What a whopper!.....

We has a surprise visit from, just the biggest, dragonfly I've seen yesterday.  We had popped into one of our local garden centres for a bit of lunch and whilst standing at the far end of the cafe about 20 yards from an open door a huge dragonfly flew in, flew the full length of the cafe and landed on my husband's trouser leg!.....amazing or what?  Of course I just had to snap it to share it with you before it was safely carried back out to freedom......

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Hello my WOYWW friends.  I did manage to call in to see most of you last week but was unable to leave you comments as we were AWOL for a few days [see yesterday's post].  I'm happy to report that I managed to recharge my batteries and came home raring to go again.  :-)

So what is on my work desk today?

My best find of my holiday!

We had coffee in a little cafe in Harlech.  The other half of the shop was an old fashioned sweet shop with shelves full of sweets in jars.  I got talking to the shop owner because I can no longer get empty jars round home and he said he had so many that he struggles to find homes for them!!

Of course I couldn't let this chance pass me by so for a donation in his charity box I left with 6 new jars to put my ribbons into....my old ones had cracked.  Trust me when I say....I'm easily pleased.  :-)

Since coming home I have now finished the first little dragonfly picture.....it's only about 10.5cm square but I'm rather thrilled with it.  I will probably upload it into the shop at some point if anyone is interested in buying it.

Monday afternoon was spent crafting and creating with Jo and our friend T and we spent it doing little appliqued and free machined characters...it's def a case of practise makes perfect and I have a feeling I have a way to go yet but they are rather cute.

That's about it for me for today.  Tomorrow is the munchkins 1st birthday so there will be lots of celebrations going on this week.....there is more news to share with you but I am saving that til my Friday post....aren't I a tease?  :-)

Thanks for dropping by and leaving me your lovely comments.  I promise I will do my best to leave you return comments this week.

Hugs,

Annie x

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Hello WOYWWers.  Hope you're all having a great week.  Life here is as always, pretty busy. 

We had a brilliant Funday Monday this week cos our friend T joined us again for crafting fun [not that we did much of that ;-)  ] she has been tied up with lots of family commitments for weeks and we have really missed her so it was lovely to catch up for a good chat and giggle.

On my desk today is the little dumfing pic I have made a start on.  I have already dumfed in some yarns and fabrics and will do some machine embroidery before dumfing on the lily pad I have hand dumfed ready. The dragonfly is finished now too and is ready to sit on his lily pad  :-)  I am having to do these little pictures in snatched minutes so they will be slow to develop.  At the back of the pic are the birthday projects under covers ready for next week's celebrations.  :-)

We decided to go blackberrying on Sunday but as you can see we found barely enough to cover the bottom on the box....there are lots more to ripen yet but they are much smaller than I thought they would be with all the rain we have had.

I am pleased to say though that, with a couple of Bramley apples off our little tree in the garden, the blackberries did make rather a lovely crumble.  :-)  Yum yum

That's about all I have to share with you today folks and I'm sorry to say I doubt I will be able to pay you a return visit til later this week.  Sometimes life just gets in the way....will tell you more about that later.  :-)  Hope you all have a brilliantly creative week.

Hugs,

Annie x

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Good morning to all you wonderful blogging friends who call by each week to peep into a little of my world and leave me such lovely comments.

This week I've been mostly ....

 ....looking after these two little monkeys.  Their other set of Grandparents have been on holiday so I've had a double duty this week.  [such a hardship I know....we have loved every minute  :-)]  

As you can see I had a little helper on Friday and Monday so I could keep the shop open too....her daughter calls her a fair weather Granny though cos she didn't change any nappies  while she was here!  :-)

As you can imagine my sewing has taken a place on the back boiler this week [happily] so today I will be catching up with clearing some of the sewing mountain.

I have however managed to free machine the wings for my dragonflies...they are only sat on top of their bodies here to check for size.

How's this for an amazing car boot find folks?  Jo is always on the look out for me to replenish my toys for the Grandbabies to play with and this week she has really come up trumps.  It's all immaculate...and a real bargain it was too.  Thanks Jo.

The last thing I have to show you today is the visitor who few into our patio door this week!  It's a beautiful sparrow hawk and I'm pleased to say that after being rather stunned he rested for a few minutes and then flew away happily [but probably with a headache!].....that will teach him for trying to catch my little birds eh?

That's all from me for today....more pics to come on Friday  :-)

Thanks for calling by and leaving me such fab comments.

Hugs,

Annie x

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Happy Wednesday to you all. This is the day of the week when we all link up over at Julia's and expose our crafting spaces to the world.  :-)

So?  What have I got to share with you today?

He's not on my desk I know but when my 'Colin Firth' came to collect his sewing he allowed me to take a couple of snaps to share with you to show you just how dashing he looks in his costumes.  I'm pleased to say the alterations had gone well and my customer will probably be back for more.  He has loaned me his waistcoat pattern to peruse and, who knows, I may be making him one of those next.  :-)

Just imagine it all with his waistcoat, tail coat, top hat and boots added.

Creatively, this week, I have been dumfing dragonfly bodies [you can see them centre front on my table].  Jo and I plan to make some more dragonfly pictures to see as the last one Jo made has proved very popular......watch this space as they say.

Doesn't all that multi-coloured wool roving look fab?

On the work desk in the kitchen I have been using up all the ripe tomatoes from our greenhouse to make some fresh tomato sauce to go with pasta.  It includes...

• onions, chopped
• fresh garlic, crushed
• fresh basil, roughly chopped
• tomatoes, skinned and chopped

Yummy!

The other picture we wanted to share was one of the curls that have developed over night for Lexi.  :-)

At the time of the wedding her hair was pretty straight but now it's curly....how does that happen?

And what a cutey she looks with it too.  :-)

Hope you have enjoyed sharing a little of my world today.  If you leave me a little 'hello' comment I will do my best to pay you a return visit in between my sewing jobs.  Thanks for calling by.

Hugs,

Annie x