tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44128185870559874582024-03-18T20:16:50.245+00:00BlackCountry WenchMaggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.comBlogger584125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-44725209823912609182024-02-29T17:38:00.000+00:002024-02-29T17:38:42.307+00:00End of February <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Thank you </b></span>for all the lovely kind messages on my last post, they meant a lot to me. I got a call yesterday from the pet cemetery to say that Molly's ashes could be collected, so today I bought her home. More tears on the drive home but her little casket is now in the cabinet along with Millie's. I had thought I might bury them both together, when the weather permits, not sure yet, they were never outdoor cats, they liked to take a roam around our garden but neither one went off and didn't have a particular spot where they lay out there, they were always quite happy to be comfortable in home. I'll speak to Mark at the weekend and get his thoughts.</p><p style="text-align: center;">This is the first time in my life that there has not been a cat or dog in the house. It feels so very strange, and even though neither cats were vocal the house just feels so still and quiet, and now my lap is empty when I sit down, I miss them both so much, they will both always have a special place in my heart. </p><p style="text-align: center;">There hasn't been a lot of crafting done this month, I haven't been in the right frame of mind; but I did finish my <b>Stick6in24 </b>stitching.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyP01echYKxyfDt7Xetv0UCdz9PQg2ZqxfQ24QpQM0z8F1Z1lHYd7ZbtauC8Z1wAloL2fhqjaNxqcoGGabJLm9r6f2iwv0mozJ6DPWQfXDTeUEo6-1pYwTRSIycdkOnH13bUntkdGihPGOdqiUDmCHG6X9nlVMjkDgTmb-_6gJK622E1BHqLzJl4vXI8r/s3489/20240229_164240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3489" data-original-width="2166" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyP01echYKxyfDt7Xetv0UCdz9PQg2ZqxfQ24QpQM0z8F1Z1lHYd7ZbtauC8Z1wAloL2fhqjaNxqcoGGabJLm9r6f2iwv0mozJ6DPWQfXDTeUEo6-1pYwTRSIycdkOnH13bUntkdGihPGOdqiUDmCHG6X9nlVMjkDgTmb-_6gJK622E1BHqLzJl4vXI8r/w249-h400/20240229_164240.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's so small it hardly counts, but it's all I had the brain space for.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm afraid I can't remember the details except that it was a kit, it is a French design and came complete with the little wooden house shape to attach it too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Manuela Pulled the No.1 for our next two month SAL, I have a design ready but not the threads or fabric, that's something I could do at the weekend.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been occupying myself this week with Spring cleaning, I've taken on a room each day and given everything a thorough cleaning, cushion covers and throws have been washed too and as of today all my windows have been cleaned inside and out, now we just need some Spring sunshine instead of this incessant rain! The grass at the top of the garden is like a sponge and there are still puddles around the borders so not much chance of even tidying up in that area at the moment, at least some parts look like Spring has sprung.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9byPVErhP0NZHfcvNcmN-ckNUgXAj1S5VURtCqNkFuP_sa1N4pojVh1h4E57NbsVHHZC-xOEZtnQIipOT3SVcosaLBTb8VzsIsFi9U9ZdbSfTkIkl1gJ9QKXLiitfcWkhpmFhN3fINI7-N23lP2w08QWZFRNzFzkr-pFn1X75dk0TsMPEI9ObJVumQaz/s2047/20240219_120142-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2047" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9byPVErhP0NZHfcvNcmN-ckNUgXAj1S5VURtCqNkFuP_sa1N4pojVh1h4E57NbsVHHZC-xOEZtnQIipOT3SVcosaLBTb8VzsIsFi9U9ZdbSfTkIkl1gJ9QKXLiitfcWkhpmFhN3fINI7-N23lP2w08QWZFRNzFzkr-pFn1X75dk0TsMPEI9ObJVumQaz/w400-h400/20240219_120142-COLLAGE.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">February half term we took the kids to see Gaia at Tewskesbury Cathedral.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFFwdvo8MUx2cJhGOgmu07d99czspguFsAMrrEeXzoOFleMkJz3HAhE_KbdR49EfSU1pfq5VdTfmOdW-o9-RDRbFMzBvcM9s81pcWZ-qcFctqyD6RNxp_ONQ_cIa3uLjz-aM8gDtO07qMXvx0DQpyPTMH53TYKVvP833ttWEsIk7O1UWB245_REpyCM-p/s4032/20240214_141203_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaFFwdvo8MUx2cJhGOgmu07d99czspguFsAMrrEeXzoOFleMkJz3HAhE_KbdR49EfSU1pfq5VdTfmOdW-o9-RDRbFMzBvcM9s81pcWZ-qcFctqyD6RNxp_ONQ_cIa3uLjz-aM8gDtO07qMXvx0DQpyPTMH53TYKVvP833ttWEsIk7O1UWB245_REpyCM-p/w480-h640/20240214_141203_01.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd also booked tickets for both myself and Mark to visit on the Saturday night</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKD3QWZqe8I-z51qB7Pi3EfTmnNc55sGpZ7mPkP6pduots3Ts5FxJfasXMObKdR5kW_iBKkd8udC-EvtaBxBivM32xkJxlt2jg9d70E_DG9NKQoSFSaxKZ2SdDUsmObCzLeUBeJsxHi9tr3SOqBbXnRJfvpWXdHEy-vRJtnjNhPSo_WW0cYAv073ESmRP7/s2895/20240217_174206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2895" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKD3QWZqe8I-z51qB7Pi3EfTmnNc55sGpZ7mPkP6pduots3Ts5FxJfasXMObKdR5kW_iBKkd8udC-EvtaBxBivM32xkJxlt2jg9d70E_DG9NKQoSFSaxKZ2SdDUsmObCzLeUBeJsxHi9tr3SOqBbXnRJfvpWXdHEy-vRJtnjNhPSo_WW0cYAv073ESmRP7/w502-h640/20240217_174206.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had more time to look and listen to the sound track on the Saturday. I found it really humbling, you realise just how big this planet of ours is and how very little is actually land, amazing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think I'll leave it there for now and hopefully pop back in again when I have something to share.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Take care</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-50172954665667767652024-02-23T10:35:00.001+00:002024-02-23T10:35:55.743+00:00Broken hearted<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYiEsnhnkjZud5XpkNhP90dO3YSj28A2jczK-k6XCQURfiYv9a9gkvqYUatuxFY7vk8OBfNmYCgK6N4Vm6YibNSS5M-cgUp3C_XrxaTAGKs4UMcXQuGlrMg4NRPU_bKa9XWJdqUaYGOLOq0C3KIqkFB1-9EDx12w9CRmGHiWaDW9ZzuMkdVrnGbKCJ3oS-/s290/Molly%20Photo%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="231" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYiEsnhnkjZud5XpkNhP90dO3YSj28A2jczK-k6XCQURfiYv9a9gkvqYUatuxFY7vk8OBfNmYCgK6N4Vm6YibNSS5M-cgUp3C_XrxaTAGKs4UMcXQuGlrMg4NRPU_bKa9XWJdqUaYGOLOq0C3KIqkFB1-9EDx12w9CRmGHiWaDW9ZzuMkdVrnGbKCJ3oS-/w319-h400/Molly%20Photo%202.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Yesterday, February 22nd, we had to say goodbye to our beautiful Molly.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We knew from just before Christmas that we only had a short time left with her, but these last couple of weeks we have seen how quickly she was loosing her strength. It's been heartbreaking to see her decline.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We were blessed to have her for 18 years and she will be in our hearts forever, she was such a beautiful gentle soul who loved to be snuggled. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">She passed peacefully in my arms, hopefully knowing right to the end how very much she was loved.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's not been a year since we lost our lovely Millie, 12 months this June and I still miss her lovely face and quiet nature. We were lucky to have so many years with them both, although now it seems no time at all. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Molly missed her little buddy too, there seemed to be a sadness to her after Millie was gone, she didn't seem the same. Who knows, maybe now they will meet up again and snuggle together like they used to, I'd like to think so anyway.</div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtM_vEoWsILNnGv-6_1iUB1kYZmwBnLgkYpmd9u4VDCtPQFz99Vfw1xds1azglXS97VpNwPZbxCld9wBgVqiEGm-7AJL2syCAXgPEhntx5W7ZJo3ZtTJ0qysTmw7mnSOiRrVDVVjobE1xHleoGRVHIc-3WRN5V4Ty0SbeD0MV-xmiaZco1NUlNS-2HQ5YC/s2830/20201106_222127.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2830" data-original-width="2122" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtM_vEoWsILNnGv-6_1iUB1kYZmwBnLgkYpmd9u4VDCtPQFz99Vfw1xds1azglXS97VpNwPZbxCld9wBgVqiEGm-7AJL2syCAXgPEhntx5W7ZJo3ZtTJ0qysTmw7mnSOiRrVDVVjobE1xHleoGRVHIc-3WRN5V4Ty0SbeD0MV-xmiaZco1NUlNS-2HQ5YC/w480-h640/20201106_222127.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sleep tight my beautiful gentle girl </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-XX-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-7599845613303967002024-02-05T16:04:00.000+00:002024-02-05T16:04:26.099+00:00What I made in January<p style="text-align: center;">Well that little blogging break was longer than I expected, no particular reason other than I just didn't really feel like it. Now, because of my absence I have quite a few makes to share.</p><p style="text-align: center;">First up is <b>Suzannah</b>, my third <b>Carriage House Samplings</b> girl. She was finished early last year but I only got round to taking her to be framed in November and by then the framers were so busy that I only got her back in January.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBm48yGkjrjHIqzxpexUiGDXdFjVo1wEbi6QS6RynyoyjY_qrvn1h8BMKcirWY1NwCPq1v04rW7KIQG17fA5Qhg5mFTda8jHCyxKZ1EscRAikewtBrQqEUz3cFs1CqWHSGUD8Uk8OcXXtqyYpYtePIL_2KUgdqUDMGMajhmlwuxm-31FjDUGAs0KZOg_-v/s2665/20240113_113453.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2665" data-original-width="2159" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBm48yGkjrjHIqzxpexUiGDXdFjVo1wEbi6QS6RynyoyjY_qrvn1h8BMKcirWY1NwCPq1v04rW7KIQG17fA5Qhg5mFTda8jHCyxKZ1EscRAikewtBrQqEUz3cFs1CqWHSGUD8Uk8OcXXtqyYpYtePIL_2KUgdqUDMGMajhmlwuxm-31FjDUGAs0KZOg_-v/w518-h640/20240113_113453.jpg" width="518" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a terrible photo and doesn't do her justice. The top of her dress looks to be in different coloured grey, It's not! In real life the colours are just fine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Luckily they had the same frame used for my other two girls in the series, here's a close up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqqr44LRvhQc2SR0d3BXTEyJDq732Dw-ewCJ84xHaGk9-msz3Bt2UN2ZPTqY90Adyb3PSV0_EkfeYq02sxC34UNLr5eS8iizeTwCst1tgaOiYSp4fdRl2QcoT0gTkfwKiN9abNj-w2aJUWAkGGEcX1pmffqdeStZXi3ldarL-ByFISQtWC6eNGIEMW1KZ/s4032/20240113_113501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHqqr44LRvhQc2SR0d3BXTEyJDq732Dw-ewCJ84xHaGk9-msz3Bt2UN2ZPTqY90Adyb3PSV0_EkfeYq02sxC34UNLr5eS8iizeTwCst1tgaOiYSp4fdRl2QcoT0gTkfwKiN9abNj-w2aJUWAkGGEcX1pmffqdeStZXi3ldarL-ByFISQtWC6eNGIEMW1KZ/w360-h640/20240113_113501.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just have one more girl to stitch, Mary Margaret, and then I have all four. I have all the supplies to start, just need the motivation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">January's stitching </span></b>was all about the month of February. I loved my little Winter bowl so much, <i>(which was inspired by the lovely Carol),</i> that I decided that I'd like a February/Valentine one, so this is what I stitched.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UsIODP_XegHLdP00Sygzk2itmFtrM7Rqu64Mw7OD67UvIrHcwbLAHkmPT-RiDXmsVYZXuy095LhyphenhyphenMreqiGvRoPfguUVZNTHw7zLHS11Zq9OmLTWwGYclh49lTSCaR5Rvm75GhN5fVe6hY_AuX1GH2GiZdW-vA72XnDw6RpqYt-u4UGN-ZRjjE4bPFCkh/s4032/20240205_131624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UsIODP_XegHLdP00Sygzk2itmFtrM7Rqu64Mw7OD67UvIrHcwbLAHkmPT-RiDXmsVYZXuy095LhyphenhyphenMreqiGvRoPfguUVZNTHw7zLHS11Zq9OmLTWwGYclh49lTSCaR5Rvm75GhN5fVe6hY_AuX1GH2GiZdW-vA72XnDw6RpqYt-u4UGN-ZRjjE4bPFCkh/w400-h300/20240205_131624.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Above - Love You Too - by Hands On Design a 2023 freebie</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Below - Love Is Kind - by Hands On Designs a 2019 freebie</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBXVWb9JjDPkaTGMMQE3p64jwsX-nhAobrhB5MdJ6WtbRJic261OJwxSIIuvMYvpJBAKZprfp-dcw9YZLFUbQHJY6sWYuPzWJeKIjDxbh3sasz5bVgNRPSjXOK8hGPbDbj0S5rCjVBZnnE3KUjMVJGUh7lXx23WasS2P-mQMlLyRHjmbuMsSM098uKGC9/s4032/20240205_131451.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBXVWb9JjDPkaTGMMQE3p64jwsX-nhAobrhB5MdJ6WtbRJic261OJwxSIIuvMYvpJBAKZprfp-dcw9YZLFUbQHJY6sWYuPzWJeKIjDxbh3sasz5bVgNRPSjXOK8hGPbDbj0S5rCjVBZnnE3KUjMVJGUh7lXx23WasS2P-mQMlLyRHjmbuMsSM098uKGC9/w300-h400/20240205_131451.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOD_LDd9w_z4PD5yI4s8tCYzrUyKxgOK8ONWtt51ghyZ8Vr6tE-miHbc_9nXYKF07VSRFJEgptcjib3jRr4F_CNkhwSM8GCOdXMmd1X36bfu6z6ywuCF4DhWCABrdMURYHMiuxle_yE9L3YGfJAQXjZHGMcKbCULJoFPusBuL1uJNiM4mx6tuVm3y2C_j/s4032/20240205_131629.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOD_LDd9w_z4PD5yI4s8tCYzrUyKxgOK8ONWtt51ghyZ8Vr6tE-miHbc_9nXYKF07VSRFJEgptcjib3jRr4F_CNkhwSM8GCOdXMmd1X36bfu6z6ywuCF4DhWCABrdMURYHMiuxle_yE9L3YGfJAQXjZHGMcKbCULJoFPusBuL1uJNiM4mx6tuVm3y2C_j/w400-h300/20240205_131629.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Above - Hugs and Kisses - by With Thy Needle and Thread </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>(part of the Love Notes collection)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Below Is a little Valentine freebie I found on Pinterest</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg88prrQc5tmLj3b1G4ze10cvO71szWTv8TPvW4it8Qsq_dI_sb7jgh5xediV0wxy0Mq8ise9p3196j_G8oL83bFgyG1JfK6ZlavaXPkGiyC8xGX6M_awtZOV3xjDTl1IHtySMvWSHk7pw5qiMgPZ3IRFv58KT1k8VeNBHvWWBK2ifkU7Gl5G_hLtf_OoQ/s4032/20240205_131618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg88prrQc5tmLj3b1G4ze10cvO71szWTv8TPvW4it8Qsq_dI_sb7jgh5xediV0wxy0Mq8ise9p3196j_G8oL83bFgyG1JfK6ZlavaXPkGiyC8xGX6M_awtZOV3xjDTl1IHtySMvWSHk7pw5qiMgPZ3IRFv58KT1k8VeNBHvWWBK2ifkU7Gl5G_hLtf_OoQ/w400-h300/20240205_131618.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here they are all together along with a couple of fabric hearts I made to fill up the space.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The other two pieces are <b>LHN February calendar girl and February flip-it by LK, </b>both of which were stitched a few years ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7XeiuPwjZQXWCbZzgniJKl8UKdoR655Hzhl0wvHUhdZJQAjolCT7K_1RR2Oi-R0ACjksLjsntouxO3awf8vfuvfZdmF-dSlCrFn1G4zi2CbW-oF6t_tal3h3Ro6LMW7GDjhckj05fnwB8aI7YhxaT7HPx7iT46M_kwTmZ0KxSB2bSJC50wDz4s2dKWUC/s3024/20240205_131711.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7XeiuPwjZQXWCbZzgniJKl8UKdoR655Hzhl0wvHUhdZJQAjolCT7K_1RR2Oi-R0ACjksLjsntouxO3awf8vfuvfZdmF-dSlCrFn1G4zi2CbW-oF6t_tal3h3Ro6LMW7GDjhckj05fnwB8aI7YhxaT7HPx7iT46M_kwTmZ0KxSB2bSJC50wDz4s2dKWUC/w400-h400/20240205_131711.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">January </span>was also good for knitting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Birch Trees scarf by Julia Marsh is a free pattern on Ravelry. I started it on December 29th and finished it on January 12th. I absolutely loved every second of this knit and would definitely knit another one. The yarn was from stash, it's undyed Falkland merino which I bought almost five years ago when I went to Yarndale. It's unbelievably soft and squishy and will be lovely and warm.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXTiBg7bRqhArmnCX2rMeF_sNCy9GktAlWBFsEGhLuMlzsOGnTOc_Qsmd3kp3FRUQD8VH1glIm5QL6ao_BzWpn5GL66fJ7aHlnTv8jmUzUFN0PD8B6SkuDN3IAbmrjh2AM9r2VeRGQupBf79BrIFg6sSB_GY0H7zfzWXT4S5nZOsOFPy9HrIaB9UsFTHT/s4032/20240205_131206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXTiBg7bRqhArmnCX2rMeF_sNCy9GktAlWBFsEGhLuMlzsOGnTOc_Qsmd3kp3FRUQD8VH1glIm5QL6ao_BzWpn5GL66fJ7aHlnTv8jmUzUFN0PD8B6SkuDN3IAbmrjh2AM9r2VeRGQupBf79BrIFg6sSB_GY0H7zfzWXT4S5nZOsOFPy9HrIaB9UsFTHT/w480-h640/20240205_131206.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_zWVew1NA7a_jwDjTe61N29wztYdci1xCGQm3tSoA0AHxL-nUs5ArLohKFhyphenhyphencbhytTFXS_yY8lLiePOs4ywCXFytOZxVeDUTqc-KZiaSFJb7tRiXQ1dT-8jcg3D_1P0BJqY-WYhWz6SphOaWTAmQ77RDRYvip0boZe1w6qxi0Hxx6JOkWocqkkfr5CrG/s4032/20240202_123108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_zWVew1NA7a_jwDjTe61N29wztYdci1xCGQm3tSoA0AHxL-nUs5ArLohKFhyphenhyphencbhytTFXS_yY8lLiePOs4ywCXFytOZxVeDUTqc-KZiaSFJb7tRiXQ1dT-8jcg3D_1P0BJqY-WYhWz6SphOaWTAmQ77RDRYvip0boZe1w6qxi0Hxx6JOkWocqkkfr5CrG/w360-h640/20240202_123108.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My second knit is also neckwear, this is the Litmus Cowl, everyone and his dog has made this cowl and as usual I'm late to the party. I cast this on when I went away with Joanne and the kids at the end of August, Joanne was doing the driving so It made perfect car knitting, I did get a good bit done on the drive there and back and managed to pick it up and do a few rounds now and again during the week. It was put to one side when I got home though and I didn't pick it up again until December. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The yarn is again from stash which was bought at Yarningham two or three years ago with this cowl in mind. The minis are called <b>Spring Rainbow from The Crafty Bird </b>the grey is <b>Carrara Marble</b> from <b>Yellow Van Yarns. </b>I repeated the 10 minis twice, thirteen rounds for each of the colours and twelve rounds for the grey. I've already worn this one quite a lot and it's another pattern I would happily knit again, perhaps in darker shades next time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz-2Ui_3QngZYFoyn75R62_bUgzOF4_CnRiEHsJTS6RPTnh-PhhOoFhQHASbba4ZlJZw23RC9i0ofECrYtJJZKsW4ktxQ5svGvPnYnKPIEmPpNmZ99D3E6e44orozn2OkF7A1-MovQjN5K0ItOQ4QvgQtUvjms0XP9Md_gNvH_-nZAm9XFoaE_BgdPSLqF/s3024/20240205_132026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz-2Ui_3QngZYFoyn75R62_bUgzOF4_CnRiEHsJTS6RPTnh-PhhOoFhQHASbba4ZlJZw23RC9i0ofECrYtJJZKsW4ktxQ5svGvPnYnKPIEmPpNmZ99D3E6e44orozn2OkF7A1-MovQjN5K0ItOQ4QvgQtUvjms0XP9Md_gNvH_-nZAm9XFoaE_BgdPSLqF/w640-h640/20240205_132026.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My very last finish for January was a pair of socks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Yarn is Opal, from their Beauty collection and Is really very soft and lovely to knit with.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzKA_m1FszrINZo206MULnEC58dBU0PkBrIk6fULIYabeDVwUlyH7VgY-lVr6yTAzvaohIJ6wWRX4ZiTTqsfNqw1ac0XGqswW0uDjWryEq6bnngRzq2p56mnAgy7xBYplXUe5Bif5SlTCLIv6dmkDC2_kNLjAqSs_YTgrPU3pbiZXnEPO7HSgnu-KYB1D/s3166/20240202_122837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3166" data-original-width="2227" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzKA_m1FszrINZo206MULnEC58dBU0PkBrIk6fULIYabeDVwUlyH7VgY-lVr6yTAzvaohIJ6wWRX4ZiTTqsfNqw1ac0XGqswW0uDjWryEq6bnngRzq2p56mnAgy7xBYplXUe5Bif5SlTCLIv6dmkDC2_kNLjAqSs_YTgrPU3pbiZXnEPO7HSgnu-KYB1D/w450-h640/20240202_122837.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So those are all my finishes for January, a good crafty month to start the year :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope </span></b>you are all doing well and have had a good start to 2024, things are bumping along ok here, much the same as they always do. I'll be back again before the end of the month to share my Stick6 finish and in the meantime I will try to catch up with blog reading, I'm way behind with that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Enjoy the rest of February</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-12087735290945544572024-01-01T22:31:00.000+00:002024-01-01T22:31:47.160+00:00My year in projects<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy New Year! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>Lets hope its a good one for all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wanted to write a post over the Christmas period but I came down with Covid the day after my birthday then spent the next two day in bed. It wiped me out for a couple of days, thankfully I feel better now. The symptoms were not like I had before, I was congested with a tickly cough for a couple of days but I didn't lose my sense of taste or smell, I was however really exhausted, then by last night all my symptoms seemed to disappear, just as quick as they came. I will test again in a couple of days to make sure I'm negative before I go anywhere near people, I know there are relaxed rules now but I still don't think it's fair to pass it on knowingly, you never know what health issues other people are dealing with do you?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My middle daughter Joanne also tested positive with the same symptoms as me although, she still has quite a cough but, surprisingly neither Mark or any of the rest of the family that were here over Christmas has had it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Anyway, on to the makes</b>......These are my last finishes for this year end, one pair of Christmas socks and the last stitched piece for the <b>Stick6in2023</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I ran out of time to complete my socks to wear on Christmas Eve but I did finish them on Boxing Day, so still classed as a Christmas finish. They are knitted in the <b>Vintage Tinsel </b>colourway by <b>West Yorkshire Spinners. </b>This was their Christmas colourway from 2021, back then It didn't really appeal to me, then I saw someone knitting it up this year and thought It was beautiful, funny how we change our minds isn't it?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I used Amethyst, also by WYS, for the heels and toes and I love them! You can't really see from the photo how sparkly they are, but take my word they do sparkle :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwB6xAuzwWkhbLbOOk_E3jZ-q2lXfjAQh0EJaS5bCrX39mqs9KFYjDezsIhrqcAAK9YOhm1MAAVlSnwGIvh2tzXpBbq6KqBwnVyoezV8cVklCaVAl091C2iijOYnM02XaPvmaD0jd7qQBtwlEP2YMroycGSxs8p4Ed7lbTvDuAIv2HrdQVJTEz8d5a-Xf/s4032/20231226_221540.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwB6xAuzwWkhbLbOOk_E3jZ-q2lXfjAQh0EJaS5bCrX39mqs9KFYjDezsIhrqcAAK9YOhm1MAAVlSnwGIvh2tzXpBbq6KqBwnVyoezV8cVklCaVAl091C2iijOYnM02XaPvmaD0jd7qQBtwlEP2YMroycGSxs8p4Ed7lbTvDuAIv2HrdQVJTEz8d5a-Xf/w360-h640/20231226_221540.