23/52....I can see a rainbow

June has been kind to us so far with fair weather and sun shining days which I almost felt would never arrive after the silly Winter we had! I hope you have had a lovely week doing what you do, this week is all about colour,sweet happy moments of bursts of rainbow colours to delight my senses.

 There has been:

Red

 

Orange

Yellow

Green

Pink (not officially in a rainbow, but I couldn't ignore all the pink around at the moment!)

  

And Blue

Violet

Indigo

Source

I hope you have enjoyed this burst of rainbow colours and that you too are having bursts of colours now that Summer seems to have arrived here in the Northern Hemisphere.

Happy week-ending to you and yours
x
See you soon

Speedy Tweedy

After winding my skein of Brooklyn Tweed last night, these fingerless gloves simply had to be hooked up.

I used some of my left over variegated sock yarn and some of my mustard tweedy Rowan yarn to add some interest to the fingerless gloves.

I am loving the colours and am hoping the recipient (a very special friend) will too.

What have you been making or enjoying this week?

I have to face sewing up my finished knitted cardigan, the bit I don't look forward to, but I know it will be worth it once it's done!

Happy days everyone

xox 

Penny

Winding

Nothing like something as simple as winding yarn to help me to switch off and relax in the evenings, something that involves a repetitive motion like winding a skein of yarn into a ball of yarn.

I just caught that very last bit of dusky light this evening at about 21h20 to show you my gorgeous Brooklyn Tweed yarn that has been waiting patiently for about 6 months for me to wind it in preparation for some hooky joy.

Hope you are all having a great week so far

x

See you soon

22/52 and a winner

Hello there

For those living in the UK, have you had a gorgeously warm sunshiny day today? My goodness, as I was driving around between patients today I rolled the windows down, turned the music up and pretended I was driving to the South of France for a few minutes. Divine.I hope it lasts over the weekend.

This last week I have had some lovely moments, but have had a very exhausting albeit 4 day week at work. Manic May I think I might call it :o)

On bank holiday Monday I made a rag covered hanger out of strips of fabric from an old pillow slip. So simple and much better than the 'naked' iron hanger which I was going to give to add to my charity shop pile. 

A very pretty flower in my garden,not sure what it is but I love the colours.

Our sweet bunny, Poppy is a cheeky little thing hopping from one pot plant to another munching on plants she shouldn't. She made us smile a whole lot last weekend with her antics.

I enjoyed watching Alice doing her geography holiday homework. She was asked to make something that she felt represents the economic uprising in China. She chose to make these"Made in China" DAS clay words and will be decoupaging them with strips of Chinese newspaper this weekend .

Knitting the second sleeve of my cotton cardy/jacket in the sunshine. I am hoping to finish this this weekend and sewing it up, so excited about having knitted myself a cardy.

So those were sweet snippets from my week. I hope you have had a good one despite the rain if you had half term off.

Can I also say a huge thank you for those who entered into my tea time give away and as much as I would love to give you all something, there can only be one random number winner and that happens to be Ada from Vintage Sheet Addict. Well done Ada! Please email me your postal address and I will endeavour to send it off to you this coming week :o)

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Happy days to you allxoxPenny

Time for tea giveaway

Are you a tea drinker? Do you fancy a cuppa? 

Just because the sun is shining and because it's Bank holiday Monday here in England (and for other reasons - see below), I fancied having a little give away of the tea kind.

You see, this is how the story begins.... when I was in Aldi supermarket about a month ago I noticed this blue and pink with white polka dotted tea cosy reduced to 99p and even though I am starting to get a little bit bored with this colour combination I felt compelled to buy it and decorate it with doilies and stitches. Over the last couple of weeks I've indulged myself here and there and then last night I completed it.

All along I have been wracking my brains thinking about who to give this too? I ended up going round in circles as I seem to have knitted or crocheted tea cosies for most of my family and some friends. Also, in the back of my mind was this little niggly thought about what Andy had once said, not in a nasty way, please don't get me wrong, it was just that once he said to me that not every one likes that particular style. I think he is right, it's not for everyone and maybe he was a little clouded by firstly seeing it from a male perspective and secondly his love of mid-century design and most things ORANGE! ha ha

Quote from Alice in Wonderland, inspired by my sweet girly of course

Then I had an eureka moment, how about I give it away to someone who hasn't got a tea cosy and likes what I have done to this one? 

