popping by xx




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