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My <b>Stick6in2023 </b>piece for the months of November and December was finished just in the nick of time. I must confess that I didn't much enjoy stitching this one, hence the amount of time It took me to finish. Those snowflakes were a pain in the butt and I struggled to see, even with my magnifier, the 32 count fabric. Still, It's done now and I love the way it came out. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What you can't really tell from the photo is that the fabric I stitched on was blue and the finishing fabric is navy blue velour.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>When I think of Winter by Puntini Puntini</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyth8YOFJPGxb3rsCa8pCpW9Xr96hjHVJMYVdEPrZ9Sb2EYfwnYyrxN0-GejBzHTI8fyWCXJnQ1LN-jhEWDD2mXWSV_6yfrNVSvvjiMe6YOx3vJHvYpn_qG_vXL1Ye0AndfD-1bOqMAdRUiE5W9S2DDyoD3Ik03jX2qSCOiMuxxYaVH0KGVkWV7X9yV97s/s4032/20240101_173418.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyth8YOFJPGxb3rsCa8pCpW9Xr96hjHVJMYVdEPrZ9Sb2EYfwnYyrxN0-GejBzHTI8fyWCXJnQ1LN-jhEWDD2mXWSV_6yfrNVSvvjiMe6YOx3vJHvYpn_qG_vXL1Ye0AndfD-1bOqMAdRUiE5W9S2DDyoD3Ik03jX2qSCOiMuxxYaVH0KGVkWV7X9yV97s/w480-h640/20240101_173418.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've really enjoyed taking part in this SAL hosted my <a href="https://mein-allerlei-hobby.blogspot.com/">Martina</a> and <a href="https://manuelasflowergarden.blogspot.com/">Manuela,</a> amazingly I managed to complete all six parts! I'm already looking forward to joining in throughout 2024, thanks ladies for hosting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*****************</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Now that </b>I've shared my end of year finishes it's time for a round up of everything I made during the rest of 2023.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There were <b>ten</b> pairs of socks </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Three </b>sewing finishes, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I made two of the bags, one for Bonnie and one for her friend)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Two</b> baby blankets</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Twelve </b>stitched finishes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Two </b>jumpers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>One </b>cardigan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Four </b>forgotten projects finished off, two were baby cardigans, <b>one was crochet blanket</b> and of course Albert the rabbit :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And last but not least, because they will be the most used, <b>Thirteen dishcloths!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgB0B-Z8icNEXiCaTpNWVsmOME5TRSHRZSUhNp0GbEAANODjy0XNf5bFSw8YNGsnM5M_yeiLvfy0jOiSdYve45C1UmnSXuxJSXbsjyOLL5v4jIsAwafhpQM4YCdGAyh1lyGB-WRnr2jhyphenhyphenC-rSji6OEncUUAGlGszZOtWLnb4rRihD8R1Uz63EDPlxEmyMa/s2047/20230308_124225-COLLAGE-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2047" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgB0B-Z8icNEXiCaTpNWVsmOME5TRSHRZSUhNp0GbEAANODjy0XNf5bFSw8YNGsnM5M_yeiLvfy0jOiSdYve45C1UmnSXuxJSXbsjyOLL5v4jIsAwafhpQM4YCdGAyh1lyGB-WRnr2jhyphenhyphenC-rSji6OEncUUAGlGszZOtWLnb4rRihD8R1Uz63EDPlxEmyMa/w640-h640/20230308_124225-COLLAGE-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I stitched more in 2023 than I have for a few years and I really enjoyed all my projects, well except for the last one, lol. I'll share some plans I have for 2024 another time as this post has gone on long enough, and If you are still here at this point, thank you for reading👍 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll say goodnight and leave you with a photo of my Winter bowl, the idea for which I shamelessly stole from the lovely Carol over at <a href="https://stitchingdream.blogspot.com/search/label/Snowmen">Stitching Dreams</a>, I hope you don't mind my friend 😉</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6O93b07GCrYkadqJqJ60v2WNdTgfI3s2pa_lyjVzlD9X3Hn41ULQFtoKiegH9Y47gUXsGUduXofdR9de_iv1b2Gnc1AGB4h7WAyuVqD3Ueba7am7yP64OF93ASALlRkYKaosw4mxyWBeVQfxlm0K2xYLLF1Rq9C0oPIF0V_EkUfWQ1LDhuxt1UKgk0Tt/s3189/20240101_173315.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3189" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6O93b07GCrYkadqJqJ60v2WNdTgfI3s2pa_lyjVzlD9X3Hn41ULQFtoKiegH9Y47gUXsGUduXofdR9de_iv1b2Gnc1AGB4h7WAyuVqD3Ueba7am7yP64OF93ASALlRkYKaosw4mxyWBeVQfxlm0K2xYLLF1Rq9C0oPIF0V_EkUfWQ1LDhuxt1UKgk0Tt/w606-h640/20240101_173315.jpg" width="606" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-81497295033744418162023-12-28T13:15:00.001+00:002023-12-28T17:02:20.017+00:00Well that was something different :-)<p style="text-align: center;"> Yesterday was my birthday and one of the gifts from my girls was a Bake Off experience.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGN_b1Lq-phtlIDVC09UeuWN9pkF7Sjy5I_eABZrVSyFF-4qo4IU9oc4uPff1uoc0yrcNWpTDA8Z2vAn_-G_xF1LnUxnVVbPuM40jaerZzvxI45ARfuOqvIZglwq1wHZylbNHfcvu2diiTs-ZvxzTfI2gM8ZKwN7HvGO0uLYf7A-E8q7F-WVC60-CrAE56/s3367/20231227_221026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2054" data-original-width="3367" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGN_b1Lq-phtlIDVC09UeuWN9pkF7Sjy5I_eABZrVSyFF-4qo4IU9oc4uPff1uoc0yrcNWpTDA8Z2vAn_-G_xF1LnUxnVVbPuM40jaerZzvxI45ARfuOqvIZglwq1wHZylbNHfcvu2diiTs-ZvxzTfI2gM8ZKwN7HvGO0uLYf7A-E8q7F-WVC60-CrAE56/w640-h390/20231227_221026.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Now I have only every watched one series of Bake Off, I don't like cooking shows in general so when they told me we were going to be partaking in a Bake Off I was a bit dubious, as it turned out it was good fun 😁</p><p style="text-align: center;">The tent was set out as in the show and all the ingredients for the cake we were making was set out together with instructions. We were on a time limit, just as the contestants of the show are, which I have to say is a bit nerve wracking, even though ours was for fun, you can imagine how the real contestants are put under pressure.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwAqYK-X0rPMp1k-NC6XdYKnarL4ymYuRld5nfExrof5OKOi_vi3DGgHc1MgUbX4oGIh4LAVPQyQP31koVpUhqsoZ9MvfDwMVk-vvIKf2gtUNQezP4JKJQc8gdmAhjW8ZyT5XT-jaNgGDSWnHkar77kicVwat9OI8SiK-dNJy7lYzrYbrYMGtVoJb45Oz/s4000/20231227_202225.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2256" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCwAqYK-X0rPMp1k-NC6XdYKnarL4ymYuRld5nfExrof5OKOi_vi3DGgHc1MgUbX4oGIh4LAVPQyQP31koVpUhqsoZ9MvfDwMVk-vvIKf2gtUNQezP4JKJQc8gdmAhjW8ZyT5XT-jaNgGDSWnHkar77kicVwat9OI8SiK-dNJy7lYzrYbrYMGtVoJb45Oz/w640-h360/20231227_202225.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our instructions were to make a three tier cake with meringue buttercream icing, a white chocolate Iglu, plus figures to sit in the Iglu. I had never made meringue buttercream or any form made from chocolate, but the instructions were very clear and easy to follow. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I teamed up with Joanne and Stevie and Jenny paired up, this Is the cake Joanne and myself made.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhaFvjqy5mZXEshzMli15sGA9cXyCbTLjHuO5OwkrP5xnMBCIFZZuetVu8flIckr_BRVXv7tPxkymhLNKlOYmBOUxIMr6G_CcfyRz2SQUj1euJlLDWl8WHRj2mwL-F1FNCHblYGG0MVmJ5uL5pS8nzV_1bI0LIlaXhqkuL4HF7xkooTS-LbX65_SrDnAGF/s3865/20231227_225453.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3865" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhaFvjqy5mZXEshzMli15sGA9cXyCbTLjHuO5OwkrP5xnMBCIFZZuetVu8flIckr_BRVXv7tPxkymhLNKlOYmBOUxIMr6G_CcfyRz2SQUj1euJlLDWl8WHRj2mwL-F1FNCHblYGG0MVmJ5uL5pS8nzV_1bI0LIlaXhqkuL4HF7xkooTS-LbX65_SrDnAGF/w376-h640/20231227_225453.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And a closer look at our figures, which Joanne made, I think she did a great job with them!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our sponge was almond flavour with salted caramel flavour frosting tinged with blue colouring, coconut for snow and silver balls</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAWm4oW26brDrqadPhZkxxuCJ54xSrHYFUH3gKoHpPQ2gUdwt5w4FV9JKavdsU7CrA5Mt9clHCJhqK5RC0ipWLpaRoDr9uTTjRWMTlwk9ekrQ3772VqvwIPDk0Db-Qyt-JpU6MByVBbGCsEaAO3iT9jljZ4kJ8tU50o0P1NTMz5r4UIeNdrgYAAM4acgJ/s4032/20231227_225437.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAWm4oW26brDrqadPhZkxxuCJ54xSrHYFUH3gKoHpPQ2gUdwt5w4FV9JKavdsU7CrA5Mt9clHCJhqK5RC0ipWLpaRoDr9uTTjRWMTlwk9ekrQ3772VqvwIPDk0Db-Qyt-JpU6MByVBbGCsEaAO3iT9jljZ4kJ8tU50o0P1NTMz5r4UIeNdrgYAAM4acgJ/w360-h640/20231227_225437.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is Jenny and Stevie's creation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoE198kzdXHh5A8DlnuBUkHomApLqv6-duQK8PXcBYvj6glg-mE_GBVzqUA4L0McOwpWaMjIVioLCVqM64IySrJWxUxKGJ35pbq98Zf9K80bsU0Au-xYJGI-sILQzoWl0ktU6QDj2ObBvBh51KPnJO9o_7szwVM9MTV39Fg191euK0dbLXc0mpcXC5DUzo/s2159/20231227_220701.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2159" data-original-width="1946" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoE198kzdXHh5A8DlnuBUkHomApLqv6-duQK8PXcBYvj6glg-mE_GBVzqUA4L0McOwpWaMjIVioLCVqM64IySrJWxUxKGJ35pbq98Zf9K80bsU0Au-xYJGI-sILQzoWl0ktU6QDj2ObBvBh51KPnJO9o_7szwVM9MTV39Fg191euK0dbLXc0mpcXC5DUzo/w576-h640/20231227_220701.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIfSKMRQQTBAsBEuwubtxV_NOxHTelV24qxeTaYJtzYJ-ByIUmg89uNkgHkkai-YhZnYmDIE5WvkJEPXDTmfFcyVV1q_IT61XJBKuze_KFJhsUZH1W2Ey0Ihfez3OlMq6KpEUdGoOaOvmjTM_IK5F4tUqeticn9f2ebigfV-iaBPBnrQ7HFHyDKhWuWsq/s2688/20231227_220641.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="2145" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIfSKMRQQTBAsBEuwubtxV_NOxHTelV24qxeTaYJtzYJ-ByIUmg89uNkgHkkai-YhZnYmDIE5WvkJEPXDTmfFcyVV1q_IT61XJBKuze_KFJhsUZH1W2Ey0Ihfez3OlMq6KpEUdGoOaOvmjTM_IK5F4tUqeticn9f2ebigfV-iaBPBnrQ7HFHyDKhWuWsq/w510-h640/20231227_220641.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Their sponge was flavoured with almond and the buttercream with black cherry and decorated with coconut for snow and flaked almonds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time for the judging by the head baker,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5YnEVfJ3W2I7kohEPzUmdmS-t-ysf77z6Mny2A5c3GjVqYxUEjeCyFhuJ81NMW7r-yyaqDDChSYZe1yamiBddQ5XJiIWw3cgdUPCRZiRD7tVGE15oj8k2kENhUkK25NuVg93K8NXkMxAmChiJkj804IL2DgUL-k7F1G-dWPFXRmpB3qGuTUNGWU53iRN/s4032/20231227_215005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5YnEVfJ3W2I7kohEPzUmdmS-t-ysf77z6Mny2A5c3GjVqYxUEjeCyFhuJ81NMW7r-yyaqDDChSYZe1yamiBddQ5XJiIWw3cgdUPCRZiRD7tVGE15oj8k2kENhUkK25NuVg93K8NXkMxAmChiJkj804IL2DgUL-k7F1G-dWPFXRmpB3qGuTUNGWU53iRN/w640-h360/20231227_215005.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We all had to carry our cakes to the front, just like the show, they are not allowed to taste so the cakes were judged on appearance and decoration. So now would you like to know who won?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well the winner was actually really good but then she revealed that two of the bakers were actually sort of semi pro, one of them worked at the place and another worked at a bakery, there were four in their team too. I didn't get a photo of it but It's the cake on the back row, second in from the left. Love how they did two tone buttercream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">BUT.</span>...<b>Mine and Joanne's cake was awarded 2nd place</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Stevie and Jenny were awarded 3rd place.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm very happy with that result 😁</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had lots of other lovely presents, including this one from my good friend <a href="https://jo-throughthekeyhole.blogspot.com/">Jo</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjneFRYGGmWGDiopKUbmdPL1zRIz1D27-D8oVf8iMDYrumHwXOQimiEVTW9fiPnkAd9PvsijwXzq7TLGptve047T32fPZyQ2N1PDbcVj6TapcbpEVtxzOsIJ1EhkLX1WN5xK0xm8qquDLdejBf6OqUMSLosOvOhX4ej8_ZhShfC7CdY7iBaPK0ys8CGiT2g/s3502/20231228_095037.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3502" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjneFRYGGmWGDiopKUbmdPL1zRIz1D27-D8oVf8iMDYrumHwXOQimiEVTW9fiPnkAd9PvsijwXzq7TLGptve047T32fPZyQ2N1PDbcVj6TapcbpEVtxzOsIJ1EhkLX1WN5xK0xm8qquDLdejBf6OqUMSLosOvOhX4ej8_ZhShfC7CdY7iBaPK0ys8CGiT2g/w414-h640/20231228_095037.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jo also gifted me these gorgeous goodies for Christmas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1DjTS9aADcEfsHgTEq1jacinkFH-z2LS2h8QM7DCQMeGIG-KIa12-HsRjUzbz324j-4YzKzNgfHDCrgvxU32PiuhvuEdTgbA-v5VrRGr1afXsPBdNDLxLOEFJuLGLhJch3FAkrdGgcbcxbsLOXuifuQ4gZGMNgvt_SUDuT3W_DImHF8mSek38LFbJhdkd/s3811/20231228_095106.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="3811" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1DjTS9aADcEfsHgTEq1jacinkFH-z2LS2h8QM7DCQMeGIG-KIa12-HsRjUzbz324j-4YzKzNgfHDCrgvxU32PiuhvuEdTgbA-v5VrRGr1afXsPBdNDLxLOEFJuLGLhJch3FAkrdGgcbcxbsLOXuifuQ4gZGMNgvt_SUDuT3W_DImHF8mSek38LFbJhdkd/w640-h380/20231228_095106.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you so much Jo, I love everything 😍 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been wanting some stitch stoppers for a while and can't wait to put these into use.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today I'm doing very little, I've stitched a bit, caught up with Call The Midwife and had some home made soup for lunch, the first proper meal I've eaten since Christmas Day, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been fueled by chocolate, mince pies and left overs in the last few days, ha ha. I promised myself that I would go for some long walks to compensate, but the weather has been atrocious, the wind if fierce and the rain none stop and as much as I would like to get out I'm averse to getting wet and wind- swept, lol.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and enjoying these days in-between doing whatever it is you want to do.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-<br /></div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-21918915015474347182023-12-24T17:24:00.002+00:002023-12-24T17:24:13.701+00:00All is Calm<p style="text-align: center;">After all the hustle and bustle of the last few weeks today has been surprisingly calm and relaxed. I was up fairly early and made the stollen for the girls, It's become a bit of a tradition now that I make them gingerbread granola and stollen at Christmas. I made the granola a couple of days ago and that Is already in their hampers with their other gifts. </p><p style="text-align: center;">I also made some rustic looking sausage rolls, one batch with cranberry and one with caramelised onions, my taste tester tells me they are lovely despite their rustic appearance, lol</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kss-RALDIf-4PrpRSC4I5LKZiBl2GIOsjg9y7-SbMWw5V0JYHXoGssPcFMkdbu9u1yhdsOz4AYjJYD6ZmdgMV-PfublYsTv-MwCWZxeSiHvaRJLiZcBBwgu8gXvTaraDxlXuDFdXEAXRAkdoq66ufu6QcCPP47b_2ZaikKZ9ijIkeBjPOL97mCKOAgmQ/s2992/20231224_131919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="2992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kss-RALDIf-4PrpRSC4I5LKZiBl2GIOsjg9y7-SbMWw5V0JYHXoGssPcFMkdbu9u1yhdsOz4AYjJYD6ZmdgMV-PfublYsTv-MwCWZxeSiHvaRJLiZcBBwgu8gXvTaraDxlXuDFdXEAXRAkdoq66ufu6QcCPP47b_2ZaikKZ9ijIkeBjPOL97mCKOAgmQ/w640-h640/20231224_131919.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My Christmas cake is all ready too, I used Delia's Christmas cake recipe but instead of buying and soaking all the fruit I used a premade fruit/brandy mix from Lidl. I did the same last year and it turned out lovely, fingers crossed this is too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4tvf5y1hVGOmkYSdKYr4H5JLVoa28IVEtFYq8ITILLc1iQlS08o79PTO42X3eJ0uiskVo_lTvtTsyix-JrWwNTosdsAQjts22HhYzCuLp1iZ1vb8304KbcaxnjZdN1PXnvG6D9c-XvqpkDHWuMRQuZh8bhDsECNMqjUFKyEVmYKh2smXUgi5BaoY-bBGA/s3024/20231224_133918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4tvf5y1hVGOmkYSdKYr4H5JLVoa28IVEtFYq8ITILLc1iQlS08o79PTO42X3eJ0uiskVo_lTvtTsyix-JrWwNTosdsAQjts22HhYzCuLp1iZ1vb8304KbcaxnjZdN1PXnvG6D9c-XvqpkDHWuMRQuZh8bhDsECNMqjUFKyEVmYKh2smXUgi5BaoY-bBGA/w640-h640/20231224_133918.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>We had</b> a couple of birthdays this week, my youngest grandson, Jacob, turned 4 on Thursday and my eldest daughter, Jenny turned 41 on Friday. For Jacobs birthday Joanne had booked tickets for <b>Winter Glow </b>at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern. We were all looking forward to seeing the lights and getting into the Christmas spirit, but it wasn't to be. For a few days the weather has been very windy and because of that they had closed the light trail and the fairground. Supposedly they had sent out emails but some didn't receive any notification that it had been closed. We were told that we could exchange out tickets and go ice skating or perhaps come back over Christmas as the Winter Glow was on until January 6th. It had taken us just over an hour to get there so we decided to give ice-skating a go. The kids enjoyed it, Bonnie was a bit nervous at first but she was ok after we'd been round a couple of times, just a shame we couldn't see the lights.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVugX7213OiWpIh18AyqLg_mIy3EXjYj4qybtYmRwo02gnAGj6q0qDyqOOogqzc6I6_K6UGHIXAlY1neODSsfrPl_MPU4zj4deMa5tf5uF0YF8a-gNCskUna5pbs2cL_CY_1ibXxZbc_0focKUY5PZvgU-6tTD_FUF8t3LRTSyXnGHR-TH2_1wV-08VuXm/s2880/20231224_160157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVugX7213OiWpIh18AyqLg_mIy3EXjYj4qybtYmRwo02gnAGj6q0qDyqOOogqzc6I6_K6UGHIXAlY1neODSsfrPl_MPU4zj4deMa5tf5uF0YF8a-gNCskUna5pbs2cL_CY_1ibXxZbc_0focKUY5PZvgU-6tTD_FUF8t3LRTSyXnGHR-TH2_1wV-08VuXm/w640-h640/20231224_160157.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jean, who blogs at <a href="https://shrimptonandperfect.blogspot.com/">shrimptonandperfect</a> recently had a giveaway on her blog and I won!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was so surprised when I read my name as the winner on her blog, It came at the right time to cheer me up too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And look what came, a lovely card, book and christmas tree broach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPlavLZXkYo3Y19HDpugV_jsdqRpiXKwd78zgV0cqSLQTsFjw23tQFSvHNr6Ib_Bv7VE05YDh_JjMsYO0ZxXDaGfTgVl_yZmYr074h1dMyQHvP0z1i1V8y7OGCCCwOunT_yNBGHvnHIMSH0ilo9HP2kgLTgu2VF9lnmlU1FRRFV4lWrDyR_E9xHcGycUrv/s2704/20231220_144651.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2704" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPlavLZXkYo3Y19HDpugV_jsdqRpiXKwd78zgV0cqSLQTsFjw23tQFSvHNr6Ib_Bv7VE05YDh_JjMsYO0ZxXDaGfTgVl_yZmYr074h1dMyQHvP0z1i1V8y7OGCCCwOunT_yNBGHvnHIMSH0ilo9HP2kgLTgu2VF9lnmlU1FRRFV4lWrDyR_E9xHcGycUrv/w536-h640/20231220_144651.jpg" width="536" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isn't it pretty? I'll be wearing this on Christmas day, thank you so much Jean :-) I shall enjoy the book in the new year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhALDR-rMvLa35HBZuk2S6lBOObYR6R1rhl1k42O6PvhANwSi4mYbax3qdkB45-aGfB0zz5_EWtUeWxnfVYE8LQXxOAVknVODetnicyJ00Jtc-sKDuwUT3FvadglCpWoTgrpbJ3YUNerZGnLZPo0UH-lAtfH0MUXu7p5zff_HPVWLV7wa3mx0dc32oOfwIn/s1358/20231220_144721.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="1166" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhALDR-rMvLa35HBZuk2S6lBOObYR6R1rhl1k42O6PvhANwSi4mYbax3qdkB45-aGfB0zz5_EWtUeWxnfVYE8LQXxOAVknVODetnicyJ00Jtc-sKDuwUT3FvadglCpWoTgrpbJ3YUNerZGnLZPo0UH-lAtfH0MUXu7p5zff_HPVWLV7wa3mx0dc32oOfwIn/w344-h400/20231220_144721.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well that's about it for now, I haven't done much blog reading over the last couple of weeks, Ill try and catch up on all your goings on in the next few days, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There will be five, (mabe six) here for dinner tomorrow, Stevie, Darren, Joanne, me and Mark. Stevie called to say that one of Darren's brothers is on his own tomorrow and could he come too, there's plenty to go round so that's ok. Bonnie and Jacob are going to their dads to eat and then will come here late afternoon, Jenny, James and the boys are eating at home and coming here in the afternoon too. I'm really looking forward to the day now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-6358741194757200842023-12-18T10:41:00.000+00:002023-12-18T10:41:52.575+00:00flat out and in need of a break<p style="text-align: center;">Things have been so busy here with none Christmasy stuff that I haven't had time to enjoy anything Christmas related, and now we are steaming away towards the main event! Ugh, it just feels like a slog this year, that's the way it goes sometimes though.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Finally</b> we managed to get the bedroom decorating all done, the carpet was fitted last Tuesday and I have been working my way through sorting and putting stuff back the rest of the week, the furniture had to wait until Saturday when Mark was home to put things back together. Still have the curtains to put back up, that won't happen until Friday as they are still at the drycleaners, but at least everything now looks fresh and clean. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>My middle daughter, Joanne </b>moved house on December 1st so that was all hands on deck to help with the move and since then I've been going to hers most nights to help sort and put things in order. It's been a long and emotional two years for her, (and for us too at times), but now, finally, she can start a new life, just her, Bonnie and Jacob.</p><p style="text-align: center;">There hasn't been a lot of time for crafting over the last couple of weeks but I did make time to sit down yesterday afternoon and finish another one of my forgotten projects.