This week's smiles....week 389

 Another week has flown by here at Sewing by Annie's....and I'm still smiling :-)....I hope you are too and will share yours with us by linking up at the bottom.

Last weekend saw these little cousins having a play time [before the new 6 in a group rules].  Theo enjoyed showing his cousins all his new birthday presents and Lulu especially loved meeting little Maisie for the first time.

On Tuesday we took Theo to Ellesmere lakes to feed the swans and ducks.  We bought two bags of special food for them as requested and fed a lots of very hungry birds as you can see....one of the geese even decided to try nibbling at my toes!!

Theo will be going to school next September so the plan is to make the best of what time we have left before he goes....I well remember doing exactly the same for his daddy [seems like only yesterday!!].

Here's my latest collage from the garden...isn't it all looking autumnal now?

I love watching now the colours and seasons change in the garden....those are crab apples in the top right pic.  We have two little trees full of crab apples...and the birds don't seem to eat them sadly.

That's all from me for this week.  I hope you are all well and happy.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 388

 Well, that week flew by for me....how about you?

We had a long weekend away in our motor home with Milly and although she is now 4 and has never liked water until now she decided she would take the plunge.  It was a really lovely campsite that we had taken our children to when they were little and has a steam running through it that they used to love paddling in and for what ever reason our little Milly decided she needed to paddle in it too.

It really made us smile because she did it like it was something she had always done before :-)

On Monday this week our 'little' Theo had his 4th birthday....doesn't time fly?

They were away for the weekend at the seaside so he had his birthday present from us on Tuesday when we babysat him and Maisie.  The top two pics are of him building his present from us with his Grandad....precious memories being made.

As Theo's mummy left for work little Maisie whimpered a little so Theo got down from the table where he was playing and went over to give her a cuddle and said...'It's ok Maisie, Mummy has only gone to work, you've still me here'.

He's such a loving little boy.

Finally for those that enjoy my garden flowers here's my latest collage.  On the top left is a new little Rowan tree we have planted so that the birds can enjoy the berries.

That's all from me for today.  Please leave me a little comment and link to your own smiles below.  I did visit you all last week but one or two I was unable to leave comments on because the internet was poor on our campsite.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles...week 386

 Hello all and welcome to this week's smiles...I hope you've had as much as me to smile about this week and will share yours by linking up below.

A lot of my smiles have focussed on our new little family member, Maisie.   She is Theo's new puppy and, as you can see she is settling in very well and there is already a lovely bond building between her and Theo.  She is a little cockapoo and her coat is really soft and fluffy....she's simply gorgeous.

Shell, Brent, Lexi and Sam are on holiday down in Cornwall this week and they look to be having a lovely time down there.

I've been filling in all the UK postcodes where my Memory bears have gone to and after putting a shout out for help in locating them many have helped me fill in several more areas so I'd like to thank all that have helped.

If you've bought Memory bears from me and gave them to someone in an area not coloured in on my map then please let me know....my aim is to spread a little of Annie's love far and wide [I know there are some in USA and even Australia so maybe it's the UK today and maybe the world one day :-)].

Hugs,

Annie x

WOYWW....

 I'm slowly but surely getting back to 'the new normal'. I'm doing a few fittings wearing my face shield and it seems to be working well.  I've sold all my adult face masks in grab bags and now only have a couple of bags of children's masks left....it's been like a cleansing and the chaos in my sewing room has lessoned considerably.

Since the weekend I've been seeing spots....two dresses to alter.  One cream with black spots and the other black with white spots :-)

I've made another Memory bear for yet another different school bringing my number of schools up to 29 now.

 

 

I've been restocking....

• New sewing machine needles...because a girls can't do her job without them.  You should need to replace the needle after 8 hours sewing and trust me when I say I go through a fair few.
• New cards to get my customer cards up to date...I keep the details of what each customer has done for easy reference.

 

 

The other thing I've been doing, and this is really just for fun, is to locate on the map where my Memory bears have gone to live.

I would really love it, if you have ordered bears from me, if you could let me know the first two letters of the post code where they are living so I can colour in where in the UK they are if I haven't already coloured it in.

I know I have bears in America and Australia too but I'm only locating the UK ones for now.

 

The last thing I'm sharing with you today is our new family member...Maisie.  Come on all together "awwwwwww".  This is Theo's new little puppy.  She's a Cockerpoo and is just gorgeous....I'm sure you will be seeing more of her.

Thanks for calling by.  I will do my best to pay you a return visit if you leave me a little message so I know you've called in.

Hugs,

Annie x