Yipppppeeeee!

Eeeeekkk! My poor iPad.

Omg! After the distress of my iPad smashing I then had to deal with our home insurance fiasco.... Now we have pretty good home insurance and personal cover so I thought everything would be alright sorting out the technicalities regarding my iPad.  Hmmmmm appears that yes it was covered, awesome! We had an excess to pay.... Pretty standard no issues there.  I was so frustrated when told we had a further excess due to the item being an iPad! Really??? Hmmm here is the break down....

My original cost of iPad. ....... £420.00

Excess on policy....................£100.00-

iPad special excess...............£100.00-

Cost of new iPad...................£349.00

Money to me.........................£149.00!

The cost of the new iPad is what an iPad Air costs currently in the apple shop.... So the replacement cost. Taking off my horrendous excess I am only owed £149.00 to buy a new iPad! I was not happy let me tell you!! 

I bet your wondering what I did as I am back on line!? After distressing myself further wondering what to do....jon came up with a solution.  My pc got plugged back in! Yes I have a rather large touch screen pc, it's brilliant but currently have no where to put it or use it.  It did in fact get set up, I was online shortly, enough for Han to recover all the passwords I needed for everywhere I frequent online! Thank you Han!! I was only going to use my pc as a temporary measure as I literally forgot how to use it! Sounds silly even crazy right? But with my splds I find things easier the more times I do it over and over.... iPad goo! PC, not good! Lol 

It just was not feasible right now for me to go out and buy a new iPad.... Oh I would love one!! Just not in the budget now! So after me half heartedly coming to terms with not having an iPad Han came up with the most amazing idea! Go Han!! 

When I bought my iPad I bought Han one too, only hers was white and mine was black! For hans birthday in my you may recall we bought Han the iPad Pro with the pencil she wanted....oh and she loves it! I don't think I have seen a single day that she has not been on it drawing! No I don't have her iPad Pro! Lol she said I could have her small pad (same as my smashed one!) due to it technically actually being mine since I bought it! Awesome! So Han wiped all her things off it, thankfully she could transfer all my things on my smashed iPad via iTunes and voila! I am back!! 

I use my iPad for everything, and I become quite attached to things...when it smashed I literally cried.  All is well now as I am happy again using another iPad.  And to prevent a further smashed episode jon bought me an otter box to protect my iPad! I love otter box, I have one on my iPhone.... Lol my brick as its affectionately known! I have a 3GS iPhone I will not change as I know it and it does fine! It's protected with an otter box and has years of life in it! Safe as houses! 

Yeah! I will show you all my new case and 'iPad' when it arrives.... Lol Han will have to take that photo! 

As you all know I have not been doing so well health wise, I am so very fed up with being ill, frustrated in how slow things are not getting done too.  Jon and I changed Drs as the last one I feel basically gave up on me... Having changed to a new Drs now I am feeling optimistic and hoping things will finally get sorted? 

With the little food I can eat I have been trying to eat new things to get protein in me.  It's hard, and it's actually crazy how many foods make me I'll and poorly.  But I tried tuna last night... In a nice salad.  Han found me this interesting pasta, it's high in protein, better than the normal pasta. Here is a photo...it's very colourful, I put mushrooms in it too! tasted good too!

It was fine to eat, too much so ate it slowly over a bit of time.  It frustrates me no end being so restricted with what I eat, I just want to eat how I used to... Gosh even that feels so long ago! 

It's crazy checking and looking at every bit of packaging what I eat... Here is the list of things I can't have...it's shocking and quite long...

ALL dairy products

Soya

Egg

Meat

Celery

Oil

Fish (tuna is ok for now!)

Yeast (currently under investigation with wheat.... A seeded bread with nothing in it made me really poorly recently so we are looking at this now) 

I have reacted one way or another from everything on this list.... Since watching what I eat now the nausea I felt day in day out has gone! Bonus!! But literally even a hint of something on that list makes me ill or brings me out in a rash all over my neck and face and if bad actually starts to affect my wind pipe! It's very scary.  I still cannot believe when looking at packaging how much dairy is in things, if not dairy then it's soya... And egg! I physically cannot eat enough protein, it's my biggest problem.  The lady that comes to weigh me regular (yes my weight is going down all the time... I will let you know how much on her next visit) says because of the nutrients and vitamins i am lacking I am malnourished ... Crazy I know! So if anyone out there knows of a product/bar anything I can eat... (Checking the list of doom) I will buy it!! Even if I have to ship it from timbucktoo! Lol

Well enough about me! Not mush stitching shown on here lately .... Sorry! See I am doing a rather large project for Hands AcrossThe Sea Samplers. (Link in border) it's so pretty and I am loving stitching it, it's really helped me though the tough ill days, it's my ray of happiness! I will very very soon be able to share it with you all as I have alsmost finished it...honest! 

Until I next pop in, keep smiling 😊😊😊

Oops!!!

Hello lovely people, it's Hannah! 

No no mum isn't in hospital, everything is fine, apart from her iPad... Oh dear. 

