All the Queen's Horses

So today is Amelia's 13th Birthday and we are off to London for the day. We have tickets for the Royal Mews, which are the stables at Buckingham Palace. We saw all the Queen's carriages, including the Gold State Landau, which was truly breathtaking. Only actually saw two horses, so a little disappointing on the jolly old four legged friend side of things, but great to see behind the scenes at some of the best stables in the world. Her surprise cake for her birthday had a horse on it that looked like Sunny. She couldn't blow out the candles for crying when she saw it!

 

 

We then went to try and get into Madame Tussauds, but I think the start of the queue was just outside Plymouth! So off we went to catch another tube to go to Trafalgar Square, to West End Live.

 

West End Live is a free concert, showcasing the best of the West End shows. We queued to get in and made our way down through the crowds. Toby Anstis, the Heart fm DJ was hosting the event, so I thought I'd be cheeky, and tweet him to say it was Amelia's birthday. The next time he came on stage, he told everyone about my tweet, and got the whole of Trafalgar Square to sing Happy Birthday to her! She blushed soooo red, but it was well worth it. She'll remember this day for a very long time. Not quite sure how I'm going to top that next year though?

 

It was an amazing day, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. It was good to spend some one to one, quality time with Amelia too. So it was two very weary travelling who got the tube back to Paddington and made their way back home to Cornwall.

 

Good Intentions

Well, I knew it would happen. Set up the Blog, then completely ignored it for a year. Well, I am really going to try now and keep it up to date. I've starting writing my journal every night and it really does helps to clear my head of all the things that don't need to be there.

So many things have happened since I was last here. We lost lovely Fabien in January, and Walter has now gone up to the Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth to live. Sunny is now living in Duloe and has friends of her own kind to be with. Amelia still misses her dreadfully and, like me, I don't think she will ever get over what happened.

I won't bore you with the day to day drudgery, just that we also have a new addition to the Hoskin household. a Jackadoodle pup called Buddy. He is amazing, and has fitted in so well. He comes everywhere with me, and is a total joy to be around.

 

 

The children are all doing really well at school. Can't believe Hayden goes into year 6 in September. Where did my baby go?

Contrary Mary is still going strong, and orders are coming in steadily. Even had ones for Christmas.....yes I know it's only June!

We've had some amazingly sunny weather over the past few weeks and we are all looking a lot healthier and happier. We've actually been able to get out and explore our surroundings and make the most of the beautiful place we live in. More of that this year please!

There still seems to be something missing from life though. Can't yet place what it is. So maybe I am still looking for the end of the rainbow.........?

Who Am I Again?

I'm back!
So after a long Sabbatical, I'm back with a new look Blog which I have all the best intentions of looking after and keeping updated on a regular basis.......Hmmm, we shall see. I do have fairies at the bottom of my garden you know!

Actually, at the bottom of my garden, I now have a new 'workshop'! Well, at the moment it's a bare shell, but I'm assured by my gorgeous hubby that it WILL be a new workshop.

I have to tell you that the way we achieved the new workshop is that we appeared on the Channel 4 series of Superscrimpers. They set us a challenge to do up our garden, including finishing the workshop for £150. We eventually came in at £164.59 but the structure IS actually finished, it's dry, and we just need to finish the inside and I (and all my crafty tranklements) can move in!

Anyway, it's coming up to that time of year when I forget what my name is because there is so much going on. At the moment I only have 5 Craft Fairs booked in, purposely so I don't spread myself too think like last year. I'm really enjoying crafting at the moment, and have had some lovely comments from people through my Facebook page, and also who have seen my stuff in Jelly Pebbles.

So, lots more going on, but my glass of Baileys is calling. Well, it would be rude not to, wouldn't it?