Minxxys World

Warning.........Summer sunshine alert!

For those of you with a weak disposition click away now.... the following is not a pretty sight, you have been warned.

Long, long ago, in a far away land that is know as England, lived a handsome Prince called MaDge  who was a sun worshipping God. He meet and fell in love with a Princess who dreamed of owning a craft room of her own where her sewing machine was permanently set up, a huge armchair was situated in the window, Jeremy Kyle was on the telly 24 hours a day and she could knit and make things all day long.

The handsome Prince moved to the Holy Land (Scotland incase you were a tad unsure) where the rain fell day and night, night and day ....and then some more. Sunny days were rare but boy! the scenery made up for all those murky, dark days.

One day, a miracle occured in the Holy Land. The sun shone. It shone and shone and shone and the handsome Prince, being a tad dim, spent the whole day outside bare chested.................  Stoopid cahhnt!

The End

SKEGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you hear me shouting that?  The cat only gets her Sunday name when she is naughty. Mostly she is known as Skeggy but she got her full title the other night. Courtesy of MaDge and the camera, I have discovered what happens when I got to bed at night.

 

Little Moobag! She has the pink wool in her teeth, chewing it!

Good Lord above, she is trubble!

Crochet project bag

The crochet bug has bitten hard here at my house. I have been hooking every spare minute I can and I am loving it. Ever since I discovered Attic24 I have been pouring over her blog like some sad maniac. I make no excuses for it. 

I have crocheted the flower bunting, glass bottle covers and now I have completed her crochet bag. I loved it from start to finish,inspired by the colours of the rainbow I planned the bag's base colour as brown with bold dashes of colour every two rows. I am really pleased with the way it has turned out but my seam seems to be veering to the right and not in a straight vertical line that I assume it's meant to?

Nevermind, you can't even notice it's wonky. I took the pictures out in the garden and apart from sharpening the images, I have not photoshopped them in anyway. The colours you see are the colours I see. Did you know, I have had my camera for 3 years , have just read the instructions and realise that I have been using the auto setting all these years? I could have been producing way better pictures all this time! I am onto it though.

 

 

I am truely loving crochet at the moment although I have a few aches due to the repetative nature of hooking. Man! I better slow down, don't want an RSI.

Telepathy?

I am stunned! I know that MaDge and I are really well matched (if I say so myself) and we think along the same lines for the majority of the time.Imagine my surprise when our converstaion this afternoon went roughly along the lines of :- 

"Are you  making trifle in a jar?" MaDge

"Trifle in a jar? You've been reading my Country Living magazine that's lying in the bog" Me

"yeah, well I was needing a poo. Are you making trifle in a jar?"

"I was going to but not today"

"Oh (insert sad face) it's just that I saw the jars in the kitchen and you've got jelly and custard.  I'll make trifle in a jar then"   .......and off he went on his culinary mission.

The jars he was talking about are the ones I bought last week at the charity shop for 50p each. Result!

 

Imagine his horror when he discovered that I was intending on sharing his trifles with him. Just check him out, protectively cluthcing the jars and throwing me a death glare in the process.

 

The trifles have yet to be completed but I will post a picture when they are finished. My tummy has rumbled at the thought of eating them. Yum!

Crochet flower bunting

As I have already mentioned, I have discovered Attic24, a blog about crochet. I fell in love with her crochet flower bunting and decided to give it a go. I was totally hooked from the start, even getting back out of bed at 3 a.m. to continue working on those little flowers. They are so addictive. Next time, I will add more flowers and make the main chain narrower. A very relaxing, engrossing project and one I will most certainly repeat.

 

 

 

Check out those nasturtiums.... the whole idea of triffids being real doesn't seem to be that unbelievable !

Birds eye view of the garden

Jack left me a comment on facebook saying she can't post a comment on here. I was going to ask if anyone else had problems but then thought you might have difficulty in posting an answer!

Not to worry. Jack,  this photo is just for you.

So long, farewell

It's the time of year I dread the most. After two years nurture, ALL my group leave to go to school. There will be tears, there will be cards and there has been the most amazing hand made cards. I am going to miss them terribly.

Hand made, you cannot beat it and here's why.

 

 

It completely blows me away how powerful talking and listening is, especially when two 5 year olds produce cards like this, both of me, at home, festooned in my favourite colours. We talked about our favourite colours months ago.

 Children are our future, listen to them!