This week's smiles....week 380

 Phew it's hot hot hot.  My fans have been working overtime this week and so have I but I'm still smiling.

On Sunday Lexi had another day of dance competitions, this time at Stafford University.  She entered into 5 different dances and came away with 4 medals....we are so proud of her.  She is loving life. :-)

Our strawberries are ripening fast and furious at the mo....this is the 3/4 time we have filled the colander and there's still more to ripen yet.  These have all come from about 10 strawberry plants and have been the best they have ever been.

The only other things I have to share with you are a few funnies ...I hope you find something to make you smile.

Please leave me a little comment and, if you can, then share your own smiles by linking up below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 518

 Hi all.  I hope you've all benefitted from the rain we have had lately...the gardens certainly needed it.

This was the garden produce I gathered yesterday...there really is nothing like freshly picked fruit and veg so that always makes me smile.

Amy sent me this photo of Stephen this week ...he's all ready to go on a two night residential/activity with his school....I hope he's had a wonderful time and comes back with tales of all the exciting things he's done.

Last week I shared the flowers I was brought by one of my customers and this week I was brought this beautiful minature rose by another one....I feel so very blessed that they appreciate what I do like this. :-)

Our garden continues to make us smile...Yes it is lavendar Elizabeth, we have bushes of all colours and the insects and bees are really loving it at the mo.

Finally of course we have to have a few funnies.  I hope something makes you smile and you will then leave me a little comment before sharing your own smiles by linking up below.  

I hope you all have a great week.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 517

 Phew..... it's been a hot one this week and our fans have been working overtime to keep us cool. I've been really busy with sewing and have had some very special customers this week....I'm so blessed to have made some real friends from my sewing business.  I've had hugs and kisses and one even brought me a bunch of flowers [included in the one collage below].....I love my job.

Our strawberries are ripening just fast enough for us to enjoy them....Louie had some yesterday and he thought they were rather yummy too.....he loves any fruit but the ones that are freshly picked and washed are the best.

Milly needed her nails cutting yesterday so, to show Milo what a good girl she is, she insisted we took a photo of me cutting them for her....she happily lies like a baby in my arm and has even sometimes been known to insist I file them for her afterwards.  She's such a good girl ...I think she would allow me to do anything for her. :-) :-)

The first collage from our garden including the flowers I was given....aren't they gorgeous?

Too many flowers for just one collage this week.

My funnies wouldn't fit in a collage this week so I'm sharing them one at a time.

I hope you find something to make you smile and will leave me a little message before sharing your own smiles by linking up below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles.....week 475

 Happy Friday all. I really hope you're all enjoying the Jubilee weekend. I have a few smiles to share with you today...

I am really loving watching the independant love of sewing developing with Phoebe and Lulu.  They have both found a favourite T-shirt, that they had grown out of, and made themselves cushions to go in their bedrooms....I wonder who they take after?

This is the first of our strawberries starting to ripen...and this always makes me smile.

Our garden just keeps on giving...I love the gorgeous colours in every corner at the mo...and just know you will enjoy sharing them with us.

I have lots of funnies to share with you today...hope they make you smile.

I hope you all have a wonderful week filled with smiles and you will link up to yours below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 327

So many weeks are whizzing by and each one comes with so many smiles....I feel blessed.

They had a WWF day at school so they each child had to go dressed up as something that was on the endangered list so here we have a Panther, a Jaguar and a Flamingo....of course, what else could they be?  I really love how their school takes part in so many things cos the children learn so much more when they are having fun.

Theo is showing his Grandad how he can match his colours and fasten  buttons and poppers and count each one in turn.

Here they are playing marbles together....I think Theo heard that his Grandad was losing his marbles and he's helping him to find them  :-)

This week's garden treasures....there's something new to smile about each week.  The bees, butterflies and insects are really enjoying the flowers too.

The strawberries are ripening fast and furious now....this makes me smile but I think Theo enjoys them even more than me :-)

Our son Mark sent me this pic....he says that he now knows why we have a Motor home :-)

I hope I've made something that's made you smile this week and you will share your smiles by linking them below.....everyone is welcome to join in the fun.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 326

It's been another wet week here at Sewing by Annie's but the smiles keep on coming thankfully.  We were away last weekend in our Motor home on a really lovely campsite with reliably excellent facilities in Builth Wells....we used to go there when our family was small and we had either a towing caravan or a trailer tent.  It's a family run site [the same family since 30 years ago] and is now run by the next generation who played with our three as children.

As you can see Milly loves the life of adventure.

