THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND...
Wishing my wonderful husband a Happy Birthday today, he's a quiet, understated, awesome, funny person whom I love dearly - he has had to put up with a load of nonsense living with me all these years!!
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed both the 600 celebrations last week and the Zoom Crop on Saturday! How lovely to see friendly faces old and new and to meet people properly, it was just wonderful and also great fun to see who was an uncontrollable giggler like me...yes Felicia, I'm looking at you!! I really hope that we can do something again but maybe in smaller groups to make it a bit more manageable. It was fun to hear voices, meet pets of all descriptions and trying to describe Marmite.....you had to be there.... :-D
As the morning gals saw, my eldest son arrived home during the first session and as he has to work from home during his stay, the JanCave is now full of monitors and laptops. So I've been crafting where I can!
The coffee table in our lounge for example where I was making something to identify myself at the Crop, using some old reindeer antlers and card/felt tips.
There I am, top row, 2nd from left, looking really daft! Hey Lynne, we could have pretended to be in University Challenge, lolol! I seemed to get everyone looking down or out of frame, sorry..... It was great fun and I was impressed with Zoom, mostly the pics and sound quality were great.
I was crocheting another stripy blanket during the Crop and carried on during a Facetime chat with Julia:
This is at the kitchen table where the light is lovely to work in - I like doing stripy blankets, don't have to think too hard ;-)
And it's where I've been doing some more cross stitch, a hare has started to appear top right and I'm doing what should be snowflakes (but which have morphed into dandelion heads) in a silver -gilt metallic floss which is a complete and utter monumental pain in the A£$e!! It splits and tangles at the drop of a hat - I'm doing my best to be calm and zen but I am never using it again, pretty though it is. The air has been blue......
I shall leave you with the decorations that my SiL Jill has been making from scraps left over from quilting:
So pretty and effective, love the little bells - they'll be treasured for years to come. Well done Jill, they are really lovely and, yet again, I am in awe at your meticulousnessnessness (If that isn't a word, it ought to be, lol!)
Thanks for all the friendship and support you lovely lot, I enjoyed the last week a lot but here's hoping that we won't have to use zoom to meet next year xxxx