She's asked me to write a post up about what happened to her iPad.

She picked it up to come into the living room this morning and it slid out of the case, screen first onto the floor, we have carpet but it's not padded at all, so very little protection there.

I have no idea how she managed to crack it this much but it's definitely shattered!

The bottom half of the screen doesn't work so typing is a pain, her regular blog post will resume when she remembers her password!

All laughs after a few tears, everything's good. 

Thanks from mum and I for tuning in, she will be back soon! 

Hannah :)

Meet Bob....

Hello happy smiley friends....

Thought I would introduce you all to Bob, now I think you all met Bob mark one! That 'bob' is my manual wheelchair! But the 'Bob' I want to introduce you all to is Bob mark two! I name them Bob because it's easy to remember! Ha ha Han says I can't have the same name for both...why not I say?!

Without him further ado, here is Bob! Ha ha

Well you can just about see Bob! Yes! Lancelot likes sitting on it when I stop! As soon as I move Lancelot jumps off! It's not a very good photo of Bob.... So took another one!

This next one is a rather silly one, it's me naturally! With my mum and jon on scooters too! You all know I can hardly walk due to my knee, my Bob is a lifeline and gives me so much independence it's brilliant.  My mum has a crumbling spine and hobbles about most of the time so the scooter for her is amazing. Jon, well if you don't know, jon is my husband and in 2010 had a works accident injuring his spine and he cannot walk. I thought we looked like the three amigos all lined up like that! Or the wise monkeys! Ha ha 

Now that I am feeling well within myself again...that means no longer being sick! I just have to be careful what I eat. Omg! What I eat!? That is going to be kept for another post I think! 

I basically just wanted to share with you all that I am feeling better and it's brilliant being able to go out when I want to.  You know without relying on anyone to take me... Independance is awesome! Oh I should say I can't go out everyday... I still get tired and am still in pain from my knee and lower back, it's a balance I guess? But it's nice to go out 😊

Until I next pop in!! 

Happy smiles to you all 😊😊

Want to see?

More on this stunning bouquet of flowers below.......

Sorry it's been far too long since my last post....

I have been quite poorly, had a short stay in hospital and had paramedics out to me 😕

Cutting a long story short I am feeling so so better now, not back to my usual self yet but getting there.

As you all know I had a giveaway recently... And the lovely Barbara from The flashing scissors blog was chosen. Yipeeeeee!! 😊😊

My giveaway this time was a little different as I made it a mystery giveaway!  I bet you were. All wondering what on earth I was going to send??! Hee hee

Me being me actually forgot to take photos of what I sent Barbara! Hmmmmm so Barbara very kidding after she received my gift very kindly took photos and sent them to me! Phew!! I can now show you all what I posted to Barbara!!

Everything in the box was wrapped! 

Everything inside this box was wrapped too!! 

You can't see the rustic box that well but it's really cute with sewing related pictures and words on it. And yes that's my stitching in the top, it's padded so could also be used as a pin cushion 😊

Everyone needs a mug like this!! 

And a lovely sewing stitching design! 

I tried to make it full of all types of sewing crafts.  There is some lovely fabric and Aida I included too...scissors, needles, buttons.... I really had fun putting it together! I am sure Barbara is going to post about. Herein on her log soon, she took many more photos so may post others on her blog 😊 I am so pleased after talking to Barbara that she really likes my gift, it's always the worry when I send something out! Wonderful!! Barbara was so happy with what I sent her she very kindly sent some flowers to me! Yes the ones at the top of the page!! 

Here are some photos of the. Beautiful flowers Barbara kindly sent to me....

I feel ever so special, thank you Barbara 😊😊😊

As I have not been myself lately I have done no stitching, no anything really! I am slowly getting back into it... I will no doubt show you all what I have been up to again shortly! And I promise not to leave it too long until my next blog post! 

Leaving you all now with a big happy happy smile 😊 :)

We have a winner!!!

Hello happy wonderfull friends...... Sorry in advance for making you all wait so long for me to announce the winner.

Thank you all so so much for popping in to visit me and for leaving wonderful comments 😊😊 I see most of you do lots of crafts, it's awesome! I love to learn new things.

So you all wondering who won my giveaway??? 

Of course your wondering!!

I basically assigned everyone that commented a number, 1-20 going down the names.... Then googled the wonderful random generator and hey presto the winner was chosen! 

Here is the number....

And number 17 is.....

BARBARA from The Flashing Scissors Blog!!

Yes!!! It's you, Barbara!! 🎉🎉🎉

Awesome!

Now you all know it's a mystery giveaway so nothing will be shown until Barbara has received it!  How exciting!!

Barbara please could you email me with your address, where ever you are in the world so I can mail it to you 😊 I am guessing USA?? 

How exciting, I hope Barbara likes what I have put together 😁

Thank you everyone that popped in and entered, I loved reading all your comments 😊

A special thank you to those that also spared a little extra hopping to pop in and see Hans new venture too 😊😊

Happy happy smiles to all 😊😊😊😊