Today I also awoke to the most lovely and excellent surprise courtesy of the amazing Nova. Did you see this post?
I did, and it was the best start to the day. If you don't follow Nova's blog, a cuppa and a catch up, I jolly well suggest you start! She makes the most beautiful things, and has written some wonderful patterns, which, even if you aren't familiar with the lady herself, you will have seen all over the Land of Blog. Thank you again my lovely friend x
The rest of the day continued equally happy; the snow remains, so we went out with the sledges, and ended up at the park, where there was an albeit small slope, (and best, did not require any parental assistance), and it provided an hour of fun before the cold took grip and we headed back for hot chocolate...
After lunch, I reclaimed the table, and set to quilting my #scrappytripalong.
A couple of hours of nearly-straight-lining, and it was done! I quilted each side of alternate seams, and called it a day. It looks good, feels good too; so tomorrow I will trim and attach the binding, and that will be me sorted for a few chilly evenings of stitching. Wonderful.
And now, the small people are finally up in bed, time for a DVD. I think Mister Clooney has been waiting his turn since Christmas; so it would be rude not to.
xxx
Yeah! Saw Novas post this morning, no wonder you were chuffed to bits :-) Really love your scrappy :-)
ReplyDeleteThat is so sweet! And a gorgeous bag :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a lovely day and I look forward to seeing the scrappy!
I spent some time with Mister Clooney last night, Three Kings - it's a goodun'!
What a gorgeous bag, and how nice to be thought of! You do leave the funniest, most honest comments, often puts a smile on my face. Enjoy your quilting. : )
ReplyDeleteYes, I woke up to Nova's post too! Very jealous I am! But you are THE best commenter! Now, what George movie are you watching? We watched "The Descendants" again the other night- love him!
ReplyDeleteI saw Nova's post earlier, lucky girl! Sounds like a good plan for the evening, I need something equally mindless right now!
ReplyDeleteIt's a lovely bag, sounds like a perfect day indeed.
ReplyDeleteYou deserve it, hope you've got projects planned to go into it already :-)
ReplyDeleteYay for an almost finish. Enjoy George.
ReplyDeleteWow, that sure was a great start for a day! And the bag is absolutely stunning.
ReplyDeleteIt's always fun to see kids enjoying that Hateful White Stuff, mine absolutely love it!
We had a lovely 5 week winter holiday back home in december, with 2 feet of snow. When we got back to Sardinia the first morning home my eldest looked out of the window asking "mommy is it always spring here?" Yeah honey, there might not be many good sides to living here, but NOT having snow for sure is one of them.
Nova is such a sweetie! And I am well impressed by your quilting :-D
ReplyDeleteYour scrappy quilt is looking fantastic. I have spent the evening with Ewan mcgregor-absolute bliss. Enjoy George
ReplyDeleteA well deserved loyalty bonus! Jxo
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good day, and you will be finished that quilt in no time. I saw that Nova made that for you, it is lovely. In Canada we call the sleds "toboggans" - oh and it is going down to -28C here tonight.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a perfectly lovely day (and evenings). Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI saw the post and it made me smile! You are probably my #1 also! You are so sweet to always leave comments for everyone. I love all the Hs on that bag!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely of Nova, but you do deserve it!
ReplyDeleteI also read this post and it made me smile and then I went to Nova's blog and left. Comment. I was reding your blog I'm bed with a cuppa using my iPad which is also a bit of a weekend habit. I'm lucky though as my children are older and are never up in the morning. I'm wondering if you, or your readers can tell me how to sort out my tech habit. At present I have emails coming to my iPad, iPhone and Mac and need to find a way to make them disappear once read on one device, especially as I subscribe to blogs via email. Spending to much time deleting emails I've already read but don't want to make them become spam. I read your blog most days but don't always comment to thought after enjoying your blog I should comment more as we do all like to know someone is listening every now and then.
ReplyDeleteDo you pin baste or spray baste? I ALWAYS seem to get areas that pucker whichever I use, most frustrating. We're on the east coast and haven't had a huge amount of snow so far, but I think we're about to get our share overnight in time for the Monday rush hour. Great! I'll check out Nova's blog!
ReplyDeleteAw, how sweet! Great way to start the day, even if all the biscuits were gone by the time you got up!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to start the day. I'd not caught up with that post. Your scrappytrip looks fab. :-)
ReplyDeleteI saw that post. I wish Blogger had that tool. Congrats! You re a very sweet friend and it's nice to get re=cognition for your comments and time it takes to do so!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you have had another lovely day.
I don't know Nova and haven't read the post but if it is saying you are a brilliant commenter then you are! Your day yesterday sounds lovely and look forward to seeing trippy in all her quilted and bound glory :-)
ReplyDeleteI read Nova's post and it was an eye opener for me. I'm a new blogger (and I find it very difficult to actually blog) and when I get comments it just completely makes my day - so why wouldn't everyone feel that way, right? Since her post (granted, it was just yesterday) I have been commenting on the blogs I read. I appreciate the time it takes to craft the blog post; I appreciate the sharing of ideas and pictures and family and thoughts. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI completely understand your peace before the war zone! I'm not good in the mornings, and my husband is worse. I really enjoy waking sneaking out of bed and eating my breakfast alone before I have to throw food to the hungry wolves, or meet their other demands. It just makes it so much easier if I've had that food and the time to wake up myself before I have to deal with being a Mummy!
ReplyDeleteCool! Off to check out Nova right now :)
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