</p><p style="text-align: center;">This is Albert, (looking a little grumpy)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jJ12svEYP5U5m4bngguVxPTA06bkedr9eOWP_vUr_fRY9PqLCAds_30-ycvcGXTXVtMVECP9Nm93IQBDtJ-MliMjQWQr458cA03MAgN6Mw4LG3FoKBYOx4aZRKQMMwlOrGVQzk5P6LtUJhvBsTeh58qJSQlFIjYxgqPdrpnpvzBVACsSktsp81IBtMmP/s4032/20231218_100455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7jJ12svEYP5U5m4bngguVxPTA06bkedr9eOWP_vUr_fRY9PqLCAds_30-ycvcGXTXVtMVECP9Nm93IQBDtJ-MliMjQWQr458cA03MAgN6Mw4LG3FoKBYOx4aZRKQMMwlOrGVQzk5P6LtUJhvBsTeh58qJSQlFIjYxgqPdrpnpvzBVACsSktsp81IBtMmP/w360-h640/20231218_100455.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'd purchased the kit for Albert when I went to Wool@J13 in 2019, I knitted both the back and front body parts fairly quickly after that, then everything got put away so there was still a fair bit of knitting to do to get him done. I'm glad to have another project crossed off my list, although I may knit him another scarf, I think this one is a bit short</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've knitted two of these kits by <b>Sardines For Tea </b>now, I made the smaller Arthur rabbit for my grandson Arthur in 2020 which you can see<a href="http://crossblackcountry.blogspot.com/2020/04/knitting-for-arthur.html"> here.</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've crossed all the jobs off my list for today so I'm going to give myself the rest of the day off, once I've clicked publish on this post I'm making myself a coffee and plonking myself on the sofa, putting a film on and stitching, and I'm NOT going to feel guilty about it, lol<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See you soon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-54111506857303454962023-12-03T16:06:00.000+00:002023-12-03T16:06:31.152+00:00Are you Ready for December?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Well </b>December 1st came around so quickly didn't? It? And Christmas is just around the corner. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I still have presents to buy, but strangely, I'm not stressing about It this year. Usually by now I would be worrying about that, not this year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A lot of my extra food shopping is done, I start putting bits away at the beginning of September, easier on the purse, saves all the panic buying and means I can put away things that we usually eat which might disappear from the shelves to make way for all the fancy, (and over priced), Christmas food.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> All that should be left to shop for in the last few days before Christmas are the fresh things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I put the tree up last week, It's been lovely having the lights on especially as the days have been quite dark recently, makes the house look all cosy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn8-VI3__mkuRX7z_-tEQ_kVTviOG-wmuOlYnkA0-rItRQ8EBA_V5ZGhQggF3ibDGGglUZCCs-SHGCI-ozcpiWCzzbLsoyRy0JuXYdNvFFUxVcgDOGW9Tt2mxoc48_R4kQCrJnYh-3aS-ZTP6ohcVVuhaczqzOpn4sWxt-NdCqCgU_1MIjaOTsAClloFHx/s3232/20231203_151246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3232" data-original-width="2070" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn8-VI3__mkuRX7z_-tEQ_kVTviOG-wmuOlYnkA0-rItRQ8EBA_V5ZGhQggF3ibDGGglUZCCs-SHGCI-ozcpiWCzzbLsoyRy0JuXYdNvFFUxVcgDOGW9Tt2mxoc48_R4kQCrJnYh-3aS-ZTP6ohcVVuhaczqzOpn4sWxt-NdCqCgU_1MIjaOTsAClloFHx/w410-h640/20231203_151246.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll post a close up of some of my stitched ornaments closer to Christmas, only a couple of new ones this year though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This morning I've changed the bedding over for Christmas too. I've only been using Christmas bedding for two or three years but I do really like it, I've got a few to choose from now, this one is new. I tried to buy It last year but everyone had sold out, I managed to find it in stock at Wayfair this year. Love the little houses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-H5WVdYUoawkPx1R7HU-dwvA7P1u5LD1iE3pNXFXFBSDFPOzvPcqg7tOFpG6iNzJAu8pB2bAuKPTCR3MXUElcKYSDa07MM3IKVydE36flEmOU6OvWor2js4iT54d8wy-0NCp3k8LpBOXlsCfhrdam6qaYFHGq3v-QZ0SyYTjYzM6EHg8xzjStd8hFY07/s2256/20231203_111048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2256" data-original-width="1693" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-H5WVdYUoawkPx1R7HU-dwvA7P1u5LD1iE3pNXFXFBSDFPOzvPcqg7tOFpG6iNzJAu8pB2bAuKPTCR3MXUElcKYSDa07MM3IKVydE36flEmOU6OvWor2js4iT54d8wy-0NCp3k8LpBOXlsCfhrdam6qaYFHGq3v-QZ0SyYTjYzM6EHg8xzjStd8hFY07/w480-h640/20231203_111048.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>I didn't purchase any yarn advents this year. </b> I already have so many mini skeins and I just couldn't justify spending that much money with no plan for using the yarn. I will enjoy watching everyone else open their yarn advents though, either on blogs or through the many you tube channels I watch :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Something I did decide to do</b> was cast on some Christmas socks on December 1st.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hopefully they will be finished ready for me to wear on Christmas day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the <b>Vintage Tinsel colourway from West Yorkshire Spinners, </b>It's knitting up so lovely and is so sparkly, not sure you can see that from the photo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDVRLlUthNj3XE1qpQrGlxdqA0EebS2dcu19s-oUEDnBw1hIoioLvzf3Iz4sJxHvd9i-ctZ1Bdiqv8aF7ihAu807VuNT0G5YAxRRFsKCUjMCObxmQl5w8rI9vQdhyphenhyphenbwyAbHM0Xqb0h-ZdgpjvwH5KgKfPKyFpilaAWsCyQL0FPDEa3wEhXJ4Jdqgm61qu/s2914/20231203_120421.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2914" data-original-width="2147" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDVRLlUthNj3XE1qpQrGlxdqA0EebS2dcu19s-oUEDnBw1hIoioLvzf3Iz4sJxHvd9i-ctZ1Bdiqv8aF7ihAu807VuNT0G5YAxRRFsKCUjMCObxmQl5w8rI9vQdhyphenhyphenbwyAbHM0Xqb0h-ZdgpjvwH5KgKfPKyFpilaAWsCyQL0FPDEa3wEhXJ4Jdqgm61qu/w472-h640/20231203_120421.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>It turned really cold for a few days, </b>and we had our first frost. a couple of days it was -4°, today it's all change again and we have rain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The garden on the whole looks pretty bleak at this time of year but I couldn't resist taking a few photos on those frosty mornings, It makes some things look so pretty.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV2ZWeAEKpCNhvgvvIDhXYkUDJUJkv5geS-z1OYbYqt876SbQSGUC5sRosG0V46BJCKxVmdCcUzp3lOBPYAvZPL5sQYQkkKpXKrivtL0KgS8ITIshsOAsgZbtRq42u_70Kv_orqzb88JOA0IXVpxf8KgN8eedHpAt3zAWEeKdLH3f0MfE6-YxxVju3Jd4F/s967/20231202_214957.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="967" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV2ZWeAEKpCNhvgvvIDhXYkUDJUJkv5geS-z1OYbYqt876SbQSGUC5sRosG0V46BJCKxVmdCcUzp3lOBPYAvZPL5sQYQkkKpXKrivtL0KgS8ITIshsOAsgZbtRq42u_70Kv_orqzb88JOA0IXVpxf8KgN8eedHpAt3zAWEeKdLH3f0MfE6-YxxVju3Jd4F/w640-h424/20231202_214957.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had hoped to finish another abandoned project last week but I didn't have a lot of crafting time, there is only a little sewing up to do on it so It should be finished by the next time I post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next week Is another busy one, I have various grandchildren for three days and somehow have to fit in painting a bedroom as well - No rest for the wicked 😉</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See you soon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-18805492288196543142023-11-24T14:10:00.000+00:002023-11-24T14:10:47.389+00:00Catch up on last weeks happenings<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I mentioned previously that I wanted to get some projects that had been abandoned finished before the end of the year. I chose two last week that had the least amount to work on to call them finished. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The white cardigan is the <b>Jasmine Baby Jacket</b>, which only needed the buttons sewing on. The pink cardigan is the <b> Puerperium Cardigan, </b>all that needed doing on this one was the edging on the sleeves and to sew buttons on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGKGevmSaI1aihkRy045aVjiCMkLuLZwhtSz7sy8aJyZ3ehqdauUhNRb5UOTq4D9TE1NSkGs-ZGLKg30_wKU4GfDfv5mA2rscDR-pyMUfTFt47fbfCTanNt5E5PHmdWt3CCGCbKH1TjHwK8dvzESHfLn-2y3fQXe6H9Ls06w6WyGrtyBWKmUlsEOHFwiX/s4000/20231124_111136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGKGevmSaI1aihkRy045aVjiCMkLuLZwhtSz7sy8aJyZ3ehqdauUhNRb5UOTq4D9TE1NSkGs-ZGLKg30_wKU4GfDfv5mA2rscDR-pyMUfTFt47fbfCTanNt5E5PHmdWt3CCGCbKH1TjHwK8dvzESHfLn-2y3fQXe6H9Ls06w6WyGrtyBWKmUlsEOHFwiX/w480-h640/20231124_111136.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XcbCxMJxRN3i9ceJJ78ya7FgsuLQh9vajNuDqG5_XK33ODo0JWHDaj5P33QCIgJPbMl6rKBqSL9VMMKxUnr2KMi6ZWnIvMoM3nwYMj2K1EpMTJ-hKT5LHcswFnPORDF2rHdQgkZ4QV75iqp-SYX3EhJVEPmK-FLpeyRETyK0H3DmH2j1ooSd9euCCA3O/s3426/20231124_111057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3426" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XcbCxMJxRN3i9ceJJ78ya7FgsuLQh9vajNuDqG5_XK33ODo0JWHDaj5P33QCIgJPbMl6rKBqSL9VMMKxUnr2KMi6ZWnIvMoM3nwYMj2K1EpMTJ-hKT5LHcswFnPORDF2rHdQgkZ4QV75iqp-SYX3EhJVEPmK-FLpeyRETyK0H3DmH2j1ooSd9euCCA3O/w560-h640/20231124_111057.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Both cardigan patterns are free and can be found on Ravelry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>This week</b> I chose something else to try and finish and hopefully I will have that completed to show you next time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have also been working a little on my mitred square blanket.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinib8AXQHKCNO5eBYZi5NSmTRk2RHyPQIo22Trb5M2bU431Puu2JamesX9DzlFp712uTRx4tSMQy70QS9K74Z2kggNQuHr_VpzE0r3nn8_nQGZJaWWyNMXl5tI58nWRlnYXjhmAyhPcN-DtHR-Fyh1WVLrMD5Bb8XqZSMkgnfs1D_wDrBWmDqZ_CiFE6n/s2829/20231124_110606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2829" data-original-width="2250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhinib8AXQHKCNO5eBYZi5NSmTRk2RHyPQIo22Trb5M2bU431Puu2JamesX9DzlFp712uTRx4tSMQy70QS9K74Z2kggNQuHr_VpzE0r3nn8_nQGZJaWWyNMXl5tI58nWRlnYXjhmAyhPcN-DtHR-Fyh1WVLrMD5Bb8XqZSMkgnfs1D_wDrBWmDqZ_CiFE6n/w510-h640/20231124_110606.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a long term project and won't be finished anytime soon, but that's ok, I love working on it and I have plenty more mini skeins to choose from. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Mine and Jacobs's outing last week </b>was to a local canal trust which have toddler boat trips each Wednesday morning for £1, well you can't get much for £1 these days so we had to give it a go. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The trip is just half an hour with songs along the way to keep the children entertained whilst the boat travels along the canal and through a couple of tunnels. Afterwards there are some crafty activities in the cafe. It was something different and Jacob seemed to enjoy his trip on the banooke. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">( A Banooke is Jacobs word for a barge, we have no idea why, perhaps a combination of canal boat and barge and his little mind came up with the word Banooke 😆 )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvZ26eWqfTWmyBdumsEkPrYkFYEkiMrRkykKOXc6otuCae4uwRzuG7DUVCAPHVh9Z2LJGnnLbDuUDZuLyIVBoO2YUGQBgZB6_anGxTJgMdK8MpR7LAybbQMaHSdk3i-rS2TyZzhPX-Cqnf9U7BbCiEFDHIOf8WoeyGCJBw4vkbJ3RdQODclZUBE8GkEbo/s2880/20231115_215143.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvZ26eWqfTWmyBdumsEkPrYkFYEkiMrRkykKOXc6otuCae4uwRzuG7DUVCAPHVh9Z2LJGnnLbDuUDZuLyIVBoO2YUGQBgZB6_anGxTJgMdK8MpR7LAybbQMaHSdk3i-rS2TyZzhPX-Cqnf9U7BbCiEFDHIOf8WoeyGCJBw4vkbJ3RdQODclZUBE8GkEbo/w640-h640/20231115_215143.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveyLZcofFUCTyQPZ77MiQFZn8JIjxfSEsuTz2Rf_J1GWxc5GdYSus12XJWIb3faWdBl6QpI2ITmbVene54UW6Mft6oLCqJ_bMDyAXAinQr76G6HuJcI3FjzbDX-ZM11RH3J7f23lE5b5XBx2EznajQezkWcbJuUhcmmDivFELAuu9_QleN4al1hi0Qi3p/s2880/20231115_223425.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveyLZcofFUCTyQPZ77MiQFZn8JIjxfSEsuTz2Rf_J1GWxc5GdYSus12XJWIb3faWdBl6QpI2ITmbVene54UW6Mft6oLCqJ_bMDyAXAinQr76G6HuJcI3FjzbDX-ZM11RH3J7f23lE5b5XBx2EznajQezkWcbJuUhcmmDivFELAuu9_QleN4al1hi0Qi3p/w640-h640/20231115_223425.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later in the afternoon we made gingerbread men, one had an accident, oh dear, lol</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nMprNOM_7DmU37cNWRc3aEAp0gCiyCIEiiKYivgZYMLz93VayQg7uJ9YqTOU0Su6yWIAjSEepC-RqHnOj9dfLJW4xGz6ap2sqahNqRu57kDLDlz0syA3F_82zop5MkzODauNX1x72QYXozjaYMo734dNHW5sRizdU6x_mHK7p_N1CMC00vpQh5qczjTX/s3345/20231115_165151.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3345" data-original-width="2962" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nMprNOM_7DmU37cNWRc3aEAp0gCiyCIEiiKYivgZYMLz93VayQg7uJ9YqTOU0Su6yWIAjSEepC-RqHnOj9dfLJW4xGz6ap2sqahNqRu57kDLDlz0syA3F_82zop5MkzODauNX1x72QYXozjaYMo734dNHW5sRizdU6x_mHK7p_N1CMC00vpQh5qczjTX/w566-h640/20231115_165151.jpg" width="566" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIE71CSn5w8S1j5ezbG-6M85hwigkPeszM1ycr4CH7tZey4kvHdt9nqZAifJbaHNcyAFTk24fiDvnkgUCH3jY1-JdZ115_5pbc8CeeEBC3_VSxjKp3ZM0H-LqdZn66J5NwtKFNNVLJHBunnAku5rQuESBwwMOFC6VDVQYe_0FcOcEss2AOkoAANRu7ewGM/s3405/20231115_165128.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3405" data-original-width="2977" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIE71CSn5w8S1j5ezbG-6M85hwigkPeszM1ycr4CH7tZey4kvHdt9nqZAifJbaHNcyAFTk24fiDvnkgUCH3jY1-JdZ115_5pbc8CeeEBC3_VSxjKp3ZM0H-LqdZn66J5NwtKFNNVLJHBunnAku5rQuESBwwMOFC6VDVQYe_0FcOcEss2AOkoAANRu7ewGM/w560-h640/20231115_165128.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This week I took him to a local playcentre called Little Lobsters. It's much nicer than the big indoor playcentres, everything is in one big room and is more geared to imaginative play with different sections of play such as construction, a shop, kitchen, dressing up as well as a ball pit, slide and various ride on toys. All the children are called together at the end of the session for a sing-a-long, It's definitely somewhere I'll take him again, especially if the weather isn't good.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNG_Rny48teA9XKQsP910zWIPZwZzxM7ahSv5pwD9XiipiTQNVgnkOTVuJHQq7G3zRAbXSoe7amHruLW7-sqV6RXOCnEcSikETgAK7JMnd2sQ7C5oqWdwxpNQ53vO62A3i9mn3Hx7p0XrvVlqIPvmW2zlygFgysQynRQth9ZVEYVOVecdOb2RGi6AgtTns/s4032/20231122_124815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="4032" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNG_Rny48teA9XKQsP910zWIPZwZzxM7ahSv5pwD9XiipiTQNVgnkOTVuJHQq7G3zRAbXSoe7amHruLW7-sqV6RXOCnEcSikETgAK7JMnd2sQ7C5oqWdwxpNQ53vO62A3i9mn3Hx7p0XrvVlqIPvmW2zlygFgysQynRQth9ZVEYVOVecdOb2RGi6AgtTns/w640-h288/20231122_124815.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last Sunday I had a day out to the Festive Gift Fair at the NEC with Joanne and Stevie and Bonnie. Compared to previous years It wasn't so good, there were a lot of stands selling the same sort of things, a bit disappointing really. The girls bought a couple of things, I came home with nothing, that must be a first, there just wasn't anything that took my fancy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Grinch made an appearance though and Joanne queued for Bonnie to have a photo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSUhIShiA4BQxADW_XcPItrMNNpPJMSmwrU1z4mU3kfWQa3xA3dZrWcltWdEwKsPNxaqiQSelxpGsFjsqMxgTWLFSU8uoEndbeK4pdICYc4EQ0fOc_QBf4PAieX-1l03pMfeX1lLtzgSECGSHg-tD4oOrxYhoz5n0T7Z-hlcbl-RTEN2AzrcV6S_6m9Z4/s1415/20231119_145456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1415" data-original-width="924" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiSUhIShiA4BQxADW_XcPItrMNNpPJMSmwrU1z4mU3kfWQa3xA3dZrWcltWdEwKsPNxaqiQSelxpGsFjsqMxgTWLFSU8uoEndbeK4pdICYc4EQ0fOc_QBf4PAieX-1l03pMfeX1lLtzgSECGSHg-tD4oOrxYhoz5n0T7Z-hlcbl-RTEN2AzrcV6S_6m9Z4/w418-h640/20231119_145456.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well I think that's me just about caught up on what's been happening here. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last week Mark started the preparation to decorated the back bedroom so new wallpaper will be going up tomorrow, I said I would paint the ceiling so that he can just get straight on with it in the morning. Everything takes so much longer because he only has the weekend, but at least the bedroom isn't needed so I can shut the door on the chaos while It's going on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See you soon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div></div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-86559991764712871652023-11-13T15:17:00.000+00:002023-11-13T15:17:18.339+00:00Six day socks and other goings on<p style="text-align: center;"> These socks were knitted up really quickly, well six days is quick for me anyway. To be fair I didn't really pick up any other crafting that week and, they were a smaller size.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh617p2OqwEaPARALnc57_LekOMlsYJUU1kQJm6gjj1PpZ0iL7TqxqsI2vAfNalBEUU-jYsziCSukTlmZrvDXPzcBIGTZH-5MRUswNM48LiiqF0xfe4A5v6TltJ3vlZcrXtauWBCLb6EV3sGLY4e7S0pd4XcXGr_sMK8wIfYb4M0_jrVpYTw1QB3zLXlbII/s4032/20231113_135856.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh617p2OqwEaPARALnc57_LekOMlsYJUU1kQJm6gjj1PpZ0iL7TqxqsI2vAfNalBEUU-jYsziCSukTlmZrvDXPzcBIGTZH-5MRUswNM48LiiqF0xfe4A5v6TltJ3vlZcrXtauWBCLb6EV3sGLY4e7S0pd4XcXGr_sMK8wIfYb4M0_jrVpYTw1QB3zLXlbII/w480-h640/20231113_135856.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are for my middle daughter, she is only a shoe size 5, the rest of us have big feet, lol.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm making the girls a pamper hamper for Christmas so these will go into her basket with the other goodies. The yarn is probably one of the longest I've had in my stash, it's Drop Fabel, I can't remember the colourway but It was nice to knit with and I like the way they came out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I mentioned last time trying to finish off some projects so last week I pulled out my Tresaco Jumper. This is the second time I've knitted the Trescao pattern, It's really simple and easy to knit, only problem is all that stocking stitch can get a little monotonous, I think that's why It got abandoned. There was very little work to do on it, half a sleeve and a cuff and It was done.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNU9ABXu_9c6uXrjBdH8aW30vRpIKpVccLg2BiDZK-KpOyVFBg2kz2Mci6vaecYFdsuMHqIgNCRYtsKT5unXzcpInSstVUrIscuLHj47_irYMaTsK738qopK0JRvtx34sinn2_A5XhTeMyehu8t2imDSSI4r8zXCVt4W2z7hDH1kVGqZcra3JuhRPeOj1S/s3550/20231113_140018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3550" data-original-width="2874" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNU9ABXu_9c6uXrjBdH8aW30vRpIKpVccLg2BiDZK-KpOyVFBg2kz2Mci6vaecYFdsuMHqIgNCRYtsKT5unXzcpInSstVUrIscuLHj47_irYMaTsK738qopK0JRvtx34sinn2_A5XhTeMyehu8t2imDSSI4r8zXCVt4W2z7hDH1kVGqZcra3JuhRPeOj1S/w518-h640/20231113_140018.jpg" width="518" /></a></div><br /> I used Stylecraft Recreate yarn, again I'm not sure of the colourway but it was the lightest grey in that range.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Each Wednesday now I will be looking after Jacob. Joanne asked me a while ago as It would mean that the remaining days he is at nursery they can take advantage of the free hours that the Government offer. Nursery fees are so expensive and although free hours are offered from age two, there are conditions. If you don't work you can get free nursery hours, you can also get free hours If you are claiming certain benefits and earn below a certain amount, but If you work and earn just a fraction over that amount you have to pay the full whack. It's crazy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Anyway, Last Wednesday</b> the weather wasn't too good so we didn't go far just a visit to the library and then we had a day of baking. Jacob loves to cook, he even like to wash up afterwards 😆 And I'm all for encouraging that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGbglQUl0mgpezZnTqjI5oToSHSqXvPAMgF2cEiy_QUylwKQbM6xnhXQQuSOA35JiMB5rMFsVtRNsozisvAlfqHI-6i2P8H-IgSgC8V71FUYMUfjKIeND-t8XRFHiOotCmWTJeYr5Z8z4PmxLL2wuZQC_wXpxn99C6htoJ6ePSiobdLd0bzI1Q8pQcn0Q5/s4032/20231108_100849.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGbglQUl0mgpezZnTqjI5oToSHSqXvPAMgF2cEiy_QUylwKQbM6xnhXQQuSOA35JiMB5rMFsVtRNsozisvAlfqHI-6i2P8H-IgSgC8V71FUYMUfjKIeND-t8XRFHiOotCmWTJeYr5Z8z4PmxLL2wuZQC_wXpxn99C6htoJ6ePSiobdLd0bzI1Q8pQcn0Q5/w480-h640/20231108_100849.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later we made the Christmas cake. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More help needed from me for this one, and making sure that he didn't try to sample the brandy infused cake batter!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_gGxADP86ygtG8cSH5NZn-FsKQ5fy8otXRV0W4x4GfsNoRySDCQX1W3b5GAf-E0KDiuqamVTOl04Oz1kcsI-Z4yEy9lDzZ39mUUgChXosoZH4M56tRQqcuqoDs_Pg8oUaxXz8tRHljTt77vo50aV2r-N31W-E632lONNFsHTxhLmYI36f99WgmOCeWbM/s3650/20231108_144357.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3650" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_gGxADP86ygtG8cSH5NZn-FsKQ5fy8otXRV0W4x4GfsNoRySDCQX1W3b5GAf-E0KDiuqamVTOl04Oz1kcsI-Z4yEy9lDzZ39mUUgChXosoZH4M56tRQqcuqoDs_Pg8oUaxXz8tRHljTt77vo50aV2r-N31W-E632lONNFsHTxhLmYI36f99WgmOCeWbM/w530-h640/20231108_144357.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope It tastes as good as it looks come Christmas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKgRLK1thuCqREk84OnZHXrI6_MxkwJ8X6tkVRJvwD-ZM6s71v0AnZEjHI-YP-s7trv8iPRGqp12pPBJVA4XmxuFCnnP3nnL398YAdB661lA288My0zjoh73Er_fM2ztSheGWbqHwyERLXMgNl0gV6qpUXzZfpBew3RXwFN76ylBBug24PL4j3Gcvi5dky/s3667/20231109_103319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3667" data-original-width="2750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKgRLK1thuCqREk84OnZHXrI6_MxkwJ8X6tkVRJvwD-ZM6s71v0AnZEjHI-YP-s7trv8iPRGqp12pPBJVA4XmxuFCnnP3nnL398YAdB661lA288My0zjoh73Er_fM2ztSheGWbqHwyERLXMgNl0gV6qpUXzZfpBew3RXwFN76ylBBug24PL4j3Gcvi5dky/w480-h640/20231109_103319.