Wohoo! I've been awarded an award!

Cue crying, over dramatic speech, tripping over my gown on my heels etc.

1. Thank the person who gave the award and link back to them in your post.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs. 
   Thank you Kei from 'Unfortunately Oh!' . Don't anyone let on to her, but I've only recently discovered Unfortunately Oh and I love it!
   
   
   (I'm not sure how my text is slightly off to the side now but let's all pretend we can't tell)
   
   
   Ok, so seven things about myself.
   
   
   1. My number 4 key on my keyboard is not working at the moment and it's driving me mad.....I had to email everyone on the church council twice, once telling them there were  pages and the second time 4 pages!
   2. My feet are a UK size 4 (US size 6?) and until last year I didn't make an effort to 'wash' them in the shower, they get clean right? Then someone told me that was gross so I bought a carwash type thing for my feet that is suctioned onto our bath now. So I can wash my feet without balancing on one foot and falling over. How does everyone else do it?!
   3. I am a very messy person and although I love to organise, I can't quite tidy up after myself as I go along. You feel cheated now don't you?!
   4. I became a Christian on NYE 2008/2009. I guess this should have been first...oh well. Finally my life has meaning.
   5. My husband Dussy and myself dance all round the house whenever we can. If we're not dancing to the fridge then we're doing a silly walk. We must like the attention or something from each other!
   6. I hate having to wear specs and pray almost every day that when I next go for my eyetest they'll miraculously be healed and I won't need specs ever again. 
   7. I am fiercely loyal to anyone that I think has been wronged and can go for weeks without talking to the person who has wronged them. Well, until they realise they've wronged them and forgiven them. Then I'm back all in their face wanting to be friends again.

    
   Oh, finished...well, that was ok...What's that? You're traumatised still about my not washing my feet? Ah, it's ok, you'll live...I did! 
   
   
   Ok. so 15 recently discovered blogs....this will be a tough one, I follow so many blogs!
   
   
   1. Tatertots & Jello (I must have been living under a stone until a week ago to have not known this one!)
   2. Junk in their trunk
   3. Yellow Blackbird
   4. Sweet Verbena
   5. Ruffles and stuff
   6. Organising made fun
   7. Missy's cakes & apron adventures
   8. Happy Go Lucky
   9. The green gal
   10. Enjoying the small things
   11. Zween
   12. Brassy Apple
   13. Chef in training
   14. Crap I've made
   15. Taidye Original
   
   
   There we are ladies and gents, my recently discovered 15! Pop over and check them out :)
   
   

I know, I'm so excited right!






Congratulations Tammie!! I'll pop an email out to you asap! xx

For everyone else, don't forget you can get a 10% discount on my store items using the code athomewithmrsh10

If it doesn't work it's cos you have to put it in caps....I never know lol!
xx

It's 4pm GMT the giveaway ends, not 12pm...oops! Good job I didn't draw it yet, keep entering!!

So, we all know about my food boredom etc so I'm always looking to make new things, exciting things! We had planned on fajita's one evening but to mix it up a little decided to turn them into quesadilla's instead. I always thought they were spelled differently to that, but google says no. Then again, google comes up underlined red so I don't know why I bother sometimes!

Anyway, we prepared our fajita goodies as usual by frying chopped onions, chopped peppers, sweetcorn (whatever else we had in the fridge) with some fajita spice in the wok. Then we set a frying pan heating gently and popped in a tortilla wrap, a sprinkle of cheese, the fajita peppers & onions, another tiny sprinkle of cheese and topped with another tortilla.



I did some pictures although it's not that hard :)

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When it's cooked on one side flip it over spilling half the sweetcorn across your wife's newly cleaned hob top.



When it's fully cooked we cut it into quarters and served with a blob of low fat greek yoghurt. It was tricky to eat...but super delish!



Ok, those pics are in the wrong order but just pretend they're right!

