Busy for Easter

I spent most of Good Friday morning busy in the garden, getting more tidying done and planting some pansies and wallflowers - and I saw the first butterfly of the season, a brimstone. Such a beautiful, sunny spring day!

Well how can two days be so different, Easter Saturday - strong winds and downpours. Why does the British weather know when it is Bank Holiday time when families are supposed to have fun. Well after getting soaked in the rain whilst out with the dogs, I had a good long soak in a hot bath and then made this little bear in the hoop with my Pfaff machine (thanks to OMA designs) - then I snuggled down and tackled some more projects waiting to be finished and some long overdue knitting that needed to be completed.

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Sunday started a lot brighter again and so the dogs had a well deserved long walk.

I also had time to finish this piece of work from a Weymouth workshop with Kate Paterson - layers of sheers, free machine embroidery and cutback with a soldering iron - can't decide which side I like best. 

Easter Monday started with storm Katie tracking through during the early hours; rain, rain and winds up to 106 miles per hour in some parts of the UK with flights transferred from Gatwick airport in the south east. With the new system in place of naming our storms now, that makes 11 already this year. Another good opportunity to catch up with some more sewing. 

Finished this cushion which had been hanging around for a while, so feeling happy.

 Most "impossible" goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine.
Don Lancaster

A New Mrs Salmons!

My eldest son, Richard, got married on 15 May 2015 - it was 'Yellow Heaven' and I'm sharing some photographs here today!

 A Perfect Day!

Yesterday, my other son and I traveled back from Surrey and collected Moosh, the dog from his minder. When he got into the car, he caught one of his back claws in the metal runner for the front car seat. To cut a long story short, we spent an hour trying to release him, unbolt the metal runner and everything else we could think of and the happy ending was ..... we had to call the fire brigade and the vet and these heroes between them released our boy without any injury and harm!!

 And just to end a weekend of highs and lows - I've got a water leak through the ceiling and no answer from the plumber!!