Sunday 2 November 2014

Back from a long long break ....

Made some curtains, but not the patchwork

grew some bulbs in spring

garden survived a hailstorm!

managed to keep an orchid alive for a year and grow new flowers!

Sad ;( finished brownies, and the unit closed none else wanted to run it.

Francesca's installation at college

made a gift for a friend

a paper gardenia I made

Ellies birthday cake


Two special birthdays for the girls this year

Ellie on her birthday with grandpa

a party to mark the occasions

Baddesley Clinton very near to us, Ian and I spent our wedding anniversary visiting.

Francesca's off to university


a room with a view in wales

first homemade soup of the year

a felt rose made into a brooch

sunset over our garden

first patchwork this year!

looking after Pedro for the day, went a walk in the rain!

4 comments:

  1. Welcome back!! Look forward to hearing more from you. :)

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  2. Glad to see you have been keeping busy. Have missed you.

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  3. Thanks Shirley, life has been difficult this year, lots of illness in the family. You have been doing so lovely work, and I loved your hat!

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  4. Claire, such wonderful pictures! So nice to see all that you've been doing, and that view in Wales is beautiful. Will write soon, Deb

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