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On Sunday afternoon, we decided to go to one of my favourite bookshops ever  Much ado books  in Alfriston in East Sussex. It's a real delight full of quirky, old and new books and has a great section on crafting and design as well as cookery and the famous  Bloomsbury Group  who lived nearby in  Charleston House . As you come in there is a covered courtyard to greet you with shelves of old books which never cease to delight the likes of me. I could spend days  hours looking at all of these, from their design to their smell to their contents (Yes, I love the smell of books) Some Spring flowers to delight the senses too before going into the shop. I bee lined to the beautiful selection of cards first as they have a wonderful array of  Ravilious  prints as cards and this pleased me no end for we are great admirer's of this artists work. It was warm and cosy in the shop despite the breezy chills in the afternoon air and we spent what felt like hours t...

It's all hearts and bows here this weekend. Hope you are having a good one x

This week has flown by for me. I've enjoyed the warm sunshine so much and have found myself cycling on getting home most days and a longer cycle last Sunday which was gloriously sunny. I like to stop for a cup of tea and relax before cycling home. Tea revives you don't you know :o) I had my cuppa at  Plenty  in St.Leonards-on-sea. I love these cycles on my own, just me and the sea, the breeze and my thoughts.  Finishing knitting these fun wrist warmers for Jen who is leaving us to spread her wings in another job. I got given the knitting supplement from a paper that my mother-in-law reads and recognised that it came from  this  book which I have had my beady eye on for a while now. Knitting in the round has to be one of my favourite pastimes. I had to make a hole (a bit like a button hole)as this pattern was only meant to be knitted on 2 needles and stitched up the side leaving a hole for the thumb. With the sunshine comes more salads and my favourite nut burger...

I got a little bit silly with excitement when I finished making my mini crochet cherry necklace last night. It's such a triumph for me as I really had no belief that I could do it BUT was desperate to have teeny tiny crochet things to put in my hair, hang on my wrist and around my neck. So, with gung ho determination I just plunged right in and proved that I could actually handle such skinny cotton and a tiny hook. I am a little bit chuffed with how this pair of cherries turned out. Wanna see? Stuffing these teeny crochet cherries was a challenge followed by closing them up, so much so you have probably spotted some of the hollow fibres sticking out of them. I have pulled these all out now and hopefully no more will appear. It is the sweetest thing I have ever made, I just love it so. If you have been visiting here for a while you might of read  this  post about where the pattern comes from for this delicate crochet. I'm excited to get making more now that my confidence has gr...

Have you all had a good week lovely people? It's been a busy one for me, but boy have I been soaking in the sunshine and Spring weather with all those blues skies on my home visits and moving between NHS sites for my job.  I have this habit of taking my knitting with me in a basket in the car, its very handy when I end up eating my lunch in the car if I am out and about and gives me 10 or 15 minutes of knitting depending how long it takes me to munch on my sandwich. So, this first photo is taken in the sunshine of my car seat of my current wrist warmer knitting for Jen at work. She is leaving us soon and so this will be her parting gift from me. I managed to get her crocheting again and helped her with a few stitches along the way and so I decided to knit her something in the hope that she may take up knitting too :o) It's also good to be using left over yarny bits too. We also got to go to a local nursery last Sunday and I was overjoyed at all the pretty flowers and went a lit...

Hello again How are you all? I can't quite believe it's Thursday evening again, where does time go? It's been a pretty eventful and busy week for me at work and so I guess this makes time fly by together with trying to get out most evenings with the sunshine we have been having and the joy of the sun setting much later these days. Glorious is it not! I wanted to share with you my new crafty book that I bought at the end of last week when we were in Brighton. Originally, it was on my Christmas list for 2012, however Santa did not deliver! Well, I've been itching to buy it for so long BUT promised myself that I would not buy it online until I saw a copy first. Believe me, every possible bookshop and knitting/haberdashery shop has been ransacked by the likes of me for this beauty. Alas, to no avail, UNTIL....last Friday! Oh my giddy goodness, Ms. Mooncie I heart you and your gorgeous patterns. My eyes nearly popped out when I found it in this  stunning little shop full of ...

In the late afternoon I sat at the dinning room table to assemble my crochet heart with banner that I made yesterday whilst watching the rain coming down. Boo to yesterday's rain and this morning too, but this afternoon we had sunshine to gloat in and I was determined to soak up as much as possible. After hanging up the washing outside (hurrah) and going for a long cycle with my girly Alice. I sat down to listen to  this  radio program where Will Self looked at Prozac at 25 years old and The Prozac Economy.  It saddened me somewhat when they were speaking about young teenagers and depression. It resonated with something Alice said about what a friend's young daughter (she is 13 years old) had shared with her and her peers at Church this morning. What she shared took courage and strength and I wanted to remind her of something so true. Simply, her beauty, inside and out and so I embroidered "beautiful" on felt and sewed it onto the crocheted banner and will wrap this h...