Teacup Candles

Tomight was our monthly craft night - I'm not sure if K loves it as much as I do but to me it's the chance to try something new and have a giggle and catch up at the same time. K was in charge tonight and she'd bought the bits to make teacup candles - I've been wanting to try this for ages. It was the most simple thing - teacup and saucer, wax and wick, melt wax pour into teacup. add wax - using pen to keep in place - and wait to set. I now have a very cute teacup candle on my dresser but think I will move it into my bedroom. We also had an additional visitor - pink monkey couldn't sleep - mixture of teeth and being too hot, so she joined us for a little bit and helped K make a felt flower, I was quite proud I taught her that simple thing but it looked very cute.

Our Summer Plans

So summer hasn't really started yet but hopefully it's just round the corner. I've seen these summer lists on various blogs and thought I'd steal - ops I mean borrow the idea. I think having things written down so you can jogs the memory - and why should it only be boring to do lists that are pinned up. Anyway limited time and resources meant I cheated and printed our list out but its stuck in pride of place in the kitchen - blue monkey can't wait for crazy golf and i think pink monkey got most excited when I mentioned ice-cream.

Early early present

I'm a very very lucky girl and I've received a very early Birthday and Xmas present (told you it was early) off my lovely Mum. My new laptop has arrived and yes I admit I did pay extra to have it in white - just so much nicer (although will have to make sure it has no grubby little finger prints on it). The first thing I did was register on Skype so I am now waiting for my friend down under to log on and we can have a face to face talk - now that is exciting its been too long!

Stone Roses amazing!

Last night I braved the rain and with 75,000 others stood in
Heaton Park and watched the Stone Roses and it was amazing. Somehow managed to find all my friends - or should I say they found us as I had given up hope. The rain held off mainly and we even managed to get the lads to do the bar run for us. I was worried that they wouldn't live up to the hype but they did and the atmosphere was brilliant. We all had our wellies and waterproofs on to brave the rain and mud but it meant we managed to stay upright - we saw a few sights of people falling over in the mud. So glad we got tickets and so glad I went with all my brilliant friends.

Big night out big hangover

It was a work do last night - girls glammed up men in tuxs and the wine was flowing. It was a great night lovely to see everyone outside of the office. Only problem was it was a very very late night or early morning depends which way you look at it - however I have survived the day at work on less than 4 hours sleep and for that I am grateful for blue monkeys sleep deprivation training that I've had for four years
Anyway hope you agree at the start of the night we looked ok!

Missing in action

Well it's been nearly 2 months since I've last updated my blog but I'm determined to start again - I've been inspired by some amazing blogs I've been reading so thought I want to rejoin the blogging world. There is far too much excitement that has occurred in the past 2 months so thought the best thing to do was some pictures which I think captures the highlights for me - life in our house has certainly not been quiet!

Best friends

I always think I'm lucky when it comes to friends - I have 3 friends who I can call on at any time (and vice versa) we've been through the best and worst times but most of the time we are laughing together. Two of them I probably speak to every day the other far less frequently but we still pick up exactly where we left off. Then I have a lot of other friends is various social groups who are all fantastic as well.

So I really hope the monkeys get friends like I have. Blue monkey seems to have found his first set of "best friends" these are friends I've not forced on him they are the people he has gravitated to and vice versa and the 3 of them are thick as thieves. They will all split and go to different schools in Sept but for now I love watching them cause mischief - so here's to best friends whatever age you are!