A picture says a thousand words...

Well, I hope it does because there are many thousands that have not been written here over the last few weeks.  A completely hectic end of term that involved the summer garden party, jubilee celebrations, school Olympics, new school open evening, various other PTA commitments...and a hundred and one other things that I can't remember.  Plus, I developed tenosynovytus (SP?) sitting and knitting a bag to be felted one afternoon and then promptly burnt the fingers of my left hand (I am a lefty) the next weekend, so there was a point when I had 2 hands out of action.  Plus finishing some things for a wedding commision, a holiday, school holidays and you can quickly see why Mrs Blog has been sadly neglected :( 

Now, if blogger and my computer are going to play nicely I shall upload various photos of things we/I have been going.....

 

It's still a work in progress...

but I have a new website

www.lucymadethis.org.uk

I am quite chuffed and Mr C has taken it on as his 'project' so I still get  to make and not do websitey things :)

Cake pops....

...need no words!!!

Please ignore my kitchen...words cannot describe how hideous it is.....it isn't even cheered up by these on the windowsill...

Oh dear me....

classy to brassy in 10 mins flat....'know when to stop' I tell Mr C but him and the boys just don't know when that is.....

Jubilee bunting....

Probably not my finest crafting hours but ours is the only handmade bunting in the street.  I have nothing against mass produced plastic...but it's just not for me.  Mr C has made a marvellous job of making a 'patchwork' union flag in the upstairs window but I shall have to photograph it tomorrow along with the little felt and ribbon flags I have made to go on the window sill in my milk bottles.  I wouldn't say I was a rampant royalist but I think the jubilee should be celebrated and I think the Queen, certainly after standing in the freezing rain for 3 hours yesterday, should be applauded.  She certainly can't have an off day like the rest of us and I think she is amazing :)  Street party tomorrow as well as.....

Mr Chop's 11th birthday.  We had a family bbq 'eat indoors' yesterday and he will have to have an extended birthday present giving because a certain internet firm, who has always been fab in the past, have let me down and 'express delivery' does not appear to do what it says on the tin. I made lots of these cakes, while Mr C decorated them....

Don't know why Mr B isn't in this one but here is Chopsie with his cousins.

And here are the 'boys' having breakfast....bonding :)

Too cute...although the eagle eyed among you will have spotted that patch of bunny wee!!  Stern looks were given.

Sunday afternoon

And some secret crocheting for Mr Chops' birthday next week.....

All finished now except the arms which I will do tonight.

It's been so hot here today.  Oscar found a shady spot though

He's not looking very impressed - probably thinks I might steal his spot.  Why he thinks I would lie under the picnic table is anyone's guess, but then I am not a cat...who can fathom their minds!!!!!

Also finally got round to putting pva on the back of my funky flower wall hanging thing, pattern, of course, courtesy of Lucy at Attic 24 :)

Of course, that's the back view but it is still drying.  May even get it finished and put on the wall by next weekend :)  We shall see.

Found it...

And this is what naughtiness looks like!!!  They bit through the fence and there's another wire one around the pear tree which Samba dug under to.  Honestly, look at her, she has no shame!!!!

Here's a better picture of my little creature from 'Crochet Bakemono' (got it in hobby craft). I did change a couple of things but it is essentially the same.  Then I got to thinking, 'How difficult can this be?'

So I made this one.....well, here's the start.  I actually took the mouth off in the end because it was wonky but not enough to look like it was supposed to be.  She also has red arms now to match her bottom.  No name yet but I am toying with Phylis...what do you think??

I'll take another photo of her in all her glory later - it is far too hot to go out at the moment.

Ta-ra

Has anyone seen....

my camera??  I can't find it.  I have loads of things to photograph and the weather is perfect but it has gone awol!! Nothing at all, you understand, to do with the absolute mess on my desk.  I wanted to share a picture of the crochet amigurumi I have just finished and also the naughty rabbits who seem to think that 2 fences put up specifically to protect the newly growing (it is growing a BIT) grass are a challenge to them...or an open invitation to find their cheeky way in and graze to their hearts contents....honestly...some bunnies!!!

