I feel like not much has really happened over the past few weeks. But while looking at and uploading the pictures for this post I realised that quite a few things have been going on.

So to start off let me introduce Huxley

Huxley is the new car. He looks pretty fierce but he’s really a softy.

I was saying to mum last week that I kept forgetting that we’d ordered a new car. In the showroom they did say it could take 9 to 12 months to come through.

We ordered it at the end of May. It’s well ahead of schedule, it’s only been 4 months. Last Thursday day got a message from the lady at Vauxhall saying the car had arrived. Mum and dad were a bit miffed because it hadn’t been that long since they filled the car up.

So on Friday morning dad said how do you fancy a trip to the Haribo shop in Pontefract later. At the time I thought he was joining so put it out of my mind. I had to go to church to help clean up a bit before the corridor and the entrance foyer porch thing was due to be painted. So I helped out where I could and of course I over did it and paid the price later on.

But when I got home I asked dad if he was serious about a trip to the Haribo shop? You know me, I never turn down Haribo unless I’m really ill. He said yes so me and him jumped in the car and set off.

So we get to the Haribo shop and I spend a silly amount of money on sweets and set off home. I did get sweets for mum, Mason, Katie, Harvey of course me (I need my golden bears) some Halloween sweets for me (ooooops, sorry I mean the house, I just get what’s left afterwards). On the way back I did realise that normally the bags you get from BandM are 100g and they are £1.25 and you would need 30 bags to make up one of the big bags from the shop. So that would be £37.50 for the small bags where are one big bag is about £15 so it’s pretty much half price for the big bags.

The main point of the trip was to use up some of the petrol in the car. Dad had the option up showing how many miles were left in the tank before it needed to be refilled. Pontefract is about 55 miles away.

The problem was when we got back the range was showing higher than it was before we left. I’ve no idea how that worked it’s self out but yeah after a 100 (ish) mile round trip the car said we could do more miles than we could before the trip.

Anyway we picked up Huxley on Monday and it’s a great car. It has 4 wheels and goes brum brum. That’s about all I know about cars.

Tangling wise there aren’t as many tiles this time as normal because Sandra had some much deserved time away from the live tiles.

Sandra did keep up the craftember tiles and there have been quite a few of them since the last post I did:

So only 3 mini tiles to go to finish off the Craftember piece. I’ll have to do the shading then.

I’ve also received the latest tile swap.

That tile is from Viv Morehouse it’s great.

Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh I REALLY DO HATE MYSELF AT TIMES! Why when something stupid happens do I end up panicking so much? I just had a mad panic session because I lost my phone. Thought I left it at church after the gong bath so got dad to run me down. Couldn’t find it, came home and had to wake mum up and use her phone to call Brian and Vanessa to see if it came out of my pocket in their car when they gave me a lift home.

Thankfully it was in their car and Brian very nicely offered to run it up to our house for me. So I’m now back in possession of my phone and hating myself for panicking so much about it.

Anyway, back to the tile swap. Here is a picture of the tile I sent in:

At the moment tangle wise I’m working on my tile for tile swap 30. I’ll have to get it finished and in the post soon before the deadline next week.

I’ve also worked on a piece using one of Sandra’s new stencils. I didn’t get it finished in time for her to use it on the shows today but here are some pictures I got of the different stages while working on it:

I have made a couple of card over the past few weeks too:

The 4 small stamped and die cut pieces are actually part of a twist and pop card that I made for Jean and Gordon’s Anniversary. But as of course, me being me, I didn’t get a finished picture of that card.

You probably already know of Ursula the viscous sea witch whose image was based on the Drag Queen Devine. I saw this in the craft shop when me and mum go to knitting.

I saw it, thought it was cute and decided I needed to give it a go. It only took about 15 minutes if that and I know it’s aimed at kids but look how cute and fierce she is. Also I’ve had the song Poor Unfortunate Souls from the little mermaid popping in and out of my head since I made the mermaid for Lucy so took it as a sign,

And to finish off the post today I’ll leave you with a video of that song so you can have it in your head too.

Love and Light