Jenny's Cakes

Good Morning, I received my first copy of Jenny's www.elefantz.com magazine it is called Elfantz Home and is brilliant, the cakes you see I made yesterday after reading the mag. they are called Little Honey Cakes and are delicious Jenny's recipe's are always good. There were 3 patterns to make one of them is a BOM called Circles of Life, I know I will use these blocks a lot in all sorts of ways.

Thank you for all your kind comments on my Grandma post yesterday it was lovely to share this news with you all, Oh! and the cakes have all gone.

Such Wonderful News

Hello everybody, I am so excited I have some lovely news I am going to be a GRANDMA! it has been such a struggle to keep this news to myself but my daughter Kate made me promise to wait until after she had had her 12week scan, well, she had that scan today and just phoned me with the news that everything is o.k. this is our first grandchild and I cannot tell you how happy this makes us. Tony and I are a little tearful but so happy. I asked my daughter When we could go shopping and she said "what for" and i replied "anything" I cannot wait to buy something for this precious baby.
I am going to have a cup of coffee now to celebrate.

Quilt Finished

Hello everyone, this is a quilt made from my Brother-in-Laws shirts, Peter gave me a bagful of shirts to use in my quilts so I decided to make him and his wife Hilary a quilt for a surprise, to add interest I have added some floral scraps which helps to break up the blue stripes. Kathleen asked me to have a go at freestyle quilting on my ordinary sewing machine, I have already done some freestyle quilting on a quilt as you go quilt which means it is done in small pieces but I have never done a completed quilt but Kathleen showed me how to roll up all the material so that it went through the machine and when I got half way to turn the quilt around and quilt the other way, I must admit I was a bit worried I would not be able to control all that fabric but I managed, I have just made up flowers which again Kathleen made me practice on some fabric first, I must say I am really pleased with the finished quilt and I hope Peter and Hilary are pleased to see his shirts again.

What has Happened to our Summers

Does anyone else remember summers the same as I do, when I was a child I know I spent every day outside during the summer and it was always HOT! my Mum used to pack us sandwiches and a bottle of water and we would go miles and picnic in a field and pick wild flowers and scrump apples and come home hours later dirty, tired and happy after having had a good day and this seemed to be every day. Where I lived in Worcestershire we had a Lido and park and my Mum scrimped and saved to buy us season tickets so that we could swim in the Lido pool every day, we were as brown as berries and totally happy. I can remember the evenings when it was so warm my Mum and Dad would sit outside chatting with the neighbours because it was too hot to go to bed and I can remember dangling my legs out of the covers because it was so hot. What happened to that lovely weather? here we are in the middle of June and its cold and wet and miserable I cannot remember the last time we had a good summer we seem to have an odd day here and there and then it gets cold again I would really love a long hot summer, does anyone else have these memories?

Good Morning, I have just been readinghttp://www.elefantz.com/ Jenny's blog she has some exciting things happening she is producing a monthly magazine which will have three patterns and lovely recipe's Jenny's patterns are always worth having she designs some lovely stuff, she is also producing a free newsletter, all you have to do is sign up and you will receive her very informative newsletter. I have been a fan of Jenny's for a while she is a lovely lady whose life revolves around her familyshe is also a giver and loves to share with people. Pop along and check out the lovely things she does, there is a scrumptious recipe for Blackberry Swirls that I am sure you would all love.

I have my computer back.

What a few days I have had with this computer, it was getting slower and slower and all sorts of funny messages were flashing on screen and eventually all I could get was a black screen and something flashing saying 'Hard Drive Fail' which sounds terminal. My lovely Tony took it to work and the brilliant Declan sorted me out and so my computer is now better.. I have been to Kathleens today and we have been tidying her Garage which is where she has all her fabrics and sewing table and lots of other things that she has gathered over the years so we cleared a lot of the stuff we had a pile for the Tip and another for the charity shop. I took a load to the Tip and my car is now full ready for our next visit to the charity shop. Kathleen made fresh cheese scones which we sampled with our morning coffee they were delicious so a lot was achieved today and there is now room to move around the garage. Our house is not moving yet I think it is going to be a long job.

I think I know what I'm doing

Thank you to all of you who tried to help me with my blogger problem, I did as Mildred said and unchecked the stay signed in box and then it allowed me to leave a comment but, I still don't understand why these profile things have suddenly started appearing, am I being thick?