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you all have a good week, see you soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-80370772232170991232023-11-07T17:13:00.000+00:002023-11-07T17:13:21.017+00:00Catch up for October finishes<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm late in posting finishes for October, there were two, one knitted, one stitched, both were finished a couple of weeks ago but for some reason I've lacked the motivation to, (a) take photos and (b) write a blog post. But I'm here now so lets get on with it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My stitching finish is my piece for the Stick6in23, a year long SAL which is hosted by <a href="https://mein-allerlei-hobby.blogspot.com/">Martina</a> and <a href="https://manuelasflowergarden.blogspot.com/">Manuela </a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Promise of Spring by Silver Creek Samplers</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGw0PB5G-in8ilN_sgopcVsjBi9CzufRbhnPRT3-giULKzwtR0GGowApG2-eUq7Uq1IrYyFtU5tiNtbhWqx0B-nvVNN8bb4kjdzMflThyphenhyphenA79SuiYU1TV1hJffSkjNe4U9RB39G-zmqCl8QPvYnkrLGmxl5ne1RhhyrSGp5rAB3Q4Nm5gkKm62m_5RK58UV/s4032/20231107_154958.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGw0PB5G-in8ilN_sgopcVsjBi9CzufRbhnPRT3-giULKzwtR0GGowApG2-eUq7Uq1IrYyFtU5tiNtbhWqx0B-nvVNN8bb4kjdzMflThyphenhyphenA79SuiYU1TV1hJffSkjNe4U9RB39G-zmqCl8QPvYnkrLGmxl5ne1RhhyrSGp5rAB3Q4Nm5gkKm62m_5RK58UV/w480-h640/20231107_154958.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The frame is just one off the shelf from <b>The Range</b>, I'm not too sure about it now but I can take the stitching out if I change my mind and see something else. This one is stitched on 32 count with the recommended threads.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is just one more chart to stitch in November and December for this SAL, the number 5 was generated for the last two months, happily mine is a smaller one this time so it should be easier to complete, even with the busyness of December.</div>Another SAL is in the planning for next year and I shall definitely join in, I've loved every minute of this years.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>My knitted finish</b> is another pair of socks, these are for my son in law, James. He is a shoe size 10 so these are too big for my sock blockers! The yarn is Stylecraft Head Over Heels and was a gift from my friend <a href="https://jo-throughthekeyhole.blogspot.com/">Jo </a>last year. I think they knitted up lovely. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_H2U0CBoQw-Wxrgzw7ou48KuLhyphenhyphenb9FxPBHD4gC_biUVA1iHKI6AHO0FcJJg_9GR_BAHCIpDYd13AKU40UpSO7fnZLU6f_2Zfswb3b8McC7YWZU4ju-pda4Qs04EBEC8nZOR3tDj0gjegKy9XofhANkhuF1UrxV9eivznFqv6Xcjl3UGxuM7YZtM57IIcK/s4032/20231107_155205.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_H2U0CBoQw-Wxrgzw7ou48KuLhyphenhyphenb9FxPBHD4gC_biUVA1iHKI6AHO0FcJJg_9GR_BAHCIpDYd13AKU40UpSO7fnZLU6f_2Zfswb3b8McC7YWZU4ju-pda4Qs04EBEC8nZOR3tDj0gjegKy9XofhANkhuF1UrxV9eivznFqv6Xcjl3UGxuM7YZtM57IIcK/w480-h640/20231107_155205.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>I want November </b>to be a month of finishing things off. I have a few things that don't require much attention to call them done, one of them has already been completed, hopefully I can keep it going.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">October is the start of the Winter birthdays, Oliver turned 11 on October 17th. I went with them to Pizza Hut on his birthday and on the weekend he and a few friends went to Laser Quest and he had a friend stay for a sleepover. Mark also had a birthday on 21st.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWoSqOM622V64QdZ6FHGvPwdkii_1Sre97uCIgUj7Aq9X5sUJXbIbGqKPfgkEo4K-p2EHQ_DV1aXp71Hc7CE-ChLpQH1rvAg4rCQ3IulXGe5h2DyX-IpScOvrZKdz6qCLfCIVg1VLOmwwdMm_W586bZpdf5spzHpG7k0joQQgK1W1hHvdB0zMmQXwMG5aN/s4032/20231017_181657.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWoSqOM622V64QdZ6FHGvPwdkii_1Sre97uCIgUj7Aq9X5sUJXbIbGqKPfgkEo4K-p2EHQ_DV1aXp71Hc7CE-ChLpQH1rvAg4rCQ3IulXGe5h2DyX-IpScOvrZKdz6qCLfCIVg1VLOmwwdMm_W586bZpdf5spzHpG7k0joQQgK1W1hHvdB0zMmQXwMG5aN/w480-h640/20231017_181657.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last week was half term here, I only had the boys one day as Jenny was off work, there were Halloween activities at a local library so we went there along with Joanne, Bonnie and Jacob.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They spent a good few hours gluing, sticking and painting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbE3WHbii0PKObpRaZf8jHKBdZLiWS8dqFXyaDwSj-OH0JC1yxbkiouFZmfSbSMqeA4mN2uh4APLkjAeOXHcu7XDAJgdrGCWS0wFBnPzhKWzZyQ-OF6jCXeEYSnV0kor8wFi-38GA5lyK2JJqSevK3wBum5itKSltYkXY24S4dKhi-veNo-QH_EkUpz9g/s2880/20231107_155752.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmbE3WHbii0PKObpRaZf8jHKBdZLiWS8dqFXyaDwSj-OH0JC1yxbkiouFZmfSbSMqeA4mN2uh4APLkjAeOXHcu7XDAJgdrGCWS0wFBnPzhKWzZyQ-OF6jCXeEYSnV0kor8wFi-38GA5lyK2JJqSevK3wBum5itKSltYkXY24S4dKhi-veNo-QH_EkUpz9g/w640-h640/20231107_155752.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As it was a reasonable day weatherwise we decide to walk to the library via our local park, It was before we had all the heavy rain and the colours were amazing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaprGXva-59C2FOMCVocw7mVXUFs90BDL-Ec1cXDZ06hsCjXJezE6UHdXCkug1NPePOhxcV_Fp89m6whFbeLyYpx36mu13FJm_7-AcGyqMmhZ48OMFQs3XGNiRoF1Vv4AYugJHOfXNalvPcBp_jLZc8zdaC1m_JVUTNVv8ZwKJpdxpUhTBFr5mlXxw1VVf/s4032/20231030_113825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaprGXva-59C2FOMCVocw7mVXUFs90BDL-Ec1cXDZ06hsCjXJezE6UHdXCkug1NPePOhxcV_Fp89m6whFbeLyYpx36mu13FJm_7-AcGyqMmhZ48OMFQs3XGNiRoF1Vv4AYugJHOfXNalvPcBp_jLZc8zdaC1m_JVUTNVv8ZwKJpdxpUhTBFr5mlXxw1VVf/w480-h640/20231030_113825.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2901" data-original-width="3868" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYy4liH_jQ5XqjwBbPFrZycvOmT-JYnEb3KW_G4ftFHgkSv7N_V-UNGpcKSjfBdRxdn6kmcCtADSmCxg43_7jbFEutCPuuMvuFxtObX-X-VPm7QjZAqNi2eJGlUurKX5DxjsBK-WwmA6Bu1XB3B2egR3UXSCG1UexjdcsCSV_8-RXzzDT14_-1ZaLRNSt/w640-h480/20231030_150144.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Had a toadstool hunt but these were the most interesting we found.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6bbU5uCl7i_lhCsOmJUeH8u6AGlhB9Pg37u7Q2U5NrT49MHPvTqfNemNo17tp8Lt-k98Cao23-03-0ht2ER52ImLL9xEC7IeiGR91yiCdkur6MI9hOEJQnNC72sUCwjntaqALTtUDqmNfNtNuMaOgmgXSMN4dQ3v44HVyXvEOOJ-mLnDT_MamgoyiMqD4/s3840/20231107_155702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6bbU5uCl7i_lhCsOmJUeH8u6AGlhB9Pg37u7Q2U5NrT49MHPvTqfNemNo17tp8Lt-k98Cao23-03-0ht2ER52ImLL9xEC7IeiGR91yiCdkur6MI9hOEJQnNC72sUCwjntaqALTtUDqmNfNtNuMaOgmgXSMN4dQ3v44HVyXvEOOJ-mLnDT_MamgoyiMqD4/w640-h360/20231107_155702.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Halloween was wet and windy and we didn't get any visitors, Joanne took Bonnie and Jacob to trick or treat with Oliver and Arty, there are more children on their estate and some of the houses make a real effort with decorating. Jenny didn't send me any photos of the boys dressed up this time but here are Bonnie and Jacob and the pumpkins they carved.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBWRdutPOKAdTKkiJyxiYEo9GV2k-YCxf-IxiEqRU8IWM3o7A0kU6GrNUChgoBdli5yjMXFL6qUy-AnavA83vpol64cp0pLLKNntu5kJOr7OAyICZzUD6HAxRbUAam-_Y0-2CDmIqdQ6NwMp5-MfeOc0k0j2DGpmWv-ERvSgRdJ7rqYf3OkbY5HhVSoKu/s2880/20231030_225003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBWRdutPOKAdTKkiJyxiYEo9GV2k-YCxf-IxiEqRU8IWM3o7A0kU6GrNUChgoBdli5yjMXFL6qUy-AnavA83vpol64cp0pLLKNntu5kJOr7OAyICZzUD6HAxRbUAam-_Y0-2CDmIqdQ6NwMp5-MfeOc0k0j2DGpmWv-ERvSgRdJ7rqYf3OkbY5HhVSoKu/w640-h640/20231030_225003.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's me all caught up for now, hopefully I can get another post in before the end of the month to report how my project finishing is going.to</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>PS. Thank you t</b>o all who commented on my last post about the passing of my brother in law. The funereal went as well as these things can, the crematorium was packed, a testament to how well he was liked. My sister is doing well, considering, I think she did a lot of her grieving in the last four months they had together, I know they talked and cried together a lot in that time. Of course she is going to miss him terribly, they were together from when she was 15 and he 16, there is a huge gap in her life which will she will never be able to fill again, but, she has to go on, and she will.</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-384626847050589222023-10-11T16:32:00.000+01:002023-10-11T16:32:05.961+01:00Go faster stripes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The weeks and months are going so fast that I can hardly keep up, so I'd better share what I managed to complete in September before we get any further into October!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was all about the stripy sock this time, somehow they seem to knit up quicker, they don't of course, It just that there is a little more interest. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These blue ones are in the <b>West Yorkshire Sprinner colourway Blue Lagoon.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They were intended for my youngest daughter, but they turned out a little big for, however, they fit Mark perfectly. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSLM123bsPbfEml5pUpJIK-sdn3vi4tt-nPopfQHqzzDHfaBApvDb7LiMgr5eb1hzeXby2Cu0eWR5G9AO9Q_RMv872BCUn_FlFDwETk4EHlnplArw1GTDSVrLkmjL6P3Bby_iELAFSu64VVWpSCgBUc52uKfDejNZ68dph97kkY0PF9JbNYK6blrzzJVoi/s4032/20231007_100951.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSLM123bsPbfEml5pUpJIK-sdn3vi4tt-nPopfQHqzzDHfaBApvDb7LiMgr5eb1hzeXby2Cu0eWR5G9AO9Q_RMv872BCUn_FlFDwETk4EHlnplArw1GTDSVrLkmjL6P3Bby_iELAFSu64VVWpSCgBUc52uKfDejNZ68dph97kkY0PF9JbNYK6blrzzJVoi/w480-h640/20231007_100951.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've wanted to try Opal yarn for a while but can't find any in local shops, I did find some a few months ago in a little shop in Stroud, two balls came home with me and I have to say that I much prefer It to WYS.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtcTsH7mD-4ivyS9ay7gyDzfrVJ8ykRON29ko9IdvejG6f05KGlFeRY-d7YcmvnTQjiaQZh3aSWnL9h0_C_FPrEXAZpD9zKhhC0qH8tcq10ObVbTlJBhc-GB2gHoNsohQHtD3Zk4zj-adxg05aiTwURlg2dzeO9aYEKBxrr-nsK8sCosFJNgvhC34jzs7/s4032/20231007_100705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNtcTsH7mD-4ivyS9ay7gyDzfrVJ8ykRON29ko9IdvejG6f05KGlFeRY-d7YcmvnTQjiaQZh3aSWnL9h0_C_FPrEXAZpD9zKhhC0qH8tcq10ObVbTlJBhc-GB2gHoNsohQHtD3Zk4zj-adxg05aiTwURlg2dzeO9aYEKBxrr-nsK8sCosFJNgvhC34jzs7/w480-h640/20231007_100705.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also finished a little crib blanket in September, no reason for knitting it other than I wanted to knit something plain and simple and this fitted the bill. It'll be tucked away and be ready to gift at a future date.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24Pj3CUXoc6AGHTwRiVyKPGXNlabUDGJdCvWU8KCecMmUOHq91QL1l4VOwqo57UsItrtyRdEjkirZ7D7jt3ZzniqA1yuL8HoOj72PIzP6ZUOWznHxgK03y26hL-M-Q63oAZQxCsSdT2DEy3IJD3YYFAYKjTh_SZh8CCgzT9upps-2cNk3rjvHlJOCnKGE/s4032/20231007_100545.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24Pj3CUXoc6AGHTwRiVyKPGXNlabUDGJdCvWU8KCecMmUOHq91QL1l4VOwqo57UsItrtyRdEjkirZ7D7jt3ZzniqA1yuL8HoOj72PIzP6ZUOWznHxgK03y26hL-M-Q63oAZQxCsSdT2DEy3IJD3YYFAYKjTh_SZh8CCgzT9upps-2cNk3rjvHlJOCnKGE/w480-h640/20231007_100545.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lastly I stitched up another little Autumn pillow. This one is by <b>Puntini Puntini</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love the little spider and the black cat </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrzwHKpAI213p4_mTHgF7FGx5F5xy5_Z74GD2beRe5pOWJZQbQ-6iPx-gPnZ-vOOTe5KCl-ssCK2eIt2Epn3x8FsadggL63I085pOql2lMHa85F-8VKe6gzBDGF2Y0w8sR5DlWMMvxwSdvqbie1FjH2PK6p9GDQdfYsmQOfZunDjdJgQUkn-ih8_6JxI0N/s4032/20231011_153344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrzwHKpAI213p4_mTHgF7FGx5F5xy5_Z74GD2beRe5pOWJZQbQ-6iPx-gPnZ-vOOTe5KCl-ssCK2eIt2Epn3x8FsadggL63I085pOql2lMHa85F-8VKe6gzBDGF2Y0w8sR5DlWMMvxwSdvqbie1FjH2PK6p9GDQdfYsmQOfZunDjdJgQUkn-ih8_6JxI0N/w480-h640/20231011_153344.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's all my crafty endeavours for September, I'm not feeling the urge to stitch or knit much at the moment so there might not be a lot to show for October makes, although On Sunday I am going to a stitching day retreat so perhaps that will inspire and motivate me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Some sad news to end on -</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After a short illness my brother in-law, (my eldest sisters husband) passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning. He will be missed very much, not only by my sister, his children and grandchildren but by extended family too, I can't remember a time when he wasn't there. They are both quite a few years older than me and have been together since they were 14 so I would have been about 2 years old then, It's going to be so strange to think he's not there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My sister is doing ok at the moment, dreading the funeral of course, but there are things that have to be done to keep her going at the moment, It will be afterwards that will be the hardest for her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Until next time</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div></div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-86856130392013872232023-09-24T21:26:00.000+01:002023-09-24T21:26:33.859+01:00Full on Autumn<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The weather has taken a turn after all that sunny weather of a few weeks ago, it is now feels well and truly like Autumn. I absolutely love this time of year, well, except for the rain that is, but on Saturday the weather stayed dry and sunny for our visit to the <b>Autumn Show at the Three Counties Show Ground</b> <b>in Malvern</b>. This is the second year we have visited the show and we enjoyed it as much as we did our first visit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The vintage caravans were there once again, In smaller numbers I think this year, but they were still lovely to see and all look so cosy inside. This one even had a bow window with leaded panes,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtw07XH7VG2EJ45VtA75eZwr5P6VvF6seP1zSuoPlpgYzEBCGZy_TEDlZdbkmx1an8JXZY8egSLKi6N-Q1jJYLh4a9EWKVk2a3icZY5UbaZk8khvQZRsBMSe8g3Ur7fHJ8Uvup3XKjIQl8LF-Y-s2JN88laii2gPOdNJ522GnDcDguRj_r6O38sTugUic/s2046/20230923_142525-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtw07XH7VG2EJ45VtA75eZwr5P6VvF6seP1zSuoPlpgYzEBCGZy_TEDlZdbkmx1an8JXZY8egSLKi6N-Q1jJYLh4a9EWKVk2a3icZY5UbaZk8khvQZRsBMSe8g3Ur7fHJ8Uvup3XKjIQl8LF-Y-s2JN88laii2gPOdNJ522GnDcDguRj_r6O38sTugUic/w640-h640/20230923_142525-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the things I love seeing is all the giant vegetables, although this year must not have been such a good year for growing pumpkins as the winning ones weren't as big as last years winner. Still impressive nonetheless.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_t4r2v5VlUsEVOZT091M6aQ8zG_G242MRHW5TdiAxy1zB_H8vSLcSxT_AD8C2c29c9LlDy54RDLBPYI1wVNpFVCV5yO04h6GrgXWaV5ioGV4s46KwkqsEkF4uz5CThKyOUhs8-HcCOdS8htIr0lYH2H2UO-crEuDcRbVXXTHHYV-i6tqxuQCqfQzgynn9/s1440/IMG_20230923_200205_938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_t4r2v5VlUsEVOZT091M6aQ8zG_G242MRHW5TdiAxy1zB_H8vSLcSxT_AD8C2c29c9LlDy54RDLBPYI1wVNpFVCV5yO04h6GrgXWaV5ioGV4s46KwkqsEkF4uz5CThKyOUhs8-HcCOdS8htIr0lYH2H2UO-crEuDcRbVXXTHHYV-i6tqxuQCqfQzgynn9/w640-h640/IMG_20230923_200205_938.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY7QPLYzpTQuOX_EqGfJ6bRv6EJ_M3RYNkwUCHJxLtwJqgvfpNK6biHCYnqigBy72TY1MKWWf3c3j-5e_UybQkk6lV9FEKfF4NMUmw1rjWzOiFhL1zGt0JoLcGgcO8-9Xp03m58e35T82wruIPxurKAYo1s7a0SoYGbFF3ri_49rf13UVs4hcYEHv2AdbW/s2046/20230923_134013-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY7QPLYzpTQuOX_EqGfJ6bRv6EJ_M3RYNkwUCHJxLtwJqgvfpNK6biHCYnqigBy72TY1MKWWf3c3j-5e_UybQkk6lV9FEKfF4NMUmw1rjWzOiFhL1zGt0JoLcGgcO8-9Xp03m58e35T82wruIPxurKAYo1s7a0SoYGbFF3ri_49rf13UVs4hcYEHv2AdbW/w640-h640/20230923_134013-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdY2ac5Yntg6nzuruUM5Uu13Vreeh2PmbjJvVlvZWOqqQROh2N-MUFVFX7cfMODmWMYi-RjIVeFk3PuAz0bxBhWJ1UWcdF0XCyb_2iz9826-yyxuC8dr50rQqtEymYbiiXamq0bXnaJHLUVjsPCCbxQsy1gu2zD2IqTytKmNFOg7GgfOsalzaiW-SDLGuI/s2046/20230923_133920-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2046" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdY2ac5Yntg6nzuruUM5Uu13Vreeh2PmbjJvVlvZWOqqQROh2N-MUFVFX7cfMODmWMYi-RjIVeFk3PuAz0bxBhWJ1UWcdF0XCyb_2iz9826-yyxuC8dr50rQqtEymYbiiXamq0bXnaJHLUVjsPCCbxQsy1gu2zD2IqTytKmNFOg7GgfOsalzaiW-SDLGuI/w640-h480/20230923_133920-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4WKJT7Hqflr-43wxwSIarND4M3xR6cfkT9TnDcCPZYWBmWGB_ye0X4X4I2U0x4hvIEMfrASb7N9BRP4vFldBA28q2-X11TFHwfKN-a4Q1c3IsHyAMssMMoTTWA-WawqMuKn6bk_lIepjIdqwRwt81yVRP-72TxbmSarjKS1tNmT8k-1FpGP_RcI3ldIJl/s2046/20230923_134452-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1535" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4WKJT7Hqflr-43wxwSIarND4M3xR6cfkT9TnDcCPZYWBmWGB_ye0X4X4I2U0x4hvIEMfrASb7N9BRP4vFldBA28q2-X11TFHwfKN-a4Q1c3IsHyAMssMMoTTWA-WawqMuKn6bk_lIepjIdqwRwt81yVRP-72TxbmSarjKS1tNmT8k-1FpGP_RcI3ldIJl/w480-h640/20230923_134452-COLLAGE.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Will you look at the size of the winning marrow! 70.7kg.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's 155 lb or 11st 13lb</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've no idea if they grow these especially for these shows or if they are a fluke, either way that's a monster of a marrow!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fPj1PrzlDnM_iNQXNh2zm4viUL-BvObMp4R7K901rfvVMu0j6CU6OgSxZ3pEaCDaDvVi9KIlu-WYgl1_AGwxeyBKFkB8zZUBKWG5V3EaBoCIdmu3zR77h4QigfRzRlvBVxCbjE9Jmo0oz0K346TSQNPsCKWGSozZvzhZGSHfORSsVlljIOO7oTE-_Osz/s4032/20230923_134525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_fPj1PrzlDnM_iNQXNh2zm4viUL-BvObMp4R7K901rfvVMu0j6CU6OgSxZ3pEaCDaDvVi9KIlu-WYgl1_AGwxeyBKFkB8zZUBKWG5V3EaBoCIdmu3zR77h4QigfRzRlvBVxCbjE9Jmo0oz0K346TSQNPsCKWGSozZvzhZGSHfORSsVlljIOO7oTE-_Osz/w480-h640/20230923_134525.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The winning flowers, I do love a dahlia, but again, not as many on show as last year</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Whe_npfHCWYCXn2CuFk_cLhdKLyZQLbw4mdArh0TjvNhUncH1CejnAXmrTE2KPQU55SujKM2bqMFvKfn0tEVMpEE-NAgkR10VJy4q67ta3z2xrbb7EIRK22rnDtxm8oM7ebYXSJCFoAnem0x_48qLHuyymAbJ1M5kkIuyxpv76KE6-G09RmY1n9XFpNu/s2046/20230923_140049-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Whe_npfHCWYCXn2CuFk_cLhdKLyZQLbw4mdArh0TjvNhUncH1CejnAXmrTE2KPQU55SujKM2bqMFvKfn0tEVMpEE-NAgkR10VJy4q67ta3z2xrbb7EIRK22rnDtxm8oM7ebYXSJCFoAnem0x_48qLHuyymAbJ1M5kkIuyxpv76KE6-G09RmY1n9XFpNu/w640-h640/20230923_140049-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There were all the same sorts of traders as last year as well as gardening talks cooking demos and stalls selling a variety of items, garden related, gifts and clothes too. The tickets are not cheap, (£20 if you pay in advance, £25 on the day) but It Is a whole day out and there is a lot to see, so good value I suppose.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While we were in the middle of the heatwave at the beginning of September I couldn't wait to create my own little Autumn celebration in a tiered tray. My first attempt at this and I'm rather pleased with it. I've included some close ups of the pillows, <i>Pumpkin Spice Everything </i>and <i>Welcome Autumn </i>were finishes from this year, <i>Pumpkin Spice Farm</i> Is a finish from a few year ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkulUZ5kHmQRmzSn3IGvjwGsoa2TkhI4cbvzYgOK2Y86H-emwQqCw0PRcJVmpkTIk4-kicL97QfQlkTD6hcJZcPlZjQvNJATOkz_M8Y_nO2VxZ7iJVsNGQ6IhZdUqN8KtyZjONbSWS8rKrKx_BMSOvP_WIIWQPoTyw0v1jEcUTmtza6DA-E6AItTr021-e/s3817/20230912_163557.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3817" data-original-width="2863" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkulUZ5kHmQRmzSn3IGvjwGsoa2TkhI4cbvzYgOK2Y86H-emwQqCw0PRcJVmpkTIk4-kicL97QfQlkTD6hcJZcPlZjQvNJATOkz_M8Y_nO2VxZ7iJVsNGQ6IhZdUqN8KtyZjONbSWS8rKrKx_BMSOvP_WIIWQPoTyw0v1jEcUTmtza6DA-E6AItTr021-e/w480-h640/20230912_163557.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXNCIXxEIsRW5q4yL83Wz2dM3g-TKrKLeS930VfhLuhdltxsH8Qy7sG9nwj4E6Fv_AmCnR7RKnVz7r0mQ418gb6lZHTfLIikVDt4GucpBcz4klqtzH923G1jQqt2VF_ZJA91OeSh4R1x9A-O-cDSY5zSFvtdbI-RrhmWD_W6XjzVbTf9-tmumRGv1nE17/s1800/IMG_20230912_164833_398.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXNCIXxEIsRW5q4yL83Wz2dM3g-TKrKLeS930VfhLuhdltxsH8Qy7sG9nwj4E6Fv_AmCnR7RKnVz7r0mQ418gb6lZHTfLIikVDt4GucpBcz4klqtzH923G1jQqt2VF_ZJA91OeSh4R1x9A-O-cDSY5zSFvtdbI-RrhmWD_W6XjzVbTf9-tmumRGv1nE17/w512-h640/IMG_20230912_164833_398.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQz8iWNTMnZSYcPofYsH6vo_ZG-knWItRcVclf7fItU0ppcpWSP6U4BIlAQMa7DarHhj7f7K3za0GhAM5eYE-Sf_dY7UHzDOdDUZU2R8kyy4n9CaQNA-IyCdGmUw1HsTBi1OWnKx5k5Y0xR594LCYT7wsrWaM4lEplBQZxCwECD51qgdERORVF8HUlb5GB/s1800/IMG_20230912_164833_449.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQz8iWNTMnZSYcPofYsH6vo_ZG-knWItRcVclf7fItU0ppcpWSP6U4BIlAQMa7DarHhj7f7K3za0GhAM5eYE-Sf_dY7UHzDOdDUZU2R8kyy4n9CaQNA-IyCdGmUw1HsTBi1OWnKx5k5Y0xR594LCYT7wsrWaM4lEplBQZxCwECD51qgdERORVF8HUlb5GB/w512-h640/IMG_20230912_164833_449.