Good days and Bad days.

  Sorry for the lack of posts lately this week has quite honestly been the week from hell!!!
So  it made my day to receive this lovely parcel above from the wonderful Frugal Queen. I was hoping it would arrive before we went on holiday because I am a girl of little patience and wanted to dive into my goodies lol.
 So let's take a look at these lovely goodies eh?

A beautiful set of hanging kitchen utensils, and a gorgeous condiments set from the same range. A quick peek on the company's website tells me that I have nearly £150 of top quality prize here! 

 

I have rewrapped all the contents lovingly and popped them to one side so I can sort them out properly after our holidays.

 And as a bonus DD has a lovely new pile of bubble wrap type packing to play with.

And a lovely new box to sit in! Excuse her being in a top and nappy in this picture, we had great fun splashing in all the puddles on our route home and she needed stripping the second we got in the door.

And finally the reason my week has been rubbish! I can't say much for various legal reasons but I can tell you that it wasn't a robbery (although most people have already decided that it was lol) it was a traffic accident. No one was hurt and the only damage other than the window was a few hours of lost sleep early on a Monday morning. Thankfully everything has been organised quickly and we have had a new window put in and all the various paperwork completed with just 48 hours spare till our holiday.
 I definitely need to go away now! My brother and his partner are flat sitting and pet sitting while we are away so if there is any issues they can get in contact with us quickly and deal with things on our behalf.

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It's a harDD life.

 It's tough being DD. First there is before breakfast playing where you get out as many toys as possible to make Mummy and Daddy late for work.

 Then when we get to work you have to spend the morning trying to balance the store mascot on a windowsill.

 After lunch you have to test out some gaming equipment with Daddy while Mummy organises things online.

 Then you test more equipment with Mummy while Daddy does the post office run.

 And finally when you get home you have read your dolly a nice long story before dinner is ready....

....if you can make it that far without nodding off on poor dollys head.

 Yes, it's definitely tough being DD in this household.

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Getting busy

  Sorry I've been AWOL on the blog posts for a bit. OH and I have been hugely busy in our shop these last few days. I wouldn't usually post much about our business on here as I like this to be a family life blog. When you are self employed it can be extremely difficult to keep a firm boundary between home life and work life. Sometimes one just has to win out over the other and just lately the shop won. So above is picture of all my hard work for two days. Every single game (63) in this display cupboard has been checked over, cleaned, listed online for sale, priced up and arranged in this cupboard by little old me. I'm pretty sick of seeing SNES games at this point and I just know I'm going to dream of them chasing me all night lol.

 However the box they all arrived in has been cleaned out (lots of cobwebs) and given new purpose by DD. She has such a fascination with boxes at the moment and just can't resist climbing into every one she sees.
  I think sorting out all those games would have driven me quite mad if it hadn't been for my little helper giving me regular cuddles and telling on an almost minute by minute timescale if a man or woman was walking passed the shop window.
 Today OH's mum is coming down to visit us again but I haven;t a clue what we will end up doing. It usually involves food though lol. Best start getting ready.

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My second home sweet home.

This is is indeed my second home at the moment. OH is a bit on the poorly side at the moment with a nasty bout of depression. So its Mummy to the rescue. I can feel myself stretching and stretching at the moment but I'm sure it will all settle into a routine soon.
So expect lots of shop based blogging in the future and my butcher book project taking a slow down.
The shop itself is in a bit of a state, I have mountains of paperwork to sort out and who knows what is lurking in the store room!!! It would seem issues have been mounting up against poor OH for a little while.
Prayers and good wishes are very welcome
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