Hello everybody, what a lovely weekend we have had here in Leicestershire, Tony and I have spent it all in the garden clearing old stuff and planting some new stuff. Tony has been to the tip 3 times and we have filled our gardening bin and we still have loads to do.
Strictly Come Dancing started on Friday and was on again on Saturday, I must admit I love this programme it is such a nice one to watch with the family, I love the dresses and the beautiful dances, I do love the waltz, quickstep and foxtrot they are so elegant, so every weekend until Christmas is now booked.
Our little Jude is growing, I cannot believe he is 9months old, did I tell you trhat Kate is having another baby in March, not planned but very much looked forward to, they don't want to know what it is this time so I will have to posess my soul in patience until March.
Our son Andrew and his fiance Becky have bought their first house and are waiting excitedly to move in, they have also booked their wedding fot the 19th July 2014 so lots of excitement in our family, we are really blessed.
I do find this new blogger a bit confusing and I think it's look is boring but I am finding my way around, I know from reading other blogs that people find it a tad confusing, we are all such creatures of habit but I thought the other blogger was working well so why change?
I am now off to relax and put my feet up.

Jenny's Giveaway

Jenny of Elefantz has a lovely givaway go have a look. I have Jenny's magazine every month on pdf. it is a lovely mag. with lots of patterns and recipe's and Jenny always has something interesting to say, she also has a guest who gives a free pattern so it really is worth having. Go check out that giveaway.

Lovely Family

Jude went to his first wedding on Saturday and he looked a little smasher.

He's Done It

Andy Murray is the U.S Tennis Champion, I am so happy for this lad who has carried the hopes of the british people like a ton of bricks on his back, we have all watched and wished and cried for this talented man, what a relief for him and he did it so beautifully. I have been watching him for years and he has thrilled me, frustrated me and made me cry, I did'nt want him to do it for me I wanted him to do it for himself and now he has, Well Done Andy amazing Job.

CJQP July Block

This is my July block for CJQP, it is quite hard to keep finding new things to put in these blocks but once I get started I love doing them, I want to put them all together when they are finished to make a wallhanging for my bedroom, I have them in a file and they look so pretty.
We saw our grandson Jude today, he is such a warm cuddly bundle, I cannot believe he is 8 months old already, I am sure all grandparents feel like we do.

I Spy Quilt

I have had a lovely day in my sewing room today, I have been putting together an I Spy quilt for Jude, it has lots of animals and fruit and veg all very colourful oh there are cars and trucks as well, I also added lots of ribbon tags as Jude has a fascination for silky labels and concentrates very hard on them poking his little finger at them so I found lots of different texxtured ribbon and made lots of tags for him to play with, all I have to do now is put it together with wadding and a backing and then quilt it, I may have a go on Kathleens longarm quilter so that I can get it done quickly.
Hope you are all having a good day.

I have just started an 'I Spy Quilt' I have not done one before but now I have started one I can see why children would love them, they are so colourful and I am using lots of different childrens fabrics so that there are lots of different pictures, I have lots of different animal prints in really bright colours, Jude will have many happy hours finding different one's.

Kathleen and I popped out to do some food shopping today as it is a bank holiday here this weekend, we were utterly amazed at the amount of food people were buying anyone would think they were shopping for a month not one extra days holiday, we went today to save going on holiday Monday. The weather is of course not good, this is usual on Bank Holidays here it would'nt be the same if we did'nt have to go out with a mac and an umbrella.

I am sat in the summerhouse posting this and Tony is sat just outside and any minute now he is going to get wet because I can hear thunder in the distance and there is a very black cloud right over his head, I really do not feel like cooking dinner tonight, I would love someone to present me ith a lovely meal as a surprise but I don't think that is going to happen, Oh Well! have a great weekend everyone.