I finished up the stocking shopping yesterday and picked up a couple of little bits in PastTimes - how cool are these little Table Talk cards. They come in a cute little 2x2 box and have loads of questions to kick start conversations around the table.
Ive picked out 5 and will answer them below.....please feel free to share a little of yourself with me too and for being so open i will enter all the names into a draw for some goodies after Christmas - a little post holiday pick me up :)1. If you could go back in time, to where and when would you go? 1950s America so i can wear all those fab dresses!!
2. Who last inspired you? PINK - she has inspired me to get into shape!! lol
3. Who would you like to houseswap with? Pamela Anderson - her beach house is so shabby chic i would just walk round drooling!
4. What website would you like to use that doesnt exist? Extra hours in the day and a spare pair of hands.com
5. What is the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to you? 'I was just saying to my husband how well behaved your boys are' said by a lovely lady who purposefully followed us out of a restaurant just to let us know how she felt! *yes i cried - and yes it made me realise i do do things wrong at times but on the whole we are doing a good job*
Look what else i picked up too - Sarah Smith cleaning wipes and cloths in Poundland!!
I would love to say they do the cleaning themselves but alas you still need to do the work - just with prettier cloths!! :D*oh and by the way - i am so having the same stomach muscles Pink has once ive had this baby!* lol
(a girl can dream cant she!!) ;)
These are hard questions - but thanks for the chance to win - right here goes:
ReplyDelete1) The era from when 'House of Elliott' was taken from - again lovely fashions.
2) Ali Edwards - I am definately going to have a go at scrapbooking in the new year.
3) Anthea Turners (not her new one though but the one she has just sold) - that was featured on Perfect Housewife - and while she is at mine she can give it a good clean and get me organised!! lol
4) Kick up the Bum.com
5) Hmm hard one - but probably along similar lines about my two boys being polite and being able to take them anywhere.
I have the same muscles as pink, mine are burried under a pile of flab!!¬
ReplyDelete1. Would love to go back to the 1920's as long as I was rich!
ReplyDelete2.Currently inspired by I speak Melsh, Scrappyjacky and Libery Cottage blogs
3. I would like to house swop with either a house just outside Salisbury that we drive past or a house on Lemon Avenue, Manasota Beach, Fl both of which I have loved for years!
4. Not sure maybe a website with a step by step guide to all the things I want to learn eg scrapbooking or ad hoc 'how to do ...'
5. that I was a good friend or that I was a good mother I guess
Intriguing questions!
ReplyDelete1. If you could go back in time, to where and when would you go? I've always wanted to be a flapper, so it'd have to be the 20's!
2. Who last inspired you? so many bloggers -- it's hard to pick just one.
3. Who would you like to houseswap with? Sarah Richardson from Sarah's House -- love her style!
4. What website would you like to use that doesn't exist? the "perfect" way to teach writing to middle schoolers of all levels.
5. What is the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to you? "You inspired me to want to be a teacher" -- former students:-)
Not literally at the concert and blogging? Really? Or in front of dvd? :P I saw her at the O2 back in April - bliddy hell can she move, and when she does that trapeze, your heart feels like it will jackhammer right out of your chest :D
ReplyDeleteGood questions, really got me thinking tonight. Here goes...
1. If you could go back in time, to where and when would you go?
I would love to go back, just for a day, to a time before all these buildings and factories sprung up, to see what our beautiful country looked like before we covered it all up.
2. Who last inspired you? ALICE COOPER! What a voice, what a performer, what STAMINA! Loved his concert.
3. Who would you like to houseswap with? Kirstie Allsop. Well the one she uses in her Homemade series... does she actually live there? I don't know but I love it.
4. What website would you like to use that doesnt exist? knitting & sewing in 3 easy steps.com
5. What is the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to you? I Love You... by my OH :) And also when my kids say it too. (particularly when they are NOT after something!!)
Happy Christmas to you and yours Debbie :)
Fantastic questions. I've been thinking them over for several days now!
ReplyDelete1. If you could go back in time, to where and when would you go? This is the most difficult question for me - every age had advantages and disadvantages and it depends on how affluent you would be. I fancy the years of the great transatlantic liners, but on balance I think I am probably where and when I am meant to be. So I'll stick with the here and now!!
2. Who last inspired you? A new neighbour who is so organised and so full of energy she achieves more in a day than I do in a week. If only I could be like her. I do try but never seem quite to get there.
3. Who would you like to houseswap with? This one's easy. A house in Niagara on the Lake, in Canada that is now The Romance gallery.
http://www.romancecollection.com/niagara_home.php
..and do look at Tricia Romance's paintings. I love them. Having said where I would like to be, I'm not sure how our house would work as a gallery!!!
4. What website would you like to use that doesnt exist? One that gives me the motivation to get on with things without encouraging me yo spend too much time trawling through the whole site.
5. What is the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to you? A student who wept as he told me how much his life had improved by a course I was running. He brought a tear to my eye and I realised how lucky I am.
Hi Debbie, Hope you had a good christmas!
ReplyDelete1. I would love to go back to 1920's in New York :)
2. Pink, because since I saw the pic you posted I am also wanting her stomach!!
3. Anyone with a tidy house!! Mine is a complete mess, really need to get round to tidying it!
4. www.freedesignershoes.com- this could actually exist, but I would want it without a catch!
5. I Love You!!!
hlcarroll@hotmail.co.uk
Good questions!
ReplyDelete1. I would like to go back to sometime in the Tudor period. Preferably not long enough to catch a disease or be beheaded!
2. Nigella! I love her recipes and made quite a few over Christmas
3. I'd like to houseswap with anyone who has a garden and an upstairs (as I live in a flat)!
4. HowToDealWithA2YearOldAvoidingPublicTantrums.com
5. My daughter told me I was her best friend!
Hope you had a lovely Christmas Day xx
Ooh, what fun.
ReplyDelete1. The 1920s I adore The house of Elliot
2. My little girlie who is very grounded despite some rubbish going on
3. Andrea Singarella of the Velvet strawberries blog
4. I can cure your laziness.com
5. You're the best Mama in the world but as it was from my girlies I don't suppose it counts