This week's smiles....week 360

Week 360?  That's a lot of smiles isn't it?  Thanks to all who join in every week...you really do make the world a happier place.

I've had another happy week filled with smiles thankfully and have a few I can share with you...

 Lulu is all packed up here ready to go on a skiing trip with her school....she left last Saturday and, from what I've heard, she's been having a wonderful time.

The twins have been taking it in turns to cook tea this week and love to send me pics of the progress....It all looks so yummy.

Last night we went to watch Sam in his school perfomance of Matilda....it was really brilliant.  I always love to see young people putting their hearts into their acting/singing.

Our garden is full of promise of what's to come...there are bulbs shooting up everywhere.  I love this time of year.

Of course I also have a few funnies so share with you.

Please leave me a little message so I know you've called in and, if you can, please link up to your smiles below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles...week 497

 Hello all and happy Friday to you.  I hope your week has been as good as mine.  I've  enjoyed lots of time sewing creatively for the charity but have also had rather more customers this week including another bag full of factory trousers to replace the zips in [ 😩 ]....not my favourite job but as am retiring from doing them in October and I only get a bag every couple of months I wont have to do many more....with my hubby helping, we have already removed all the zips [my arthritic hands are telling me too!!].

I walked around the garden yesterday and took a few photos when I noticed signs of promise shooting up everywhere...

I do love seeing early signs of Spring...there's even a couple of snowdrops starting to bloom in the bottom left :-)

We had the twins before and after school on Tuesday and had a surprise visit from Gina and little Louie on Wednesday so our week has been filled with lots of smiles.  Louie is now crawling everywhere and pulling himself up to feet so I'm guessing will be walking soon....he's growing up far too quickly!!

The only other things I have to share with you are my weekly funnies....enjoy.

I hope I have managed to get all of each funny on this week. I couldn't find the incomplete one from last week to put it on again for you so sorry I missed it.

Please leave me a little comment so I know you've called by and I will do my best to call by to see what has been making you smile this week.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 457

 Happy Friday to one and all.  I have lots to smile about this week because I am now feeling more myself and have had lots of sewing to do to keep me busy....and it's so lovely to feel up to doing it all.

We had a visit from a young lady that 30 years ago I childminded at just 6 weeks old from 8 in the morning to 6 at night....she really was part of the family.  She very proudly came to show us her gorgeous baby boy and it was so lovely to see what a lovely little mummy she has become.....special memories were made.

I'm sharing the gorgeous flowers we have in our living room window now.  The Amaryllis has now bloomed....its over 30" tall and there are 4 huge blooms...aren't they stunning?

One of my orchids has decided to bloom too...it has lots of huge white blooms too.

The garden is full of promise...lots of bulbs are shooting up now.  I love this time of year.

Finally I saw this funny on Facebook and it made me chuckle....I hope it does you too.

That's my lot for this week.  Please share your smiles by linking up below and have a great week.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 406

 I've had another week with virtually no work so I've enjoyed filling my time making Luna Lapin's friends and making their tiny clothes....check out the post below if you'd like to see the latest.

I've been out in the garden where there are signs of life springing up everywhere so I snappy a few photos for you...

Although everywhere is rather wet and mucky from being under a blanket of snow for several days but there are bulbs shooting up through the earth everywhere.  This always makes me smile but more so this year....Spring is on it's way wahooooooo. 

Home schooling continues for all our Grandchildren...everything from designing an Anglo Saxon village map so science experiments to see the effects of different liquids on egg shells.

It's hard work home schooling 3 different aged children all doing different lessons and working full time to run a busy printing business too but Amy is doing a great job.....everything from studying Islam and building a space rover to a full day of on line lessons for Phoebe including English, Maths, Spanish, Geography etc etc.

Theo has had busy days too...building a castle, making chain linked snowmen and painting snow out on his builders tray.

We had a good covering of snow at the weekend so I was sent lots of photos of the children building snowmen and having fun in the snow.

Finally here's a few funnies to make you smile....

I haven't got to this stage yet but it did make me smile.

Here's one for all the home schooling parents when exhaustion sets in. :-)

I hope you have enjoyed my smiles for this week and will share your smiles by linking up below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 358

Another week, another head cold but still plenty to make me smile thankfully.

I like to take a little time out of my busy life to focus on the good things in my life and to share just a few of them hoping to make others smile too.  It does me good and I hope it rubs off on all those who visit each week....please feel very welcome to share your smiles too by linking up at the bottom of the page.  With all the doom and gloom in this world we live in I like to do my bit to share a little happiness.

Shell shared this photo with me this week of their puppy, Jet watching the telly.  She sent me a video too and it showed Jet empathising with the corgi in the film...it made us all chuckle [I'm sorry but I'm unable to share the video with you].

Little Jet is growing fast and is such a lovely little dog now.

My smiles have mostly focussed on the signs of Spring around our garden.  There seems new life everywhere I look so I popped out with my camera to share a collage of what I found with you....Spring is on it's way....wahoooooooo.

Or is it?

I found these few funnies on Pinterest to make you smile....

Looking at our garden...this one seemed appropriate :-)

Then....with all the bad weather we've been having maybe this one is right?  :-)

Thankfully we haven't had a lot of snow and what we have had hasn't stayed long but this one made me chuckle.

Then I found this one and, as today is the last day of the course we have been having at the gym and we can't afford the £800 plus they want for another year there, I thought maybe this one might be right for me?

