just made some beads to match captain Jack’s and it has a genuine american ‘doubloon’ on the end (ok it is a 5 cent piece but I figure it is more authentic than my english 5 pence pieces lol)
Captain Jack Sparrow Hair Beads / Ornaments
food for Barbara :-)
May 27, 2011
Mini Food
May 22, 2011
Karate Kid Christmas Party (Karate Kidsmas)
January 16, 2011Happy New Year everyone! Hope anyone reading had a great holiday season.
My friend and I hosted a Christmas party just before Christmas and the theme was Karate Kid
We drank lots of alcohol and recreated some scenes – videos attached lol
yes I know I am mad and yes it was FREEZING but Vodka is to blame 
been on holiday and update on me
October 13, 2010been on holiday for a couple of weeks in Fuerteventura (canary islands) gorgeous place, kids loved the beach and pool and I loved the sunshine booze and food!!!
not done any work on the Prancing Pony recently. Boys have stopped napping during the day and I am also toilet training them so we don’t have very much spare time at the moment. However they will be starting pre-school for 2 days a week starting January so I will have some free time to be able to start work properly again.
I went on the tv for an interview re. Bag End – shown on our local BBC news station. Link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XBdGdBtVD8
it was my birthday and we had a Blade party and then a couple of months later we had a ‘Usual Drunken Suspects party’ and recreated scenes from one of my all time fave movies The Usual Suspects
Blade (aka me) and Danica Talos
note the blood cocktail fountail in the background!!! we made dinner with my samurai sword (no joke) cut up peppers etc with it.
Here is our usual suspects recreation:
The Usual Drunken Suspects
After about 5 hours drinking, we filmed ourselves recreating the lineup – if you want to watch it, click the link below *WARNING*** it contains a lot of swearing, cursing and silliness please do not watch if you are younger than 18 or are offended by swear words. We are merely copying what the actors say in the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWa0FfHweEo ignore the false start we get it right eventually!
Bag End on display at Dolls House Emporium!
August 29, 2010took Bag End to the Dolls House Emporium at Ripley today. Packed everything up in my trusty Games Workshop model briefcase – FAB for storing little models and miniatures
Bag End pieces packed up for travelling in my car
Dolls House Emporium had created a custom perspex box for it and done some lovely signs – really impressed. A journalist came to take some photos too and an interview so will be in the paper this week
Sign in the Entrance to Dolls House Emporium
Bag End in the custom display case
If anyone fancies visiting, directions to the store are here:
http://www.dollshouse.com/dhe/dolls-house-shop.aspx#map
it is a massive shop full of all sorts of treasures and a lot of the things I bought for Bag End are on sale here!
My Miniature Bag End hobbit house is going on display at the Dolls House Emporium!
July 8, 2010from September 1st till December some time (2010)
Really exciting for me
I will post more details soon, but here is the website with directions etc to the store
progress on the prancing pony
May 27, 2010coming along very slowly. I have been really busy past couple of weeks and twins going to sleep a lot later with the light evenings.
I have been experimenting with different floors for the basement of the Inn – I wanted it to be rough stone. The stones I used for Bag End are too ‘perfect’ for an Inn basement and they cost a fortune so I decided to make my own!
This is what I came up with and it only cost £5 wooohooo (made stones out of masonry cement and then grouted) Then drybrushed with snakebite leather, bleached bone graveyard earth and a smidgen of fortress grey. My warhammer chums will know what I am talking about
This is the frame so far (you need a LOT of imagination to turn it into the prancing pony – luckily I have lots of this):
oh and I have been experimenting with the door sign – this is a VERY rough first attempt but you get the sort of idea (sorry phone is rubbish at taking pics at night – I claim no responsibility lol)
Castleton Twinsclub 10th Year Anniversary Weekend
May 17, 2010Got back yesterday from the twinsclub 10th year anniversary weekend at Castleton Derbyshire.
Fantastic weekend with 30 Twin/Triplet Mums. Twister, Roller Skating, Scavenger Hunt, Quiz Night, Castle Trekking, Cave Dwellings, Pub Chatting, Cake Fight, no sleep sleep
Most of us had never met each other in real life and it worked out brilliantly – I haven’t laughed so much for ages (and I laugh a lot normally!) I only stayed for one night and it was the first time I have ever been away from my twin boys for longer than a couple of hours. I had a little wobble on the way out of the door, but when I arrived everyone made me feel that welcome and we had so much fun, that I coped just fine! (as did the twins who stayed at home and had a whale of a time with Graham (my partner, their daddy)
this is the rotary centre where we stayed - gorgeous surroundings
I am the second from the right
I am on the far left. We took a walk up to Peveril castle up steep hill
mexican wave after attempting to write 'twinsclub' with our bodies on the hill!
if you look really carefully you will see this spells out Twinsclub! It took us about 15 mins to do it and by this time a load of strangers had stopped to watch us and take pictures! We got a cheer at this point in the photo
scavenger hunt - had to find an item of male clothing. I got the added bonus of 4 topless blokes and an item of their clothing lol
me playing (and winning) at twister!
Set off on my walk from Hobbiton to Rivendell
May 10, 2010today I (we) started the Eowyn Challenge and set off walking from home (for those who haven’t seen my previous posts I am following in the hobbits’ footsteps thanks to http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/)
Packed up some provender (hula hoops, raisins, cranberries and water!) got wrapped up because it was raining and set off out of our front door. Took my twin boys, two dogs and Nipper 360 double pushchair.
we walked to the top of the hill outside our house, crossed the road and found a public footpath across fields – all very picturesque
The hobbits (aka twins) run at full pelt across field after dogs, and me running like a maniac behind them pushing double wide pushchair, simultaneously taking photos on my phone – good huh?
is that orthanc I see in the distance? er no it’s an electric pylon
it was going great till we got to the end of the fields and then disaster struck in the form of a narrow bridge – how to get 2 dogs, two toddlers and a big pushchair over the bridge??????????????
answer: send dogs across, send twins across repeatedly telling them to ‘follow the dogs’ and ‘be careful’ open 2 packets of hula hoops, tell kids to sit down and let them entertain themselves eating said hula hoops and laughing at mummy trying to carry pram above her head over the bridge
I won’t even post pictures of the state of my clothes – look like I have been crawling through the mud lol
at this point all paths ended so we walked through lots more fields and a farm and eventually reached a road and walked uphill till we found ourselves on the main road near our estate. Got home (after 2 hours of battling with pushchair through hedges and bumpy fields, felt all good about myself having done a really good walk. Checked google maps and we had walked - 1.4 miles……………….
FAIL. lol – probably not even got to the end of Bagshot Row! ah well we all had a good time and twins fast asleep now and dogs too!
