the one about the flowers and the red shoes...

a beautiful mini candlestick made by the very talented Victoria Delany it's beautiful, and holds a little tea light in it as well as a long candle...go and check out her website...she is a super dooper talented crafty lady...

recent makes: more apple thingy ma jigs to give to teachers tomorrow...would you believe the humble Golden Delicious apples seems to be out of favour...i usually get my fruit at the supermarket with my main weekly shop,(please don't lecture me on buying local produce...) but i wanted to get a few apples the other day, so popped into the green grocers and was more or less laughed out the shop when i asked where the golden delicious apples were...he said "we haven't had those for ages, not much call for them these days" WHAT...i was brought up on Golden Delicious apples....so i tried the stalls on the market...again...no Golden Delicious....whats going on?!?!?!

 

red shoooooooes...i like red shoes...and so does Miss T...choosing to wear mine on top of her school shoes! My eldest told me i had too many shoes the other day, so i had a bit of a sort out and realised that almost all my shoes are red...

and while i was away...

while i was away on the super dooper granny weekend with Kath...Head of finance and our 3 little people were off on a very exciting adventure...to pick up this little fella...

introducing Stan...his is the new addition to our family

he is a 1 year old Border Terrier who we have adopted through the Blue Cross in Cambridge - the dogs on the scheme all stay in their homes while they are up for adoption and so don't  need to go into kennels...we think Stan is one in a million...his family were fantastic and due to a change in their circumstances they had to make the very tough decision to re-home him...

i can't believe we have only had him for 2 weeks, it feels like he has been with us forever.  He is a delight to have around and has turned into a bit of a celeb at the school gate...

a really rather peachy weekend...

...which started here...

 and meeting the really rather lovely Kath from Inverleith and then a train journey to Nottinghamshire (sounds a lot nicer than Worksop...) where we had a fantastic and really rather perfectly peachy day with Tiff and Rachelle...

it was just wonderful to spend a day with like minded 'grannyers'(!) and sit, sew, natter, laugh, drink tea and eat amazing food and cake prepared for us by the lovely Debs and Louise...

i've been in a crafting bubble since sunday...please don't pop it...

and

...who knew bees were so clever...