Sadly this head cold has included earache and vertigo so we have been unable to got to our last few sessions at the gym but hopefully it's given us the insentive to get and stay fitter....fingers crossed.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 352

Oh what a fortnight filled with smiles and happy memories it's been.  I was missing in action on the blogging front last week but it does us all good to step back from time to time.  I was very busy making memories and enjoying some 'me time'.

So, I wont waste any more time and will share just a few of my smiles with you...

Changing times

 Over Christmas Gina made this collage of Theo showing just how he's grown....it just happens while you're not looking doesn't it?  I really will have to stop calling him little Theo won't I?  :-)

Special memories being made

 This was over Christmas.  Mark got his guitar out while Lulu was at his house and they spent a little time together with it.  She has guitar lessons at school and was so chuffed to have Mark teaching her on his best guitar.

Moments of madness 

 Here's a selfie of us showing Michelle how much we love one of our Christmas presents from her.

Moments of magic

 Isn't nature just amazing?  This was a quick snap of the sky during the Christmas holidays.

The promise of things to come

 In every corner of our garden there's bulbs shooting up and little signs of new life....I love this time of year.

New additions to the family

 On 29th December Shell, Brent and the twins collected a new little puppy called Jet.  She's a Labrador x Border Collie and is simply gorgeous.

The first of many I hope

 Yesterday we had our first trip out in the motor home for the New Year.  We took the motor home for a run to Aberdovey and really enjoyed a walk on the beach with Milly.  Here's hoping 2020 will be filled with many happy trips out together.  We are still going to the gym 3x a week and I think I've already lost 10lbs so lets hope this is a good beginning with more to follow.

I hope you've enjoyed my first Friday smiles of 2020 and will link up to your own smiles below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 306

Another week has passed and, as always, I'm chasing my tail with work.  I'm in the middle of making 6 Memory bears with a further 6 due through my door at any point so it's a quick round up of smiles this week....

At the weekend Amy, Dave. their 3 children plus their friends with their 2 boys had a couple of nights at the Welsh coast and yes it was cold and windy but it didn't stop these 5 donning their coats, hats, wellies and gloves to enjoy fun on the beach and making a sand castle....the weather never gets in the way of their fun and that always makes me smile.

On Wednesday night Lulu went to a birthday party which included pony rides....of course she had a wonderful time and would really like one of her own now. :-)

It's been really cold here lately and we have treated Milly to a waterproof coat....here she is trying it on and she seems very happy with it.

Yesterday morning was the coldest day of the year here and the ground outside was frozen hard but just look at the tulips shooting up through the gravel....isn't nature wonderful?

And finally I saw this on Facebook this week and for a moment thought it was Jo's dishwasher....she has so much wool I thought she had been hiding it again :-)

I hope you have found something here that has made you smile too and will now link up to your own smiles below.

Have a good week and stay warm and safe wherever you are.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles.....week 207

Hello all.  Here we are at my weekly blog looking at my smiles for the week.

Many thanks to the 6 who joined in again last week.  I love seeing what makes you smile each week so thank you for joining in the fun.

My smiles this week are of the signs of spring in the garden.  I really love Spring so it always makes me smile when I see it getting closer.  The nights are drawing out now too and that also makes me smile.

We planted snowdrops up in the one corner of our garden mostly under some new lawn and they are now starting to get established.  It might take a few years for them to really be a good show but I just love it when they fight their way through the frozen ground.

The front garden had daffodils sprouting up everywhere now and as you can see there are even some coming into bud.

Spring is on it's way....wahooooooooo. 😍😍😍😍

That's it from me for today.  I've had a busy week with sewing projects so it's been a happy and productive week. Please leave me a little comment so I know you've called in and if you can please share your own smiles by linking them up below.  Go on, lets fill our week with smiles.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 145

Happy Friday to you all.  You will be here to share in this weeks smiles and hopefully to share your own smiles below so welcome to one and all.  Lots of you joined in again last week and I thank you all for taking the time out from your busy lives to join in the fun....please keep up the good work.

I am featuring Michelle's little care bear from last week over at Studio Scrapworx.....what a cutie.  Thanks for sharing Michelle.....please call back again soon.

My smiles for this week have been many, as always.  Several of you seem to be watching our building developments with interest and I'm sharing some of our latest pics that have really caused many smiles this week......

Our new french windows/doors into our kitchen....aren't they beautiful?

And from inside the kitchen looking out onto the garden.....just look at all that sun shining in.  It's south facing and we plan slabbing a patio outside the doors so I can imagine many happy hours spent with the doors open in the summer.

The bath, washbasin and toilet have now been plumbed in our new bathroom by my multitalented hubby and I have even enjoyed a relaxing bath in there already.....I know, I know it's not finished yet but I couldn't wait. :-)

This is the wonderful new roman blind that my much older sister made for our new bathroom from a piece of fabric we found in my fabric stash....what a lovely job she made and what a great use of the fabric....Thanks Jo.

The other pic I'm sharing with you today is of some of the Spring bulbs that are shooting up in our garden already....I know it's been very mild here but I do hope they survive the colder weather that is bound to come later in the year.

We should have the delivery of our new Ikea kitchen cupboards today.  Yes I know it's Friday 13th but I like to live dangerously so lets hope it all arrives without a hitch :-)

So there you go....those are my smiles for this week [well, some of them].  Please leave me a little comment before you link up your smiles and I will be over to yours as soon as I can.

Hugs,

Annie x