LET ME TAKE YOU FAR AWAY,
YOU'D LIKE A HOLIDAY....
(The Scorpions)
You find me, mid bag making (again!) Princess Judy fancied one and specified 'greens, blues and browns....no pastels' so I think this fabric fits the bill perfectly! I found this fresh, apple green spotty fabric in a shop when I was away two weekends ago...it's a gorgeous colour, really springlike - which is why I was attracted to it in the first place. After this, there'll be another bag to make for a lady who emailed me, she reads my blog and some of the other WOYWW desks but doesn't join in herself. So hello Gail * waves madly*, hope you manage to take part in the general weekly mayhem at some point!!
Two more Hooters for Zoe's fundraising, one for a neighbour of mine, the purple one is for Lynda B. I'll be posting him soon, Lynda...hope you like the colour :-)
But I haven't actually been crafting indoors that much...outdoors is a whole different matter though! We have a long hazel hedge down the side of our property, which is on top of an ancient bank/hedgeline. It grows up to 7' every year which we cut down in the autumn with the help of our boys. But I decided it was time to really hack it back and re-lay it properly. My husband is poorly with the flu at the moment, so I went out armed with a bow saw, axe, long handled loppers and secateurs.......
You can see the difference in height between the uncut/laid parts of the hedge...
It's like knitting with twigs and boughs :-) It's tough but very satisfying!
Rhys helped with the removal of the trimmings. I really enjoyed doing this and only have a couple more yards to finish. I'm proud of my handiwork!
Right, feel free to bail out at this point as I'm going to post a couple of pics from our weekend away :-) We were invited to go to Eastbourne by our friends in the Accordion orchestra, as a thank you for helping them out last year...it was a whole weekend of all things accordion-y, so while workshops etc were taking place, Gordon and I went sightseeing! First we went to Bexhill-on-Sea, because I wanted to visit the De La Warr Pavilion, a beautiful Art Deco exhibition centre on the seafront...
She was like an ocean liner in a 30's poster...good cafe too!
Gordon took this amazing shot looking up the beautiful sweeping staircase. I love spirals, so this is fantastic.....
I had fun being a human sundial on the promenade....
A photo of the two of us - the self timer on the camera did a great job, I really love this pic!
The next day, we went to Brighton on the bus. And had a wonderful time mooching around the alleys and lanes, enjoying the very trendy right-on vibe of the place.
The Royal Pavilion is just bonkers! Fun though.....
What?? It's a fabric shop, isn't it? I had to go in, just for research purposes, you know...cough....
It was stacked high with piles of wonderful fabrics...I particularly liked this selection.
But the shop was so crammed, it was difficult to move around, so consequently I didn't buy!
We passed an amazing cake shop (NOT Choccywoccydoodah, which was cheap and tacky in my opinion...can't understand why people make such a fuss about it!) where this Steampunk cake caught my attention.
I took this pic for research purposes for my son and his fiance :-)
And finally....Gordon made me do this! He said it would be a good blog piccy...hmmmmm. Totty maybe, but Posh? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha........ I don't think so, lol.
We had such a great time away...pity that since then, poor G has been struck down hard by flu. He's been really, properly poorly...
If you've read all the down down to the bottom, then you must be mad! But thank you :-)
Have a great week!