Long time, no blog

I've not blogged in a while; I think I might even have forgotten how! Only kidding, I ramble about me and then you all indulge me with knowing nods right?
The reason I've been absent is two fold. I've recently contracted a cold that has left me feeling like a 90year old and sounding like darth vader. I'm not heroic either so my husband has had a very long week and bless him it's only Wednesday! But prior to the defunct nose the institution in which I work had a Mocksted. A mock Ofsted. Now as teachers we are perhaps more vigorously checked than the students we teach and considering they have weekly formative assessments and summative exams that's some going! I love teaching so I kind of accept that things will be so stressy that I won't have a life and it's not constant so that makes it bareable. Which kind of brings me to my next point. Mother's day.
If you only have one mother it is your mother's day - the day belonging to her.
If you're referring to the whole nationwide celebration of mothers (plural) then it's mothers' day.
If you are saying your mum is superior to all mums then she might be the world's best mum but seeing as we only live on one world the apostrophe can't move.
It might just be the teacher in me, but I think wrong use of a simple apostrophe takes away any sentiment attached to the message. When this has then been immortalised on a card or gift - your error is going to last forever!
Let's try our best to get this one nailed to prevent an apostrophe catastrophe.

Have you seen...?

My husband has to put up with a lot. I'm not going to list my faults here because I'm hoping the most of you still think I'm normal and I don't want to risk changing that, but trust me, he puts up with a lot. One such fault though is a regular in our household.

I'm renown for temporarily forgetting where I've put things. I'm also not great at putting things in the same place more than once. As such objects are often prefixed with 'have you seen...?' 

Depending upon the urgency that my voice is saturated with my husband will start the inevitable three minute search until the item comes to the surface. 

I'm so bad at this sometimes I start the call to search the house but before my plea is finished I have found what I am looking for. Like I said, he puts up with a lot.

 Recently I purchased some items to give a craft I had seen a try - when I find them again I will no doubt be blogging about it - but because my husband is selfishly at work and I have the attention span of a five year old I moved on to do something different than I had planned. Reason being in my search I found something I had previously temporarily forgotten about and decided to play with that.

In Crafts Beautiful this month there was a feature on floral adornments: 

So when I found my tiny punches again I thought I would use their article as inspiration for my afternoon. As it is mothers day very soon I went with the word 'mum' using little flowers as the lettering. This is the outcome:

It's not backed onto the black card yet because I want to add some ribbon and use it as a gift tag. I don't have a gift for my mum yet but at least the gift tag is ready. Is giving just a gift tag as a gift a bit too mean? Maybe that can be the mum-in-law's gift. But seeing as I was on a punching adrenaline rush I made a heart too:

What I love about these two things is that the flowers are punched out of scraps of paper and card (after I gave my husband his valentines card I immediately reclaimed the very pretty envelope as crafting material) so they're really easy to source although I'm sure if CB wanted to send me some really pretty papers to play with there could be a much nicer effect ;)

Cute as a button

Hello everyone,

I'm very excited to announce I have a Facebook page dedicated to not only this blog but also the items that I am selling. I share this link on Twitter and other forums so although many of you probably already know about www.facebook.com/fattycraftertales I wanted to put the link here just in case you didn't.

On the page you can find lots of handmade goodies, my crafter tip of the week and usually comments about cake. I'm not the fatty crafter by accident! I also post events on there so if you find yourself my neck of the woods maybe there is a crafting party going on.

One such thing that I make, and will be teaching at an event coming soon, is this button heart:

It's selling on my page for £6 but as a special offer to any new likers I get from this blog you can have it for £5 and I will cover the postage. Remember to like my page first then when you message me to get yours remind me that you saw it here first. I'd love to have a good memory but a lot of the time my head is too full of cake.