In the eye of the beholder....

Love.

Stuck!

Slime!!!

Fun with polymers :)

Celebrating the Lantern Festival.....

Making lanterns to mark the end of the Chinese New Year and celebrate the Lantern Festival on the 28th.

Catch 'em if you can....

Barbecued cat....

Easy like Sunday morning :)

Lovin' it

Just loving the gorgeous temperatures and endless sunshine.

Here's hoping Mike Sobel's Groundhog was right and Spring has come early ;)  

Floral facts...

I saw THIS great link about the Olympic floral bouquets  on Knitting on Impulse.  It's really interesting!!

I particularly liked:  

• For the 2010 Winter Games, 1,800 bouquets in total will be made with 1,707 awarded to athletes (1,055 Olympic and 652 Paralympic). All of the flowers and greens will be carefully hand selected and shaped into the bouquets by marginalized women, who may be recovering from addiction, leaving prison, exiting the sex trade, or who have been victims of violence, as well as by other women they train with who are changing careers to become florists.
  
• This group of 22 women have learned the floral trade through the Just Beginnings Flowers Society, a non-profit social enterprise located in Surrey, BC. The flower shop and floral design school is run by Strandberg and also employs women with physical and mental challenges to prep the flowers for the designers. This experience not only connects the women with the world’s top athletes but provides employment experience in a true and lasting legacy of the Games.

I think thats wonderful!!!!

You too can be smart :)

Learn something new every day :)  

Visit THIS  fabby website!!

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Friday Fill-ins!!

1. A cup of tea is something Lloyd looks forward to in the evenings.
2. books, cats and family makes a place feel like home.
3. Everything has its beauty appreciated by somebody.
4. scones and cream need the taste of strawberries?
5. Art makes me feel calm, peaceful and relaxed.
6. LOL I just noticed I forgot to write my dream down this morning before I forgot it.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to relaxing with some crafts, tomorrow my plans include taking the younger two to spend their birthday money and Sunday, I want to spend time outdoors enjoying the good weather - maybe enjoy the fire pit!


Find your friday fill-ins HERE

date night...

Last night Lloyd and I went to New Asian Village for dinner.  We had a lovely supper together and were laughing because he was telling me how our server looked like Monkey - and I thought he was saying he looked like a monkey and I was thinking he was being rude and he was laughing because I thought he was being rude when he was talking about Monkey from a tv show.....an OLD tv show....

THIS  tv show.  I don't think I EVER watched this show lol but I guess Lloyd did!!!

I love the atmosphere in the new restaurant BUT I much prefer the food at our usual Indian restaurant.   It wasn't the first time we'd been there and I still think the other place is better.  The food was ok - just not as good - I didn't bother with dessert, so we went to Starbucks afterwards for coffee and I had a hot chocolate for my dessert instead :)  We sat by the fire and chatted for a while.

I bought a book I needed for a project we're working on next week, and we picked up a birthday gift Susannah needs for a birthday party.  Then home...

It was a nice evening.  I'm looking forward to next weeks night out when we're meeting Val and James again :)

French knitting

Yesterday we bought two French Knitting sets and this morning we set to work with them!  We have been curled up in bed watching the breakfast news and the children have been knitting.  Abby got straight to it and had a long snake coming out fairly fast.  Sam needed a little help.  He is left handed and found it a little fiddly - maybe I should have set it up in a different direction for him (???) but he soon got the hang of it and now he can do it all by himself and says he wants to keep doing it all day (although right now he is in the shower singing lol)  

Last night I started two granny squares using a crochet app I added to my iphone.  I've made some progress and I'm a little bit happier.  I bought a cart load of yarn yesterday (Lloyd is a little freaked I think hahahaha) and am excited about making a blanket.  Watch this space!!

Knitting for chickens!! :)

How bizarrely cute is THIS???  They're a REALLY odd bunch in Somerset, England!!
(my old home town)
 ;)  

Thursday Thirteen....

(Inspired by another blog this week) 

Thirteen things I love about Winter:

1. How beautiful the hoar frost looks after the fog clears.

2. Time for crafts and reading

3. hearty comfort foods

4. Having an excuse to be a homebody!!

5.  Curling up and watching lots of movies - we don't really watch any tv during the warmer months.

6.  happy faces on snowmen

7.  rosy cheeks on the children when they've been outside playing

8.  fresh fallen snow - glistening in the sunshine

9.  hot chocolate by the fire in Starbucks!

10.  The ice festival

11.  all the lovely coats and scarves you get to wear.  And kick-ass boots!

12.  Watching the snow fall once everyone is at home all safe.

13.  walking through the woods and over the back fields, seeing animal tracks in the snow, enjoying the peaceful stillness one a cold sunny day.

You can find the Thursday Thirteen HERE