Day 2............x

Day two of the holidays and we are super relaxed, and happy. happy, happy, happy. I may have forgotten to go to a meeting last night, worn my P.J's until late morning, walked around the village supervising littlest bumblebee on her bike without having brushed my hair.......but that's what makes it all the more wonderful!

( picture above taken from the Stitch and Bitch / Knit and Natter we had.) ....tea in teacups and my fav choccie biccies, a bit of crochet, and bit of stitching, slurpings of teas and a few giggles. Brilliant!!! If you have like minded friends then I urge you to set up a little get together, to get new ideas, but also just to know you have some time put aside to actually DO some making.

Happy Tuesday all, have a lovely day xxxx

Hiding....................x

What a lot of lovely sunshine we have had these past few days, gosh we've been ever so lucky have we not? And would you believe it, when I woke up this morning ...it was another sunny day! Sunny Saturday.

So I popped on my trainers (leaving a snoring Mr.Q in bed, and the bumblebee's on their day bed watching nanny McPhee....the pretty farm one....I want that farm....I love it so ) and went for a nice little quiet run around the neighbouring village, I think it's only about 1.5 miles but that was enough today as it had been a WHOLE WHOPPING week since my last run due to germies.......

So feeling refreshed I am ready for the weekend. What will it entail????? Ummmm you guessed it...that window still needs attention ( although I have had enough now, and keep dodging the work leaving Q to it - finding extremely important seeds to sow, and cakes to be baked, there are always lots of other bits that need doing! ) and perhaps we can squeeze in a car boots sale, a glass of wine, a sit in the sunny garden? 

What will you all be doing??? Look, my tree has come into blossom, she a beauty!!!

More blossoms....can we have too many? The bee's particularly love this blossom bush, I have no idea what it is...but has a constant buzzing surrounding it.......

The Grandparents are re-decorating at the moment, and I have had my eye on the fairy sparkle picture for some time for the bumblebee's.........they were concerned as it is quite faded compared to when they first had it a few years ago ( think found on a family holiday when Mr.Q was just a boy in Devon! )

 I find it magical, there are soooo many little imps and fairys hiding....it has a slight sparkly sheen to it, which adds to its charm......

I adore it, as do the girls.......a perfect hand me down.

Ooooh one more ting before I go ( I am stalling, as I write Q is is cracking on with that blasted window, I am hiding and blogging.....avoiding....... I am good at that.......)............A little sing song for the sunshiney weekend I think...

A catch up and snuggle socks...x

I think your wishes for Somerset sunshine were finally heard. Thank you ever so much.

The dining room window is a beast, she's high maintenance and demands much attention ( I am sure there is a joke in here that Mr.Q would find amusing.....)

We are still battling on painting her now that the sun is here, and I think we are winning....

What a slog though!!! Don't worry Mr.Q has a special thing wot scrapes off such paints and stuffs from the glass...hummmm hope it works!

This is a bit of a catch up post of sorts, I feel that this week I have abandoned my lovely blog, which I find so much joy in writing and making. Busy, busy, busy....you all know the feeling.....

But can we just touch on Mother's day? This was the one day we left the windows to it - and gorged chocolate croissants for breakfast, and on lovely roast chicken and chocolate roulade. I danced with the bumblebee's in the lounge to Olly Murs and Katy Perry, and enjoyed re-reading homemade cards........

I hope all you Mummies had a lovely day....what did you get up too? I have my mummy coming down to visit in a few weeks, so we will have a jolly time together then too, you know really, she will just want to spend time with the bumblebee's eat cakes and drink tea.......this is one inherited gene I enjoy!!

Right catch up No.2.....my knit and natter stitch and bitch was great! Pictures will follow soon, but I made this lovely patchwork design all in a morning...and whilst having a good old gossip too!!!

I was going to make a blanket, BUT I realised ( once I had seen my friends larger shapes....size does matter ladies...) that it would take me forever to do....then I thought of a dolly blanket for the bumblebee's dolly wolly's, but actually, I am going to stitch it onto this old Ikea cushion......

Oh........look at these dinky little shoes. Yup little bumblebee is off school....again. She has the horrid coughing fits and high temperatures.....again. Sweet little thing is such a trooper, all she wanted was a snuggle on the sofa, her ducky and her snuggle socks.......

And why ever not?! I love being needed. Does make me broody you know...........Eeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!! 

xx

This and that.....x

Today as I write, I am still listening to Alice Gold ( feeling like a teenager, playing my favourite song, over and over again, to the point of killing it!!! ) and feeling the wind blustering through the large gaps in the window, which are still kind of boarded up due to moody weather.........