My blog is of course the perfect platform to say hey you there, yes you there, like me with the crazy tea drinking habits, would you like to keep your teapot cosy? 

So, go on then, enter the give away if this is your sort of cuppa, just follow me and pop a comment on this post. I'm happy to send anywhere in the world and will of course include some form of tea, like the empty earl grey box above that I used as a prop for this photo.x

Good luck and thanks for stopping 

xox

Penny
I will keep this give away open till 31st May 2013 when I will announce the randomly chosen winner x

21/52

Hello there?

How has your week been? Mine has been supersonically busy. Work work work, very little time to play, knit and crochet. In fact I haven't crocheted for quite some time now.I have itchy fingers and need to get hooking again soon.

Here are some sweet snippets from my 21st week....

An new pair of daisy earings for those hippy care free Spring day clothes which I  bought in Brighton last Saturday. 

Our little trip to Brighton last weekend and visiting some of the artists open houses.

My blossom picking during my cycle ride this week

Oh my goodness, our new kitchen is now fitted and functional, I was over the moon seeing the tiles and orange splash back being fitted, I have waited a verrrrry long time for this indeed.

So, the down pouring rain the whole of yesterday wasn't very pleasant, but it gave me an opportunity to pop my birthday wellies on after work and walk to the library in the rain. I was also excited to see my first rosebud on my rose bush I planted in an old watering can a couple of years go.

A heart shaped leaf caught my eye too

Lastly, when I was in the library yesterday I spotted the Hasting College adult part time course booklets for 2013/14 and have found a couple I might pursue in the Autumn depending on how many pennies I have.One is a 4 week course on Dyeing and Printing Fabric (I have desperately wanted to do this for what feels like a lifetime) or a 10 week Pattern cutting and dress making course. I think my mind is almost made up on the first one but I still want to have a think about it.

I must apologise for not visiting a lot of your blogs lately, I hope to catch up this long weekend, thanks always for visiting and your conversation. Welcome to new followers too x

See you soon

xox

Penny

Me and my girl

On Saturday, Alice and I decided to spontaneously go to Brighton for the day. It was a mixed kind of weather day, but that didn't put a damper on our spirits and enthusiasm for pootling down the bohemian north lanes and along the seaside as well as enjoying some of the free city entertainment going on on the streets and corners during the Brighton Festival.

There was a lovely weekly flea market just down from the station where we had a wander and a little purchase or two of some old french buttons.

There was a lovely man selling different cuts of fabric and I spotted this lovely floral piece on the floor in amongst other scrap bits. He said he had got it from an old lady who used to do patchwork and he thought it was a Liberty 1970's print. It almost looks like a Liberty fabric, that's what attracted me to it in the first place, I'm not sure though? I asked "How much are you wanting for this half meter?" and he said I could just have it as it was so old and scrappy! Wow, thanks lovely Mister with the fabric store :o) 

We visited some of the artists open houses which I have always loved ever since I lived in Brighton from 1996-2002. There is such diversity of artists from print makers to painters to ceramicists to crafty quilt makers and knitting/crochet.

We had good fun and felt inspired by all the variety of art work we saw. Such a wealth of talent right on our door step.

A little exhibition of Vintage sheet quilts was a nice surprise in this little shop I have never noticed before.

We went to one of my favourite tea shops for some afternoon refreshment and cake :0) The Mock Turtle where traditional tea cups, teapots and cakes are served.

Followed by a little shopping and chilling out on the beach, chit chatting away and just spending some quality mummy daughter time together.

Alice found some sweet things to spend her pennies on and as the shops were closing we made a quick decision to have a yummy bite to eat at one of our favourite places...

 All in all it was a wonderful, spontaneous day spent with my best girl.

Have a marvelous week everyone and as always thank you for visiting and taking time to comment, always appreciated x

xox

Penny