Also, don't forget to drink your daily water amount....it's made a huge difference to my digestive system since I did...amazing! Not that you all needed to know that....anyway...don't forget to go enter my giveaway seeing as it ends in about 12 minutes!

8 weeks!!

I almost completely rejected today's post because I look like I have the largest thighs in history for a totally short dwarf type person.

Actually, I don't...but still...linen trousers will do that to a girl!


I'm sure the fitted last time I wore them, but like everything, they seem to be growing. Odd.....

This was another of the Yellow Blackbird's Shop your closet challenges:

So, not deterred by the shocking failure of my no heat curls exploration, and encouraged by your comments of trying it with wet hair....I once more set out on the journey towards curly hair.

I washed my hair and whilst wet applied some mousse. Then I rolled it up using some tarn (T shirt yarn) as the headband. Goodbye forehead marks!





We all know the drill, you may laugh now!

So I slept on it and the next morning it wasn't just the wrapped hair that was looking worse for wear!



Showered, dressed and time to unwrap.

Before brushing through

After combing through

I spent the whole next day feeling like Selma from the simpsons. It was so massive after a night's sleep! On the upside...my hair stayed 'clean' for 5 whole days!! I did have to tie it back for those 5 days but I didn't have to wash it :)

Next time I launch a weekly challenge of paperwork....remind me to stick to just paperwork, not the entire office!

Keep on going everyone, it'll be worth it in the end when you can find your bank statement within a few seconds instead of hunting for hours!!

Gosh, a title full of abbreviations! Our church is called Moriah Aman Christian Centre and this last weekend we had a free community BBQ instead of our usual yearly fun day. Personally I thought it was a resounding success and far easier to talk to people and get to know them without worrying about children falling off a bouncy castle, putting a ball through a window, dropping glue all over the carpet etc. We could just be relaxed.

Here are some pics of us on the playing field. There was football practise going on down the other end at the time.

The men being....well, men!

The ladies being ladies! (And Pastor Dale & Alan being not ladies)

Even from a distance Pam manages to spot a photo op and pull a pose!

Yummy, yummy! There wasn't a scrap left at the end!

Look at that stunning view from the playing field.

So that was our Sunday....does your church do outreach events?

The challenge:

Wear something you have never (or rarely) worn. I am guessing we all have that something in our closet that we have never worn or have only worn once then shoved it to the back of the closet. It's time to break that item out (pants, shirt, belt, jacket, shoes, etc.) and put it to good use. 

This is what I came up with.

I bought this dress and cardi for a nice sunny day. Those have been few and far between around here but it was nice today so I jumped and took that chance! The dress is light cotton with red and white tiny stripes. I feel very 50's in this outfit. Hurrah!


Thanks Yellow Blackbird for the shop your closet challenges!

Ok, so the shelves are moved, the stock is moved, my desk is empty and ready for moving. I can't swap mine and Dusband's desk until he finishes working at 6pm tonight.

I've done two loads of laundry, pranced around in my summer dress, cursed my pain in my side....maybe should go to Docs at some point seeing as it's been over a week now, and browsed Pinterest.

I've also caught up on my blog reading from the weekend. I might have to paint my toenails or something while I'm waiting for Dusband to finish work. I can't really get on and do anything while the office is in such disarray!

Anyway, how are you all getting on with your paperwork de-cluttering?

Have you been and entered my giveaway?


It runs for another week yet and there's only 5 entrants! It's open to international readers too :)

So, today after church we had a community BBQ in the playing fields so I wanted to wear something that would be suitable for that. It was super hot when we came out of church and I was pretty pleased with myself for choosing such a light cotton blouse.

My about 2:30pm I'd admitted defeat and put my big thick coat on for the rest of the afternoon! It must have been fairly sunny though because my face is pinker than a shrimp!!



I did actually wear the scarf but made Dus take a pic without so you could see what was underneath!

My shoes were a summer sale bargain of £1 and I wished I'd bought two pairs now. I didn't think about them having a rope sole though and the moisture on the field where the bbq was just soaked right up through them and soaked my feet totally! Lucky I had other shoes in the car.

