Where to start after such a long time eh ??

To cut a very dull story short, I ended up having a wee bit of a crisis, just with life in general.
I think I just let everything get on top of me really.

Anyway... meds were prescribed..... I relapsed a few weeks back, and am just getting back on track with my medication at the moment.

One thing I have learned from all this is that pressure makes me ill, so I am going to have to try and tailor my life to deal with that.

I've taken to spending time in my little garden . It's so very therapeutic. I love to find all those little hidden away treasures in the garden.... a beautiful garden spider in it's web.... snails with those lovely stripey shells... odd looking little bugs, and finding plants emerging. I keep finding baby plants breaking through, and love waiting untill they grow to see what they might be.
Just hope they're not all weeds, LOL

There's also a really amusing pair of magpies that I see in the tree most mornings... they are always squawking at eachother and playing chase me !!

I've bought some lovely plants to put in the garden too, and it's slowly becoming the little oasis that I want.

I am eventually getting back on track with my work too. So many times, it seems, I make progress, then it seems to crumble away from me. But hey ho.... I just have to keep plodding away and hope that one day things will become stable once again.

I think that spending time in my garden has had quite an influence on the beads I have been making just lately... I suddenly seem to have the urge to make little bugs, toadstools, and such like ... I am really enjoying making less 'sensible' beads... they are so cheerful and colourful, so I am going to keep running with it, to see where it takes me.

Anyway.... I'm going to have to get some stuff done here, am expecting mum at the door to pick the kids up, so I'll just leave you with a few random photos of what's been going on in the flame born house...







There are new beads cooling in the kiln as I type... so we'll see what comes out later :O)

Oooohh.....

...... have I finally managed to networ this blog with Face Book ???

Very long time, no blog...... I shall try to be a bit more chatty ..... 

legal stuff thats going on here.....

I just thought I'd share an update with regard to the divorce hassles I have been having just lately.

I've just C&P'd this from a forum post to save time... but I'd have to say that if anybody out there is having a hard time with a divorce... SHOP AROUND !!!!! Good advice may be hard to come by, but is worth it's weight in gold......

She was fantastic 

An update ..... it seems that my solicitor has been less than helpful....Greta, AKA: The Rottweiller, (shit hot solicitor) tells me that the one option that my solicitor said wouldn't be a goer, is my best option and that the courts would find in my favour as the children are resident here.

The option in question is called a Mesher order (Mesher v Mesher 1980)

Mesher Order

If this is granted, then the court can order that the sale of the property can be deferred for a certain period of time, for instance until the children are no longer dependent.

And she also tells me that the ex's capital share in the property as it stands can be capped if he is no longer contributing towards the mortgage, so that when the house eventually has to be sold, he will only gain his 50% share at today's rate and I will gain the rest of the proceeds from the sale.
My old solicitor also advised that court proceedings would not be available on legal aid to fight the ex... Greta said that I could fight him on legal aid, and that 'some' extra costs might have to be paid back at a later date... 

She has also personally recommended me to another solicitor who she passes all her legal aid clients on to. I go to see her on monday 

So... I warn you now that I shall still be a bit all over the place with a nasty divorce going on, but I now feel more confident that this house will remain to be our home 

 
So the open house is back on !!!!   
Just need to figure a date out now 

Thanks for all your positive thoughts and well wishes. It's far from over, but at least I have the right advice to fight my corner with 
xxx

So once things are in motion, I hope to feel more like my old self and start to feel more creative once again :O)

I've been away for longer than I thought.....

My lovely friend Kieara starting her new blog has given me the nudge that I needed to log back into my own blog.

I did'nt realise just how long it has been since I last posted in my blog ... So I shall aim to rectify this by posting a quick catch up . I say quick ... so much has been happening in my personal life, that I'd be here for weeks getting it all written up, so I shall only post briefly, although the issues are pretty serious. Hopefully by reading this, you will understand why my creativity and productivity have been so poor over the last few months....

Well August turned out to be a month of massive high's and low's .... from the high of the Stourbridge Bead event I came crashing down with an unbelieveable low.... on the bank holliday weekend following Stourbridge, my 7 yr old daughter was abducted by a paedophile. I shan't go into the detail, but he was sentenced in crown court last week. The time in between has been a bit of an ordeal and left me a bit messed up to be totally honest.

Whilst that was all ongoing, I also lost my home :O( I had to move back into my marital home.

My ex had moved out over a year ago and had left it in an awful state of repair. Even though this was the case, he tried to prevent us from moving back in by changing the locks on the morning I was moving in.

I am now in, but he has also now started very nasty divorce proceedings and I am again in a state of flux as I have no idea whether I shall lose this house a second time.

I am finding it hard to get decent legal advice and have also admitted that my depression is back.

So... all things told, I hope you can understand why I have not been very consistant over this past 6 months or so.

I do have my good days though... days when I feel like making beads and jewellery .... so I'll finish up now with a few pictures of some recent work...

Thanks for reading, and hopefully, I shall be back real soon xxx

I haven't run off....

I just wanted to say a quick Hi... Bye... I may not have posted much over the last week or so, but I am just soooo busy with everything at the moment.... I am so excited though as I am going to the International Festival of Glass, in Stourbridge this weekend..... expect plenty of pictures afterwards.... I'll have a proper catch up with where I am with my work then, too ..

So... night night... speak soon

xx

Isn't this pretty ?

I have no idea what flower this is... but it is so pretty.... :)

sunday cakeness...........

I've been making some summery beads just lately.... while the pretty weather lasts.. hehe.........







Oh and that cake I mentioned...........



Have a lovely sunday =o)