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhorsHMPM4NgIctVAp4CSoHeG_wppfLyx35z48BLHDfaX2fomROSaxILo5TO6XbjKKztwaca_wr58jwPSrCQsG9fqEFdxMYLVPvx-FxBnhNHWilGCRR3gxWCZ4lO3AppHS5znMzU1UzHKURXpWT3yZ-dGUilGxxGslpOoX_hIRhel1kGphX1ghK2nvWzVSv/s1800/IMG_20230912_164833_493.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhorsHMPM4NgIctVAp4CSoHeG_wppfLyx35z48BLHDfaX2fomROSaxILo5TO6XbjKKztwaca_wr58jwPSrCQsG9fqEFdxMYLVPvx-FxBnhNHWilGCRR3gxWCZ4lO3AppHS5znMzU1UzHKURXpWT3yZ-dGUilGxxGslpOoX_hIRhel1kGphX1ghK2nvWzVSv/w512-h640/IMG_20230912_164833_493.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Dream by Cottage Garden Samplings</i> and <i>Quaker Pumpkins </i>drum sit on my mantle in the sitting room</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMUaAw5Z4SQ-dn1DuomCNoPl95hldfa9wbRzol6P_BBzgS19oXtVWlCDuJkocThseTsYe9Vckn9yc51h8zYBlEcN-iKOsZwIu1ikLB6Zv3UmzYJ7uY0vZ6R8s24H7t9hudVcq1Q1KDqmPR8asqGkwj5cBhXMGxEwtakxt-mr5Ye1DuUqt03NnzDV9AEgS/s4032/20230914_092905.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMUaAw5Z4SQ-dn1DuomCNoPl95hldfa9wbRzol6P_BBzgS19oXtVWlCDuJkocThseTsYe9Vckn9yc51h8zYBlEcN-iKOsZwIu1ikLB6Zv3UmzYJ7uY0vZ6R8s24H7t9hudVcq1Q1KDqmPR8asqGkwj5cBhXMGxEwtakxt-mr5Ye1DuUqt03NnzDV9AEgS/w480-h640/20230914_092905.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This time next week will be October 1st, honestly, where does the time go? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's going to be a busy last week of the month but hopefully I will be back next week with everything I've managed to make in September.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have a good week all</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-61154529648409166682023-09-09T22:19:00.000+01:002023-09-09T22:19:16.720+01:00Summer's last hurrah <p style="text-align: center;"><b> Summer decided to make a comeback this week</b>, just as the children went back to school! July and August were mostly a washout but this past week we have had temperatures of 30°C every. Single. Day. Phew, It's been hot too hot to walk about really but you know what they say, <i>only mad dogs and English men go out in the midday sun! Ha ha.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mark had a few days holiday this week so we decided to take a little over night trip to <b>Upton on Severn,</b> a pretty little riverside town about an hours drive away. This was the view from our hotel room.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-MWPfGeM9v_PgaVAMUXY-6om94XwjQgKBWP1EhKpkTGacsUohDkiRo8MAwDS9IwiYVbCX6JvDE0dX__oPL4cRro2QwOmvp1gBZVU_JVc_vXaCgeLZupSdDCbWkjSzJZxoIkxdzY2CbbmR6XXMxC-zkdumzPL-Jg58Fr7p2szfDfHJlQjdiRMwxWj6CKa/s4032/20230908_172655.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-MWPfGeM9v_PgaVAMUXY-6om94XwjQgKBWP1EhKpkTGacsUohDkiRo8MAwDS9IwiYVbCX6JvDE0dX__oPL4cRro2QwOmvp1gBZVU_JVc_vXaCgeLZupSdDCbWkjSzJZxoIkxdzY2CbbmR6XXMxC-zkdumzPL-Jg58Fr7p2szfDfHJlQjdiRMwxWj6CKa/w480-h640/20230908_172655.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The town itself Is just one street really but there are a few interesting shops as well as the usual charity shops that seem to be in every town nowadays. There was a lovely fabric and yarn shop and I <i>might</i> have bought some sock yarn home with me - Only one ball though, I was good 😁</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mBZl-SCD-sG4uG97Jz9HSNMLxD-7aYgvZHks0_CikXo2N3p8ZBYovbFKQb-jmlpLQMxM27vX1AxsbFnki6-dzV1jzGaFLY49_IDPAY1SQcFp0hwBdZp7Z_0ErU0aQFJrUoshSkKQ8UDpZkaOgxzqGAiILJIZnrQ8wg534U7veM1FpFclmHYpaJnwgU_5/s2880/20230909_182753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mBZl-SCD-sG4uG97Jz9HSNMLxD-7aYgvZHks0_CikXo2N3p8ZBYovbFKQb-jmlpLQMxM27vX1AxsbFnki6-dzV1jzGaFLY49_IDPAY1SQcFp0hwBdZp7Z_0ErU0aQFJrUoshSkKQ8UDpZkaOgxzqGAiILJIZnrQ8wg534U7veM1FpFclmHYpaJnwgU_5/w640-h640/20230909_182753.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was also the loveliest cafe / book shop that I've ever seen. We spent a happy half hour in there, but I could have quite easily have curled up on one of the many chairs dotted around with my book and a cuppa. In my dream house I would have a room like this, with bookshelves full to over flowing and big squishy sofas and leather armchairs. In reality that's not likely to ever happen but I can dream 😉</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Henry's Cafe and book shop - Upton on Severn</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjul-h_CqmqeTD_cgHthfjo1H62ttjCvH9PRSUrXHCMyufEpo_H19onxNjwfZZVjJUG5_aWUYgnocyRk8skkzvTeZgYq9pafobC4MRV7nRwY1tYV91uikhljPrB9yNKDqo1Ou2X5kwF8uBTRKvRxai52WyTefTOucKoLduuWo7ePGdO6MUYZwjohTJFNtOT/s4032/20230906_130728.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjul-h_CqmqeTD_cgHthfjo1H62ttjCvH9PRSUrXHCMyufEpo_H19onxNjwfZZVjJUG5_aWUYgnocyRk8skkzvTeZgYq9pafobC4MRV7nRwY1tYV91uikhljPrB9yNKDqo1Ou2X5kwF8uBTRKvRxai52WyTefTOucKoLduuWo7ePGdO6MUYZwjohTJFNtOT/w480-h640/20230906_130728.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Xw0awLPDuAjzfj61ahcrDMEhSmBwaDWvUs0FEFA-T3TBEdtTFIkwkQO_CiMCiaz8xwJCN_HMT3zwGzIeGTUmpxEHuNmLUhmN-uVCED3pm09WSbDuQge7DJF_fMumLJJO0wMHxaKawspP_p9F76d7BFGviFdcxcEdDYrvnTNxIzuNvVspGL-Wr6pFtTy0/s3729/20230906_130638.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3729" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Xw0awLPDuAjzfj61ahcrDMEhSmBwaDWvUs0FEFA-T3TBEdtTFIkwkQO_CiMCiaz8xwJCN_HMT3zwGzIeGTUmpxEHuNmLUhmN-uVCED3pm09WSbDuQge7DJF_fMumLJJO0wMHxaKawspP_p9F76d7BFGviFdcxcEdDYrvnTNxIzuNvVspGL-Wr6pFtTy0/w520-h640/20230906_130638.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was one of the houses along the river, Isn't it beautiful? Oh how I'd love a nosey round inside there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Now I bet <b>this </b>would have a room to accomodate my dream library with the squishy sofas🤣 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphzO1vJGJbjoakTZ1NR54BLbh4iVaNSfEO3OSJvnUDAufz5cm5aYMftOw7vcJ124OS6jUtwosl-1Ypg4QMrxEDTshJC73bz5pbzQnBUaI1jvJM0_zpDekyZvMf1ry6JgZsXfULvj6yMG3KWKh6ugrfzfg8fUlWJmRq_PUIfsQLTMEk0H9WrnVKXXATX7I/s4032/20230908_133732.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphzO1vJGJbjoakTZ1NR54BLbh4iVaNSfEO3OSJvnUDAufz5cm5aYMftOw7vcJ124OS6jUtwosl-1Ypg4QMrxEDTshJC73bz5pbzQnBUaI1jvJM0_zpDekyZvMf1ry6JgZsXfULvj6yMG3KWKh6ugrfzfg8fUlWJmRq_PUIfsQLTMEk0H9WrnVKXXATX7I/w480-h640/20230908_133732.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had a lovely breakfast on Saturday morning and then set for to explore <b>Tewksbury, </b> another historic riverside town a short drive away. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The town of Tewksbury grew following the building of the Abbey in the twelfth century, the ground being consecrated in 1121. Tewksbury is also in the History books as being the place where the Battle of The Roses took place in 1471 when The House of York were victorious over the Lancastrians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Each July the battle is re-enacted at the Medieval Festival</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Tewksbury Abbey, which apparently has the largest Norman tower in Europe</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckIeHVfaft6XnpiVLMXiVSLmYTO7ud7U2kT3vQzEapct92tY5YTbds_ERWkGtLTKjZMzOdWd6exIDmxEGm7Y7yoNALUqPzGkfnq0d_bZvnq-JzfzR2JJV7ZvCgcNSEesDxeCuWzlgkPntNR_YSjoPEHk00v_MD5LAtwg1jQPQr4Y5QbbtJVAVgcqN687T/s3823/20230909_114937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3823" data-original-width="2867" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckIeHVfaft6XnpiVLMXiVSLmYTO7ud7U2kT3vQzEapct92tY5YTbds_ERWkGtLTKjZMzOdWd6exIDmxEGm7Y7yoNALUqPzGkfnq0d_bZvnq-JzfzR2JJV7ZvCgcNSEesDxeCuWzlgkPntNR_YSjoPEHk00v_MD5LAtwg1jQPQr4Y5QbbtJVAVgcqN687T/w480-h640/20230909_114937.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWz-OU8NE9dGuHSUlKboN-nlJNyoU1jSBwQAcLqZm5ekNuNGxKy29GjjPNMchUj8jykvzd9yxGpnfkT89c__rPrNk-IH6_GNOQTybQHB4qq8fo6nHmn9bykKY5TJt0aiUMwbYmzObEdhctQxjugspvmWq_h9zQbDDdAjX81KYw_ghHOzV4pj7Q2QUi6eIa/s2046/20230909_115316-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWz-OU8NE9dGuHSUlKboN-nlJNyoU1jSBwQAcLqZm5ekNuNGxKy29GjjPNMchUj8jykvzd9yxGpnfkT89c__rPrNk-IH6_GNOQTybQHB4qq8fo6nHmn9bykKY5TJt0aiUMwbYmzObEdhctQxjugspvmWq_h9zQbDDdAjX81KYw_ghHOzV4pj7Q2QUi6eIa/w640-h640/20230909_115316-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The town still has some lovely old black and white buildings, this one has a date under the window, 1765. Hard to believe that these building have survived so long, I wonder if buildings of today will last as long, they certainly wont be as pleasing to look at if they do. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5kAwNFhT_io6eo_etZbIyBklHlIyaVjqrnWg2uLpryu7GZyv80oeOyQiJzpLnNNHWITWZPToUKORYYtVdqKfOGug4o0IJ3oImryQqt9JnNndCMtpNQyQrrBN4Bm2jNbTAhcL4FTGORmAgHB65cujydiVV78hrbI9767fP98r_MLWiwy0usN2KYyUg-2t/s2308/20230909_110328.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2308" data-original-width="2063" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5kAwNFhT_io6eo_etZbIyBklHlIyaVjqrnWg2uLpryu7GZyv80oeOyQiJzpLnNNHWITWZPToUKORYYtVdqKfOGug4o0IJ3oImryQqt9JnNndCMtpNQyQrrBN4Bm2jNbTAhcL4FTGORmAgHB65cujydiVV78hrbI9767fP98r_MLWiwy0usN2KYyUg-2t/w572-h640/20230909_110328.jpg" width="572" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJ2g_nL5sW41y3v3FdVBNLxtcucOTCZmEamf7h1CSlwpeZj9QlPk4y8h2jrTtlhHnuMJ_ljU5Nu-9QApx5BVoZm7Q6RXAf15939xU9Ewg8HyfXbe_I0lNb-aQfCP7I6OhOWKXmB0EOAlNgF6N2pOZhZ6hRrcaoUBrIkl7wPFozivnN5pMMuW27FpOxj2n/s2478/20230909_114022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2478" data-original-width="1914" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJ2g_nL5sW41y3v3FdVBNLxtcucOTCZmEamf7h1CSlwpeZj9QlPk4y8h2jrTtlhHnuMJ_ljU5Nu-9QApx5BVoZm7Q6RXAf15939xU9Ewg8HyfXbe_I0lNb-aQfCP7I6OhOWKXmB0EOAlNgF6N2pOZhZ6hRrcaoUBrIkl7wPFozivnN5pMMuW27FpOxj2n/w494-h640/20230909_114022.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you love to browse around second hand bookshops then this certainly is the place to come! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was one of two book shops that I got lost in for a while.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKg_VWhr2aX9I-puaLUIHPpM9qrA0-I01ZJnAZR8VZXHJUC98P_nYkHv4qUQUaTpCEXrI3uoqkQ-skVuKLaSTlNxKjCTyjaw_DLIReI7vVRWlzBDbouVUdlqb36Q_tOMbUppecfnwY09OwG7iCLOj9X3pTQVKAURCtEKz5EnHLJxW5YwwOgpgf4hGnisxH/s4032/20230909_110432.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKg_VWhr2aX9I-puaLUIHPpM9qrA0-I01ZJnAZR8VZXHJUC98P_nYkHv4qUQUaTpCEXrI3uoqkQ-skVuKLaSTlNxKjCTyjaw_DLIReI7vVRWlzBDbouVUdlqb36Q_tOMbUppecfnwY09OwG7iCLOj9X3pTQVKAURCtEKz5EnHLJxW5YwwOgpgf4hGnisxH/w480-h640/20230909_110432.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We really enjoyed our couple of days away and didn't have to travel too far to have some time out and some lovely scenery.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>September in the garden - </b>We still have some bits of colour here and there, although It won't be long until I have to empty the planters, most are past their best now. A lot of things haven't done as well this year, not as many roses and the hydrangea flowers haven't seemed to have lasted so long, the red one has been particularly disappointing, the leaves have been very small compared to how it looked last year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I don't think I will plant as many pots up next year, the garden falls to me to look after as Mark has no interest in gardening at all, he will help If I ask but he wouldn't go out there on his own accord so I may as well make it easier on myself.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj8I-4V9r9mtjLGkC6M9zUuSz-0-HDCs0sxQHTYGoMkDKR2wVhKnh31AiIyKHWvk2hzZA9Cn4hrjXXT9W-shMbKcNoHAgD9SQUrDMNqklcnt3SW127m34Xx-nWebBVBh7Vgz96jHPe1x-FF67IzhGjHF4YCinbphHrSVbbkKMA8SPgU4C_gLQ4V-6vJHhr/s2046/20230903_121535-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj8I-4V9r9mtjLGkC6M9zUuSz-0-HDCs0sxQHTYGoMkDKR2wVhKnh31AiIyKHWvk2hzZA9Cn4hrjXXT9W-shMbKcNoHAgD9SQUrDMNqklcnt3SW127m34Xx-nWebBVBh7Vgz96jHPe1x-FF67IzhGjHF4YCinbphHrSVbbkKMA8SPgU4C_gLQ4V-6vJHhr/w640-h640/20230903_121535-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Update on Molly - </b>Since I wrote last time Molly had to visit the vets again, this time she spent two nights there. I took her back because she hadn't pooped in two days. Turned out she was a little dehydrated and constipated, the stitch they put in wasn't helping as there wasn't enough room for her to pass what was there. Poor thing must have been so uncomfortable!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They took the stitch out, gave her a relaxant and put her on a drip to rehydrate her, she has also had a vitamin B12 jab to help increase her appetite. After all that she finally 'went' and they were happy for me to collect her on Tuesday. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fortunately she hasn't prolapsed again, she will have to continue with lactulose to help her and have another vitamin B12 jab next week then the vet will want to see her again about a week after that. Her blood test came back all ok so hopefully, (crossing my fingers), this is all a result of constipation, which can be sorted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She's been out in the garden enjoying the lovely weather this week and I hope she will be back to her usual self soon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZIxSa7AFq1eEeDLQeuvf1Uii7nhoVdhnxdrU791Y7tmJN40NwKeqzxL-x8C8J0Bc2pvqam3xRXtUoccPuOUn6vTz2Z8lwBup1M0K4rvVI3Ge26kcEsXwdxEGQ2mQXzhKVe4UfLGfhQ8gBLISqQyWjlL9RsfhzrgrsBIYdneM-70b5KZRlUpdKjUEDZ5JJ/s4032/20230906_183808.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZIxSa7AFq1eEeDLQeuvf1Uii7nhoVdhnxdrU791Y7tmJN40NwKeqzxL-x8C8J0Bc2pvqam3xRXtUoccPuOUn6vTz2Z8lwBup1M0K4rvVI3Ge26kcEsXwdxEGQ2mQXzhKVe4UfLGfhQ8gBLISqQyWjlL9RsfhzrgrsBIYdneM-70b5KZRlUpdKjUEDZ5JJ/w480-h640/20230906_183808.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-12624100582602561572023-09-03T18:56:00.004+01:002023-09-03T18:56:59.859+01:00My Stick6in2023 finish and our little holiday<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another two months of this year gone already and so It's time to share my forth stitched piece for the <b>Stick6in2023 SAL hosted by Martina and Manuela </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Number one was chosen for the months of July and August, for me this corresponded to <b>The Reindeer by Cottage Garden Samplings. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This chart was one of my purchases from last Autumns Nimble Thimble meet up so I'm super happy that it hasn't been waiting too long for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I used all the recommended DMC threads, the fabric is 32 count Belfast linen and I managed to find a suitable frame from The Range.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvw4MxEbFb4hz_AcSr_bmMVUglnb3ghnCUVXmJweF7nU3iq4nPYKRuB34h2mFbx2Mbc-7vJXhcEJPOfJIq8mfdCVXB8v-f-asWuKJtolbStHVZAdPD0ld4ur3hNnJEpTrDFOSDqNqyAw4YJwEa4Rlb1epqyAmUP6ueCXbQJy3Zug-yqRmxyf2PvbdZ4gI_/s3024/20230827_142213.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2630" data-original-width="3024" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvw4MxEbFb4hz_AcSr_bmMVUglnb3ghnCUVXmJweF7nU3iq4nPYKRuB34h2mFbx2Mbc-7vJXhcEJPOfJIq8mfdCVXB8v-f-asWuKJtolbStHVZAdPD0ld4ur3hNnJEpTrDFOSDqNqyAw4YJwEa4Rlb1epqyAmUP6ueCXbQJy3Zug-yqRmxyf2PvbdZ4gI_/w640-h556/20230827_142213.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isn't he beautiful? I'm really happy with how he turned out, I've put him away for now but he won't have to wait too long to be on show.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdrWufPHOY_UGaSFWZITy53DRz3EHOzol-By-h4Bu9DSk7UUpHxOgs7t2Q4-3u42GD5AAJEJvrhC3Qtn7rh_xGve6cYPecuR9jCF3g3LxuN9zhTIZWEEQRSW4VeaZesfU_Cy9ZhBqC54lklBaMcQB5W3YPp2AEX515aKZygSyPZMDoXpEtzb04fnkHc80/s3953/20230903_120918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3953" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdrWufPHOY_UGaSFWZITy53DRz3EHOzol-By-h4Bu9DSk7UUpHxOgs7t2Q4-3u42GD5AAJEJvrhC3Qtn7rh_xGve6cYPecuR9jCF3g3LxuN9zhTIZWEEQRSW4VeaZesfU_Cy9ZhBqC54lklBaMcQB5W3YPp2AEX515aKZygSyPZMDoXpEtzb04fnkHc80/w490-h640/20230903_120918.jpg" width="490" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The number 6 has been drawn for our next piece and I can't wait to get started next week!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>last week </b>I had a week away with Joanne and the children to <b>Butlins at Minehead. </b>If you are from the UK you will know that Butlins holiday parks are mainly designed for children, (although they do hold themed and adult weekends at different times through the year). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The weather was kind, it only rained one day and we even managed to have a day on the beach, which we all enjoyed so much despite both myself and Joanne saying we didn't like sand we had as much fun as the kids!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's just lovely to see children's happy smiley faces doing simple things like digging in the sand and riding on the fairground rides, Jacob does love to go on the rides and laughs the whole time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBMXHviVQ1J4kij57RPUupXiBmEjSOATEf0IIrClhPjbbK_-wWqAL1g520wdbn0x0WN921zGf7OsKTEsS--DXW3_rm8EK6CzZ_6J8J93quOLVResKWCyNkmzYgCfq5j518EmjYQpYcoJgaoph_IbmE7i3yfWrBi5YOkMh3o6uTHPKb_OXXJ3LO4QByWrt/s3951/20230828_145551.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3951" data-original-width="2963" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBMXHviVQ1J4kij57RPUupXiBmEjSOATEf0IIrClhPjbbK_-wWqAL1g520wdbn0x0WN921zGf7OsKTEsS--DXW3_rm8EK6CzZ_6J8J93quOLVResKWCyNkmzYgCfq5j518EmjYQpYcoJgaoph_IbmE7i3yfWrBi5YOkMh3o6uTHPKb_OXXJ3LO4QByWrt/w480-h640/20230828_145551.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3283" data-original-width="2191" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtpCXdF17PChcULvO0Jh2mT5eBdL2bn0TMGytEYWoPG_G-bfc38MhAILkBuWSVP80D2BmShztZoOi0WVM-Eior9oqdpe_q6KyVG-V5M_JXchqPcnRKKlCeAobn5ABtxhHf4B3VDCCCNyjwGWznAdKI8onOCLjXnxUBl3l37-e-iXu8PDxu9UbWc8pP4QsO/w428-h640/20230831_121403.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bonnie meets Bonnie Bear :-)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbUViKZe0LGpstcZmv_vECCwncSBNaEmqi9bFzan5r51ZpbzQIGzOwRvXPPSwUresq8UMXgp_OWJ901E0HjtHPiDgfoM6jbu4EgrsT5045OJRwnvujGprPnQs3Xf78F27UZZXOm59CqfKuZr6KzM2VILDI80vynOmCzCQ_ELDDun1PonYVYhYc20dMEut/s3131/20230901_125854.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3131" data-original-width="2293" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbUViKZe0LGpstcZmv_vECCwncSBNaEmqi9bFzan5r51ZpbzQIGzOwRvXPPSwUresq8UMXgp_OWJ901E0HjtHPiDgfoM6jbu4EgrsT5045OJRwnvujGprPnQs3Xf78F27UZZXOm59CqfKuZr6KzM2VILDI80vynOmCzCQ_ELDDun1PonYVYhYc20dMEut/w468-h640/20230901_125854.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Joanne had booked some shows to see, so we had Pepper Pig, a pantomime, which was as good if not better than any I've seen, a magic show with Steven Mulhern and a Animal versus Dinosaurs show which was excellent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I came back feeling more rested than I thought I would considering it was an activity filled week, Bonnie declared it the best week ever, so I think It's safe to say that she had a good time too!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>That's all the fun stuff, now for an update on Molly. </b> Unfortunately she did end up going back to the vets last Sunday night, they put in a stitch to hold everything in place but she has only pooped once in the week and I could see she wanted to go yesterday but couldn't, so I booked her in for another visit this morning. That's where she is now, they wanted to keep her overnight because she was still constipated and was a little dehydrated, they are going to take out the stitch and give her something to help her 'go' and give her some fluids, they will also do a blood test to make sure there is nothing else going on. Potentially she will have to have another stitch if she prolapses again when she's 'been'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I've tried to call them to see how she is but they were doing a change over and will call me later. I have everything crossed that she will be ok. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-39065583159258967892023-08-25T14:39:00.000+01:002023-08-25T14:39:08.186+01:00Hello, is there anyone there?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I disappeared there for a while, It wasn't intentional just busy with other things. As well as not writing a blog post I've not been reading all of your news either, I'll try and catch-up over the weekend, although not promising as I'm off on a little adventure with Joanne and the kids next week and things need to be sorted and packed for that. But more about that when I get back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">July was a slow month for any crafty makes, I finished a pair of socks, sewed another small bag and fully finished a previously stitched ornament, not bad considering everything else going on, (another bedroom decorated and the loft re-insulated), but I always expect more of myself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First off are the socks......These are the <b>Rose City Rollers socks by Mara Catherine Bryner.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I lost the ball band, (again), but I'm pretty sure the yarn is another Mr & Mrs Rabbit yarn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like the rolled cuff and they are very comfortable, I'll definitely be making more of these in the future.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV4Fvo5-g4-powNUz0aqaO4cFYDsvloSrX1E4b0NPdhI4hwNFZtZULgsKVhGvBjq3wtY-yZe1Fu6Le1QKzelvCwJmyDopuPh18eq3cZ_3MCZD7QIjTo8c-HVenRfSNXoVxMTskIYVynhCwoxBmCyKtLqTdMhI8AKpG_Z7CdHByVnHDkYbDnmft6h-e74zR/s3666/20230731_160133.