Back to the drawing board..

actually cutting table.  Made a peg bag today and it is an epic fail...maybe not that bad, but it is not fit for purpose.  I know what needs sorting and I shall get onto it forthwith so I can make some to sell :)  After I have used the first one though as it was made out of 'need' :)  It's not even big enough anyway! But as a bonus, the fabric, LUSH corduroy, is from the charity shop :)

Here are a couple of pictures of greedy rabbits as well....

Ta - Da!!!!!!!

Lucy from Attic24 always does a Ta-Da when she reveals something she has finished, and, as this is her ruffled cushion pattern, in an hommage to her I shall do one too.......

I love love love it...and thankfully the birthday girl liked it too...so that's good. I am a bit of a yarn snob, but Justine, from EmmaBearForever, said that Stylecraft Special DK was really soft so I gave it a go...and she was right ...really soft and a lovely drap for the blanket I am making for MrB. It's from Deramores.co.uk

And here is the Birthday Girl...

Mother-in-law with the boys...look how sensible they are being...paragons of childy virtue ;) 
Mr Chops made and decorated the cake.  She's not actually nine but a lady never reveals her age :)


 

Try again

to show you the pear tree blossom

And here is His Majesty Lord Magic of Magicville having a relax under his chair on his fur rug.

  He really is the cutest rabbit in the world.

was trying to upload more pictures from Southwold but, again, it keeps telling me that the server connection has failed :( It is from an external hard drive so don't know what that is all about.

Holiday in Southwold....

the pictures are enough.....

More later.....

I just can't stop...Crocheting!!

so I haven't!!!  I've added more to my 40th birthday blanket....

Obviously not needed to be finished until teh end of September so I have started another one in the meantime to keep my busy.

Not very clear but this gives a better view...

Although the light is far too bright (not that I am complaining about the sunshine!).  So that's my Ripple blanket from Lucy at Attic 24.

This is a mahoosive granny square that I started on holiday (pics of that tomorrow) using rather scrummy merino dk mostly from The Knitting Goddess , but also some others that I had left over from other projects.  It is lovely and warm to crochet...it keeps my knees warm as I go :)

This is the green that I am using at the moment. The colour is much more green in real life. Think mixed cabbage leaves and you have the right colour.

Do you like my yarn cake?  I usually have to use a nostepin and wind it from the swift but now I have this...

It does amuse e that it looks like something from the 1950's but I guess if the design works then there is no need to change it.  So they all hook up to look like this.....

And then you end up with one of these beautiful things....

...a yarn cake.

I know they are not interesting to most people but i think they look wonderful.  The winder winds much more loosely that I would with the nostepin and so the yarn is much more relaxed and I don't feel like it needs to go back to a skein once I have used it.

So, I have been crocheting away...a bowl, a kind of plate (obviously not to eat off!), a holder for my hooks, a wonky winged bird, a cat (waiting for his legs) and another circular blanket, only just started, that I am making from sock yarn.  As it is only 4ply it is going to take a long time but that's fine with me.  I wil try adn get photos of them this week.  It is nice to record how they grow. 

Talking of growing, we have been doing quite a bit of gardening.  We moved the trampoline out of the way as it was blocking our view of the flower bed and vegetable patch completely.  We can now see the pond as well.  So, we have a large patch of bare earth.  Mr C headed for the garden centre and came back with a pear tree :)

Would love to show you a pic of the beautiful white blossom but blogger is not playing ball. Another time.

Here's a random pic of our new house guest, Magic.  He's the rabbit, not the cat!  He's inside with us for a bit because, sadly, his lovely friend Diamond (we didn't name them!) has died and we can't bear to think of him out all night alone in his hutch.  He is missing her loads but slowly getting better.