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Is it really heading towards the end of March? It all feels like it's been rather busy for me and doesn't seem to be getting any easier and I don't think I will be blogging as much as I would like to in the coming weeks as we are hoping and praying that we might be able to sell our wee house for another lovely home we have found. I will try and pop in as much as I can, but work has become more manic and there just never seems to be enough hours in the day does there? Hey oh, the sun is shining here on the south east Coast and I am loving hanging my washing out and airing the house with fresh sun kissed breezes. Here are some of my Instagram pics from March to show you a little of what I have been up to... I am doing a little crochet a granny square workshop at the end of April and so have been rolling lots of little balls of different coloured balls of yarn and making sample granny squares to show and explain the process We have been taking advantage of the Spring sunshin...

Life can be frantic sometimes and This last week has left me feeling rather squeezed from all angles, wrung out is how I feel this Saturday morning. Despite this, I cannot imagine a week going buy without seeing the beauty, the beauty of my world and what helps me through the messy stuff. So, here are a few of my good things to remind me that I can cope with whatever comes my way. Pretties growing in our little space Pretties growing in our little space Alice and all her rehearsals for her show A new exhibition on at the De la Warr Pavilion Enjoying cups of tea by the sea in the sunshine, oh the glorious sunny shine I do love you so And a spot of baking brownies with my girl Making more pretties Admiring Alice's wrapping a little box to gve a ring to her friend for her 13th birthday And last but not least admiring some beautiful colour and pattern I hope you have been able to see and experience a few good things too? Here's wishing you all a wonderful weekend, I am off to...

I have been very distracted with a number of things over the past 10 days or so and have found myself almost forgetting about my blog and all of you who come and visit. Please forgive me for not popping in to say hello, how are you doing in your blog space. You see the most addictive distraction happened to me, I discovered "Breaking Bad" and have been really curious about watching it for quite some time now and after subscribing to Netflix there was no stopping me. I am ashamed to say that in record breaking time I watched the entire series in 9 days flat, I lost myself for a while and watched while I made the tea, before work in the mornings, while I was bathing, late into the night and any other time I could without forgetting to be mum and wife :o) addictive is an understatement, I haven't seen such a good series for such a long time and it definitely was easy to knit my latest shawl whilst being engrossed in the characters and plot. So here she is, my adaptation of ...

Have you had a lovely relaxing sun filled weekend? We have been blessed with warm sun shine here on the South East Coast and it has been blissful just to feel such a sense of hope for the Spring and Summer ahead of us. My favourite sign of this hope is when I hang washing on the line for the first time after the Winter and today was that day. I love sun dried clothing, it feels and smells so fresh and comforting and always reminds me of my childhood. I have been on the beach pebble collecting this weekend and have enjoyed doing a little decorating with crochet. Not only do I love the smoothness of the pebbles and all their individual colours, I just love the way they feel once I have covered them in cotton with some pretty crochet stitches. I decided to use white this time, I have used various other colours to crochet over pebbles in the past, but this weekend I wanted pure and fresh white only. Making these is fairly easy if you know the basics of crocheting and have access to some...

  Hello there, I hope those of you in the Northern hemisphere are starting to enjoy the longer evenings and lighter mornings and for those of you in the South are finding some relief from the relentless heat?   Today, was a perfect Sussex blue sky sunny-shiny day and with feeling the sun on my face as I drove to work, it evoked memories of last Summer and the hint of carefree long evenings after work, cycling along the seafront and the smell of bbq's.....it really is on it's way and I cannot wait.   In the meantime though I am filling my life up with little itty bitty bits, including my first ever little A5 copy of Pom Pom Quarterly    which has gorgeous Spring knits in it and a few interesting articles too. The patterns look quite complex to a novice knitter like myself, but I might just feel up to the challenge, we'll see. ?   I finally cast off my shawl at midnight last night, I used Stephen West's simple Boneyard shawl pattern and a...