Brrrrrr (ighton)

On a cold, wet, blustery Sussex Saturday day, what better to do than get out of bed early and head off to Brighton and see your 11 year old in the Brighton Festival Children's Parade. Alice, loved every bit of walking through the Brighton lanes dressed with a zebra on her head rumbling through the jungle with her school mates. 


Despite the freezing cold weather we had good fun, soaking up the festive atmosphere, listening to the beat of drums and kids singing. Followed by some good old fashioned fish and chips, a little shopping and our favourite lick yoghurt ice-cream. 


As for the daily sea swimmers... well what can I say!


Hope you are all having a fab weekend come rain or shine. I now have the delightful task of sorting out my loft space. Ok, so I still haven't stored the Christmas tree and decorations away yet, there have been more interesting yarny things to do :0)

Happy days

See you all soon

xox

Oh, and welcome to all those newbies to my blog and thanks for following, I feel a give away coming on soon!

It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to

I have had such a great 42nd birthday today. I do love being a May Day baby and it always surprises me as in my head I am "living" in April and then all of a sudden it's May and another cog in my wheel of getting older turns. 


I have spoken to family and friends and read cards and eaten cake. I must say that as I get older birthdays are becoming fun again. I went through a spell in my mid 20 & 30's not really bothering but now, maybe because I have our beloved daughter, Alice who gets immensely excited about birthdays and presents, I am really enjoying my birthdays again. She brings colour to my life.

I picked sweet Alice up from her after school Tuesday art lesson that she goes to and there the colours of the day became even more vibrant for me. After a couple of months of planning, placing, cutting and shaping she has made me the most gorgeous mosaic tray. I was so touched by this beautiful gift, the most beautiful ever, tears came and flowed. 


Tears of sheer joy at this precious life I have, my wonderful husband and daughter, my family and friends whose lives have touched mine and I theirs. It's good to be able to dedicate a day to this once a year, I am humbled by the love that flows in my simple life.

Thank you my beautiful child, life is by no means dull with you in it xox

Hello crochet!

Oh my giddy goodness, I cannot begin to tell you the great joy I felt this wind swept, rainy, grey weekend just gone when I EVENTUALLY got round to picking up yarn and hook to crochet again. Hello, my old familiar friend, how I have missed you. It's been at least a month since I last crocheted away and boy was I ready for it. 

For those of you who do crochet, you know when you get that great urge to just desperately be left alone in a room with just hook and yarn to feed feed feed the addiction and you can't because of other commitments or plans. Oh, the sheer frustration!!! (Ok so maybe I'm being a wee bit dramatic now). That is how I have felt over the past month, as sad as it may seem to those who don't crochet and reading my blog it is quite true. I seem to have been knitting if I have had a spare evening/moment to make something with wool and crochet was always there in the back of my mind but just not coming together.

And so, my dear blogging friends I have had a pleasurable weekend of doing a bit of crochet here, there and everywhere and it has been B*L*I*S*S* to say the least. Planet Penny's Cotton Club rainbow cotton has been swallowed up into feeding my addiction and what a divine brand of cotton this is to hook away with. 

How I love pink, red and orange together, colours to feed my soul during the grey-ness.


Talking of colours, wasn't today typical after having such a miserable wet weekend, it was blue skies and sunshine as we trundled off to work and school. I seem to be doing a lot of lovely drives along Sussex country lanes to see my patients these days and today I just could not help noticing the yellow everywhere. Does that happen to you on some days, when all you do is keep noticing a particular colour in all sorts of places?


Yellow, is a colour I could have done without many years ago and even to this day, I have no yellow clothes. But, give me mustard and I'm in love :0) What I am trying to say is that I have tried to make a conscious effort to enjoy and notice the colours I've never really "warmed" to {this included red up until a few years ago, utter madness as I now love every shade of red going}. Today, I stop-started in my car during my lunch half hour to capture that yellow and I am pretty pleased that I did, have a look why.


Firstly, my crochet this morning while I ate breakfast

A brilliant field of rapeseed flowers

Some weedy flowers

How bright and beautiful the hedgerows looked on this pretty day. So uplifting and essential for me working within my role. I have always been a firm believer in nature restoring what life strips away.

Tiny daisies for making daisy chains this summer

I am very grateful for yellow today, it is becoming a more comfortable colour for me and I know that this will no doubt be reflected in my future craftiness. 


Last but not least, I'll leave you with this pretty posy Alice picked for me last week, and yes it does feature the all gorgeous yellow. It's my thank you to you for reading and commenting on my ramblings and for providing your blogs as an endless source of inspiration.

Well, I guess that's me for today

I'm off to indulge in some Victoria Sponge baked yesterday with a hot cuppa and my crochet before bed.

I hope to show you the rainbow blanket I'm making for a friend's new baby girl very soon.

Wishing happy, carefree sunny-shine days to come your way

 xox

First scarf

You are all so sweet putting up with my silly nostalgic posts, thank you for your generosity and lovely comments, as we all know, the comments are the best-est bit about blogging. As the lovely Faith put it on her most recent post, blogging can be such an inspiration and a joy to "meet" such kindred folk who appreciate the love of craft and yarn. 


Right, on with the business at hand. Do you remember me posting about my "first scarf" here 





Well, at long last it is finished and I can finally wear it, especially since we are having serious April showers and blustery chilly winds here on the South East Coast! 


I pulled over in the countryside yesterday to have my lunch in-between doing some home visits and thought why not make use of the rare rays of sunshine and take some pics of my finished scarf. So here it is...

on location!

I must say that it's been great for using up left over yarn and ended up really long. Both ends fall to the ground if I just wrap it around me once and when Andy saw it he immediately said it looked like a Dr.Who scarf! Well, that wasn't the intention, I have no idea what or who Dr.Who is as it wasn't a TV program that I grew up with, in fact we only got a TV in 1979 when I was 9 years old so I no idea what he was talking about ... until he google imaged this...

                                         

I must say that it made me giggle at the similarity :0)

Needless to say this is not my tribute to Dr.Who! Instead, this is my very snuggly, wrap around "first scarf".

It's sooooooo warm and I love the colours, especially the mustard, one of my new favourite colours.

Ok, so I don't like taking photo's of myself but I had to give you an idea of what it looks like all wrapped up.

Yay, I love my new super cosy, all wrapped up "first scarf". If you have some scraps of left over yarn think about knitting or crocheting one of these, easy peasy to make and so great to wear.

I hope your week has been good so far, I'm off to pour myself a glass of wine and relax on the couch to watch Water for Elephants

See you all soon 

xox