From appearing as a four-year-old 'living doll' to being a rollerskating pink elephant for Comic Relief, Catherine has enjoyed a varied career in the entertainment world. Somehow, amidst all this activity, she found time to develop her most cherished role yet - being a mother to Thomas and Christina.
Hello everyone,
It's Butler & Wilson's 9th Anniversary tomorrow at 11am, 5pm and 11pm and we have some spectacular shows in store for you. In fact they're so good, I just had to pick out my top three favourite items. Hope you like them too.
This is my complete favourite in the whole of the Anniversary! Isn't it just so cute? The size is perfect so it's attention grabbing and yet functional too. It features detachable straps so you can wear it across the body, over the shoulder or as a fab clutch. What's not to love?
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It's July! It's Beauty Month on QVC!
I was thrilled to be given my own show of Desert Island Beauty products with our resident beauty expert Alison Young. The only thing is my desert island better be huge because I have a list a mile long of favourite beauty buys! It's so long, in fact, that instead of my show being one hour long it has been extended to an hour and a half this Thursday 9th July from 4pm!
We have so much choice at QVC that it's like being a kid in a candy store. I love trying out all sorts of things. I have always been very heavily into make-up and nail care (having been a qualified nail technician with masses of experience in stage make-up). I just love it. If I weren't a presenter now I think make-up artist would be in my top three of other jobs I might be doing.
I was never bothered by skincare, though. For years I just used any old thing but that's changed over the last couple of years as I now have concerns I didn't have when I first started at QVC! Now I'm a complete beauty junkie!
Hello everyone.
Well, I promised I'd let you know how I got on with this so here's a few piccies for you (like this one of my best friend Mandy and I, right) just to prove I actually went through with it! My reason for saying this is that I simply do not do things like this, something to do with coming last out of hundreds of girls in cross country when I was about 12, maybe?
Also pictured here are Mandy's husband and my other half, Steve, enjoying a nice lie down (right). Must've been exhausting for them sitting around watching us, eh?
Well, the weather was amazing. I'm so glad it was such a beautiful day as it seems to lift the spirits. It was an extremely emotional day, too. Each participant had a sign on their back to say who they were running for.
Hi everyone, here's the latest on Le Chats of Chez Huntley.
Poopy Pixie is so fussy she will not do her business in the litter tray unless it's completely fresh and clean. With three other fully functioning felines in the house that's kind of impossible, despite having three large (and friend-losingly smelly) trays!
She has decided the perfect place is right inside the front door! I can't begin to tell you how embarrassing this is when the postie calls with QVC parcels first thing and I've not yet had the chance to 'de-poo' the area! I'm still considering the 'litter kwitter' - google it, you'll giggle if nothing else!
Baby and Dinky have become firm friends and partners in crime. They cuddle together, clean each other, fight each other and they go on the rampage together too. In the space of a few days they gnawed their way through an iPod charger cable, a phone charger cable, a Wii accessory cable and my camcorder charger cable!
Hi everyone!
Well it's a been a busy week or two this end, particularly this last week as it was my birthday on Saturday. Due to the fact that I was working on my birthday, I've had to squeeze time in between for my family and friends!
Last Thursday, my Mum treated me to a birthday lunch. We love Chinese food and had a great feast with lots of jasmine tea... we get through pots of the stuff! It was nice to spend some time together, just the two of us.
My Mum said (as all Mums would) that maybe I was working a bit too hard recently and suggested we take a trip to Ireland for a short break soon... just after she finished saying that I opened my fortune cookie and look what it said inside (photo on the left); 'Take a break'! How funny is that? I just thought I'd share that with you as it amused us at the time.
I was lucky enough to get my hands on Tuesday's (2nd June) Today's Special Value craft kit to play with. It's a brand new designer craft brand called 'Dena Designs' and it is sooo girly, cute, gorgeous, and creative. Can you tell it appeals to me?
It's a bumper card-making kit with all sorts of goodies inside. I made two larger cards and then two mini sized ones (see right). Aren't they sweet?
The other cards you can see in this picture (the concertina'd ones on each end) come as you see them so some elements are virtually ready-made but lovely cardstocks, papers and embellishments included in the collection mean that you can be as creative as you like!
Dinky, the cat, tried to help with the cardmaking but felt another good use for the kit was a cat bed and he plonked himself down right on top of it all. Cheeky little thing, so cute though. He's still snoozing away as I type.
I hope you'll join me for crafting fun at 12 noon on Tuesday 2nd June as well as tuning in earlier in the day at midnight to see this gorgeous card-making TSV.
Love Catherine x
See the Dena Designs kit for yourself from Tuesday, or visit our Craft department on QVCuk.com
Well, what a week or two it has been! The cats are currently the only beings in this house without some kind of affliction.
My eyes had been very irritated for the past couple of weeks so I went to see my optician when they had gotten quite swollen, light sensitive and were causing headaches. I was started on antibiotic eye drops and packed off to the eye casualty department at my local hospital.
I'm told it's some sort of adverse allergic reaction to something. I'm now on steroid eye drops for a week and desperately hoping I've not suddenly developed a severe allergy to cats! Having four of them, that would be quite a big problem but I think I'd look quite fetching in one of those head-to-toe anti-contamination suits!
That's a little (or big) clue for all my fellow crafters about the Today's Special Value for Craft Day (Sunday 3rd May).
I'll be with you at midnight as we kick off the day's proceedings with an outstanding offering from Kanban (now the UK's largest papercraft manufacturer).
We've seen how the demand for larger cards has taken off and so, if you like yours large, I know you'll be over the moon with what we have for you. Take a look at the piccy (above left) for a taster of what delights await you...
We have Dawn Bibby, Rosemary Merry, Anna Griffin and Brenda Pinnick to name but a few. There's also a plethora of shows to see including Character Papercrafts at 12pm, Tools for the Crafter at 2pm and so much more!
As I say I'll be there as we kick off Craft Day at midnight on Sunday and then from 9pm in the evening with Dawn's Favourites, Crafting with Anna Griffin at 10pm and the Craft Day Grand Finale at 11pm.
What are you most looking forward to this Craft Day?
Love Catherine x
