Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Friday, 30 September 2011

Loving today...

Today was an illness-free day.  These days are to be cherished.  If you are not sick, if you go through most days in a healthy state, please please make sure you take just 1 second to stop and appreciate it. Your health is the biggest Happy Thing you have.

Other things making me feeling happy today are...

The last of the garden's tomatoes waiting to ripen...

Tomatoes ready to ripen

The latest issue of Mollie Makes...I just love this magazine...

The latest Mollie Makes - can't wait to get stuck in!

Mollie Makes issue 6!

Uncovering long-forgotten colourful granny squares and motifs....

Uncovering forgotten creations :)

A supply of little jars waiting in the sun for a makeover...
Jars waiting for crochet covers :)

Ah, lovely things and a good day:)

One thing I am not particularly enjoying though, and I don't wish to sound rather ungrateful...but this weather.  Where's my autumnal freshness?!

Linking up with PaisleyJade :)

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Rocks and flowers

I just wanted to share with you some lovely sunny pictures taken over the weekend.  With Mr Snipsnaphappy away on a stag weekend (axe throwing and whisky drinking) the girls and I decamped to my mum's house with it's large sunny back garden, and of course the extra pair of hands offered by Granny!

Lillys in Granny's garden

There is something about bright flowers on a backdrop of stones on a hot day, I just can't resist taking photos of them...

Flowers & rocks

Flowers & Rocks

Shell in Granny's garden

Flowers in Granny's garden

I even got a chance (ok about five minutes) to put my tootsies up and browse through the latest Ideal Home magazine.  I like to play my own personal game of "When I Have My Forever House I Will...." when browsing through interiors magazines.  In this case When I Have My Forever House I Will have a guest room that looks very much like this...

Room inspiration from Ideal Home :)

*sigh* How lovely :)

Not so sunny the last couple of days of course, but that's fine with me, I do love a bit of rain. Half term is now over, Lillia is back at school & we are on the last leg of the school year...lots of change and transition afoot this year...

Friday, 18 March 2011

March (and evil pom-poms)

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
Charles Dickens


Ok so I am a bit late with this one given that we are already half way through the month (where does my time go?)  March to me feels like the first serious step into the year.  Whereas January and February feel like dipping your toes into a cold pool, March is when you finally take the brave and bracing waist deep plunge.


This week we have been dusting off our gardening gloves and venturing out into the garden...


We've raked leaves, composted old dead plants, sifted through the piles of broken pots and tidied up ready for Spring.   We've also been planting cress seeds in various places for a school project to see where they will and won't grow...


...which is why I have to explain to visitors the old trainer in a container on my kitchen windowsill....


The things we do for our kids. Though I was intrigued to discover that the cress has grown in the inner part of the shoe as well, where there is no light!  I didn't know cress would do that. Strange plant.

Meanwhile, inside, my crochet hooks have been working hard on various projects, more of which I will share with you in the next few days.  Here is a wee sneak preview though of one of my latest creations, just finished...



What could it be??

Before this particular project I had considered zips to be my ultimate nemesis of crafting, but no!  It turns out that actually pom-poms are my Dr Evil...


They look innocent enough don't they?  Don't be fooled! They are little evil balls of fluffy deception. Grrr.

I cannot show you any more of this project as it is a surprise for a reader of this blog, all will be revealed once she receives it.

More from me later this week, in the meantime Happy March everyone :)

Friday, 9 April 2010

Little green shoots

We've had some seed growing action this week!  It's generating much excitement.  Lillia's sweet pea seeds that she planted at nursery were the first to show up and are doing very well indeed...


And there are more than a few hints of green are to be seen in our seed trays...



Sweetcorn above and, below, tomato!

Hoping to get some of these planted out in the garden this weekend, seeing as the weather is supposed to be so lovely.  Hopefully I'll have shaken off this hideous bug by then *cough splutter*

xx