Little Dresses for Africa.

This sweet little dress is made from one of my no longer needed pillowcases I made it this afternoon with cottonreel who also made one we have several more pillowcases which we intend to turn into dresses for children in Africa, they need thousands, they are very simple to make so if you have some pillowcases you no longer need, look on Little Dresses for Africa site and download the instructions and put them to good use. They are also asking for little boys shorts, there is not a pattern for that but Cottonreel has cut out a pattern to use so we will make some of those too.

Little Bird in a Tree

A few weeks agohttp://http://elefantz.blogspot.com/ Jenny at Elefantz asked us to embroider one of her designs onto something. I decided to do pillowcases and bought a pair of White one's I then did crochet around the edges and finally embroidered the design. I am really pleased with them, if you have never visited Jenny then do go and have a look, she does some lovely work and is incredibly generous with her patterns.

Can't Stop Now Iv'e Started

I went to another auction while we were in Cockermouth, we were just walking by and it was happening sooooo we went in and look what I got for £14, its lovely and is going on my dining room wall. I will put some of my china on it and now I will have room to put more so I will have to buy more. It has four lovely drawers at the bottom, it needs a bit of paint and then it will be beautiful I do Love auctions!!!!!!

This Beautiful Island

Well here are just a few photographs of this very beautiful part of England The Lake District, Cumbria. I have never been here before and I could not believe some of the scenery it was simply stunning. We walked a lot of miles and climbed the Loughrigg Fell, I only got half way up but Tony got to the top it was a lovely experience and we met so many lovely people from all over the world and everyone wanted to share their experiences and tell you of another beautiful place that you must visit before leaving the area. We also went to Cockermouth where they had all the terrible floods at the beginning of this year and it was still trying to get back on it's feet, lots of the shops were still drying out or being replastered and refloored but most of the businesses had not closed instead they had all gone into an old warehouse and had stalls to sell their goods until they could get back into their shops. The weather was warm and dry until Thusday evening and then the heavens opened and a 65 mph gale blew and blew, we did'nt get much sleep but we laughed a lot. This was a place I would love to visit again.

Kate & Cakes

Hello everybody we are back from our holiday, just before we went away I spent a day with Kate and we made over 200 of these little cupcakes which are for the wedding they are for the guests as they come into the reception and have champage and cakes I now have a freezer full of cakes and biscuits. I will post some photo's tomorrow of our holiday.

Lovely Roses

Hello everybody, sorry I have'nt blogged for a while but this time of the year is so busy. Our gardens in England are all looking a little dry it is so long since we had any rain, I am not complaining I love the sun, one thing that seems to have done well this year is roses looking around all the gardens they seem to be very abundant really beautiful. We are off in tha caravan again next week we are going to the Lake District which is in Cumbria. We have never been there but it is supposed to be very beautiful and usually rains a lot so I am taking my wellies and a large umbrella. Before that, Kate is coming on Saturday this time we are making tiny cakes to have with the champagne at her wedding, I am looking forward to making these and then freezing them Kate has done a dummy run so she knows that they freeze beautifully.
Kathleen and I have had a busy week shopping gardening and sewing, I went round yesterday to get some help with my crocheting because I do it all wrong so she made me sit all morning whilst she watched and told me every time I went wrong, she says if I go back to old habits she will know by the tension so I had better get it right. We then went out to look at the garden and I ended up on my kness digging a hole for a plant and weeding a large patch where the bird seed had landed on the gravel and grown through, she is very crafty my friend she leads me out and then then drops her bombshell which usually ends up with me on my Knees. Hope you are all having a good summer.

Happy Holiday.

Happy 4th July to all you American bloggers. Hope you have a lovely day. I was lucky enough to be in Boston on the 4th and saw parades, and in the evening we went into a park on the Charles River and we were entertained by the Boston Pops Orchestra and Fireworks. It was a memoraable day.