68** – cap-sleeved top -

23 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

So.... next week is half-term... the kids will be home, Mr M will be away and the school year is almost over...how did that happen?  Didn't I just put away the Christmas decorations? (almost true.  There's a roll of wrapping paper behind my door).  I still have some Easter chocolate (true) and I'm still wearing woolly jumpers (true!! blasted weather).

And now they're telling me the summer holidays are just around the corner.  

No way.

I'm not buying it.

I have so many things to tell you I don't know where to start.

 

- Let's enjoy these tulips I found in a tucked away



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Category: Clothes, sewing

67*2018 – scrap quilt -

20 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

I tried to resist the call of all the wonderful scrap quilts out there... but I knew from the beginning it was a futile effort.

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66**2013 – Lecien cushions -

17 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

For the boys.

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Long overdue project.

The gorgeous Lecien fabric was bought in Tokyo last August.

Ahem ahem.

 

What are you all doing this weekend?  I'm heading to the Malvern Quilt Show tomorrow and then flop with the family on



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65**2013

16 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

For years I didn't have any green plants in the house. 

Flowers, yes.  Always.  

Plants? None.  Now something is changing; maybe it's an age thing, perhaps it's just that it is so cold and grey outside that having green inside feels good.

Who knows.

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Category: my home

64**2013

13 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

Thirteen years.

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Lucky



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63**2013 – Nani Iro / Tova dress -

09 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

Neither the dress or the fabric need any introduction so I'm going to let the photos do all the talking.

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The only modification I did was in the collar.  I used the directions for the Wiksten tank collar and I'm really happy.  So happy that



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62**2013

08 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

If you ask your son to decorate a pie...

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make sure your brief is tight and doesn't leave room to interpretation...

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or you could end up eating Homer Simpson's



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Category: boys, food and drink

61**2013

06 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

Bank Holiday Monday.

Incredible sunny warm weather.

We went for a long walk.

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Category: family, holidays, nothing and everything

60**2013 – mending -

02 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

It is a beautiful day and I should be sitting outside sipping a latte and putting the world to right in excellent company .

But I'm not.

A sick child irrupted in my room at 5.05am announcing to the world he was about to be REALLY sick.

He wasn't.  

Well he did, but later on in the morning.... but that's something you really don't want to know.

My children have an uncanny ability to get sick on the most inconvenient of times and so the lovely plans were scampered and I donned my Florence Nightingale's costume instead.

Not really.

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Category: crochet

59**2013

01 May 2013 | Other RSS posts by

Wordless Wednesday

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Category: fotografie, nothing and everything
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