Whilst there we had visitors....the children didn't know where they were coming to so were very surprised to see us.  We enjoyed lunch together and then went for a walk around the wild water swimming/boating lake on the site...I think next time they will be bringing their wetsuits :-)

Lexi was in Shrewsbury carnival on Saturday with her drama group and Shell volunteered to walk round with them so of course she had to dress up to.

Lexi also had to perform her tap dancing routine on stage in the quarry with her dance group.

Well done Lexi ....so proud of you.

Tuesday saw our little man helping his Grandad picking the first strawberries....all the rain has mean the slugs has got to some of them before us but as you can see there's still plenty to go round.....and Theo loves them :-)

Don't you just love this pic of Poppy and Molly?  Molly has really grown now and as you can see they are the best of friends.

I put a pic of the mystery plant in our garden on here on Wednesday and my clever friend Elizabeth has identified it for us.....its Purple Loosestrife, for those wanting to know, and at some point it should reward us with lovely purple flowers......Thanks Ellie [you're so clever].

I'm sure many of you will have noticed my new blog header....aren't the poppies gorgeous?
Here's my latest collage of garden flowers out and making us smile this week.

Finally I thought you'd smile when I show you the proof that I really do have something missing....it's been rumoured for many years now.

I hope I've managed to make you smile and you will now share your smiles by linking them up below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles.....week 284

I was missing in action last week but had posted automatically so folks could link up and share their smiles......I will do my best to check out last week's and this weeks smiles today so I don't miss out on all the fun.  I must admit that I was having a well earned few days away visiting some very special friends in Holland.  We have known them since 2000 and hadn't seen them for over 2 years but, as always, it was as if we had never been apart.  We only had a long weekend together but it was really lovely to see the gorgeous new house they had moved to.  They sing and play guitars etc in a group and on the Saturday night they invited everyone around for a BBQ and then we had our own private entertainment.....it was really lovely to meet the rest of the group, make new friends and they even sang Annie's song just for me.

So here's my photos for this week....

Lunch with our friends.....good food, sunshine, special friends....what more could you want?

They made me do it!!  Honest.  I guess the strawberries are healthy?

The sunset while we were enjoying sitting on a boat chatting and eating ice cream.....the end of a really wonderful day.

Reach for the stars my little man.  :-) :-) :-)

This photo really makes me smile.

I hope you have enjoyed my smiles today and will now link up to yours below.  Thanks for joining in the fun each week.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles...week 278

Hello all.  I really hope you are all enjoying this wonderful sunny weather we are having at the mo.  We don't have these sort of days often so we have to make the best of it and that's just what my family have been doing....

Last weekend Amy, Dave and their three joined friends for a weekend on the Welsh coast and, as you can see, the children really enjoyed some fun in the sea.....don't you just love the black and white photos?

After a long hot day at school the twins enjoyed some fun in their paddling pool in their back garden.

We have enjoyed very many bowls full of strawberries this year....it must be a good year for them.  These two made me chuckle.  It looks like they are trying to be something else to avoid being picked...the top one looks like a butterfly and the bottom one looks more like a moth don't you think?

As you can see their disguise didn't fool me and yes they were really yummy too.

That's all my smiles for today.  It's been a really busy week with sewing so I'm pleased to say we have floor standing fans that have kept the temperatures down to a level I can work in.

Please leave me a little message to say you've called in and if you can then link your own smiles below.

Hugs,

Annie x

This week's smiles....week 276

I know you all missed my Friday post but it was really lovely to see several of you still sharing your smiles and even linking up on the previous week's Mr Linky so thank you all so much.

I was away up in Scotland making memories and sharing many smiles with these lovely people...

 I know many of you will have seen the photo over on Elizabeth's Wednesday post but it was the only one we both have of all 4 of us together and I love it.

I'm sure you can imagine the smiles we had all week.  We went to see a castle, a seaside and Ellie even directed me to a fabric shop while we were in Glasgow....we had booked tickets to see Sarah Milligan the one night so had to had to find something to look at during the day there.  :-) :-)

When we left home our strawberries were all green so to find these beauties waiting for our return really put smiles on our faces....and these are just a few of them!!!

On last Saturday we rose early to go to watch three of our grandchildren running in the Shropshire Primary School's half marathon.  They had run the race in mile stages after school several nights and they then joined over 800 other children to run the last mile in on of the town parks....proud Nanny moments.....and little Steve even came 5th in his group which had lots of much bigger children in.

Of course I just have to finish off with the latest colours in our garden.....if they don't make you smile then I don't know what would.  Aren't they gorgeous?

I hope your week is filled with many smiles and you will share your smiles with us by linking up below.

Hugs,

Annie x