APRIL

 Well April is here , the garden is starting to bloom . I can hear the children out playing in the park , we have had a few beautiful days of sunshine , my eyes have to take time to get use to the brightness after the darkness of the Winter. 

Hoping everyone had a wonderful Easter , My hubby and I had the first Easter on our own this year . I thought I would not like it but it was wonderful , we had a rest relaxed done a few jobs outside and made lots of plans for the future . 

My daughter worked this year , but she phoned us and we had a good chat , she has a new pet rabbit called Bucks fizz , So hubby has been picking up all her rabbit bits for her like a new pen and run and food .

Our garden is  alive with colour , even a rose bud ready to come out !  Well no snow this year just a touch of frost the odd morning.

We have to hope we don't get any or we will lose allot of blooms , one year we did have a late snow fall in April .

Ok I stitched a little on my WIP . Sorry I can't seem to get it any  lighter .

 

Thank you for all the lovely Easter cards my sweet friends .

                   from Andrea                                    from Jutta 

    from   Erna                                                      from   Nancy

Thank you my sweet friends  , sorry I took so long to show them my Pc is still not working right but I am getting there.

The garden has gone mad this last week with all the colour it could give us , and one day was so hot but it's cool again now .

Have a lovely week I am hoping to get back up and running soon .

I think I may look for another PC  sometime this year .

     

Sunshine.

 We had some lovely days of sunshine , but then the rain  came  back

It was so warm it was lovely to be outside .

Today the Sun is shining again,

I must say the Spring sunshine is not so good for my eyes the summer sun is better , I have to wear sun glasses in the Spring , I think it takes time to get use to these  bright sunny days.

I  have even seen loads of butterflies this week and my first ladybird , and lots of birds and robins , it's such a treat after a long wet winter.

I have been cleaning my large craft room out  again and have given loads of my stitching away to the knit and natter group it all helps. them to raise money for charity , I have so much in there and need to make allot more space, I do this every year . they love it .

I have been stitching for many years and need some space.

 Tonight we change the clocks to go forward an hour.

Each year seems to go faster, I would love to  just slow it down a little.   This is another stitch I am going to go back to . 

I am still not a 100% yet up and running with my blog ,

Every time I start I have some thing stop me , but I am getting there  

                                   By Maryse Dupont. 

 

Sorry about the dark photo.

 

Just finished this one lovely puzzel.

Garden is coming alive again.

                   Thank you Gabi for the lovely  Easter card so sweet.

                                              I love it.

Well my friends that's all for today , The sun is out.

I am going to make the most of today .

I am still not happy with my PC and photos . But I am sure I will get things sorted soon.

SPRING.

At last Spring days are here , but they say it will get colder first .

We are having some work done on our house ,with hubby home more he is getting allot of jobs done that needed doing.

I love to walk up the garden every day to see what is new .

I always meet one of my friends for coffee every other week . The last time I found some lovely shops and a sewing shop with DMC threads I was over the moon , because most of the sewing shops are now gone . And I have to order on line , so now I will keep my list with me each time I go.

 I am stitching lots of smalls and trying to get more done on my large stitching . It's been a long Winter , and I am happy to see Spring is arriving , we had two lovely days this week so I worked in the garden .   Happy Mothers day to all.

Back to my stitching . I have to start back on my many larger charts .

 

The one above I fell in love with , it's been in my box for years so

now I am back working on it .

                        Sorry about the dark photo  most days are dark.

                    Bark to the garden Spring is back and we have had a                             few nice days . after all the darkness .

                      My eyes are only just getting use to it. 

                                                                         

 Spring is here  at last , but the rain was not so good for the lawns , but the birds have loads of moss for making there nests .

                                    Enjoy your week. 

MARCH

 Well  here I am , back again , not sorted yet with my photos .

Hope to be sorted soon. I am trying all things to get my photos up .

I have not been able to get the battery I need so hoping I can soon

I am using a tiny one I found in the phone It had a little bit of life in it.

I stitched this one below a few days ago  .    So cute .

This week as been very up and down and loads of fog 

You could not breath very well ;

And the car was covered in dirt . 

It could be coming in from the war on the air streams .

                             A display of Spring .
  

 

                                                        
                                         Have fun I really hope I can get myself sorted soon.

Sun is out .

Yes, The sun is out and a little warmer. 

The Spring flowers are coming out , but the garden is so wet .

It's also so dark to stitch some days  , I was hoping to do more stitching this year.

I have been watching the winter sports , I must say it's been fantastic. 

 I have not yet set a yearly plan of stitching this year but I know I must get some of my larger stitching finished , and will be stitching allot of smaller designs to. 

This next design by Kirsten Schmidt , was a lovely design to stitch. 

 

               I brought this tin of Biscuits from the garden shop , after the 

cookies have been eaten I will use it for my needlework items .

Will leave you with some garden photos .

Hoping I can get back to normal soon.

Hoping to be back soon , with more stitching .I am waiting for my 

camera to have a new battery . 

I will leave you with some Lovely flowers that were brought for me   enjoyed a lovely week.

 

I'm Back .

Hi friends , I am back again , PC problems with my pictures all sorted for now . It is still raining but we did have one day of sunshine  . I had to wear sun glasses it was so bright . 

The garden is loving this rain my snowdrops and spring flowers out every where , but to wet to enjoy . 

I  have missed you all and tried to come over to you , but I got so depressed not finding out what was wrong . First we though it was my lead into my PC so I had to buy another one , but no . Then I started to clear all my photos , it said I had over 10, 000 photos WHAT ! we found out the photos had about 10 of the same photos .

No wonder it would not take anymore . Look's like AI are putting my photos now into albums . which is better , but I must get rid of some old ones . 

Just hoping nothing else goes wrong , also  that the time slows down 

and our rain stops . I will try and catch up with you all , but the last few weeks I could not even look at my PC I was so mad with it. 

But all is good now.

Wishing you all a lovely Spring . 

With the darkness It's not been easy to stitch .

So lets show you some photos 

Below two  stitched birthday cards I sent out 

           And two charts were sent to me that I stitched 

Thank you friends .

Ok the garden has loved the rain , here are some of my photos 

    The mimosa has been beautiful , not sure of the spelling and more 

Spring flowers .

                       Have a wonderful week friends.

                                So good to be back .