Yay its Royal Wedding Day!!

A jolly good atmosphere in our house this week!

We all enjoyed a lovely warm Easter weekend followed by a three day week (could get used to that) and now the lovely wedding tomorrow followed by another lovely long weekend to look forward to! Phew! Its actually quite hard work having more time off than Im used too! Well I use the term 'time off' quite loosely I love it when the boys are off school and always enjoy their hols as much as they do but orders dont stop coming in just because its out of term time (Thank goodness!) so it just means I do my work at very random times! Up extra early and to bed extra late! Lots of you will relate to this juggling act I know!!

Well. . . . on to my favourite topic of April - ROYAL WEDDDING!!

I tried to get the children involved in wedding fever last night by setting us all on making some vintage bunting!

It was a very nice way to spend an evening but it didnt manage to convert them into raving royalists :O(

BUT I do love the bunting and it is now in position in our dinning room in preparation for tomorrow :O)

I have also made a few little extra 'patriotic themed' touches and have ramdomly distributed around our house! Hubby, who is not sharing in my delight of all things royal/wedding, will be thrilled to keep stumbling across an aray of red, white and blue this weekend :O) !!
I think a couple of these little hearts hanging from the rear view mirror in his van will look lovely ;O)  . . . .

Enjoy Your weekend everyone!! Off now to the post office, tesco and collect the boys from school :O) then. . . . it is officially the weekend for the Wisbys  :O) XXXX

If Carlesberg made tree houses. . . . !!

This blog post is dedicated to my clever hubby who is building the most fantastic tree house for our three lovelies :O)


Weve lived in our house for just over 3 years now, it has flown by and we are all very settled here. We havent got a huge garden, but its a nice size for the five us :O) and we all enjoy it (for one reason or another)!
Anyway down at the very bottom of the garden is a steep bank and on the bank lives a fantastic, very well established tree. The moment we moved in I could see the boys (Mr Poppyseed included!!!) eyeing it up.  Talk of tree houses has dominated the tea table ever since!

Eventually plans were drawn up and last summer and work began. A jolly good start was made before work came to a stand still over the winter :O( BUT the recent sunny spell has meant a fresh burst of enthusiasm from hubby and the boys (yay) and tools have once again been picked up and its looking absolutely fab!!  

I know strictly speaking its not actually IN the tree, but it is right next door and it will eventually be linked to the tree by a bridge! So I think it qualifies for 'Tree House Status'!!

There is still a fair way to go with it but everyone is enjoying 'helping', even Poppys had her hand in.

Toby doing what boys do best (scaring their mums by climbing too high!))

Please note the concentration!!



Poppy 'helping' !!

Ironically as I have just finished writing this it has started to spit with rain!! . . . . Come back soon sunshine, weve a tree house to finish :O) XX

COMPETITION :O))))))

Hello all.

Well April has seen the birth of our new website :O) And absolutely thrilled we am with it too!! I hope you will all set five minutes aside, make a lovely cuppa and have a little Poppyseed browse! We wOuld love to hear your feedback too! (Please be kind lol) www.poppyseedcrafts.com

We are running a competition in celebration of now being a www.!!

All you have to do to enter is pop over to the website and count how many little owls we have living there! Please count them on ALL pages and email your answer to caroline@poppyseedcrafts.com

Competition closes Thursday 14th April. GOOD LUCK!!

April Already!!

Wow where did March go to ??!! Cant believe we are into April!!

I am though, very excited about April. I have to admit I love Easter time and a good family gathering. But then ofcourse Royal wedding fever will well and truely hit the Poppyseed Household (Avid Royal Fan, much excitement!!). Yes I am determined even Mr Poppyseed (Ooo he loves being called that!!) will enter into the spirit and if not may be dragged kicking and screaming into the garden to hang my patriotic bunting!! Ive already spotted some fantastic handmade red, white and blue items from fellow crafters on facebook so its only a matter of time before I can no longer resist and purchase!

The run up to Mothers day was a really busy time in the Poppyseed World. Long days and extra chilcare help from Nanny (thank you Nanny, much appreciated!) Always such a lovely feeling to think lots of Mummys, Nannys, and Grandmas received a Poppyseed gift on Mothers day :O) Hope all you Mums had a Fabulous Day!! A lovely day was had here :O) and I am happy to say lots of spoiling went on and was lovely to share the day with both Mum and Mum in law. XX

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Much excitement to tell you before I go! Ive been almost bursting the last few weeks to share this!
POPPYSEEDCRAFTS.COM is coming!! Yay!! Put this date in your diaries, THURSDAY 7th APRIL at 8PM!!
Hope you will join us, we are very proud of it. Oh and we have details of a £50 giveaway!!
http://www.poppyseedcrafts.com/

Take care Poppyseeders :O) Hope your Monday is a good one. XX