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3666" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV4Fvo5-g4-powNUz0aqaO4cFYDsvloSrX1E4b0NPdhI4hwNFZtZULgsKVhGvBjq3wtY-yZe1Fu6Le1QKzelvCwJmyDopuPh18eq3cZ_3MCZD7QIjTo8c-HVenRfSNXoVxMTskIYVynhCwoxBmCyKtLqTdMhI8AKpG_Z7CdHByVnHDkYbDnmft6h-e74zR/w528-h640/20230731_160133.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was plenty of fabric left over when I made Bonnie's little bag and she asked if I would make one for her friend's birthday so they could have the same. I'm pretty sure there is still enough fabric to make another one, certainly got my money's worth from that particular purchase :-)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k65cGcz18m7Ep6I1KA3QJrdfLzpM418Zc9DfpstqieG3TU-6WC626jxpZmJzvDLMnrm5q3bH1OqLFb_3iP1BfNLasz2zVaOs0KfiTtdVAopuXIRw4FBCNecdS1UvJj6L8nDil3vza9k0VNoepaFXbH4X15v35rEGEx5PlRuCEhqhE8gDUvh0JkdcOPhI/s3169/20230731_155933.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3169" data-original-width="1816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k65cGcz18m7Ep6I1KA3QJrdfLzpM418Zc9DfpstqieG3TU-6WC626jxpZmJzvDLMnrm5q3bH1OqLFb_3iP1BfNLasz2zVaOs0KfiTtdVAopuXIRw4FBCNecdS1UvJj6L8nDil3vza9k0VNoepaFXbH4X15v35rEGEx5PlRuCEhqhE8gDUvh0JkdcOPhI/w366-h640/20230731_155933.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also finally got round to fully finishing the little PS peice I stitched back in April</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_UedsYI8a2Ed3FsHiY4KaZoSB3e-Vze6VKoAEZju8w1986SOPAST-6lZPuDOuDWn12pfCtDxo2RLFcKnCZy55vwDWlnDf6FgBtaHCeqrMIItCVjQsbITJgzO9ci0YE9wFENX6UIsw0QNLBlAcTW9jGLlQz3BTbqvpFtB6knUKTE7SojIDB0hbBf1iwL-/s2564/20230823_184248.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2564" data-original-width="1816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_UedsYI8a2Ed3FsHiY4KaZoSB3e-Vze6VKoAEZju8w1986SOPAST-6lZPuDOuDWn12pfCtDxo2RLFcKnCZy55vwDWlnDf6FgBtaHCeqrMIItCVjQsbITJgzO9ci0YE9wFENX6UIsw0QNLBlAcTW9jGLlQz3BTbqvpFtB6knUKTE7SojIDB0hbBf1iwL-/w454-h640/20230823_184248.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are only a couple of weeks left of the school holidays, those six weeks or so have gone really quickly! I've only had the children a few times while they have been off as mums and dads have taken holidays from work to either go away or just have days out. Jenny James and the boys made it back home safely after their wild fire escapade in Rhodes. Their luggage was sent on a couple of weeks later, although they are still missing their hand luggage which contained the boys Amazon tablets, headphones and Olivers Nintendo switch and games, as a ten year old boy you can imagine how he is feeling now not being able to play minecraft with his friends! Fingers crossed these bags will turn up eventually but as there were thousands of people evacuated or moved around that they may well have to accept that they will not get them back</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had the boys for the day on the Monday after they came back from holiday, as Bonnie was out for the day with her friend, (the one I made the bag for), I offered to have Jacob too and we went to Stourport for the day. There are loads of things to keep the kids occupied there in the Summer, the small fair is open and they had great fun on the rides, Oliver and Arty on the water dingy was hilarious to watch, Oliver was playing it safe then Arty pulled the wheel to one side and they kept spinning around, he is such a little devil, so funny though. Managing 3 boys on my own was a challenge but I came through unscathed, albeit shattered.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfzCuALzRSevg-BmIT-ruzgF8Twq8vDAB8WKXt6XXecMYXKFuFMJplKCoq9qVU3HizV8onQIPjzkHJxBnSn07-ty7hzmtyo5HGlFrK-PBTHKzQjEuMApLR-Kl9zGGO7QllwQIazzNnS0qEzpZKiQhRLjnfi-b6ElkxcJFMQtycTQltWmNI3iMC0pnCtoky/s2880/20230803_161431.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfzCuALzRSevg-BmIT-ruzgF8Twq8vDAB8WKXt6XXecMYXKFuFMJplKCoq9qVU3HizV8onQIPjzkHJxBnSn07-ty7hzmtyo5HGlFrK-PBTHKzQjEuMApLR-Kl9zGGO7QllwQIazzNnS0qEzpZKiQhRLjnfi-b6ElkxcJFMQtycTQltWmNI3iMC0pnCtoky/w640-h640/20230803_161431.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRO6rDmMkSiGL25s_jI64er8-RG9BZs0kKquZyHRkDWu9UiuMn_U-bq8WOnOeLWGu9GrHcVLdn8aJRytTiGIC6p3H5YbkKzSvErmLixOGhtV-B6UGeYsba37tkbRYHorJRfjmKwpQDUDZYv1by4PWTgo7g3jNYlHaVhIvf-ZbcVSDfk_WJmAVpLeYsVHor/s4032/20230801_111740.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRO6rDmMkSiGL25s_jI64er8-RG9BZs0kKquZyHRkDWu9UiuMn_U-bq8WOnOeLWGu9GrHcVLdn8aJRytTiGIC6p3H5YbkKzSvErmLixOGhtV-B6UGeYsba37tkbRYHorJRfjmKwpQDUDZYv1by4PWTgo7g3jNYlHaVhIvf-ZbcVSDfk_WJmAVpLeYsVHor/w480-h640/20230801_111740.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWkgFQdP4E-JI1aczRA7ljjO7C7TTQgULIV4_491IhNDdG4OnSR_IyY-GaGPgRMPtJqcwpP-eFRhFDMGsAQzkbrpo82Pw7LNWXDlR8kx3C1f7tW4FooYJbMxGlnnSYOdsr3ml3BF20h-cPjvXN_xD1vaw3r8HN_bjO-tczaWyLK28QFJQ6hyQfNS1EXU6B/s4032/20230801_143816.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWkgFQdP4E-JI1aczRA7ljjO7C7TTQgULIV4_491IhNDdG4OnSR_IyY-GaGPgRMPtJqcwpP-eFRhFDMGsAQzkbrpo82Pw7LNWXDlR8kx3C1f7tW4FooYJbMxGlnnSYOdsr3ml3BF20h-cPjvXN_xD1vaw3r8HN_bjO-tczaWyLK28QFJQ6hyQfNS1EXU6B/w480-h640/20230801_143816.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oliver and Arty won a fish on the fair, Arty wasn't too bothered but Oliver bless him, he was so excited, they haven't got any pets so this made his day.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijswHy_IjxB-_fSvF3K7Q0toG1E1GDp_otVd4qGmyJb5Pu-FTRTu2sXz-WCgc52inLVAYcGGivuXnxPkB_qjrRQ6P4GlbG9eFdewvdJ5Gq-B_okBaO4C0nabY1cPquGdy7TqWxben9JNl5dJLtWGuVMV1-f-HLqMNk3dqIrVcWlv_NYZHoPuMLdgUZWNgZ/s4032/20230801_160519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijswHy_IjxB-_fSvF3K7Q0toG1E1GDp_otVd4qGmyJb5Pu-FTRTu2sXz-WCgc52inLVAYcGGivuXnxPkB_qjrRQ6P4GlbG9eFdewvdJ5Gq-B_okBaO4C0nabY1cPquGdy7TqWxben9JNl5dJLtWGuVMV1-f-HLqMNk3dqIrVcWlv_NYZHoPuMLdgUZWNgZ/w480-h640/20230801_160519.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Notoriously fairground fish don't last too long but as I write this they are still going strong :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There have been another few outings since which I might mention another time because I don't want this post to be too long.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This morning I've had to take Molly to the vets, I won't go into detail of the mess I got up to this morning but you can have a guess when I tell you she has a rectal prolapse. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The vet did a procedure, (again you can guess what!) and fingers crossed it will stay put, if not she will have to have it stitched.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvENRmvDmZ0s1F8isYpMPJOrO51ca7bF_5pzKfetKZWrVK2EZCjx6qsiuMPofUdoNMKWWeSR7AuYQ3p10JuGV39popcVdYppNhtFPxTQhp5OR923PtSWA35CB1KkIG3ZjY3oNYFDycbpjei6CCX13crUGhp-QcrfBGpppTFn_yyidwobRmRQfVqTVPdpNJ/s4032/20230825_142614.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvENRmvDmZ0s1F8isYpMPJOrO51ca7bF_5pzKfetKZWrVK2EZCjx6qsiuMPofUdoNMKWWeSR7AuYQ3p10JuGV39popcVdYppNhtFPxTQhp5OR923PtSWA35CB1KkIG3ZjY3oNYFDycbpjei6CCX13crUGhp-QcrfBGpppTFn_yyidwobRmRQfVqTVPdpNJ/w480-h640/20230825_142614.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Poor thing, she must be so sore but is on pain killers and lactulose now for a few days so will hopefully be feeling better soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Right I'll leave it there for now, It will be time to show our finish for Stick6in23 when I post again :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Take care</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>P.S. Just in case you are wondering, Molly does have her own lovely bed where she would be much more comfortable, but no, she is choosing to lie, rather awkwardly It has to be said, on the mat!</i></div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-11570543865641142492023-07-23T18:43:00.000+01:002023-07-23T18:43:36.763+01:00Not the holiday you would want.<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This sewing box was a car boot find quite some years ago, I remember mum being with me at the time and buying it for me. I've wanted to do something with it for a long time and last week It was a job I finally got round to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBylEI7vB81RRWO-dB8GV9-4-L5gdLSxPpJyJyU3IRFE6eYMilk9VONiZsoM3gDaetd--ydEBJ7AlW1ZNYiASY0_Gt1rcV-pe9yZXR0qJ5CZ9ZxBM95cPH1waej-BsVRLnVI7bcl5iObiKNuOZ6H0ntBJalaVy3rGCYS_Dm4k_WnjWbuw0ECIMDqE-m0xY/s3128/20230710_085914.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3128" data-original-width="2906" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBylEI7vB81RRWO-dB8GV9-4-L5gdLSxPpJyJyU3IRFE6eYMilk9VONiZsoM3gDaetd--ydEBJ7AlW1ZNYiASY0_Gt1rcV-pe9yZXR0qJ5CZ9ZxBM95cPH1waej-BsVRLnVI7bcl5iObiKNuOZ6H0ntBJalaVy3rGCYS_Dm4k_WnjWbuw0ECIMDqE-m0xY/w594-h640/20230710_085914.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTSIw1P1JnaAngGAITnVDYdTlLNP86od9kT5j341FM9_hVNwnRWqMni5ADv8mqAsPfa2XECgMdB1j-G4GR5TUJODw2th9zDrAQoUhQ7uBMErNVqoOZK4T_oX5xo1QM-vXSJqKiHXm2h7RGxG5Zsm4QIYLiA65VDIpP89tJGBkIhHS_d5J81CAMIoEX15V_/s2970/20230721_140602.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2970" data-original-width="2970" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTSIw1P1JnaAngGAITnVDYdTlLNP86od9kT5j341FM9_hVNwnRWqMni5ADv8mqAsPfa2XECgMdB1j-G4GR5TUJODw2th9zDrAQoUhQ7uBMErNVqoOZK4T_oX5xo1QM-vXSJqKiHXm2h7RGxG5Zsm4QIYLiA65VDIpP89tJGBkIhHS_d5J81CAMIoEX15V_/w640-h640/20230721_140602.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtoktaNLVmq9KSS11luTiKW6rVI7-3Tw2lYTE_QmuU1iV5XbjbWpXN0EuaZ4vafUkYuYsaJAXrp5glO2RnOTzBv6cdjfJSjqykKr12sj74NjIOXmrgnRcug8dlN_w74_P1heT6ecw4lFQAuAPa_LDCkSJ7Id-E6iH7G20CfkwZXYO_gW3jyBwfYJIw2SqK/s4032/20230721_140631_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtoktaNLVmq9KSS11luTiKW6rVI7-3Tw2lYTE_QmuU1iV5XbjbWpXN0EuaZ4vafUkYuYsaJAXrp5glO2RnOTzBv6cdjfJSjqykKr12sj74NjIOXmrgnRcug8dlN_w74_P1heT6ecw4lFQAuAPa_LDCkSJ7Id-E6iH7G20CfkwZXYO_gW3jyBwfYJIw2SqK/w640-h480/20230721_140631_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRymQsFMjUkNY96UNcRqBElPBkQJy2bbmQ1sr8iG7bN2ppnF1YbeXP3ZShOPIFJhLdyFR9Kq9b81ldA-NyqltAGa__UBxS8qLnqxU0YlTc0lMvPGP7qZULq9LRFUmf6SoaQYr8Hc0XCf5OAYNLV2XjmcURqMsdlqZ0xDw077gKwjPl_zdjLRtJdqElgpHP/s3024/20230721_140700.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2815" data-original-width="3024" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRymQsFMjUkNY96UNcRqBElPBkQJy2bbmQ1sr8iG7bN2ppnF1YbeXP3ZShOPIFJhLdyFR9Kq9b81ldA-NyqltAGa__UBxS8qLnqxU0YlTc0lMvPGP7qZULq9LRFUmf6SoaQYr8Hc0XCf5OAYNLV2XjmcURqMsdlqZ0xDw077gKwjPl_zdjLRtJdqElgpHP/w640-h596/20230721_140700.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think It came out pretty good and hopefully I can make more use of it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Some of you will have seen or heard the news </b>about the wild fires on the Greek Island of Rhodes. Unfortunately my eldest daughter, Jenny, James and the boys flew out to Rhodes on holiday last Wednesday and their hotel is in the middle of all this chaos! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Naturally I've been worried sick, but they have been evacuated to a sports hall in the north of the Island and are safe, thank goodness. James has just texted me to say they are now being transferred to a hotel somewhere in the north. They had to leave their luggage at their hotel so don't have much with them, I suppose If it's at all possible luggage will be transferred to the new destination, but some roads are still closed, a hotel close to the one they were in has burnt down!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jenny said the locals and volunteers have been absolutely amazing bringing food, drinks and toiletries and even offering to put holidaymakers up in their own houses, Jenny has had two very kind people offering to take them in, she did decline both but only because she thought it best to stay where they would get updates on goings on. They were only going for a week but I know they will be glad to be on their way home as soon as possible now, and <b>I'll</b> be glad when they are all back safe and sound.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thinking about all the holiday makers and people who live on Rhodes today 💔</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-75217105654648260012023-07-03T18:52:00.000+01:002023-07-03T18:52:25.102+01:00A productive June<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">June went by so quickly, how can we be halfway through the year already! It's definitely an age thing, the older you get, the faster time seems to go! I do try and make the most of my time each day, and this month as well as the things I was working on, I've also tried to get some of those languishing projects fully finished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Firstly, the things I started and finished in June.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My first attempt at lace knitting in a sock. These are the <b>Rosie Lee socks by Twinset & Purl.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I really enjoyed knitting these, they seemed to knit up quite quickly too, probably because the lace section made knitting more interesting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> The yarn is <b>Lace Hankies by Lay Family Yarn</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkByNxTGIVbPCljxlCYgzW-1vTILOiFsWfgnaiCLggSZeRjctVKFDt5KD7K0dF9Zy-5kjRAIMQevvKnbqlxm8GhQmuKd3VzlHsU7AaDpgnvv-2HGAhjgWfsm-Lg_peUt3LevcmMESnHRinM5kv-Pe-ZFFLCUMDZz45PW3gMbRMqd4DYKNCGLBlRxd9Pw/s2046/20230614_211727-COLLAGE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2046" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkByNxTGIVbPCljxlCYgzW-1vTILOiFsWfgnaiCLggSZeRjctVKFDt5KD7K0dF9Zy-5kjRAIMQevvKnbqlxm8GhQmuKd3VzlHsU7AaDpgnvv-2HGAhjgWfsm-Lg_peUt3LevcmMESnHRinM5kv-Pe-ZFFLCUMDZz45PW3gMbRMqd4DYKNCGLBlRxd9Pw/w640-h480/20230614_211727-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>My second pair of socks for the month, </b>I know! I was on a roll, lol<b>. </b>My first pair of trainer socks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't follow a pattern for these, I knit 12 rounds of ribbing and 10 rounds before doing the heel and then my normal length for the foot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5deD6_gX5MoE1BG-3N39aDs84VtfQM-N2HFZi5u8l8ZqstZri7kt5NrJ8_E6_3IKdfJrqy_S990WmvHjOXni0vAVLLc_BvdYgyhrx33itfZ2cT9z3fUYwP2LzSvtXbK46sWg8aE3sd_JdK6YWtolhWR3PJKk5xoqFcws8XQfkCUzp2-08rlSqRHWDV8IS/s3024/20230703_153341.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5deD6_gX5MoE1BG-3N39aDs84VtfQM-N2HFZi5u8l8ZqstZri7kt5NrJ8_E6_3IKdfJrqy_S990WmvHjOXni0vAVLLc_BvdYgyhrx33itfZ2cT9z3fUYwP2LzSvtXbK46sWg8aE3sd_JdK6YWtolhWR3PJKk5xoqFcws8XQfkCUzp2-08rlSqRHWDV8IS/w640-h640/20230703_153341.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>You will notice that they are not 'twins' they are not even 'sisters', more like 'cousins' </b>😀</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have no idea why the yarn behaved so differently on each sock!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I still love them and no one will know what's inside my trainers 😉 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The yarn is from <b>Mr & Mrs Rabbit, </b>who no longer dye yarn, which is a shame because they did the most beautiful colourways, unfortunately I misplaced the ball band so don't know this colourway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My next finish is something you haven't seen in progress, It's the <b>Trescao Jumper by Along Aven Anna</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I actually finished this in April, but then realised I didn't like the garter stitch hem and cuff, so I pulled those out and re-knit them in 1x1 rib.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmFGmizGJIaIAM_t2uh-RLppFArKcGXWJijeyIGhhEyh1R7X2Zb5fxRj9OP_8F3lKOXZejexucv_VgaEx5-1sHT-Djpbb07IjQFdNkLRBhJOwmyIW7LqcxJRK_1Iq_ZMpymHJiEO3RKNMDFKNmihXjonSrSewMg6y-YqFPO5wcLQ06fF2NKZ1x_OYMazc/s2458/20230703_172412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2458" data-original-width="2017" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmFGmizGJIaIAM_t2uh-RLppFArKcGXWJijeyIGhhEyh1R7X2Zb5fxRj9OP_8F3lKOXZejexucv_VgaEx5-1sHT-Djpbb07IjQFdNkLRBhJOwmyIW7LqcxJRK_1Iq_ZMpymHJiEO3RKNMDFKNmihXjonSrSewMg6y-YqFPO5wcLQ06fF2NKZ1x_OYMazc/w526-h640/20230703_172412.jpg" width="526" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Obviously too warm to wear at the moment but it will do nicely for Autumn and Winter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My last knitting finish is also something I started a while ago, it's a cardigan for Bonnie and it has been waiting for quite a while for me to sew up the sleeves and put buttons on. Good job I made a larger size!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvHGfPqQw2m2qFSSHAhufPnvv_41jvbUSw_ZsW9jC4IQ2wGljJTvuo6T_NgoLwCLa2bpyZ9EXUnjVfFI1d3o6TSkSIUbJetRsByhY3ck6kITtBQACb2riLu6iNfT0Xg_1lAdFF6eLcX_L89cbOzExyfr4d9VTSEg65d2HQch-9jYB_3CBE6d4dE_ykJ8l/s2889/20230703_180357.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2889" data-original-width="2577" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvHGfPqQw2m2qFSSHAhufPnvv_41jvbUSw_ZsW9jC4IQ2wGljJTvuo6T_NgoLwCLa2bpyZ9EXUnjVfFI1d3o6TSkSIUbJetRsByhY3ck6kITtBQACb2riLu6iNfT0Xg_1lAdFF6eLcX_L89cbOzExyfr4d9VTSEg65d2HQch-9jYB_3CBE6d4dE_ykJ8l/w570-h640/20230703_180357.jpg" width="570" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The yarn is James C. Brett Stonewash.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>I have one sewing finish for June.</b> You may remember that when I took Bonnie to the craft show at the NEC in March she chose a pattern for me to make her a bag, along with the fabric, and here it is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAN4b65gGZqzsA74SftGiT6TM0crqC_4nvSzn1sWH4-ffhhdiFZLT6WRHXT9KfF-cAN6XqfII28FiWD1rMsbUjSp-jbtWdMcU6y0gZro7HewXVHkLP8p5h1RtdxQDf0XGHLSplJVO69ZIGWV_MFa8V1DYOUSbMleFNXqYkO_egEsEjYLqy8_E3GzAjAA/s2046/20230605_173007-COLLAGE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2046" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAN4b65gGZqzsA74SftGiT6TM0crqC_4nvSzn1sWH4-ffhhdiFZLT6WRHXT9KfF-cAN6XqfII28FiWD1rMsbUjSp-jbtWdMcU6y0gZro7HewXVHkLP8p5h1RtdxQDf0XGHLSplJVO69ZIGWV_MFa8V1DYOUSbMleFNXqYkO_egEsEjYLqy8_E3GzAjAA/w640-h480/20230605_173007-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This came out way better than I expected, the only fiddly part was the top stitching around the top edge. It <i>was </i>supposed to be a little present to go in her birthday bag but she saw it when she came round one time and wanted to take it home. My daughter has asked if I will make another one for Bonnie's friends birthday this month, there is plenty fabric left to make another one, I just have to buy some webbing for the handle, so that will be a little project for July.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>And last but not least, I had two cross stitch finishes in June.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The first one is another Autumn pillow. Love how this turned out! I used the called for threads with the exception of the border which should have been black and I switched to a dark grey.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Pumpkin Spice Everything by The Scarlett House</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQAPkT_vbC1_s0Blo7A6kuS2YNNb6aKcxMeyXWBmASZqwmH7uHhyIMaA7HJK0iBtCNpGzYHH1m1l886PIW9JGOVhozJG9DJJvNrtp8QpBlqvZ6LKEcMwtyR_V0aveW01q5X2AnqMN_jztx1ZStiNjoIN0mVhNxqPeyix8CTWU5CFpi6oNHXBEarxt4XmIM/s2992/20230703_181212.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2836" data-original-width="2992" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQAPkT_vbC1_s0Blo7A6kuS2YNNb6aKcxMeyXWBmASZqwmH7uHhyIMaA7HJK0iBtCNpGzYHH1m1l886PIW9JGOVhozJG9DJJvNrtp8QpBlqvZ6LKEcMwtyR_V0aveW01q5X2AnqMN_jztx1ZStiNjoIN0mVhNxqPeyix8CTWU5CFpi6oNHXBEarxt4XmIM/w640-h606/20230703_181212.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My second cross stitch finish is my<b> Stick6in2023</b> piece. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For the months of May and June the number 3 was generated, and for me that happened to be the number I had allocated to another Autumn chart, <b>Pumpkin Hollow by Little House Needleworks</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8Kf5DQmXIGlsOFBl4RB715Ed61SGd-ovCaOoZeFLhxjZdexebHql8U4orR6tT9OYsWkdb1Rata_zYG4HJbBoEXNFHWcJa-rK7YrWWUQO2qKjevNfkjkg8Zgxv1ye_cjKQXwTsxvWKrV2xrNRtnR3P-bPM14o8YHvxWTz52x3J3DEfj5jZTqb7n8jZI4O/s2990/20230703_180553.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2789" data-original-width="2990" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8Kf5DQmXIGlsOFBl4RB715Ed61SGd-ovCaOoZeFLhxjZdexebHql8U4orR6tT9OYsWkdb1Rata_zYG4HJbBoEXNFHWcJa-rK7YrWWUQO2qKjevNfkjkg8Zgxv1ye_cjKQXwTsxvWKrV2xrNRtnR3P-bPM14o8YHvxWTz52x3J3DEfj5jZTqb7n8jZI4O/w640-h596/20230703_180553.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I chose to only stitch the top half of the chart because I wanted it to fit onto this wooden pumpkin blanc I bought from Hobbycraft a couple of years ago. I dry brushed the blanc with some paint from a match pot and I think It came out cute!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>That's all my finishes for June, not too bad considering It's been a busy month.