Hanging Together

 

This is a Nancy Halverson pattern of a witch from last year. Oh that old chestnut! Decided last year nth hour to make a new Halloween hanging and something came up so it went in the cupboard. This year whipped up another 2 and got it together in an evening.
So explain that to me. Is it - that when you have little gap in the day for a smidgeon of time to self you squeeze in as much as you can. Am I in fact becoming so organised and focused due to lack of time that I can whizz through something in no time? I don't know, it was well after midnight when I stuck on the googley eyes. but we gained an hour so what the heck!

P.S
The big pot on the left is Pumpkin Soup which is not bad - not as good as the roasted Butternut Squash from last week, but not bad all the same.  The pot on the right is for the fuss pot Ds - veg soup, safe and they know they like it. No.1 D doesn't do cumin (yet!)

Afternoon tea

     

nice to come into the house with the smell of baking. So no.2 D came in at perfect moment to turn a boring little fairy cake into a butterfly beauty. Oh and they were lovely.

Just a few pics from our Autumnal day out...

Loch Long with a little mist resting on the surface of the water...

A little more of the Loch.. and some Autumnal hairdos...

 

Weekend Away

Just got back from our long weekend away from the pooch. Oh how we missed her, and she us by the licks when we collected her. We were down in yorkshire, York really, but me managed to go on the steam train at Haworth (pic to left here shows Haworth with the church up the hill, can you spot the Bronte Parsonage?) ... up and down the line a few times, trying to spot where bobby waved her red knickers (scenes from the Railway Children were filmed there).

We stopped for coffee in Haworth and ended up painting pottery for the afternoon. That was fun, as it's something the kids do, and i haven't really. The "objects d'art" are to be posted next week. So that will be a treat. We also managed to get to Hebden Bridge, which is a lovely place. It has a great sweetie shop, so we can do the - if we do this then we can do the sweetie shop... blackmail bit. It works, and their old mum likes the Soor Plooms.

So we managed to find a Loch Fyne Oyster bar in York and booked ourselves in but No.2 D wasn't too well (oink cough oink) so we alas had to cancel. We did squeeze in an afternoon tea in Betty's both in York AND Harrogate. NOT in the same day. But put this way, you eat a good breakfast in a hotel, in theory you don't need the luncheon, afternoon cakes and evening meal - but you do! And we did. Lovely.
Then we topped it off with a visit to Beamish, which sold enormous cream scones, well... we did share one.

Media Research...

Well, I didn't do my bag lining so it may have to wait until next week now. Not that I was idle in my researching. Oh my! watched something not normally for me, bit of murder and crime. Tend to stick to safe - happy, eating sorts of things, but anyway.. I enjoyed it and will SKY+ the rest as not in for the next four nights at 9pm.
On an exciting note - finally - after don't know how many years I bound this Civil War sampler quilt. It is actually half of a block of the month project. If I had gone with the full 25 blocks it would have been far too big, so I have a pair now. Well that's not exactly true as the other "half" is in it's block state, made up but not connected.
It looks good across the bed so I am very happy - and someone moved in quick to test it. Shame, he will be 16 soon.

Frustration

Well. So it's made, but I can't say it's finished. I am not showing the lining because tonight, as I do a bit of media research (ok watching the telly) i am going to seriously tweek it. I think the lining should have been smaller than the outer bag to allow for it to sit neatly inside and that's my story.

And it nearly put me off the ukulele music I was listening to !

Last night during my medical research (Doc Martin on SKY because we don't get it on Scottish TV!) I finished off this cushion. The redwork (Wendy Brigg pattern) I'd been doing when the girls were in their music lessons. I sit and do my little bit of sewing, crotchet, whatever and think to myself what nice little moments they are. Occasionally someone asks what I am doing, but not if I sit in the corner head down. That isn't meant to sound ungrateful or anti-social.

The background striped fabric is actually a tea towel, a SIA one I think, anyway I liked it.

   

Birthday Day Out

Well, it was supposed to be day out Edinburgh with hotel, the works but not wanting to sound ungrateful, I couldn't be bothered packing and all that goes with it.. organising children's bags etc. So... we went for a much better option. Still the Day out, no children bit but where did we go..

Yup, the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar and it was lovely. Apart from the fact every time we went indoors the rain stopped and the sun came out and when we were outdoors the rain came on like it had never rained before!
We took the little lady and she had a ball... well she lost it to a waterfall in the end but loved the running about.

It was her first waterfall... thats' funny. I can remember when No.1 D tasted chocolate for the first time.. mmm..mm.
But what views, tried to take a pic of a rainbow through the drizzle with my phone so it is more of a "Where's Wally moment maybe.