HELLO.

 Hello all, 

Well we had 4 beautiful days of sunshine but then yesterday was rain  all day and we got really wet when out shopping . 

The sunshine days were wonderful I wish it was like it every day and rain every night that would be great .

Saturday afternoon we had our Spring covid injection , and it knocked us both about we both had no energy to do anything  so Sunday was a wasted day , Monday we were both fine .

 We have had loads of birds in the garden and butterflies even a few ladybirds  so nature seems to be happy.

Not much stitching this week but a few stitches in another UFO. 

And I can now show a card that I stitched for Jutta for her Birthday.

                         Hope you had a lovely Birthday  Jutta .

 

  I have been having pain in my hand due to stitching so  I am knitting  to change 

the use of my hands and it works changing from stitching and knitting also  resting with a puzzle . It gives my hand a little rest . If I can find more time I want to do more felt work , painting and card making . But with our busy life  it is hard to find much free time,  Maybe this summer I can find time .

 Another UFO for my GD Lucy  .

                   I loved this one  it seems to call out her name . 

This week I brought some goodies for the little ones , the money goes to the hospital for new born babies .

 

                                                 My GGC will  love these.

                                      So I will say good bye for this week

                                         And leave you with more flowers in the garden.

 

 

                Have a wonderful week and enjoy what you stitch or knit .

MAY.

 MAY,  

I am so happy .

 May is here one of the months that I love .                                                             

Not to cold and not to hot , the garden really starts to come alive . You can even sit outside watching nature , birds are active and so are the bee's  and the odd butterfly is flying from one flower to the next , I even saw a ladybird busy rushing in and out of the flowers. What can be better to just sit and watch nature when it's kind. Almost takes over from my enjoyment of stitching .  If only it stayed like this . This year far to much rain , but we were lucky it was not snow . Yesterday was beautiful almost a  hot! day ,  today it starts with more sunshine . I need to get back to nature ,with all the bad news that is going on all over the world , They never seem to show any good news any more .   

So I have been stitching , knitting , sorting , reading , doing puzzles and gardening this week and that makes me feel happy inside,

So I start off with another UFO , I love pulling out with eyes shut from one of my big boxes , It's like Christmas all over again. I am not a stay with it stitcher .I like something different all the time . I also have a smaller box of smalls , that I work on every day . Am I different or is anyone out there the same.

I also put knitting in the mix this week. 

  

  A SAL I joined with  Maryse  Dupont  a few years back . I will make this one into a pillow or a table top , I will have to think about it.

                Also this week  I knitted some cotton  dish cloths . 

    

                              Puzzle so far ,

                             It seems to be a tricky one because it's 

                             different to the photo  on the front .

                              My friend said I  will find it interesting !

                                            Lily of  the Valley  picked from the garden.

                              Here you can see them better.

                

                                                          

                                                       

                                           Garden in Spring .

 

                             Lots of spring and summer flowers coming  out.

 

 

                                                More sunny days are coming ,

                                     

Some Sunshine .

Oh well this week we did get a few sunny days , but also lots of rain , but I didn't mind if we get some sunshine with it .

I am still sorting out in my craft room trouble is I keep finding some lovely charts .

I am wondering how I will  ever get to stitch them all.

Maybe I can find an extra few hours , but I have started to get a little pain in my hand , if I stitch to much , I have sent for some magnet gloves that do help.

This week it's time to show  our Stick 6. that Manuela and Martina host 

Thank you both .

                                         Easter and Summer . 

I stitched a Spring one rather than Easter hope you don't mined girls.

         Next one will be a rose so I will look in my box for a pretty one.

Talking about roses I had a big shock , when I was in the garden weeding and de-heading I looked up and could see 2 yellow flowers I thought they were Tulips when I walked up I was shocked to see two beautiful roses fully out with an Iris, What! roses in April no way , but yes they were there saying hello to me .

 This morning I worked in the garden and filled two buckets up of dead heads and leaves I am happy I did because the showers are now back again .

      So the spring stitch was Violets , by designer the lovely Danny .

  

                     I found some wild violet by the bird bath .

 

I will start this puzzle this week looks fun.

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I brought this rock plant this week 

I just loved the deep pink.

Lewisia 

Cotyledon Elise. 

 

              I told you , I could not believe my eyes Roses in April .

            I even had to drag hubby up to see them ,he thought I was dreaming .HA 

                     

 

                                   Hope you all have a perfect week.

Beautiful days at last.

 Yes at last we are now getting some beautiful days , makes you feel so good .

