WOYWW...

Another stolen week and it's Wednesday again. Where do they all go? Well this week I have only a couple of jobs to do this morning because I finished shortening the 4 pair of curtains I had to do yesterday. Today I just have one skirt to shorten and a pair of jeans to do patch and darn on the one knee. I hope to soon get these jobs out of the way so I can dumf later. [Bet I have customers who think otherwise though :-) ]


I have decided to prepare a canvas with Crayola fabric crayons for a change. It's much better to work on a coloured background than on a white one. For those that have never used these crayons before the idea is to do your design onto a piece of clean paper, turn this over onto your canvas and iron the design on.


It doesn't have to be perfect because I shall be covering this with wool rovings, threads and dumfling gorgeousness :-)

This is my table covered with all the fab new stash we bought at the Woolfest and I'm planning to make use of at least some of these today. I'm in the mood for a field of poppies :-)






Now lastly I feel the need to show and tell some of the magic going on outside in our garden....




These are a row of beetroot emerging. These will be used to make scrummy beetroot chutneys and pickles later in the year.









Little potato plants are starting to show so with a lot of water and just a bit of luck we should have yummy new potatoes before very long :-)





Down the very bottom of our garden we have a wild life area with a bird hide and at the mo it is a real picture with all it's wild flowers. These are of course Forget-me-nots...My Dad's favourite flower and it would have been his Birthday this month.

Even dandelions look wonderful when in an area where they are allowed to grow.









I couldn't resist snapping this Bridal veil plant but I see our 'old lady' Skye felt the need of posing for a picture too. She saw me out with the camera and ran in and sat down just as I was taking the picture :-)





For those that haven't seen my previous blog. We launched the Wedding shelf in our blog shop Monday and would really appreciate you all to pop over and take a look and leave us a comment as to what you think of it all. Any new ideas or special requests would be very welcome.

I hope you all have a brill Wednesday and will all pop over to Julia's to join in the fun of showing us your workspace.

For those keeping up with Paula's progress....She was in rather a lot of pain last night and although the Dr said she could go home she very sensibly declined the offer. I do feel these Dr's like to push patients home too soon at times. I haven't heard from her yet this morning but I will update her blog if I get any more news.

My Sunday Paula update...

For all who are wondering how our dear friend Paula is going on you will be pleased to hear she is home. They discharged her from hospital on Friday!!! Bless her she, I am certain, was rather frightened at going home rather earlier than they has previously planned. Still in lots of pain from the op and even worse pain when needing to cough, move and even breathe I'm sure it was a daunting prospect. I purposely haven't blogged this earlier because she was in desperate need of rest and lots of sleep to allow her body heal. She has today managed to get downstairs and with a little gentle exercise and lots of TLC she, I am certain, will now make a good steady progress but, as I have said to her, she must listen to her body and not expect too much too soon. It's pretty major surgery she has had and healing takes time and patience. I know everyone is sending her good vibes and I know she is very grateful for all the love and attention you have all given her. She is without her Internet provider until some time in April but has asked me to update you all and pass on her love and thanks to all her blogging friends.

Just a quick hospital update about Paula...

I've heard from Paula today. The physio has had her out of bed and walking but she is still suffering rather a lot of pain so she has had to increase her Morphine and other analgesia but as most of you will know these all come with side effects they don't always warn you about so laxatives have been prescribed too. I sometimes think it is not good to know everything before having these major operations or maybe you would think twice. She has asked me to thank you all for your very kind wishes and send you lots of love. Hopefully she will be back up and running very soon but, for now, every day has to be little steps of steady progress.

She did send me a photo of her wound but I promise I won't share that with you all....all I will say is ouch!!

Lastest update from Paula.....

I sent a text to Paula's phone to let her know we were all thinking of her and to pass on all your good wishes and this is the text I just had back from her.....

Hi Annie....thats great ta. no longer in my own room..Privaleges hav stopped. oh well.
Tell evetone thanx i'm hjhh on morphibe at mo n cant typr priprjy

Even on her hospital bed she managed to raise a few smiles bless her. It was so very good to get her reply but I've told her to get lots of rest and that I would pass on her message to all so she didn't feel the need to text everyone personally....I'm sure we will all forgive her spelling errors :-)