French Knots

End of term feeling

And breathe.....! The pell mell rush to the end of term is over, school fete went well ( it rained on us from 8am till 3pm but people still came) leavers disco, Year 6 production, Infant production, Infant sports day, two birthday parties, two birthday teas, visiting the new secondary school.......all we need now is the sun to return so we can relax and enjoy the hols. The day they imposed a hose pipe ban it started raining and hasn't stopped in the intervening three weeks.

This little rascal is growing fast, has just moved on from open mouth style kisses to squeezed and pursed lips, happily delivering kisses left right and centre. Of course you can never have too many snuggly buggly kisses.

He is sitting on my £2 charity shop find

Random flower shot, wonderful colour and papery petals.

Pre rain I grabbed a few minutes with wine and crochet in the garden, enjoying the table that Mr FK renovated. The top was a bit warped and wonky so he replaced it with an old school bench which, cut in half, was the perfect fit.

So now the summer hols stretch before us, no mad morning rush to find pe kits or a recorder, no school pick up or homework. We are off to Cornwall, near Looe, where I hope we will find some sunshine. Or at least no rain. It's about 25 years since we holidayed in Cornwall, I'm not sure why as it is such a wonderful part of the world and I'm really looking forward to it. I've made miles of bunting to decorate the caravan awning and got the picnic blanket at the ready! Happy summer!   

Pretty Nifty and Thrifty

What do you get if you mix together a pleasing but boring charity shop skirt, a length of bargainous Clothkits ribbon, (on offer last week) and about 10 minutes at the sewing machine..............

a cheery new skirt that looks jolly good with my cherry red shoes!

ps, thank you for the phone stealing sympathy, it is Infant Sports Day tomorrow and my new 'old phone from the drawer of things we think we don't need any more' will be safely tucked up my knicker leg! 

Grrgghh!

It was the Junior Sports Day today (Infants next week) and while I was cheering The Big Sister in the egg and spoon race and laughing at the interhouse tug of war some swine took my phone from my handbag. It usually lives in my pocket. Thank goodness the camera was round my neck as The Baby Brother and I enjoyed the fun. And my purse is safe. But still the thought of some tosser taking advantage e of my attention being elsewhere to take something worth very little to anyone else is infuriating. Two glasses of wine have taken the edge off my fury and hurt but I still have no numbers for any of my family and friends.

And 2 pictures from my 365 Project were still on the phone as I hadn't worked out how to download them, so day 127 (friends wedding) and day 125( The Big Sister rock climbing) will be missing. Arse! Even in my sleep deprived, 'running after three children so some days it's lucky I'm even dressed' state I have taken a picture every single day for 187 days, but I'm still going to count them as I took them and can see them in my minds eye. They just wont be in my flickr set. Ah well, it's only a phone and the lad in the call centre when I rang to block the phone was so sweet and helpful, a reminder that most people are not phone nabbing shits.

And if my friends  and family don't ring me it'll be a quiet life! 

Spots galore

July and August are busy birthday months with about a dozen friends and family having birthdays, so I thought I'd spend this week sewing during nap time and getting a start on present making. Life had other plans!

The Big Sister complained about a rash on her tummy as she went to bed, heartless mother that I am I muttered something about heat rash and a good nights sleep.Next morning she and My Little Helper were spotty, spots galore! 'A virus' was the doctors verdict ' similar to chicken pox'. Spots kept pinging out over the next day or so but luckily unlike chicken pox (which they both had years ago) they don't itch. So instead of a week of sewing I've had my nurses hat on instead. Yesterday a couple of spots appeared on The Baby Brother - so it's a full house of spotty children. The large spot appearing on my chin is,I think, unrelated to the 'notchicken' pox and more to do with a hectic week!

I squeezed a bit of sewing in, when rooting in a drawer I found an old patchwork blanket I bought years ago at a jumble sale. Maybe three years ago as I remember blogging about it. Anyway I'd patched it's tears and it just needed the duvet cover backing sewing on. It must have taken...oh at least half an hour to finish! Ready for the beach when we go away or for making dens in the garden or lolling in the park

I wonder who made it and where her patches came from, what memories they held. The higgledy piggledy random squares give it such a cosy look and the stripey duvet cover ( in the bottom left corner) backing is snuggly too.

It's really huge, just right for hanging out with my spotty darlings!