Comfort: 9/10 - Wet shoes were only let down
Attractiveness: 8/10
Warmth: 4/10
Effort: 5/10

Does anyone else wear two belts at a time? I had to wear a belt to keep my jeans up and then my belt around my blouse on top. I could have just wore the jeans ones but I wanted to wear the middle waist belt.

Anyway, there we go for another week. :) xx

I follow Eisy Morgan's blog and she's doing the my little life 5 questions so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and do it too!

1. Do you close the bathroom door when you are home alone?


Nope. Without getting too graphic we only shut the door for one reason. In fact neither of us shuts the bathroom door unless we have guests or visitors. (Or for that one reason)

It appears I have a pic of our bathroom somehow!

2. You have to walk around with a word on your forehead. That word describes you. One word. What is it?


Martha. I've come to embrace my Martha like tendencies and just enjoy getting the meal while the Mary's sit and learn.



3. What store do you refuse to shop at and why?


New look in Aberdare. They're ever so rude in there. I know they have a small store and they hate their jobs and hate their lives and hate the customers who have the audacity to even enter their store, but couldn't they at least stop scowling long enough to take my money?


4. If you participated in arranged marriages for your child(ren), who would you choose for your child(ren)?

I have no children yet but when I do they'll need to marry people who are as good looking & intelligent as they are. With Dus and I for parents, how could they not be super good looking and super intelligent?! (And also good at rescuing fishies!)



5. If you could pick how and when you would die, would you?

Course I would, we've already discussed I'm a control freak!

I'd like to know I'm going to die so that I can get my affairs in order and say goodbye to my loved ones and then lay down nicely next to my darling husband (who would obviously die at the same time so we don't have to live without each other - pass the bucket you say?) and we could both go to sleep ready to wake up in Heaven. I tell ya, there's one massive party up there just waiting for us! We'll be praising God for eternity and love doing it!

There you go, there's my 5 :)
I wonder if she does it every week...I'll have to go back and check!

Whether you have a desk shoved in the corner of your living room or an entire room devoted to wherever you are reading this from....I suspect you've got paperwork...and 'stuff' that goes with it too.

We've got a whole room to share between the Dusband and I and bless the little cutie...he only takes up the space of a desk.

In the meantime I've got shelves holding my fabric, shelves holding the things I've made, shelves holding my 'paperwork' and admin as well as a normal desk (for sewing on) and a tiny desk for my computer.

Well whether you're lucky enough to have such a clutter hole as me or not...now's the time for you to get sorting. Take everything off the shelves, go through every folder, get rid of what you don't need and put back what you do need nice and neat and tidily.

Here's my before. I'm gonna need a few more days before I show you the after.....!






Gosh, I don't make things easy for us do I?!


I took some more photos today of the rest of the room...I can't help but think it also needs some attention!

Dus' toy shelves

Dus trying to get on with his work despite my paparazzi-ing!

Attractive green office chair....

Ok, so let's get started. You can concentrate on just paperwork if you like. I suspect you're not all as disorganised as me with my workspace!

I thought it might be nice for you to see the man behind the woman who writes this blog.

The man who is just so amazingly perfect for me. Ok, brace yourselves..here we go!

Wait...this is what he did for my birthday last year, not him....

Helping M to bowl

He eats super healthily. Fruit as a snack...like seriously?!

See! Always with the fruit!

His snowmen always end up triangular....and beardy.

He goes running. For fun.

He thinks he's funny pretending candy teeth are his actual teeth.

He cannot just lay on a beach

But he can sit still when there's a bbq going!

He has a tiny goatee that he calls 'ratty' which most people don't notice when they meet him! I bet you're going back to check the other pics now!

He loves to climb and is a right monkey!

He makes friends very easily

He has impeccable dress sense

Is handy with power tools

See dress sense....

And he puts up with me

Awww you gotta love him for his endless patience!