happy holidays! random pictures & waffle...

just a nice pic from my last 'day off' (ok, it was the teacher's strike, all go booooo hissssss,but i thoroughly enjoyed it!), went to tropical world here in leeds with my daughter, i don't think we have been since thew first year we moved here (about 5 years ago)...


(sorry, i don't know who the artist is but i love this!) - have just looked at the week's forecast, & suspect this is what my birthday trip to the seaside will be! have lined up plenty to do incase of rain, i don't mind at all, i LOVE being at scarborough!

must make this, i love the style, the colour, everything - obviously as soon as i make it & wear it, i will look exactly like dita....

& this too, i like the neckline very much, will have to play about with some paper (oh thank you, all that time pattern cutting, i hated it but it has been so useful!)

am very dizzy/faint today, like some victorian lady with the vapours, i suspect after midweek's bout of food poisoning i am simpy very tired... but it's half term, am going to attempt to tidy some of the clutter in my tiny living room (it's beyond a joke at the moment, i can't find anything & have a lot of crafting to do for a sea themed swap), then i think an old lady's stylie kip on the settee, just because i can!

thank you for the comments everyone, always nice to see that people DO pop by every now & again!

Busy Sunday....

Right this minute, this is where I want to be...I keep thinking it is my birthday NEXT wednesday & that I will be heading to Scarborough for a few days - but then reality kicks in & I realise I am a twit, & it's the Wednesday after....

This simply has to go on my 'to do ' list ( it's a very very long list....) - how could any self respecting Yorkshire lass not make herself a Yorkshire Rose handbag? This will have to be a summer holiday project I suspect, & I don't think I could cope with a white one..artistic licence? a pink Yorkshire rose? hmmm....

Ah, the new dinner set....totally over the top & I love it! Could only afford to get 2 place settings (I went into town to buy sandals for my poor swollen feet - came back with this instead, seems perfectly reasonable to me...sandal shopping will be more sensible on a morning in the holidays rather than the end of the day when my chubby little feet get so sore & puffed up)

This is the wonderful parcel I got in a craftster swap for knitters - it'snot often I love EVERYTHING in a swap package, but this is fab!

and this was the very generous parcel I received as a prize in the kal (my grey cabled yoke cardi) in Ravelry - thank you all involved! I can finally make knitted / felted toadstools!

I think I managed to sort the mad blog photo wotsit - I downloaded all the pics first then wrote around them.....cunning, ever so cunning....

anyone want some veggie lasagne?

and more...

some pretty things on a lovely hot day...indulge me....

amazingly this & the blossom are from the car park at work - and the area where i work is pretty grim....this little lot is worth waiting for every year

and these were my garden today - excuse the slightly arty farty border wotsits, i like playing with my camera editing, i know it's a tad naff... my much missed nan always had lots of pansies, i love them grinning at me

and this is beeeeaaauuuooootiful wallpaper! no idea where i saw it, so sorry if it's hijacked from your blog, but i love it !

it's been a beautiful day (factor 25, it's like lard, i feel i should attempt to swim the atlantic not sit in the garden)

long time no see...

busy. busy busy busy

as simple as that - works manic, so i have been shattered when i get gome, & just want to slob, with or without knitting

anyway, a few things from the last few weeks....

the fairy door & painting are from a swap i organised on crafster, i haven't painted in a long long time, & the plaster door was something i have wanted to try for ages, neither are perfect but i quite like them (both very well received, so thats ok)


both tulip pics are me playing with my camera, its obviously not a good enough quality to get amazing photos, but i like both of these....