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The weather has been mostly good and everything in the garden has shot up, it's been keeping me busy watering, dead heading and generally keeping it tidy. The roses have been lovely, the first blooms have just about gone now but there are some second ones appearing and, I had my first poppy, just one, lol. I've had this poppy plant for about three years and this is the first flower it's produced, I've left the seed head hoping that I can harvest the seeds to plant more</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGOLenGt-u8YUIwpiUzsy_4kscSE_fjKGoeNAKMBz7QU3a1NXMn3aXqtKzpk0oNIM6gyANIV4ifxGHfkxkB237MMIVY45pirqh3G6e-UyzN70uqjXv3Q4oDdl28Hn4g1aQSf1gqovDCZ2aYVvp9YGC3JlyuBz1e6dLJUJptlHN3P3gRNnO-80UFBEzmD6/s2047/20230607_145938-COLLAGE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2047" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGOLenGt-u8YUIwpiUzsy_4kscSE_fjKGoeNAKMBz7QU3a1NXMn3aXqtKzpk0oNIM6gyANIV4ifxGHfkxkB237MMIVY45pirqh3G6e-UyzN70uqjXv3Q4oDdl28Hn4g1aQSf1gqovDCZ2aYVvp9YGC3JlyuBz1e6dLJUJptlHN3P3gRNnO-80UFBEzmD6/w640-h640/20230607_145938-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also finished decorating our bedroom this month, it took a while because Mark only has the weekends to do anything. Mark panelled one wall and put in wall lights and we had a guy come and spray our wardrobe and bedside tables. We also had new carpet and blinds and I'm over the moon with the result, It's so light and airy I can't wait to go to bed at night, lol.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've taken the boys out a couple of times for tea and went strawberry picking with Joanne and these two rascals.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFR-Kw5wv_8C1HnOKRTgaLvg8CEblMl5-XNxy9LhCBSnLrHmd62lpJ_9Z7-xm1bE4Py5DPprzh-8k89bgF-47oImEpsn0QYSPwt-hMmE_VsUno9MrnX9wX0G-OKcNXxQAycPJcLECqNo7_1hK__ATeOogQsNB89rF0y9HDtJZHWNpZrcataS9A8YoEuJHY/s2880/20230702_005109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFR-Kw5wv_8C1HnOKRTgaLvg8CEblMl5-XNxy9LhCBSnLrHmd62lpJ_9Z7-xm1bE4Py5DPprzh-8k89bgF-47oImEpsn0QYSPwt-hMmE_VsUno9MrnX9wX0G-OKcNXxQAycPJcLECqNo7_1hK__ATeOogQsNB89rF0y9HDtJZHWNpZrcataS9A8YoEuJHY/w640-h640/20230702_005109.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think the ate their fill of strawberries while we were picking! I made jam with my haul and for a first attempt it came out pretty good, so I've been told.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>I've continued my weight loss</b> through June, I'm now 18lb's down, still jotting down everything I eat through the day and keeping track of calories, it's just become something I do now, and It's working. I haven't eaten any cake, chocolate or sweets since April and I have to say I haven't missed any of those things at all, I eat almost everything else, just count the calories, calorie deficit works, who knew! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>My plans for July </b>- The number <b>1 </b>has been generated by <b>Martina </b>for <b>Stick6in2023, </b>this will be our project to work on during the months of July and August, I made a start on my choice on Saturday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll pick another stitching project to work on and rotate them each week, that worked for me in the past so I need to get back to doing it that way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More decorating is on the agenda, we are re-doing the smallest bedroom</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">there's not so much work to do in there, the radiator has to be changed but as far as decorating goes it's just a matter of painting, so should be a quicker process.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If July is as busy as June was I probably won't post again until the end of the month but hopefully there will be more finishes to share 😁</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have a great month!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div></div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-82201428373409752952023-06-20T00:40:00.001+01:002023-06-20T00:40:04.613+01:00Solo Saturday outing<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I haven't had a day out for a while, decorating and keeping on top of the garden have taken up any spare time I've had but I noticed that <b>Much Wenlock</b> had a Made in Shropshire market happening on Saturday, so while Mark was fitting our new bedroom lights and rehanging the door I took myself on a little outing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Much Wenlock i</b>s a medieval market town in the Shropshire countryside, about forty minutes from us and is a pleasant drive with countryside views for most of the way. I've passed it many times on my way to our Nimble Thimble meet-ups but never stopped to walk through. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The main street was closed to traffic because of the market, there were about twenty or so stalls selling various handmade wares. There are no big name stores here, just a few independent shops, gift shops and cafe's and a beautiful yarn shop called <b>Ippikn</b>. I <i>might</i> have treated myself to a ball of sock yarn, (It would have been rude not to), but unfortunately couldn't get a photo of the shop front because there were too many people about. You can find Ippikin on FB though if you are interested.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7QR3n469Yat7fLy60dvty2G_Hz6tTTkz_Pu4buLiMgPlX9nTjPtPl3dbzrW7dFQ4k-ofT47SVtXYs5-Tq0CNOKqwc4lNnfCKg_tRvVIMLSJdp2cbXeGNhMUm2kRcbJ48GgjoqkYNRbu6i_4C-efwEdYkKPTM6azOK6J9lvXtY5yAG8mZ-YbbguOFjXg/s2210/20230617_125712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2113" data-original-width="2210" height="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7QR3n469Yat7fLy60dvty2G_Hz6tTTkz_Pu4buLiMgPlX9nTjPtPl3dbzrW7dFQ4k-ofT47SVtXYs5-Tq0CNOKqwc4lNnfCKg_tRvVIMLSJdp2cbXeGNhMUm2kRcbJ48GgjoqkYNRbu6i_4C-efwEdYkKPTM6azOK6J9lvXtY5yAG8mZ-YbbguOFjXg/w640-h612/20230617_125712.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRUdUC4xqsceDKMzvaLzp9FeNEeh0TYdVZ3xojNCxsVIQgxRFf51WMJ7IoT32RJAUtzV3m9fS4mvyTN_48Paabt3hmcoHNEGq5dW0Aw8T9F57oHpdyTrmW3ZogGOr5hK7p_ymBzfIZljaqG2f5vQAQxBxrbQ6RHfr2BkuJ-pKT5EQ8AhFExEPbsmD4iQ/s3334/20230617_111125.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3334" data-original-width="2131" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRUdUC4xqsceDKMzvaLzp9FeNEeh0TYdVZ3xojNCxsVIQgxRFf51WMJ7IoT32RJAUtzV3m9fS4mvyTN_48Paabt3hmcoHNEGq5dW0Aw8T9F57oHpdyTrmW3ZogGOr5hK7p_ymBzfIZljaqG2f5vQAQxBxrbQ6RHfr2BkuJ-pKT5EQ8AhFExEPbsmD4iQ/w410-h640/20230617_111125.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Holly Trinity Church,</b> where there was a wedding happening, lots of people stopped to get a glimpse of the bride</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioB71g76r9UuNBjKi3G9WGzehUqjsClH5jrX6MIG_lSJr4N-10X3yJnXe0DrCL-3QJgEzpRbZZK0txse0C34rz9lxwx1hk7fWjzaO24Q9keQnCWIyKYgRa0fLawdONOz529OjZl6ie9W-YSXW_pUx62jERHvN0vmU666beFZ4fW5UuXrN42thhlMpKZw/s4032/20230617_125627.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioB71g76r9UuNBjKi3G9WGzehUqjsClH5jrX6MIG_lSJr4N-10X3yJnXe0DrCL-3QJgEzpRbZZK0txse0C34rz9lxwx1hk7fWjzaO24Q9keQnCWIyKYgRa0fLawdONOz529OjZl6ie9W-YSXW_pUx62jERHvN0vmU666beFZ4fW5UuXrN42thhlMpKZw/w360-h640/20230617_125627.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Guildhall </b>is at the end of the main street, this holds various exhibitions throughout the year, on market day you can buy fruit, veg and flowers from the Buttermarket</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmizt6kSVe5lngAWud5I28Rf5uqvRF-67vwbAeHKsWBDM0FVcYES8ED6hZWarOqfvd50vfksCWnLULEBx73qt1BnZZKwpAFxR6sh790hTUPMI7Qygwq0NZWUKBcXahHZH-zMi585j46SGeWrwu3TRT605kpab7l9C5uelVUCEjmRyEUbwKJtZ9gDG0gUW/s2888/20230617_120111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2888" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmizt6kSVe5lngAWud5I28Rf5uqvRF-67vwbAeHKsWBDM0FVcYES8ED6hZWarOqfvd50vfksCWnLULEBx73qt1BnZZKwpAFxR6sh790hTUPMI7Qygwq0NZWUKBcXahHZH-zMi585j46SGeWrwu3TRT605kpab7l9C5uelVUCEjmRyEUbwKJtZ9gDG0gUW/w426-h640/20230617_120111.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After browsing what was on offer in the markets and having some lunch in one of the cafes I thought I'd have a stroll around the other streets and be nosey at the houses and gardens, as you do. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Oh my goodness </b>there were some super cute cottages and some rather grander houses, all beautiful, I'll let you have a look</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh739dTqMoVhqas-1mavl6ES68hCHKp0NFLYOn9vXbaqg-sFjysj_nY0hZi9zFBH_jy7EUNqBIZmn82OHvtdmIcBWAK9XSitqWg7h7_JWMIoxFqi2KgbFnRz515k-z0P2-tAgGSe7lrY7jDFZF5M_SACrk4R-DkZbscMGL3MihcFPFnXT_Ue1ybvjaSnw/s3638/20230617_135202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3638" data-original-width="2052" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh739dTqMoVhqas-1mavl6ES68hCHKp0NFLYOn9vXbaqg-sFjysj_nY0hZi9zFBH_jy7EUNqBIZmn82OHvtdmIcBWAK9XSitqWg7h7_JWMIoxFqi2KgbFnRz515k-z0P2-tAgGSe7lrY7jDFZF5M_SACrk4R-DkZbscMGL3MihcFPFnXT_Ue1ybvjaSnw/w360-h640/20230617_135202.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Police Station,</b> built in 1864 is now a beautiful house and a grade II listed building, I love the blue brick brickwork.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidfpbaEdey7XHXBCZiCHa-zk9R9D26SxCfQNeycbj09-cyX4h_wPOWHcp1u96Id9IrRM0fRmoYz_2YHUC-C251der01pY1Leguig5c0M6Ah8JBFpnlmphOFd5T9nRdTVQXKI_ClpCQDgyUo3OwNsrKzIoC3PTTvkChI53Oj48RD4HzNSced1-8-IZ7Kw-s/s2065/20230617_123804.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2065" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidfpbaEdey7XHXBCZiCHa-zk9R9D26SxCfQNeycbj09-cyX4h_wPOWHcp1u96Id9IrRM0fRmoYz_2YHUC-C251der01pY1Leguig5c0M6Ah8JBFpnlmphOFd5T9nRdTVQXKI_ClpCQDgyUo3OwNsrKzIoC3PTTvkChI53Oj48RD4HzNSced1-8-IZ7Kw-s/w640-h634/20230617_123804.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't get a photo of the whole of the next building, it was the name over the doorway that caught my eye.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Apparently <b>Richard de Bastard</b> owned the original<b> </b>Hall in the 13 century, that house was destroyed by fire and was replaced by the one standing there today. I suppose the name is quite unique and that's why It's remained, still, not sure I'd like it as my address. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>There is an old estate agents listing from 2017 <a href="https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/3999948/425391969/document-0.pdf">HERE</a>, if you want to see what It's like inside.</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHLko5Ud67ZboenTh2caEyRTR1jMOI67bk6wy3m26V-rN-W-NQG0JGRNmtkBP-cxpNBo128vzHGe3V8AYk52MYnLB0JXvXjOrEFlNVTOHUeLZqcs_x5OyuPiu5_GFytAYtQ9IVTEKU4McsRFsI-NIh_IBjmDiYja2zhqf0q2o9PrDFAb5FO8y3oruYoUkN/s3501/20230617_124226.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3501" data-original-width="2135" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHLko5Ud67ZboenTh2caEyRTR1jMOI67bk6wy3m26V-rN-W-NQG0JGRNmtkBP-cxpNBo128vzHGe3V8AYk52MYnLB0JXvXjOrEFlNVTOHUeLZqcs_x5OyuPiu5_GFytAYtQ9IVTEKU4McsRFsI-NIh_IBjmDiYja2zhqf0q2o9PrDFAb5FO8y3oruYoUkN/w390-h640/20230617_124226.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aren't they gorgeous? Now of course I want roses growing around my door too 😁😁</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think I may try to go back to <b>Much Wenlock</b> for a visit again soon as there is lots more to see, there is an old Priory which I didn't have time for on Saturday and <b>Wenlock Edge </b>for wooded and scenic walks</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Before I sign off I'd like to thank those of you who left me a comment on my last post. It means a lot that you took the time to write me a few words. This first week without Millie in the house has been a strange one, It seems quieter somehow, even though Millie wasn't a very vocal cat, (neither is Molly).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> It was always Millie who greeted me at the door If I'd been out, I've missed that, a lot. Molly has seemed a bit quieter too, she has lost her best friend and sleeping companion, they used to lie together all the time so she must be feeling her absence too poor thing. Hopefully she'll perk up again soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-69706407099717173452023-06-11T18:48:00.000+01:002023-06-11T18:48:00.469+01:00Our Millie<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXyAtx8EO1s0XWCiCfJ248xmjaOxcj0qj7SyoM0CHHgZj4KHZ8NRtmrzV9KXu5CJ-92kogfSG6pqXgDDfNhGQGJrLC-t69KFnNyjxI9BCf80Dy-WOng_dejA-BQqoONa3IicmOsUxupTm2oLvsZtHscrsV_TYLKW-vZxsxf4DBkTphmy3gYe5cy08TQ/s2620/_MG_7013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2620" data-original-width="2167" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoXyAtx8EO1s0XWCiCfJ248xmjaOxcj0qj7SyoM0CHHgZj4KHZ8NRtmrzV9KXu5CJ-92kogfSG6pqXgDDfNhGQGJrLC-t69KFnNyjxI9BCf80Dy-WOng_dejA-BQqoONa3IicmOsUxupTm2oLvsZtHscrsV_TYLKW-vZxsxf4DBkTphmy3gYe5cy08TQ/w530-h640/_MG_7013.JPG" width="530" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-vFN29Rt0CtNkeihUyNWl87IVwi3VqLcW72DyvcaRV_qr-SOF2P9Ynvq34b03MG4dqklbnxGIo6Fqqx8oc4JNbPVBEYQeN0oBeM4OeaK1MdCvHIOV1zR6epyzJ9NkK3-JQIpNAOAP2bRTKsw2q7GUoYmTdmNdeWzUrmidKGvvf1CPuiw0ltXzPUcjA/s3166/IMG_8938-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3166" data-original-width="2706" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-vFN29Rt0CtNkeihUyNWl87IVwi3VqLcW72DyvcaRV_qr-SOF2P9Ynvq34b03MG4dqklbnxGIo6Fqqx8oc4JNbPVBEYQeN0oBeM4OeaK1MdCvHIOV1zR6epyzJ9NkK3-JQIpNAOAP2bRTKsw2q7GUoYmTdmNdeWzUrmidKGvvf1CPuiw0ltXzPUcjA/w548-h640/IMG_8938-1.JPG" width="548" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">I'm so very sad to say that we had to say goodbye to Millie on Friday. </p><p style="text-align: center;">She had been getting steadily worse over the last month or so and last Tuesday I noticed she was having trouble with one of her back legs and that It was swollen. A trip to the vets that night revealed it was fluid, she had it in both back legs but one was very bad. We were told that there was nothing that could be done for that and it was probably time to think about letting her go. </p><p style="text-align: center;">From then she didn't want to leave her bed much, only to eat, which was very little, and to lie in the sunshine on the step occasionally. The swelling seemed to go down a bit but by Friday morning she was clearly struggling to walk very far at all and we could tell that It was time.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You can imagine how I felt, I was in bits. I wanted her to have her last hours in the comfort of her own home, and we were able to arrange that, but waiting for the vet to arrive was just awful. In the end she was comfortable in her bed and had all her favorite treats, cake, some milk and a cheese triangle. She didn't even notice the vet was there and I was right there beside her all the time. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Millie chose us 19 years ago, running to us and climbing onto Stevies lap as we knelt down to look at a pile of kittens asleep on the floor, I remember saying to Stevie that we have to have this one because she has chosen us. We have always been glad that she was the one that came home with us that day. She had such a quiet gentle soul but could be oh so funny and very playful. </p><p style="text-align: center;">We were blessed to have her with us for so long and will always miss her sweet little face.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJl28F4uowdORgi636yseDYPsLQJqrncKYC9aP9WfRVr77F0NWGsPDMkpQfrbQHmQRwWen5ZH4qww-JSZngzp6gcvgO1Y8T9dKMInOtY0Pp2CwE8aRQAjUm1wV2Lq8-xmzUOLD0Og58CArnn1RROFg74oWpL9NAHAnQQTaLQaUymqC0krbNuEt7IxKYw/s290/IMG_0558.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="231" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJl28F4uowdORgi636yseDYPsLQJqrncKYC9aP9WfRVr77F0NWGsPDMkpQfrbQHmQRwWen5ZH4qww-JSZngzp6gcvgO1Y8T9dKMInOtY0Pp2CwE8aRQAjUm1wV2Lq8-xmzUOLD0Og58CArnn1RROFg74oWpL9NAHAnQQTaLQaUymqC0krbNuEt7IxKYw/w510-h640/IMG_0558.JPG" width="510" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Sleep tight my beautiful girl</p><p style="text-align: center;">-X-</p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-53425278940679822122023-05-31T15:38:00.002+01:002023-05-31T15:38:33.517+01:00Day out and the Welcome Autumn chart winner<p style="text-align: center;"> Last Friday I went with Joanne and the two kids to Thomas Land at Drayton Manor Park. We had a great time, Bonnie and Jacob really enjoyed themselves and were as good as gold all day. Jacob is sometimes a bit of a handful, he isn't good at holding hands and has a tendency to bolt if anything takes his interest. We had a little talk before setting off, If he started running around he would have to have his reigns on. He must have taken notice because he held either mine or Joanne's hand all day. I've never seen a kid so excited by all the rides we went on, he had so much fun and didn't stop laughing all day, it was lovely to see his excitement. The only thing he was wary of was the massive T Rex in the dinosaur park, can't lame him, from a distance it looked very real!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ONpi8JtsrpUCy34rBjU4RRBFHFX-lKJH2IjvzhFet94CMxGUMrdR7RXQ7w6gAfh0Ejd2VehctxSuqV71Jdi2dhcpdqUiYsEszytdj52M85pGJy-m8HJIPlCNNT3JtmKhOf88ciDzPGpwprsuVeokNGtl7AgATQpq9LizQiLBVUyMr8Y_zT_kJUK7fw/s4032/20230526_111818.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ONpi8JtsrpUCy34rBjU4RRBFHFX-lKJH2IjvzhFet94CMxGUMrdR7RXQ7w6gAfh0Ejd2VehctxSuqV71Jdi2dhcpdqUiYsEszytdj52M85pGJy-m8HJIPlCNNT3JtmKhOf88ciDzPGpwprsuVeokNGtl7AgATQpq9LizQiLBVUyMr8Y_zT_kJUK7fw/w360-h640/20230526_111818.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizgnu2JZ9Z_pH3qJFVUdzxytiWL4OhZAoFFxSxFRZ5QQORGJ5KfMQZ8mdlMtg0ixFnxg-d2KBTTIbCwLEaH9rdkLX0BRRHdnA-jXqzzFiPHDMV4cgK_0v5b6mouznaWQLWPSaYBy7mOaRXMaSJO5bJnGOQ6Dxb4DztiMHQNWRvBoQx3EJmE8RtgpFuGQ/s2880/20230531_145030.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDaGasnOdiE2YWKZBPr-OH2OsGs4ZykuFaHzwO3SBzbH9aZF4KLjSaB3_8T8K6Bb3Qm3iwqM8Nqx-PN087F6pRyz9Tu-1YnJTRiHaEggbnF2Ivrg0vlRmaovz9OkUvRqQ0SUpBFoLT1l8ztfShqdwxA1dGf29_T6mYHWpN72jRdQcoZtWWzKNqpYdvJQ/s3024/20230526_142220.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDaGasnOdiE2YWKZBPr-OH2OsGs4ZykuFaHzwO3SBzbH9aZF4KLjSaB3_8T8K6Bb3Qm3iwqM8Nqx-PN087F6pRyz9Tu-1YnJTRiHaEggbnF2Ivrg0vlRmaovz9OkUvRqQ0SUpBFoLT1l8ztfShqdwxA1dGf29_T6mYHWpN72jRdQcoZtWWzKNqpYdvJQ/w640-h640/20230526_142220.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~</div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>New stitching start...</b> It's the last Wednesday in the month which means it's stitching group tonight, I'll be taking my new start, <b>Pumpkin Spice Everything by The Scarlett House. </b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I did sit and stitch for a while this afternoon, not many stitches, but it's a start.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprGSVoyhULQoxER-yptFzS_vHBPsOxlsC1krrbNlTd7Mod3mQCCCdhbYbaxefhvFfUl9A6FFHnmbzvtOhuPdlz2pM2OYGpYC0Pa5ne73_Q64yrycfFTuA-dEdv4DGXdqJ_vSsJxHpwICjESuAlRjXQ8twDKXjyzbc42olJctpl86m-nLxFbJQX1w7bw/s3125/20230531_150943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3125" data-original-width="2268" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprGSVoyhULQoxER-yptFzS_vHBPsOxlsC1krrbNlTd7Mod3mQCCCdhbYbaxefhvFfUl9A6FFHnmbzvtOhuPdlz2pM2OYGpYC0Pa5ne73_Q64yrycfFTuA-dEdv4DGXdqJ_vSsJxHpwICjESuAlRjXQ8twDKXjyzbc42olJctpl86m-nLxFbJQX1w7bw/w464-h640/20230531_150943.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>And finally,</b> as promised I've drawn a winner for the <b>Welcome Autumn chart.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_k4y2N1B6IN4r94rUma-m2AU6CDlw5gFkchLj4tmWrYZgOGAvIeMXJGMsHkz0IeeQ5U0Wk51juUjHoCqCo-G4f1g_Uten0YriCScpz-d3JUi7vYosrD5tzJrOjdx-BbfXTRvyp3sHC5f4voZHO-s_dYnF3NmG8E8XzGGpVy1ZIOty7Ta0DYVNlTtE7Q/s2935/20230516_150439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2935" data-original-width="2219" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_k4y2N1B6IN4r94rUma-m2AU6CDlw5gFkchLj4tmWrYZgOGAvIeMXJGMsHkz0IeeQ5U0Wk51juUjHoCqCo-G4f1g_Uten0YriCScpz-d3JUi7vYosrD5tzJrOjdx-BbfXTRvyp3sHC5f4voZHO-s_dYnF3NmG8E8XzGGpVy1ZIOty7Ta0DYVNlTtE7Q/w303-h400/20230516_150439.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Sue! <a href="https://sues-asifbymagic.blogspot.com/">(Sues-asifbymagic.blogspot,com)</a> you are the winner!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Please can you drop me an email with your address Sue, (my email is in the right hand side bar) and I will get it in the post for you :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Enjoy the rest of your week</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-43014206913371451122023-05-25T13:09:00.001+01:002023-05-25T17:07:11.326+01:00Fancy frock<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm off to my book club in a few minutes but just had to pop in before I go to show you my latest sewing finish. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been slowly plugging away at making this dress for a while and yesterday I finally finished it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm really happy with how it came out, can't quite believe that I actually made something wearable!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH0FpH2nmEVT_BDEK0N1b3lEL0dawN8kZTCFtx1kTZ_-pzJyHdxPK3Kldfdm08kxDB55YDEVYm7u9hKYz8lKkLi8MSt8ZOWkEdXYrKvU-CsIjy8kYY2xigMuRq3N9c9kAnaw4jDJD2mmD4m8UmSBda6bujsPr87_p0smB8kofC5G8M0HXbN0GkNfIoxA/s3619/20230524_153728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3619" data-original-width="1813" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH0FpH2nmEVT_BDEK0N1b3lEL0dawN8kZTCFtx1kTZ_-pzJyHdxPK3Kldfdm08kxDB55YDEVYm7u9hKYz8lKkLi8MSt8ZOWkEdXYrKvU-CsIjy8kYY2xigMuRq3N9c9kAnaw4jDJD2mmD4m8UmSBda6bujsPr87_p0smB8kofC5G8M0HXbN0GkNfIoxA/w320-h640/20230524_153728.jpg" width="320" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The pattern is <b>Hinterland Dress by Sew Liberated. </b>It wasn't difficult really, but I had the help of Holly at my sewing class for advice and help with anything I wasn't sure of. I only worked on it at my weekly sewing class, which is one reason why it took much longer than It should have. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The only criticism I have is nothing to do with the pattern and everything to do with me. In the time it's taken me to make it I've lost almost a stone in weight. At the moment I can get away with it but it will definitely be to big if I reach the weight I'm aiming for.