So I have learnt this week I am utterly useless at puttying ( is this even a word? ) up the windows, and should def. stick to my paint brush.....who knew re painting sash windows would be so all consuming? Am a bit over it by now.........BUT I am ever so good a re buffing the latches even if it did take me THREE hours for three latches.....yes THREE hours......seriously, I'm all out of brasso now!

Just look at this gorgeousness would you. This arrived on my doorstep this morning, and it is full of her pretty ceramics and bits and bobs. I love the simple designs, hearts and strawberry ones are my best. Susie Watson, in my mind, must be an angel. With a glittery haze that surrounds her and a magic wand to conjure up such beautifulness.

So while the windows lay untouched for a few days ....even though I should really be trying to grasp puttying, I have been cutting out fabrics for my first EVER Stitch and Bitch with pals tomorrow....so excited I could burst! I am starting on a patchwork....all for me, greedy greedy me.

This little pile is my starting point, a few old pillow case covers, a few vintage ones, and some lovely ones donated by my bestest's ever growing fabric collection. I could think of nothing more perfect on a Friday morning...ahhhhhhhh. Oh and we have the Mother's Day Service at the church in the afternoon. Talulla bumblebee told me to bring some tissues with me, as she thinks I will cry......and I will, because I will be bursting with love and being so proud of my two bumblebee's......I love children singing, more than I love the smell of nutmeg, the colour green, and flowers.

Can you all send us sunny weather in Somerset this weekend please??????? I would love for the dining room window to look lovely again........only nine more windows to go!!!

xx

New song love.......................x

Am ever so slightly obsessed with this song, and just had to share it with you all x

I heard it on my beloved Radio 2 earlier on today  ( was convinced it was Vanessa Paradis!!! ) and quickly looked Alice up as I could not get the song out of my head.....and I was also driving myself crazy as I could not remember the words....so just made them up....

ALICE GOLD  -  RUNAWAY LOVE X

It is quite whimsical, floaty, summery, girly and romantic.......I hope you enjoy it as much as me.

xxxxx

A weekend of romance and stubborn windows........x

What a weekend! Am feeling exhausted already...it's Monday!!! It started like this........

Tea for the bumblebee's followed by a swift bath then story and bed all before 7pm, you see Mr.Q and I had romance planned, and the bumblebee's were NOT invited!

It is so easy to forget one another when there are little people about needing your attention constantly ( which I do love B.T.W..... I don't mean to moan about it! ) and a little effort and a twinkle in an eye is needed every now and then..

So a phone call was made to a very busy Q that afternoon requesting "please come home feeling romantic".....which resulted in him plucking daffodils out of the garden on his way home...see I don't mind! I would rather use our daff's than buy them from a shop for £1.50 a bunch....and a feeble bunch it would be too.....good old Q. 

Candles, drinks, pudding ,snuggles and a film......this was my perfect Friday night.

And then it started........................................................................................................................

What were we thinking? A little paint job??? NO Mrs.Q...that would be too easy, you must learn the hard way...

Rotten window frames, 20 yrs + of gloss paint, and stubborn putty......paint job turned into restoration.....

Can't wait to see it finished, but my goodness...such hard work!

Do you ever feel like you have bitten off more than you can chew????? Wish us luck....and no rain, definitely no rain.

But I do love a sash window, don't you????

How was your weekend?

x

A good book and wafting jasmine................x

I have started reading a wonderful book.I am completely taken with it, it's one of those reads that you find yourself thinking about during the day, and when reading I am totally immersed........perhaps it is because this book is written with such a melodious and whimsical hand - it is a grown up fairy tale, I feel 10 again. Snuggled in a corner of my bedroom with my duvet around my shoulders, and a drink of squash on hand!

  

Children at heart must read this book!!!

 Another thing I am taken with is my Body Shop room spray which I keep squirting on the cushions.....to the annoyance of the family....the bumblebee's surprisingly are not keen and have uttered " urgh " and "what's that stink?".........how very rude.

Jasmine and Frangipani is my best right now.

I am not sure where the week has gone so far...but now I am focusing on some nice things to do. The arranging of jumble for a stall I am manning at an Easter hunt in aid of the bumblebee's pre-school and School....I have a vision ( perhaps slightly rose tinted ) of vintage fabrics and pressed glassware being donated and discovered, however we will be happy with anything that is sell-able for a few pennies!! And I am looking forward to the weekly helping out at swimming class later today...it is a sweet little job to be helping with, plus....I get to spy on Tilly bumblebee's swimming....which......is...um interesting. She can't swim for toffee, but told all her teachers she can swim the whole pool!!! That one does love to tell a tale........

Perhaps if she giggled a lot less ...perhaps she might not swallow so much of the pool!!!

Really the real reason for helping is I'm sure I sweat the lbs off whilst on the sidelines......I can live in hope!