#happyday

On the weekends I like to have a quick look at my iPad before venturing from our warm bed, postponing going into the usual war zone of children and breakfast cereal, (this morning it was kids fuelled on thieved cookies!).

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

Sunshine on a rainy day...

OK yesterday was lovely, but on Wednesday morning I spent four and a half hours sorting out the mess that pertained to be the 'playroom'.  The room is a small 4th bedroom, not some huge games room or anything, but filled with so many small, broken knick-knacks and pieces of torn paper, plastic and general crap that I had reached the point of shutting the door and boarding it over.

Instead, I sorted to the bottom of every tub and box; re-housed all the rogue puzzle pieces and games parts and got it looking really good (until the kids went back in).

Completely hacked off at the time it took, the perfectly-timed arrival of a parcel from Madam Pings raised my spirits somewhat...

How cool is the card!?

We have chatted about the orange/yellow vintage sheet for a while (last summer's Hexalong I think!), and Sarah sent me this with some matching embroidery thread and pre-cut squares, so now I have no excuse not to get making.

What was originally going to be a retro cushion may well now have grown (in my head at least) into a big old patchwork quilt; I have a number of pillow cases and sheets that really do need to turn into something other than an old lady's dream linen collection!