Birthday presents

Question: who buys their wife a camera, designs her a blog and then presents them to her for her 30th birthday?
Answer: Apparently MY HUSBAND

so..... for my first trick..... working out how to drive this runaway train.....

something I have been working on this week since a package arrived from my inlaws (I need to make sure I don't give too much away, it's a christmas surprise for someone special). The patch is called fox and geese and it came in a flip book with 101 other patterns from here (and my mother in law who knows I enjoy these sort of things). I have plans to use eleven other blocks for a small project, this block is 4'' when finished and is seriously fiddly to sew, hold together and adjudicate children's arguments at the same time, I think I have that sorted though. I have gained some mummy time by scheduling a favourite television show for about 4pm, so I get half an hour to get something creative done before the rush to get children showered, fed, homeworked and put to bed before they get too tired and grumpy.
So now that I have figured out how to get my pics on here, I need to get going on the housework that has been a bit neglected over the weekend (I do have an excuse.... more birthday surprises from my lovely husband..... I know I'm spoilt :D).