2 people I really admire

Ruth Jones & James Cordon - writers and stars of Gavin and Stacy

Which Charmed girl

Which is your favourite charmed girl. I think mine has to be Phoebe but then I like them all!!!

My New Tattoo

I had my third tattoo yesterday, I love it, I wanted something that represented one of my books - Angel of Mine - and my tattooist has captured it perfectly. My husband keeps saying I am turning into Kat Von Dee, I think this is really funny but think I have some way to go before I have that many! I must admit I am finding it so addictive, even while I was having this one I was telling my tattooist about my next ones. I am going to watch my friend having hers next so that will have to satisfy me for a while.

My favourite G & S Character

Charmed

I am a huge Charmed fan - I have all the Box sets. I absolutely loved the last ever episode - it made me cry - but then there is not much tv that doesnt lol. I really love this picture of Phoebe and Coop. I cannot decided whether I prefer her with Coop or Cole, probably Coop, talk about two extremes though.

G & S Christmas Special

I just watched the DVD of the Gavin and Stacy Christmas Special - absolutely brilliant. I loved it. I love all the characters but Ness is my favourite. That bit in Santa's grotto was hilarious. I loved what she gave everyone for Christmas - I am so going to have to remember that for this Christmas!!!!

Favourite Dr Who episodes

Favourite Dr Who epsidodes? Mine are

Season One - Rose (Also I love Christopher Ecclestone in Fathers Day as he is so grumpy to her)

Season Two - The Girl in the Fireplace

Season Three - Smith and Jones

Season Four - Partners in Crime & Turn Left

Although 'if truth be told - (oh! Having a Gavin and Stacy moment there) - I think I love most of them. It was funny, when the Voyage of the Damned was on that Christmas I turned it on and thought (this was before I was in to Dr Who) what the hell is this and turned it off, my friend laughed as I don't think I even gave it to the opening credits. Then she forced me to sit down and watch 'Rose' - so with a grumpy look on my face I sat there determined not to like it, I then proceeded to borrow the box sets from her as I was so hooked and I could not believe it when we went up to Cardiff to exhibition - it was absolutely brilliant. We cannot wait to go again.

Captain Jack Harkness

I still do not get that he is the Face of Bo, My friend who got me into Dr Who keeps trying to explain it to me, I just do not get it!!!

Who is the best

Who is the best Dr's assistant - Rose Tyler, Martha Jones or Donna Noble?

Cardiff

If only this wasn't just a picture lol

Last year went to Cardiff to the Dr Who exhibition - absolutely brilliant. Can't wait to go back soon and see it again. My friend totally freaked as we got close to where they film Torchwood - she screamed and nearly crashed the car!

From The Pixie Chronicles - illustrations by Nicky Barnes

The Proposal - Forest and Lenay - BY NICKY BARNES

The Baby Shower - The Pixie Family - BY NICKY BARNES

Aren't they beautiful illustrations? Kids love them because they are so cute, bright and funny - they also love the books because when they are in that age between learning to read and being able to sit down and read a long book, they can have fun looking and reading these. I know my friends daughter who is 7 loves reading them to her mum and dad.

Introducing a very talented woman - no not me lol

A very good friend of mine Nicky Barnes - a very talented artist. In 2007 we got together and I wrote and she illustrated two children books - The Pixie Chronicles which we self-published. We enjoyed that joint venture so much that we wrote and again self-published a book of thirteen short stories - Ominous Tales (for teenagers and above). She also illustrated the cover for this and my novel that I took fifteen years writing and was also self published - Angel of Mine.

Tattoos

My new hobbie!!!

I have wanted tattoos for years and finally plucked up the courage when I fell pregnant, so, much to my husband's disgust I got my nose pierced instead, something else I've always wanted to do. I am completely obsessed. I watch the Tattooing programes and am constantly lookg up tattoo designs on the net. My first tattoo I got in January and had my childrens names in a rose design put on my forearm. They say that is one of the most painful places to have one - I did not find it too bad actually, just like being scratched - stung quite alot after though lol. My second was on my lower back and it was a tribal sun design. That was brilliant, it did not hurt at all. This weekend I am going to get one on my shoulder and am really looking forward to it. My husband is cool with it but does worry I am going to end up looking like Kat Von Dee - although I think he fancies her so prob doesn't mind too much lol.

EASTER BUNNIES

THESE ARE MY EASTER BUNNYS

'Yea - thanks mother!!!'

What Dreams Are Made Of

A simple dream to achieve – or so I thought!

When I was twenty one I got married. Too young, not suited but with ‘my dream’ in my head I pressed on regardless. Immediately we started trying for a honeymoon baby. You take it for granted don’t you? It does not enter your head for one minute that it won’t happen. Every month I would feel imaginary things and think ‘this month, I know it’s going to be the one’. Then you have that dreaded moment, your period arrives, along with the tears. I had many years of crying in the bathroom and trying to convince myself that ‘it didn’t really matter’ as I flushed my dreams down the toilet. When people used to ask if I wanted children, I just used to say ‘No’, it was easier than telling the truth, that I was a big fat failure. Yet more tears and tests followed. Then IVF. Heartbreaking? – Yes. Emotional? – Yes. Expensive? – Very. Was it worth it? It was something I had to go through, rightly or wrongly. I had three sets of IVF over the period of about a year. My marriage was falling apart but I ignored this, I just wanted my baby. I did not care about anything else. I was a driven woman that could only see one outcome, I carried on regardless. I ignored the fact, my then husband, was making murmurings about the fact he never wanted children anyway, at least not with me. All I could think was ‘this is my dream how dare you try and spoil it’. After all that emotional pain, my dream had ended, my husband was gone and so was all the money but that fact was irrelevant. After being single for two years I met the love of my life. He knew about my previous problems but for the first time I just wanted to be with him, not his sperm! Anyway he said any problems thrown at us we would solve together. Six months after we met we found out we were pregnant, a dream come true for both of us and it had happened naturally. In 2004 my first son was born, a whole new set of worries confronted us – he was seven weeks premature. Thank God though he was fine. In 2005 our little girl followed – again another set of problems, I had post natal depression. Nearly four years later I am still suffering from this off and on. In December I gave birth to a beautiful little boy – who at this very moment is screaming his head off because he is teething – I thank God at how lucky I have been to have gone through the heart break of infertility and then to be blessed with these three beautiful children, without which I know I would be nothing. They are my world and they are what my dreams are made of. My husband says we have to stop at three, last night I informed him our baby making days are far from over – he just looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights!.......Baby now red as a beetroot so will have to stop typing and give him a mummy cuddle!