Violet

Last year I gave my home to this little princess. Someone was just giving her away on Gumtree. The whole thing was super sketchy and I'm so pleased that I was able to rescue her! She lived on an awful council estate in a house full of dogs and she was just called 'cat', the people hadn't even bothered giving her a name :(. So... meet Violet. She's an absolute sweetie and a pain in my bum! The worlds most expensive cat racking up over £500 in vet bills in less than 6 months and smashing a brand new 42 Inch Tv after only having it for 30days. She loves 'duck on a stick', nuzzling into my dressing gown, lying on her back and farting all day long. She even has her own toy shelf, which she routes through to find the specific toy she fancies playing with.

I've turned into a total crazy cat lady but I kinda love it. and her.

Shop Update

I've been a super busy bee lately! I took two weeks off from the day job and spent a good majority locked away in my work room updating the Ebay Shop! I sadly let the business slide downhill very quickly, when I started a new job a few years ago and moved in with my then partner. But! Alas! A new friend encouraged me to get back into it and now I'm so happy I did. If you know me personally you'll know I like to be kept busy, as much as I like a lazy day every now and then I've always got to be doing something (very rarely am I sat still!) So having the shop back up and running gives me a feeling of having more purpose and productivity.

I used to get frustrated the shop because it was very much in dribs and drab, however now the photos are much better and the listings are all neatly to the same format, so I feel like its a lot more organised and less messy - which is a definite plus for me & my OCD!

The majority of my stock is listed on the ebay shop...

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Polkadotte-Gift-Shop

and slowly but surely I'll be using my spare time to share the listings across to Etsy.

I've still got lots of work I still need to do, but now that business has taken of again, it's definite motivation to continue on with it!

Wedding!

Last summer my wonderful cousin Matthew got married to his beautiful fiance Rebecca. It was at a beautiful old manor house (For  the life of me  I can't remember its name!)

me and Mary brother were invited to the evening do whilst the rest of the family were at the ceremony so we joined them later on. it was my brothers last family visit before he moved to Australia, so it was a nice special day to all spend together before he left us for a year (Or more!)

I managed to squeeze into my Polkadot (The Polkadotte - in polkadots?!) dress that I'd bought years before with the hopes of wearing it to a wedding, but then I got fat and couldn't fit, but then I got skinny and then could! *yeay!*

It was a lovely afternoon - mainly spent getting drunk with my brother, and dancing to the live band that played various Indie songs of our teenage years!

Baby Mudd's Shower!

So wayyy back in September I threw a baby shower for my best friend. We go way back and have been friends since we were kids so I was super excited to host the shower and get all excited about the little bubba she was about to bring into the world. Her and husband decided to keep the sex of the baby a secret so it was up to me to throw a neutral shower and think up lots of fun things for us and the guests to do. Oh, and by the way... it was a surprise so I had to keep it secret, which was ridiculously difficult to do!

I had a full table full of party snacks - cooked off little nibbles etc and tried to make the rest of the food 'baby themed', had dishes full of pink & blue sweets, napkin nappys full of crisps, I even managed to make some little napking booties from a tutorial on good ol' Pinterest (Oh Pinterest where would parties be without you!). Safe to say I did way too much food haha but it did go down quite a treat!

I borrowed a gazebo off a friend because of the unreliable English weather but I needn't have worried because it was a beautiful sunny day! Me & My mum spent a couple of afternoons making our own decorations and hung them around the gazebo making it super cute and cosy, along with a bunch of 'emergency' mismatched garden furniture covered in my living room throws and cushions haha!

Amazing how much themed food you can find when you're really looking for it! Super cute teddy bear shaped biscuits & crisps!

I put together some little party bags with a teddy bear wine glass charm as a keep sake and a good bag filled with pink & blue sweets. We handed out rock dummys as medals for the game winners, decorated some nappys ready for mummy & daddy to read with their late night nappy changes! Played some charades, music quiz (courtesy of Youtube! ;) ) and had some blindfolded nappy changing haha! I even asked the guests to bring along their old baby photos so we had a game of guess who too! Which was way more difficult than it sounds!

All in all there was lots of tears (hopefully of happiness) from the Beautiful Expecting Mummy and I think it went down a treat! Took me months of preparing though haha, so I'm hoping that's my party hosting duties done for a little while! :-)

Back To Work!

Hello all! I've not managed to be very consistent with the blogging but I have been quite a busy bee!

I've really been putting a lot of effort back in to my business and it means I've spent countless hours listing after listing after listing, and I'm still no where near close to getting finished haha! BUT... I'm enjoying it, and my hard work is slowly beginning to pay off!

Today's just a short one to say I am still about and I PLAN to be back more often but today I'll spend the rest of my day planning some *hopefully* more interesting blog posts for you guys!

Have a lovely Friday!

xoxo

New Stock!

After a year off sorting my life out after some MORE major changes I'm finally getting back on track (I think!) I'm investing more hours back into my business and trying to focus my time on what I enjoy. I've moved yet again in to a lovely little rented house a few doors away from my Best Friend and her beautiful little baby girl and things are hopefully looking up for me!

I'll slowly hopefully begin filling you in on all the little details that have changed but for now I'll leave you with some cute new additions to the EBay shop...FOUND HERE

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Find Me Here

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London! Rememberance Sunday!

I recently had to go to Milton Keynes for some training for work so what a perfect excuse to go back to Bedford and see the other half! We decided to take a trip to London and go visit the Remeberance Sunday Poppy Memorial at the Tower Of London and spend the evening at the Lyceum Theatre watching The Lion King.

I LOVE LONDON. I always thought I'd hate it but after my first trip a couple of years ago I love it - It'll be a shame it's not on my doorstep anymore with us not being in Bedford. The trip to the theatre was well over due and it was honestly amazing, I loved every second and didn't want it to end! I recommend anyone to go see it - I had goosebumps at the opening and closing scenes and you literally couldn't wipe the smile off my face!

The Poppy Memorial was pretty amazing too! They extended the duration it was on for because it had been so popular - there must have been thousands of people there! The vast amount of poppies was uncomprehendable to and to imagine those as lives lost is just devastating...

Here are some of the snaps from the day!