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Hi Everyone,
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Thanks!
Niki
xxx

Tea Time

'Tea Time'

Who doesn't love a good cuppa! This is a new little cutie available now on ebay, enjoy xxx

Part 1 - Wool Painting + Modelling Paste Tut

Enjoy! Part 2 coming tomorrow Thursday.

Niki
xxx

On My Mind...

*Edit: I did not create this video, I thought I would share it with you all as it has such a great message and is so fitting for how I am feeling right now. I found it on Mystele's Blog and it is by Tanya Davis.

On the road to great health!

For the last year since we've had Ellie I've been on a mission to change my lifestyle by losing weight and improving my fitness and so far it's going great. I've lost 24lbs so far and my fitness has improved a lot! Now I'm ready to step it up and so I've been walking a lot further and can already feel the benefits. I'm integrating more healthy foods and cutting down on processed foods gradually and I love it. I've found Angela's blog a real inspiration and have even tried my first 'Green Monster' today which tasted lovely.

I've added a widget here to track my walking progress, currently I am walking 2 miles per day and I want to increase that gradually and add in some yoga (love yoga!) and weights to gain strength. So no excuse now for not doing it lol you can all hold me accountable ;)

Don't worry this is not going to change into a fitness blog, I just wanted to post a bit about what's going on round here and encourage anyone who is also working on improving health through a healthy lifestyle and not crash dieting. So please feel free to email me or leave a comment and we can encourage eachother.

Back to painting ...

Niki
xxx

P.S I bought some carrot and tomato seeds the other day, I already have germinated the tommy's and they are doing great (pics to follow), haven't started the carrots yet so if you have any growing tips I'd love to hear them. xx

Sweet Weekend

This weekend saw many wonderful things including the delivery of lot's of materials to start landscaping our back garden (very excited about this!) and Hubby finished the planter he made for my sweet peas. He made it out of used pallettes and stained it black, I think it looks awesome. We planted out my sweet peas Saturday afternoon and covered them with bubble wrap in the evening as we're still getting some frost. I am so pleased they have made it this far and can't wait to see them growing more and more.

As you can tell I am hugely inspired by nature and have created this pretty painting as a follow up to Spring Time...

'Spring Sunset'

You can find 'Spring Sunset' on ebay now.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, let me know what you did.

Niki
xxx