Thursday 24 February 2011

Honey, I'm Home

I'm back to my bloggy home! Thank you so much for all your lovely comments! I am feeling much better now and it was interesting to hear how many people experience Chronic Fatigue and similar conditions. I wish you all well and am looking forward to catching up with everybody’s blogs over the next week or so.


I had thought that it was my blog’s first birthday sometime last month, but on checking I have found that it is in fact tomorrow. Just in time for me to start blogging again after a little blog ‘holiday’.

On the Saturday just gone my friend and I had our very belated birthday get together. We put it off until February as Faye (my joint birthday girl) and a friend of ours are both teachers and couldn’t face a big night out during term time, so we waited for the holidays. It was a good job as we all reverted to uni days and got way too drunk. We used to be able to handle wine by the litre and cans of Strongbow, but these days we really can’t stand the pace and the only two of us to move before 5pm the next day were my cousin and work mate (both younger than the other 6 of us I might add). The rest of us spent the day lying in ‘nests’ downstairs watching cookery programs because nobody could be bothered to move to find the remote control, eating Dominoes pizza ordered at 11am and asking anybody who managed to get up to go the loo to bring us more water/tea/orange juice.

Me, my cousin Katie & my friend Katie
 After turning into something from Booze Britain the night before and pushing the taxi driver to the limits of ‘I usually have a swear box but I’ve lost count with you guys’ we all agreed we’d never drink again…until the next time.
Katie, Me & Orla

Katie, Jessy, Me & Faye. Nobody could be bothered with inflating the air beds
Here are some of the lovely pressies I received on my ‘un-birthday’ as my friend calls it.



I’ve had sooo many goodies to open during January and February, and not just birthday and un-birthday presents. The lovely Jo from Hest & the Pugs sent me this gorgeous 1930s Scottie pin. He’s absolutely adorable and now sits on a cake stand in my living room so I can see him every day. Thanks Jo, and I can’t wait to see you again at the next Northampton Vintage Fair!


Now a big apology to Elaine for taking so damn long to blog about my amazing Spread the Bloggy Love parcel. The parcel itself was beautifully wrapped and my goodies contained a Thornton’s chocolate ginger bar, but obviously it’s not in the pics because it didn’t hang around for long. The chocolate was absolutely delicious and it was lovely to receive as part of a swap because it wasn’t something I would have thought I would have liked, but absolutely loved! So thanks for introducing me to a new delish chocolate Elaine.


In my parcel was a beautiful and lovingly made hanging heart; I love the blanket stitch and polka dot ribbon, a lovely vintage style half apron which I wore while playing hostess on Saturday night, a cute red photo frame and the most amazing tea cosy that no sits on top of my fridge giving my much too modern kitchen a vintage feel. Thanks again Elaine!

And, with it being my blog’s 1st birthday tomorrow I will be doing a giveaway for all my lovely followers! See you tomorrow xxx

Picture from http://justnicethingsuk.blogspot.com/



29 comments:

  1. Hi Amy
    So glad your feeling much better and back with us all in Blog land. Pleased you loved the Scottie pin and I love the tea cosy...it is gorgeous. Not long to go now before Northampton...Ooops that has just reminded me I'd better pay for my stand.
    Love
    Jo xx

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  2. So nice to have you back and well again. Sounds like my kind of night out!

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  3. Glad you're back I missed you.

    Happy Un-Birthday and Bloggy Birthday to you.

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  4. Glad you're better...and had a fabby 'unbirthday'. That tea cosy certainly is amazing.

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  5. Hi welcome back, glad your better :o) I cant handle the booze either like my uni days - must be turning 30 that's done it (pass me my slippers...lol). Lots of lovely items too. Scarlett x

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  6. Welcome back, gorgeous! Good to have you back..xxx

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  7. I love the dig for victory cushion, and even better the tea cosy! Glad to have you back :) x (from person google as the other one won't work right now - this is Penny Dreadful)

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  8. So pleased you're feeling loads better now. Sounds like you and your friends had a fab time for your birthdays, oh to be young and stay up half the night!! Lucey xx

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  9. Welcome back lovely one! Glad you are better. And may l say you are looking mighty fine! Happy Belated UnBirthday. Love your tea cosy!

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  10. Really pleased to see that you feel alot better : )
    Looks as though you had a great time together with your pals!! Love the pics!!!
    Great pressies, and thanks for your kind comment on my blog : )
    I will be at the NVF as photographer & customer this time, but will be there as Shabby Polka dots in May. Will you be there?
    Have a great weekend : )

    Sharon xx

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  11. Glad to see you back, and a drunken night with the girls is often the best kind. The tea cosy is so lovely and the Scottie pin is so thoughtful.

    Thank you for the kind words earlier, I really did appreciate it xx

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  12. Yay glad your back and feeling better!
    You look lovely in your "un-birthday" picture, your hair is gorgeous!
    I cannot function after alcohol and im a student haha. It kills me every weekend. Sometimes my hangover are two days long haha!
    Sophie
    x

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  13. You are so pretty!! :-) Looks like you had an amazing night.

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  14. Welcome home! Glad you are feeling better.

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  15. So nice to see you back,glad you're feeling better Linda xx

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  16. Welcome back, Amy! I've missed you. xxx

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  17. yay you are back!!!!! Think you could have got away with making that 2 posts. so glad you had a lovley unbirthday. I cant hold my juice anymore either. xxx

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  18. So glad you are back ! You certainly seem to back on good form. Belated wishes for your un-birthday, it certainly looks like it was a good one. I love your tea cosy and your Dig For Victory cushion. Looking forward to catching up with you in a few weeks.
    Ann x

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  19. Hi, been an avid follower of your mum for a while and now you! Welcome back.
    I can just about remember my uni days and it's such an amazing feat that we managed to live through all the things we did! My limit is a couple of glasses of wine in the evening these days....
    Keep the posts coming, I like reading them.
    Clare
    xx
    P.s. if you could send some of your followers my way, that would be much appreciated ;-)

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  20. Welcome back :)

    Looks like you had great fun with your friends.

    Love the Dig for Victory cushion.

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  21. What a lovely post, good to see you back :) x

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  22. Its so very lovely to see you back ;-)) Looks like you have been having fun to. Lovely presents theres nothing like spending time with your girlfriends. Happy birthday, dee x

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  23. I've only just stumbled upon your blog recently. It's fabby dabby.

    Looks like you all had a riotous night, so pleased you enjoyed yourself :)

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  24. Welcome Back. Love your new tea cosy it's fab!
    Kandi x

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  25. I've taken your advice and done a button!!
    Thanks Amy,
    Clare
    xx

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  26. Good to see you back and very happy by the looks of your pics. Glad you had a lovely unbirthday girly night out (and in!) Love all your pressies but Im in love with your dig for Victory cushion xx

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  27. Glad you are feeling better and making the most of your time whilst you are - that night out looks like great fun!

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  28. Glad to see you back. I like the cushion! I see we share similar music tastes as well as liking Being Human.

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