This and that

My blogging seems to be all about Alice at the moment, she is a natural choice for my affections and a cheerful recipient of my makings {well...mostly!}.


I finished making her first pair of mama knitted socks about a week ago. I like the yarn she chose and how the pretty stripes formed.

I was a little irritated when I was knitting the toe section of the second sock when the sock yarn had been snapped off and re-joined {don't you just hate that when you buy expensive yarn} and I tried to make the toes match but somehow they didn't! Oh well, Alice is happy so that's all that matters.

Can you see that one is purple and turquoise and the other purple and orange!It's not like me to be so perfectionist about such things but it did irritate me somewhat right at the end and I couldn't be bothered to make further changes. They will be well loved and worn to keep little miss's twinkle toes warm for the rest of our Winter.


Other than that all is a little quiet on the crafting front. I've been working on sewing an Alice in Wonderland type outfit for Alice to wear on World Book Day where her school gets dressed up for the day and bring in their book of choice. In Alice's case it was a natural choice for her.

I'm busy reading this rather real and funny book

Casting on 20 stitches of Aran left overs for a multi-coloured striped extra long wrap around scarf, just because!

Initially I started with 30 stitches and thought I'd knit a patchwork type of scarf like this

But it didn't seem to be as nice as I had seen in a shop a while back so I frogged it and went back to good old garter stitch which I am happy with

Oh and I've be wearing my new top I found in a charity shop, originally from Primark, I'm liking the flamingo's a whole lot

The stag necklace was £3.25 from Forever 21 store bought in London on our last trip at the end of last year.


Alice has also done the sweetest Jemima Puddle duck water colour painting too. She kindly gave me permission to put it on my blog.

We put it in a pine frame to protect it until we frame it with a mount and thought it would look rather sweet in her new cousin's room who is due to pop out in April sometime.

Last, but not least I, with gritted teeth utmost patience am coping with no oven, hob or cupboards in our kitchen at the moment. This is week number 4 my dearest readers and this morning our Plumber friend who was due to fit the kitchen this week had all his tools stolen out of his van last night. Lovely. What a wonderful world! 

So, in the meantime we will continue to camp in a corner of the dining room(in amongst the flat packed kitchen which was delivered this week) and find food in the lounge, bedroom, under the stairs or wherever I have found a suitable abode for our dry goods.

In an ideal world I would have an empty kitchen with fitted enamel sink, Victorian dresser and a simple farmhouse kitchen table. Alas, I do not live in this ideal world and a fitted kitchen was the only option in our tiny terraced Victorian house. It was rather weird buying this in the January sales as I realised that we very rarely buy anything new and I found it rather laborious and left poor Andy to get on with the business of measuring etc. 

I don't want to sound ungrateful, please don't get me wrong it will be lovely to have a functional shiny, clean new kitchen but DIY doesn't really float my boat. Fortunately I have a lovely husband who is more than happy to oblige. For which I am grateful. He's busy banging away at replacing the ropes on the sash window in the kitchen as I type. I think a coffee and cake are needed now :0)

Thanks for reading my ramblings, have a lovely rest of your weekend and these flowers are from me to you with love xox