Beautiful days at last.

 Yes at last we are now getting some beautiful days , makes you feel so good .

Well the last two weeks have been busy with appointments like  the dentist , I still have gum pain , but it is slowly going .

What else have I been up to , some gardening , knitting  a few dish cloths I love these for wiping down , stitching , still sorting out the craft room  so I can start making cards again , reading , shopping .a puzzle will be popping out soon , I have a few that I still need to do so I can pass them on. 

 We gave our grandson our big BQ  and a beautiful punch bowl , we use to have allot of house party's and outside party's , but now we go out to eat , it's easy for us to do that now. The young ones will enjoy this , they eat outside allot. When my family were young I sometimes had 18 to dinner , no way could I keep that up now . 

I enjoy someone else doing the cooking now days  I only cook a couple of meals per week now we just  find it cheaper to eat out  when there are just the two of us . I notice that lots more people are doing this , we see lots of our friends out to. 

Today I will be out in the garden , the bluebells are out now everywhere so I need to pull a few out , I also see that there are rosebuds everywhere that's early.

So not that much stitching , but I did put some stitches one of my WIPs 

   Blooms in a tea cup by Lucas S 

 

From a sweet friend Miriam.

A lovely spring gift .

Thank  you so much

                           Not much stitching but it is slowly growing 

                                    I will try and do better next week .

  But most of my time was outside now the sun came knocking on our door .

            I had to get outside in the sunshine It's been a long time with no sun.

But I have taken lots of photos from the garden , here we go.

                     Loads of blue bells and white also pink .  These have come  from the stock of my granddads and his family and could be well  over 300 yrs old or even older. 

 

 

       

                                                 Forget me not.

                               I will take some of these down to my daughters grave  

                                     I know she will have loved them.

First lily of Valley just coming out .

I hope you all have a lovely week . 

The sun is still out here so I will be outside again .

Hubby as cleaned all the slabs so it's looking good .

And we will bring out the garden furniture today .

Have a great week .

Hoping more stitching  can be shown next week 

 

                                   

 

APRIL

 Welcome friends into the month of April.

I heard my first beautiful black bird singing yesterday , he was sitting in my front window and I sat watching him , brought a few tears to my eyes , how lovely nature can be , lifted my sprit .

After all the rain we are having .

 Every day  rain with just an odd dry hour in the day , no signs of stopping this week. 

I have never known this before .

I am still working on  a different WIP each week and enjoying putting my hand in the box and pulling one out every week.

Easter flew by , and  we are now  into another week. 

For all who will be having a solar Eclipse , it's amazing thing to see, we had one once , and we stood out in the garden and the man next door came out to , we were standing there for ages , the guy next door said I think it's a load of rubbish  then we noticed all the birds flying over , which they do at night time then it went  dark it was a very wonderful moment everywhere was so still , then the sun started to show again , it is some thing you must not miss , it's  one of those moments you can't put into words . So try and watch it if you can.

So another WIP to show this week , and some lovely Easter stitched cards .

By Madame  La Fee , Bienvenue Chez Noa"s 

          The bird cage is growing .

 

I also stitched a few cards and some I forgot to show you before I posted them.

Some stitched cards that I posted . I am sorry a few were late our post is not that fast at the moment , also I was a little slow posting , this time. 

                                Here is a post card I painted.

I sent a few before I took photos .

When I take my cards down next week I will show you some lovely ones I had sent to me.

As always I will leave you with some flowers ,that are still here after our storm . 

Have a good week all .

Almost Easter.

 Yes this is the run up to Easter week .

I am no way ready , I use to decorate the porch and house , but this year I have only brought out a few decorations . I thought this year that time again is rushing away with me , or is it me getting slower , yes I think it's me and also the rain .

 But we did have one full day of sunshine this week. 

Last week we went out one night to see Choir 86 Spring into Easter . Featuring Regional Premiere of  "Requiem for the Living " by an American Composer  . It was so beautiful and a lovely evening , to start our Easter week. 

