I can’t decide what to blog about today. I fancy having some random pictures is the thing. I bought some fabric a couple of weeks ago from a shop in Exmouth. Gorgeous fabric, expensive fabric, birthday money fabric. I have no clue what I will be making with it. Every now and then I stare at it, then I put it away in the fabric drawer.
Last Thursday I went to Exeter for car mending and lunch. There is a bookcycle place down the bottom of the high street. The books are free but you give a donation (however much you feel the books are worth). Three per person, but I stole Husband’s allowance too. I found Ladybird books!!
More Ladybird books to add to my collection! I love Ladybird books. I love jumbling for them, car booting for them and finding them in charity shops. They’re getting pricey these days though and hard to find.
I’ve been rooting through my basket of tricks this week. It’s a massive mess in there but it’s full of all things awesome.
I got the basket out to make some felt eyes for a project I’m working on. It’s mostly a crochet thing. A new pattern I’ve invented all by myself! A friend is going to help me design a PDF thingummy so that, I can maybe put them on here to download and ultimately (one day) sell stuff on Etsy. Or some such thing. Maybe. It’s alien to me at the moment but it’s important to learn new skills I suppose.
Here, more gardens pictures, ha! Next door is like a building site, I pretend it’s not there.
The peonies are out but I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. They’re not that great. The clematis is on its last legs.
The best thing about the lupins is the leaves. A fantastic contrast to boring roundy leaves. There are loads of colourful spires on this one too.
Anyway, I think I’m going to go and sit in the garden now (after I’ve done the washing up and hung out some laundry).
And lastly, in this random collection of pictures, I would like to say Thank You to Joyful Solitude for nominating me for a blogging award. Wow! Such a fabulous thing to happen so soon. Must be doing something right! I googled it and haven’t found where the specific award comes from. My gut feeling tells me not to accept because I dont know what it is. Well, actually I’d love to accept but there are conditions of acceptance which, to me defeat the purpose of this space, which is that it is mine and I want to do my own thing. To accept the award you’re supposed to tell seven things about yourself and nominate ten others for the award. I might be shooting myself in the foot, maybe I can defer for a while instead? I’m being a pooper at a party about such a nice thoughtful thing. Eh, I’m still thinking. Also, I’m still adjusting to blogging. It takes me ages to do any thing. For five years I said “I’m gonna start a blog tomorrow.”
Sorry, one more thing. My eldest (6) requested that I post this picture of his Hotwheels car. Here it is sat on a dusty shelf.
Fantastic, I have been there not sure what to post. The photos are lovely and the Hotwheels car is cool ;).
Thank you! I just couldn’t decide, so went for a little bit of everything.
Hi, thanks for linking to my blog. I think the award is meant to encourage. Being sort of a veteran blogger ( about 10 years) from my experience bloggers kind of stick together and support one-another. One of the criteria for choosing blogs to pass the award on to was to try and pick some new blogs to encourage the blog owner. Your blog popped up in my reader when I was browsing gardening blogs. I read all of your posts and saw that you have the potential to become a popular blogger. Your pictures are beautiful. Your narrative is interesting. It was at the same time that I got the award passed onto me and I immediately knew that I wanted to pass it onto you – along with the other veteran bloggers I chose.
It’s kind of a ” pay it forward” thing. It’s meant to encourage veteran bloggers and help new bloggers by introducing their blogs to readers by placing their links on veteran bloggers blogs. Hope that helps to clear up questions. 🙂
Happy blogging!
Thank you, you’ve been beyond helpful to a newbie like myself. It’ll be fun finding new and existing blogs. I’m really grateful for the acknowledgement, it means a lot. Cheers!
What a stunning garden! And I love the hot wheels car – just my colour.
Thank you. We have so many hotwheels, but this is one of my favorites!