Well the last two weeks have been busy with appointments like  the dentist , I still have gum pain , but it is slowly going .

What else have I been up to , some gardening , knitting  a few dish cloths I love these for wiping down , stitching , still sorting out the craft room  so I can start making cards again , reading , shopping .a puzzle will be popping out soon , I have a few that I still need to do so I can pass them on. 

 We gave our grandson our big BQ  and a beautiful punch bowl , we use to have allot of house party's and outside party's , but now we go out to eat , it's easy for us to do that now. The young ones will enjoy this , they eat outside allot. When my family were young I sometimes had 18 to dinner , no way could I keep that up now . 

I enjoy someone else doing the cooking now days  I only cook a couple of meals per week now we just  find it cheaper to eat out  when there are just the two of us . I notice that lots more people are doing this , we see lots of our friends out to. 

Today I will be out in the garden , the bluebells are out now everywhere so I need to pull a few out , I also see that there are rosebuds everywhere that's early.

So not that much stitching , but I did put some stitches one of my WIPs 

   Blooms in a tea cup by Lucas S 

 

From a sweet friend Miriam.

A lovely spring gift .

Thank  you so much

                           Not much stitching but it is slowly growing 

                                    I will try and do better next week .

  But most of my time was outside now the sun came knocking on our door .

            I had to get outside in the sunshine It's been a long time with no sun.

But I have taken lots of photos from the garden , here we go.

                     Loads of blue bells and white also pink .  These have come  from the stock of my granddads and his family and could be well  over 300 yrs old or even older. 

 

 

       

                                                 Forget me not.

                               I will take some of these down to my daughters grave  

                                     I know she will have loved them.

First lily of Valley just coming out .

I hope you all have a lovely week . 

The sun is still out here so I will be outside again .

Hubby as cleaned all the slabs so it's looking good .

And we will bring out the garden furniture today .

Have a great week .

Hoping more stitching  can be shown next week 

 

                                   

 

APRIL

 Welcome friends into the month of April.

I heard my first beautiful black bird singing yesterday , he was sitting in my front window and I sat watching him , brought a few tears to my eyes , how lovely nature can be , lifted my sprit .

After all the rain we are having .

 Every day  rain with just an odd dry hour in the day , no signs of stopping this week. 

I have never known this before .

I am still working on  a different WIP each week and enjoying putting my hand in the box and pulling one out every week.

Easter flew by , and  we are now  into another week. 

For all who will be having a solar Eclipse , it's amazing thing to see, we had one once , and we stood out in the garden and the man next door came out to , we were standing there for ages , the guy next door said I think it's a load of rubbish  then we noticed all the birds flying over , which they do at night time then it went  dark it was a very wonderful moment everywhere was so still , then the sun started to show again , it is some thing you must not miss , it's  one of those moments you can't put into words . So try and watch it if you can.

So another WIP to show this week , and some lovely Easter stitched cards .

By Madame  La Fee , Bienvenue Chez Noa"s 

          The bird cage is growing .

 

I also stitched a few cards and some I forgot to show you before I posted them.

Some stitched cards that I posted . I am sorry a few were late our post is not that fast at the moment , also I was a little slow posting , this time. 

                                Here is a post card I painted.

I sent a few before I took photos .

When I take my cards down next week I will show you some lovely ones I had sent to me.

As always I will leave you with some flowers ,that are still here after our storm . 

Have a good week all .

Almost Easter.

 Yes this is the run up to Easter week .

I am no way ready , I use to decorate the porch and house , but this year I have only brought out a few decorations . I thought this year that time again is rushing away with me , or is it me getting slower , yes I think it's me and also the rain .

 But we did have one full day of sunshine this week. 

Last week we went out one night to see Choir 86 Spring into Easter . Featuring Regional Premiere of  "Requiem for the Living " by an American Composer  . It was so beautiful and a lovely evening , to start our Easter week. 

So again I have another WIP that I worked on last week , I love pulling out another WIP each week  it's so much fun . I hate when I put pressure on myself , to have to get stitching done , then I don't enjoy it .  So if I don't have to rush I enjoy it more .

So the next WIP is called  Au coeur du Jardin by Passion Bonheur.

 

            This one is calling to be a pillow for my sun lounge 

                                 Some bunnies popped in .

Fresh Spring flowers from the garden yesterday , we did see a moment of sun. 

Early Easter gift from Hubby .

 

                                 And in the wet garden !

What a shame we can not enjoy these lovely flowers , they will all be over before we can sit out in the sun shine .There you go it happens some times . 

I can see a few from the window.