My friend gets a dog!

So for the past few weeks my friend has gone on about getting a dog and today was finally the day her parents agreed and she got a dog.
She rehomed/rescued a dog called Nap a 11 Month old border collie a lovely little guy (only fault is he urinated up my hall wall the first 5 minutes he came in my house) but still a timid, friendly dog.
When I say she kind of rescued the dog we believe it was a puppy farm.
The lady had 8 collies all in big kennels out side what looked like 2 litters of puppies and then we saw on Facebook she was enquiring about buying more collie pups.
She also had a collie on heat roaming about the yard and a male dog on a long chain that could easily get to the female dog.
The reason she was rehoming Nap was he was to friendly to the sheep but she also mentioned he was not a horny dog he was around the dog in heat and did not care at all.
So adding things up it looked rather suspicious but anyway we saved Nap and is now at a loving home and is not stuck outside in a kennel in this freezing weather, which moves me onto my next thing.
We have had real thick fog for 2 days straight here in Scotland. What is going on with this weather! I couldn't see the the houses opposite me very clearly and that's not even that far away.

So this is what it looked like in the woods while I walked my dog obviously the camera did not pick it up as well but it was rather spooky.

Anyway that's everything for today, but if you guys suspect a puppy farm please report it and also if you get a dog please remember its not for Christmas its for life, do not take it on if you can't manage it and do not get them for constant breeding, its not fair on the dogs!

My dog Bailey x

Vote for Leland!

So I entered my baby boy into a competition.
Yes he is screaming in the photo but everybody enters pictures of there baby smiling which is all a bit samey. So I decided to go against the grain.

So if you could all go vote for my baby I would appreciate it so much.

http://cfpress.gallery.yomego.com/border-telegraph/gallery/leland/#.VFeILL1FBoM

Money Problems and Planning A Shopping List

Today has not been the best day.

Getting news that you won't get help paying for rent and then they double your rent arrears, because they stop paying 2 month ago with out telling you!

Now I really have to get my bum into gear and organise money.

So today I spent my day watching videos on how to plan Your meals.

Obviously I can't stick to them religiously as sometimes my fiance doesn't get home till hlf ten which is a bit late to eat.

I sat and looked through all my cook books and put sticky post it page markers at every recipe I fancied.

I gave a colour to each meal.

Orange = breakfast

Green = lunch

Yellow = tea

Pink =sweet snacks\desserts

So after all that i got another piece of paper and put it into sections. Meat, Veg, Tins and Other.

So flicking through the recipes I was writing down all the ingredients I needed and how much I needed, and that was my shopping list.

Not shopping till Wednesday so fingers crossed I can keep to my shopping list.

Let's Bake...... Pretzels!!!

So you know when you have those days when all you want is something sweet but a bit savoury at the same time.
Well today was that kind of day for me.
So I made pretzels!

So I cheated and used the bread maker but it will just end the same way and it would if I made it by hand it!

Raw pretzels! Mmmm... Tasty

So after 8-10 minutes I have lovely golden brown Pretzels. Not all the perfect size or shape but as a first attempt they are not too bad.

Now for the exciting bit...

TIME TO ADD THE CINNAMON SUGAR!!!

Obviously you can add any topping like chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, melted nutella the list is endless.

End result!

Cinnamon Sugared Pretzels.

If you want the recipe leave me a comment!

Get To Know Me...

Since this is the first time we have met, here is a little bit about me: I am a bubbly, coffee drinking, dog loving, sweet treat loving, red haired mum to a beautiful baby boy.
My name is Megan-Lavinia: Lavinia after the character in the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus (my mum fell in love with the name when she studied the play at school)
I live at home with my fiancé, my dog and my son.
I spend most of my free time; creating, crafting, taking photos, buying way too much stationary and just enjoying spending time with the people I love. Life is pretty normal for me!
I started this blog to share stuff I create, what I get up to and my challenge of  organizing and get through day to day life as its not always easy being a 19 year old mum.
Anyway that's just a little bit about me.
I hope you stay and hang out.

I'm just starting out so any hints, tips and constructive criticism would be much appreciated.

Thanks guys
Megan xx