So again I have another WIP that I worked on last week , I love pulling out another WIP each week  it's so much fun . I hate when I put pressure on myself , to have to get stitching done , then I don't enjoy it .  So if I don't have to rush I enjoy it more .

So the next WIP is called  Au coeur du Jardin by Passion Bonheur.

 

            This one is calling to be a pillow for my sun lounge 

                                 Some bunnies popped in .

Fresh Spring flowers from the garden yesterday , we did see a moment of sun. 

Early Easter gift from Hubby .

 

                                 And in the wet garden !

What a shame we can not enjoy these lovely flowers , they will all be over before we can sit out in the sun shine .There you go it happens some times . 

I can see a few from the window.

Almost Easter .

 Well Easter is rolling in very soon. I thought I would get ready early for Easter , but no ! it as been so dull and none stop rain for weeks now 'with a tiny bit of sun .

Very depressing , if I want to stitch I cant see to stitch , it's so dull .

So I am now doing some useful things , like sorting  I have given bags of goodies away , that I know I will never stitch  and others will to the girls from my old club they love it. I have also found loads of stitching I never got to finish , which I love and will be stitching . I am so enjoying the sorting . I am going to meet up very soon with some ladies who knit for charity , so I have sorted out loads of toy patterns . They do some beautiful work for charity . I also found a load unfinished smalls that I need to put together.

So looks like Spring will be so busy for me . 

This week I have been working on this  cute one. I always pick up my WIPS at the start of the year, and put a few more stitches into them . There is no rush to finish them , they will be left to my many GGC in the future .

I am also stitching Easter cards that I can't show you at the moment.

   More flowers from Hubby , trouble is he now has hay fever .

So now I will leave you with the signs of Spring and very wet garden we seem to have rain every day now. Flowers love it but we are wanting and waiting for dry days . Enjoy your week.

Where did that week go ?

 Hello my friends ,

I can not get over how quick my week went . We have been a little busy but it's flew by. 

We went out for our Anniversary , but not to far because it was heavy rain all day we got so wet when we left the car to go and have lunch , and when we came out another rain storm . So we were happy to get back home. 

Sadly we also went to a funeral  on Thursday a lovely lady who passed away. 

It was an upbeat funeral a happy one not to sad. 

I really have not had much stitching time this week, I have been stitching a few Easter cards , but cannot show you yet , and I put a few stitches on a UFO .

I don't need this one yet but I thought I would put a few stitches in this week .

I need to dig deep into my next box now for this week.

 

Bumblebee  Bourdon by DMC

A lovely card for Mothers day , my daughter said look it's got a reel of thread on it bless her .

So will leave you with a few of my Spring flowers 

More rain its very heavy and dull .

Maybe it will be sunny again soon .

Enjoy your week sweet friends .

MARCH.

 Here we are another new month , I do like March it's like a new start taking us into Spring , lots of surprizes in the garden with plants and bulbs trying to break out.

February was very wet and the rain is still coming down , and its getting a little colder this week , but you know Spring is almost here.

This week really rushed by so quick , and it's been so dark for stitching I have to wait untill night time so I can put my lights on to see my stitching , so roll on Spring.We have had far to much rain , and today we have sunshine after a white frost this morning .

Tomorrow is our Anniversary  .  I never count years anymore , we just enjoy life to the fullest . But in just a few years time it will be a a letter  or card from the King .

So today is sunny with cloud and very peaceful outside apart from chirping little birds ,we love to watch them . 

So this week I have been stitching on this beauty .

Garden Interlude by Lanarte .

 

 I wanted to stay with this one , but I have a boxful to go through but will pick it up again very soon 

 

 

               Just put the last piece in  about 10 mins ago  , I am getting faster .   

                Hubby could not believe how fast  I was  .  

              I always put the outside edge in first  then it's easy .      

A gift from Hubby 

                                                

Our Spring bush ,we brought it last year ,

Not sure where to plant it yet .

And here is a photo of us from our hols last year some friends took the photo and put them on mugs we have one each , what a beautiful thought .