Open for business! For years I've had the shop name of Hearts & Flowers in the back of my mind, although I imagined a florist shop! However, I think that it will perfectly suit this little venture. All the items have been handmade by me, Jo Boland, a stay at home Mum to two little boys. I found that when... Read more →

Callum LOVES Fireman Sam. He would watch the DVD's all day if he could, he plays with his fire engine and helicopter everyday. He pretends to be a fireman putting out fires with his hose (a dressing gown belt), sometimes we even hear him say "water on!" when he's in bed. He really loves his little action figures of Fireman... Read more →

Thought I'd do a quick post before I go to bed - absolutely exhausted; too many late nights and early mornings (early mornings thanks to the Callum). Callum just doesn't seem to want to stay asleep past 6am and I am so not a early bird. Anyway, did that sale on Saturday and I have to say I thought my... Read more →

It seems like ages since I had a long sit down in front of the computer catching up on blogs, posting on mine, browsing and adding things to my various wishlists / baskets on scrapbooking websites and doing any sort of actual scrapbooking...sigh. But I've not been wasting my time, oh no I've busy behind my sewing machine, which is... Read more →

So far Matthew has been happy to go to school and there have been no tears, very pleased about this. School is too far from home to walk all the way so we have driven to a friends house and walked in with them, usually it has been Ben. It's lovely that we have been able to do this, Matthew... Read more →

Is my little boy really going to school? Yep, here's the photos to prove it... How cute is he? Amazingly he didn't cry, I really can't believe it - so proud of him for being so brave and grown up. Here's some more photos of him outside his school and one (slightly blurry) of him standing by his peg. Two... Read more →

In my last post I said that I had been tagged by PJ to make a tag about each of my blogging friends. I decided that I'd turn this into a mini tag album about all of my friends, not just my blogging friends (although these are infact all I've had time to do so far). Love that this has... Read more →