How was I supposed to know it would do that?

I was starting to get dinner ready and turned the oven on for the chicken pie and within a few minutes the kitchen was filled with the smell of burning sausage casserole!  Oops, forgot to clean the spillage after last nights dinner and not really wanting the house to smell of burnt sausage casserole when Chris came through the door, I pushed a few buttons on the stove - specifically the one that said CLEAN and then the light popped on to say the DOOR WAS LOCKED and then it proceeds to tell me it takes 3 hours!!  What? 3 hours to clean the oven? Oh heck... that means I can't even open the oven door till 7 pm this evening to start dinner... not good, not good at all!  Chris is as easy going as they come but he does like his dinner on the table when he gets in from work! Just knowing I won't get away with this one.... I figured it best to 'fess up and call in the reserves - specifically the lovely British Chippie at the little mall up the road!  I phoned Chris who should be sitting on the train/tram thing he takes to and from work... no answer.... called him again.... no answer.... eh? He's sitting on the train, why won't he pick up, I would have thought a chat to me would be a nice diversion on the trip home... pressed redial and it just rang and rang and rang... but then my cell phone started to ring and it was Chris!  Yay!  We will eat tonight after all!  To say he was not amused would be understating it... wanted to know why I kept calling him, what was so urgent??? It seems he wasn't sitting on the train bored and wanting to chat but standing knee deep with loads of other folk on the train with his bags hanging off his neck... it was packed and he wasn't  a happy bunny.  Once I explained that the oven had locked me out and there was going to be no dinner unless he made a trip to the chippy things looked a bit brighter and my oven can continue cleaning itself for the next couple of hours!! :)

I have also finished the little book I was making for Hels note holder box!  I popped in some bits she can play with, I think it was the metal tassles that she liked from last time, and I found some really cute cat face beads,I also made her a little lavendar sachet to cover the fish smell of the cat treats - they are now in a separate plastic bag!!

I popped some beads on the base as little feet and my little lizards that end up on the back of everything I make.

I made a little charm for the o'wires - and you can just see one of the cat face beads!