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I chickened out on making button holes, (I don't feel confident enough to tackle those yet) so the bodice placket is false. The wooden buttons I purchase at Holly's shop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmhPDsAJyVeNsMiXD8STOag-7BzQ-znUuCVfhzwadciI4xD-UG0B0xVxiFoFlEaHluHxlBTpu_XhH08NSbdLnFQ5FChY3AP7fKDvU2zsvKG7x_7umZz2xz4J2jbTp1Ui5rleDCKwZ90ImGUKYQtpVSxoIRQ_UyVbV_cNJaKLwb1710BEpoPAmjqP7Xg/s3874/20230524_153510.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3874" data-original-width="1816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmhPDsAJyVeNsMiXD8STOag-7BzQ-znUuCVfhzwadciI4xD-UG0B0xVxiFoFlEaHluHxlBTpu_XhH08NSbdLnFQ5FChY3AP7fKDvU2zsvKG7x_7umZz2xz4J2jbTp1Ui5rleDCKwZ90ImGUKYQtpVSxoIRQ_UyVbV_cNJaKLwb1710BEpoPAmjqP7Xg/w300-h640/20230524_153510.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm already planning on making another one. I think It will be good to repeat the process so that I can get familiar with some techniques, and also to make a smaller size. I'm considering going down two sizes to give myself the motivation to get to my goal weight, watch this space!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>PS. Don't forget the giveaway on my last post is still open. if you want to be in with a chance of winning the chart please throw your name in the hat, (if you haven't already) before the end of the month!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-14758746258756783332023-05-16T17:20:00.005+01:002023-05-16T17:43:23.504+01:00Welcome Autumn, a pillow finish<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Back in October</b></span> I was lucky enough to win a give away from <a href="https://mein-allerlei-hobby.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2022-10-10T08:56:00%2B02:00&max-results=2&start=12&by-date=false">Martina </a>and chose this as the piece to stitch on at the last Nimble Thimble meet-up. I finished all the stitching whilst I was away that following week and made it into a little pillow last week. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Welcome Autumn by Primrose Cottage Stitches</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEYbnU0YCqHGS1A7NmmW020OqXOSSt9-avsDp0KJapSVPs1QeaN0swBuBs8wwf03WlcfI_NnxEj2DdQJbvj9cVlp_ERynJ0INmIyOQEF2WaSS9Pk-jXb2oJhTYrAOZosdRP_9DPr8TVewWA4Q4FZb1jcc6nijSBr1nplfKvaIEPkPSJbd93GT9oViIw/s3208/20230515_141032.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2119" data-original-width="3208" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaEYbnU0YCqHGS1A7NmmW020OqXOSSt9-avsDp0KJapSVPs1QeaN0swBuBs8wwf03WlcfI_NnxEj2DdQJbvj9cVlp_ERynJ0INmIyOQEF2WaSS9Pk-jXb2oJhTYrAOZosdRP_9DPr8TVewWA4Q4FZb1jcc6nijSBr1nplfKvaIEPkPSJbd93GT9oViIw/w640-h422/20230515_141032.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I really enjoyed this one and so I'd like to pass the kindness on and offer the<b> CHART </b>as a give away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj05lkJB1VRGFLl6lS8NKbzTIb-q9sKdb-10HGr8Azsex4osOMvwnYP5RmXlv4mK5J4X5UILLZf4Um_pg3K6-xQijRufiHN5WkRqhADtWF-21O2wpJp3c0OrkO3-kBRME4EJ9MOo5c6cy_QHS74XhmCScUerkdDBuMgzrNneXy9fS_oE0UY5hJkBwq_cg/s2935/20230516_150439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2935" data-original-width="2219" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj05lkJB1VRGFLl6lS8NKbzTIb-q9sKdb-10HGr8Azsex4osOMvwnYP5RmXlv4mK5J4X5UILLZf4Um_pg3K6-xQijRufiHN5WkRqhADtWF-21O2wpJp3c0OrkO3-kBRME4EJ9MOo5c6cy_QHS74XhmCScUerkdDBuMgzrNneXy9fS_oE0UY5hJkBwq_cg/w484-h640/20230516_150439.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>So, If you fancy stitching this for yourself and would like to win the chart please say so in your comment and I will draw a name at the end of May.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>After </b>what seems like weeks of rain we are finally getting some sunny days at last, Saturday afternoon was spent in the garden tidying things up and today I've planted up the last of the bedding plants in the pots. Everything is filling out and the garden looks a lot fuller than it did just a few weeks ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SeRtu909l7-6t2-EoaXOpvYoU9R-amNEEbZ_scPABvLu2HjM62TnNjaeGpeT1RjWUKhoBkVw8QVk-kHC74vIEFEGhpBt52SE33TpIuJhq7jK__WY2ErAhJPYbukEuL4A5XVjVubFwJbkLjlUzprTYWg1HK-DxaI5Rbzk9DRRnbpmu7gyzaB0Stunxw/s4032/20230513_175424.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SeRtu909l7-6t2-EoaXOpvYoU9R-amNEEbZ_scPABvLu2HjM62TnNjaeGpeT1RjWUKhoBkVw8QVk-kHC74vIEFEGhpBt52SE33TpIuJhq7jK__WY2ErAhJPYbukEuL4A5XVjVubFwJbkLjlUzprTYWg1HK-DxaI5Rbzk9DRRnbpmu7gyzaB0Stunxw/w288-h640/20230513_175424.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkZbyhbBYmecScZXWGkyjdCnzsJE85XlyI41J8tvgipEO2P4Dr5aZqpUi37NwN1UphsFp2V2Gy_XvojTCyEVvSsoeNAPDTEkLFdpYMxdIwWYPp13_haCOzbsrobuRmvOBb3ntFIHc1C1s6mW5INbX-sBQieLgI5giosnftKFcVLzh2CCYQ9o8AKrpmg/s4032/20230513_131047.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkZbyhbBYmecScZXWGkyjdCnzsJE85XlyI41J8tvgipEO2P4Dr5aZqpUi37NwN1UphsFp2V2Gy_XvojTCyEVvSsoeNAPDTEkLFdpYMxdIwWYPp13_haCOzbsrobuRmvOBb3ntFIHc1C1s6mW5INbX-sBQieLgI5giosnftKFcVLzh2CCYQ9o8AKrpmg/w288-h640/20230513_131047.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKHKNY2UyqpePRq1pJ2bKjYjQGiO_u38NM3vvddmD4-FAfTyKtJAb9kDsd7ZxTgt9Q_CMHLYPlkwI-MbZe2HMCjzfVgzfOE6JTPkZN0ZtJeGq2sTobCDq5f3dZyRu11hy2o4d0-3j5Z3_zdho2cs74tax0wjgRubvmln47DXuFspS3lO_eBmHIS1nbw/s4032/20230513_131030.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1816" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKHKNY2UyqpePRq1pJ2bKjYjQGiO_u38NM3vvddmD4-FAfTyKtJAb9kDsd7ZxTgt9Q_CMHLYPlkwI-MbZe2HMCjzfVgzfOE6JTPkZN0ZtJeGq2sTobCDq5f3dZyRu11hy2o4d0-3j5Z3_zdho2cs74tax0wjgRubvmln47DXuFspS3lO_eBmHIS1nbw/w288-h640/20230513_131030.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I know I post a photo every year but I'm just so proud of my Hosta It has to be done :-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just to give you an idea how big it is, that gap is about 5 foot across. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've never had a problem with slugs and snails because of the copper tape around the pot, it really does work, there is no need to change it every year, it's been on this pot for years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL1xEYU-RxBKSKmEyK_QinUGagWkV4EspcOOE5S1EWskMntD6mOz85G6j-Rec0xxEJTi6C74HWc-kdnC5uY09Ce7BKvoBVrQtXzaUdlsNGre9mNPegVhklUolBd0-bcBHUK-RU1GKPNUb43Nzg2uYulAhLET67fQ8LmPscz6f6uW4aSZkUJ_7Sf4fmA/s3156/20230516_103036.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2215" data-original-width="3156" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXL1xEYU-RxBKSKmEyK_QinUGagWkV4EspcOOE5S1EWskMntD6mOz85G6j-Rec0xxEJTi6C74HWc-kdnC5uY09Ce7BKvoBVrQtXzaUdlsNGre9mNPegVhklUolBd0-bcBHUK-RU1GKPNUb43Nzg2uYulAhLET67fQ8LmPscz6f6uW4aSZkUJ_7Sf4fmA/w640-h450/20230516_103036.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's me all caught up for now, I hope you enjoy what's left of the week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-52062001552671077662023-05-10T20:13:00.000+01:002023-05-10T20:13:05.540+01:00This week<p style="text-align: center;">I finished the socks I cast on when I was away while watching the coronation on Saturday. The yarn is by <b>Felt Fusion</b> in the colourway Little Dancer on their hight twist zebra base. In hindsight I wish I had used a contrast for the heel and toes, still, I think they came out fine and no one sees heels and toes when they are in your shoes do they 😉</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3Q2cwp1fne2rOR9s-wORbQeDwecQ5BxYahGf_NbOSzrYJ7lIx9-Sz1wxBdYkrBrdYEXiuvDQGaPtBB9litc3yGKEUVqDHPhkpecNnz5QWdpYW81_invLDUS2mLWTFV18_gJV75Hdn8TnTAz6ZzOxdb9POERa_mCRjwgqEw1dsMtygTV7ctg5s7x6hQ/s2762/20230509_145743.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2762" data-original-width="2157" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3Q2cwp1fne2rOR9s-wORbQeDwecQ5BxYahGf_NbOSzrYJ7lIx9-Sz1wxBdYkrBrdYEXiuvDQGaPtBB9litc3yGKEUVqDHPhkpecNnz5QWdpYW81_invLDUS2mLWTFV18_gJV75Hdn8TnTAz6ZzOxdb9POERa_mCRjwgqEw1dsMtygTV7ctg5s7x6hQ/w500-h640/20230509_145743.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Last Thursday</b> Oliver and Arty had an inset day, Jenny was at work so dropped them here in the morning and I took them for a day out at Wightwick Manor. It's somewhere I've been a few times, as have the boys, the grounds are lovely, there is plenty of open space for the boys to run around and as it was a school day for most children It was fairly quiet. Luckily the weather was nice enough for us to sit and enjoy our picnic outside where we could watch the baby geese. Once the boys had burnt off some energy running round we went to look around inside the house, I didn't take any photos of the interior this time but I've posted a couple times previously about Wightwick Manor, if you want to have a peek, <a href="http://crossblackcountry.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-sunday-at-wightwick-manor.html">here</a> in 2016 and <a href="http://crossblackcountry.blogspot.com/search/label/Wightwick%20Manor">here</a> in 2021. In one of the final rooms was a dressing up box, they both had fun trying on different outfits, I managed to get Arty to stand still long enough to get a photo.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqZykPEGxAhqDvKiv4l-Pf5waRfN-fh9gIeRGJuHItft74t9--KPlb1wapCRTk04bUlNd9yULSjbGscWyAjJALUipo8jSDoPGzGwtuJLY1GTYQXa5s9ep9oqh36MpqinCJzdt_dt_I52haEwQqB5tIF_Ljcf6L7QpQinhqMg-tV6FGF_b8AtCz245dw/s1834/20230504_151628.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1606" data-original-width="1834" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqZykPEGxAhqDvKiv4l-Pf5waRfN-fh9gIeRGJuHItft74t9--KPlb1wapCRTk04bUlNd9yULSjbGscWyAjJALUipo8jSDoPGzGwtuJLY1GTYQXa5s9ep9oqh36MpqinCJzdt_dt_I52haEwQqB5tIF_Ljcf6L7QpQinhqMg-tV6FGF_b8AtCz245dw/w640-h560/20230504_151628.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoduRAD3JfGQRTPYmb2uaVU9_rNh2BGXGFfxc-71CDrRHECUWHDahrRYeCd-_TOEc3MzetQ0chQt0sZIh0r8UhZmkKyya9RDISepSfX8auAIcBBRdoh7BSv0gKgFBbtGMx2YDzhkzvkXQDg7FHOd-UxDOSNXCZ7KKSk0RtOqzuinnUVwbbrfh8GgzJ-w/s4032/20230504_121419.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="4032" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoduRAD3JfGQRTPYmb2uaVU9_rNh2BGXGFfxc-71CDrRHECUWHDahrRYeCd-_TOEc3MzetQ0chQt0sZIh0r8UhZmkKyya9RDISepSfX8auAIcBBRdoh7BSv0gKgFBbtGMx2YDzhkzvkXQDg7FHOd-UxDOSNXCZ7KKSk0RtOqzuinnUVwbbrfh8GgzJ-w/w640-h288/20230504_121419.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhspGaVKPEBqW9S127NfCT_gkkMpyS-KPH68gAPzJdhu6q5hggwEu1LHsn3w-TroeMnT48FP5E4IPyBgtZwXIz_CwrOHrPVohtU2kiqI8eu3aaQlNHn0b4MX3EW54l_6G7S682pvhNViWsJDyYT-FZe2wRh_l0sSZ9YqTyK-c4tl_itPpMZSGyfvx8jcA/s3216/20230504_114926.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3216" data-original-width="2133" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhspGaVKPEBqW9S127NfCT_gkkMpyS-KPH68gAPzJdhu6q5hggwEu1LHsn3w-TroeMnT48FP5E4IPyBgtZwXIz_CwrOHrPVohtU2kiqI8eu3aaQlNHn0b4MX3EW54l_6G7S682pvhNViWsJDyYT-FZe2wRh_l0sSZ9YqTyK-c4tl_itPpMZSGyfvx8jcA/w424-h640/20230504_114926.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUh7F7I-wXjF8Pp4KE5TmNt6aTPZN7m7FxG-tAbGmOIo1DQl186B7fil6z3QdSEd8wUz-Hzp_Wg6Lk1zN65hVdk0W1O3I1g446mv0nRg9JBVHCzNO5MAfuhc-KYc7xD5DYqo-pN2n82zQKTzjFKv-UmddzmggNOy7m0YAo9btBMiDUbZ1ivanFJLRQA/s3942/20230504_150009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2217" data-original-width="3942" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIUh7F7I-wXjF8Pp4KE5TmNt6aTPZN7m7FxG-tAbGmOIo1DQl186B7fil6z3QdSEd8wUz-Hzp_Wg6Lk1zN65hVdk0W1O3I1g446mv0nRg9JBVHCzNO5MAfuhc-KYc7xD5DYqo-pN2n82zQKTzjFKv-UmddzmggNOy7m0YAo9btBMiDUbZ1ivanFJLRQA/w640-h360/20230504_150009.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhP6fLJuYgHkKXToQSE5aGNERkq-xXUTfKfhjVeSQkkgRMDwkImrFl8_nfGRrP-VXDwAr40FPZh9c4kKWFx1wNJlc4BcdTpQeIfxaOAi4e4qed445RKlmV4olihUkW8XeRT2CWUFtJofKUtw5qwWe_3fMvQlwIbRaiPLfOWrAc-vLvWcH614xLCiUOQ/s2880/20230509_151254.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhP6fLJuYgHkKXToQSE5aGNERkq-xXUTfKfhjVeSQkkgRMDwkImrFl8_nfGRrP-VXDwAr40FPZh9c4kKWFx1wNJlc4BcdTpQeIfxaOAi4e4qed445RKlmV4olihUkW8XeRT2CWUFtJofKUtw5qwWe_3fMvQlwIbRaiPLfOWrAc-vLvWcH614xLCiUOQ/w640-h640/20230509_151254.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>The weather is a bit hit and miss </b>at the moment, shame it rained all day for the coronation, although it didn't seem to dampen anyones spirit for celebrating in London, Sunday was a much better day, very warm and sunny, good job too as there were many street parties organised, including one in our little cul de sac. We had jobs to get done so didn't go, but I did send along a couple of bottles and our apologies for not joining in this time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>That's about all</b> the goings on this week, I'll leave you with some photos of the lovely tulips we had this year. I these bought these online from Farmer Gracy, on the whole they were great but a few didn't open and the head just went mouldy, never had that happen before so not sure what happened.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6JvfLo-bJqGYDWB7B_1mVhBYFUAdSrT-n9U50sOP6HkwHWO-iEOnRcREWGpAKu_s4pelmyRjXAQpNsfwwgnhYtdLXba-JUX6VBv33997wTHlzggHlBWY1NePyX7GR2FEOui1nTrM11-QxA8EHiOeDj28SUoQ9kFmcxFbzg4No7-bAeqnaEliGQX1_3g/s3152/IMG_20230420_234126_434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="3152" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6JvfLo-bJqGYDWB7B_1mVhBYFUAdSrT-n9U50sOP6HkwHWO-iEOnRcREWGpAKu_s4pelmyRjXAQpNsfwwgnhYtdLXba-JUX6VBv33997wTHlzggHlBWY1NePyX7GR2FEOui1nTrM11-QxA8EHiOeDj28SUoQ9kFmcxFbzg4No7-bAeqnaEliGQX1_3g/w640-h368/IMG_20230420_234126_434.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZOO4wjl_TjCTjpkgSakrg29aTxZmwpAxWsU1ALI5S5QvRtV_XI_gx1CXSCldg3ljEwpHQiqaLSxWqq-kftTs6yMkogMax3C12Bhlf2fDx_Nq0m1AmMLiM-jEjo-fcDBYkndzNyjgDWjtZ8mn_Rlem-uU0B4ROCyBxz_nTwjccMbese1mAE2eaTPaog/s2880/20230509_151157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ZOO4wjl_TjCTjpkgSakrg29aTxZmwpAxWsU1ALI5S5QvRtV_XI_gx1CXSCldg3ljEwpHQiqaLSxWqq-kftTs6yMkogMax3C12Bhlf2fDx_Nq0m1AmMLiM-jEjo-fcDBYkndzNyjgDWjtZ8mn_Rlem-uU0B4ROCyBxz_nTwjccMbese1mAE2eaTPaog/w640-h640/20230509_151157.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks for popping by, see you soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412818587055987458.post-40929602493960836922023-05-01T22:29:00.000+01:002023-05-01T22:29:30.261+01:00Stick6in2023 - March and April<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope your May Bank Holiday</span></b> went well, however you chose to spend it. It's been a busy one for us, nothing very exciting but something that has been in the planning for a while. This morning we emptied and dismantling the wardrobes ready for the next stage of the bedroom decoration, and this afternoon was spent in the garden. Everything is growing at a rate now, I really noticed the difference after a week away when I came back on Saturday. We didn't sit down until after 6pm, hence the lateness of my post but, as it's the 1st of May I wanted to share my finish for the <b>Stick6in2023 </b>hosted by <b>Martina </b>and <b>Manuela.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b>I am choosing to take part in the easier option of choosing six charts for the year and allocating each of them a number, 1-6. <b>The number 2 </b>was chosen for March and April and this was my chart with that number allocated.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Oct 31 by Cottage Garden Samplings</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I stitched it on 36 count linen, 1 over 2. I used the recommend threads with the exception of the black used in the raven, for that I used DMC 310 in place of overdyed called for.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSk_dwJb9_jrK6DRgN54VUBuzy9z4MeZZlIpL9L9aNzRaOwJa_qDaBJG4gQm6Nl8zsC59GhW2cbm7pFZhENmyRxIX-2NkYb05H0DQpH-3jBB7XqGPZAGg2TgvSlqXXO6w_SLMcaMtyuE142U0j7V5EwJFckJ2wvrSMdrYy6IDvxlCi6N4wrKUn0wDT1Q/s3048/20230418_131548.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3048" data-original-width="3020" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSk_dwJb9_jrK6DRgN54VUBuzy9z4MeZZlIpL9L9aNzRaOwJa_qDaBJG4gQm6Nl8zsC59GhW2cbm7pFZhENmyRxIX-2NkYb05H0DQpH-3jBB7XqGPZAGg2TgvSlqXXO6w_SLMcaMtyuE142U0j7V5EwJFckJ2wvrSMdrYy6IDvxlCi6N4wrKUn0wDT1Q/w634-h640/20230418_131548.jpg" width="634" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypGGlRrFNSo4AlS5Fe9PD77Ly8Wxa7U3oMZiOHufmbmDXRO2ExRsZ8i-0rsSvJg1L5Jmvl8CouO9UHJQS7tHNVpRBYJ8JrbWCJ9-dji9NaTTqTISEWvfsZ9gh5mS_5az2EJaZyXTKC_KBrjGf9_hkmQoSBdd9Q3XM5cF7yhHNjj6LMZ46na0H9MZQxA/s4032/20230418_131242.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypGGlRrFNSo4AlS5Fe9PD77Ly8Wxa7U3oMZiOHufmbmDXRO2ExRsZ8i-0rsSvJg1L5Jmvl8CouO9UHJQS7tHNVpRBYJ8JrbWCJ9-dji9NaTTqTISEWvfsZ9gh5mS_5az2EJaZyXTKC_KBrjGf9_hkmQoSBdd9Q3XM5cF7yhHNjj6LMZ46na0H9MZQxA/w480-h640/20230418_131242.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was drawn to the pumpkin on this chart, although I do think the raven is mighty fine too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here it is all framed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>(Apologies for the poor photo It was getting dark when I took it and this was the best of a bad bunch)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZEtgfdxjkR-BcwlTem1ND6U6HWIFQxVtYs0vE_gGf7fut_xaXpyT37A-bUR3KFFbj-HzWe7UPe2wkTsdQGX1OPxD0XTOK_NF0lzE69w4-PMkt0kG51TmT1RQSyfKT9mWUQeLeGqvEq8goBE4IbqWnv9-ZVZkUQxWq-y73gpl9GBK4plvhnpKELLPGUg/s2397/20230501_202643.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2397" data-original-width="1881" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZEtgfdxjkR-BcwlTem1ND6U6HWIFQxVtYs0vE_gGf7fut_xaXpyT37A-bUR3KFFbj-HzWe7UPe2wkTsdQGX1OPxD0XTOK_NF0lzE69w4-PMkt0kG51TmT1RQSyfKT9mWUQeLeGqvEq8goBE4IbqWnv9-ZVZkUQxWq-y73gpl9GBK4plvhnpKELLPGUg/w502-h640/20230501_202643.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I ended up ordering a frame from Amazon after trawling around various shops looking for something suitable. I know a lot of you mention buying frames at charity shops for finishing, I do look but never seem to get lucky.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The number 3 </b>has been pulled for May and June and have everything ready and looking forward to make a start at the weekend.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Part two of my day in Conwy </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The walls around Conwy </b>were built between 1283 and 1287 as part of the defence system alongside Conwy Castle. It takes around three quarters of an hour to walk and they can be accessed from three gateways at different sections. Again, amazing views of the small town and in the distance the castle. 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text-align: center;">As I'd started my walk in the middle I re-traced my steps and then continued the rest of the walk.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbs4nTBMLanvn2aU-adoUJfs0AVEH_gLCjk3JlYyWMxuTqJQaudEJaGW22S_2TWw9D1kYMUrZfU1iO31a9UEDqg72OlujYygx7et9VmRyo--0K1GRbL3WwhmEgf7CKMiNMbqXZZfS-v8jUgLyMIEz4Yna1Dk_21YY43NkrznZiCNElD6BIoamfDNC2zQ/s4032/20230425_133127.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="4032" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbs4nTBMLanvn2aU-adoUJfs0AVEH_gLCjk3JlYyWMxuTqJQaudEJaGW22S_2TWw9D1kYMUrZfU1iO31a9UEDqg72OlujYygx7et9VmRyo--0K1GRbL3WwhmEgf7CKMiNMbqXZZfS-v8jUgLyMIEz4Yna1Dk_21YY43NkrznZiCNElD6BIoamfDNC2zQ/w640-h288/20230425_133127.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I thoroughly enjoyed my day out in Conwy, although it's definitely a town for sight seeing, you would be disappointed if you went for the shopping experience. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>I promised myself </b>that when I visited Llandudno again I would walk around the Great Orme. It's five miles along Marine Drive, there are some sections with quite an incline but that was ok, I could stop and have a rest while taking in the wonderful views, I was in no rush. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't take many photos this time but there are plenty to see on a previous post, <a href="http://crossblackcountry.blogspot.com/2021/09/driving-great-orme.html">Driving The Great Orme.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbV-e1EIz816B-br25_RCq53bhe8JSMHHDIWZxRu1rctJlXgei9S0WexSHiHAiPAYKt6uU2CMzv2-cG92lTx8a4ERJOwJe2zg3plo46-CrQgBmaQsP1sPoKWTxV8FGSv1JZ4aZO-K3GddbGzbHFKpr0tVZLHBpTe-_gzRW6ntLGZ1LgNJGtvGXMgAizw/s4000/20230427_113712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="4000" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbV-e1EIz816B-br25_RCq53bhe8JSMHHDIWZxRu1rctJlXgei9S0WexSHiHAiPAYKt6uU2CMzv2-cG92lTx8a4ERJOwJe2zg3plo46-CrQgBmaQsP1sPoKWTxV8FGSv1JZ4aZO-K3GddbGzbHFKpr0tVZLHBpTe-_gzRW6ntLGZ1LgNJGtvGXMgAizw/w640-h288/20230427_113712.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Down on a section of beach I was lucky enough to see some seals too. The beach wasn't really accessible so they were quite safe there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpjLx3e5qRy4DUM2NRJo0yZlvbP2K67EhnrttKbH3XgfZ2GCa0EdAOY2vSPjInw2sPT7Xab4gZZ9Laek0cWT8sI1gYyls2SqPzhJgmW23l75yh7ifVRj3dnC0Aqzgz048ltNKEfLiaZX2zrB3_3QLexBmMJjKHaGAp7W5vTZ1UZJDhE_QhYDdd7WLFQ/s3405/20230427_115345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="3405" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpjLx3e5qRy4DUM2NRJo0yZlvbP2K67EhnrttKbH3XgfZ2GCa0EdAOY2vSPjInw2sPT7Xab4gZZ9Laek0cWT8sI1gYyls2SqPzhJgmW23l75yh7ifVRj3dnC0Aqzgz048ltNKEfLiaZX2zrB3_3QLexBmMJjKHaGAp7W5vTZ1UZJDhE_QhYDdd7WLFQ/w640-h342/20230427_115345.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can highly recommend a solo break, I've definitely come back more relaxed than when I went and wouldn't hesitate in doing it again sometime.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-X-</div><p></p>Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260573198415697938noreply@blogger.com9