I Can't Wait To Sew.......!!!

......with all this gorgeousness......

A whole summer wardrobe on one pattern.

Beautiful summery cotton prints.

Quilting inspiration and my lovely new address book.

All I need now is a bit of time to myself and that could happen next week when DD is back at work and Andy will be working three days. I will be working like a demon at the weekend to make sure that all the big jobs are done so that I can take the scissors to the fabric on Monday. I am soooooo excited.

I've been a bit worried about Smudge so Andy has taken him to the vets this morning. Apparently he has kennel cough......he has never been in a kennel in all his life so how on earth did he get that?
Medicine has been prescribed so hopefully that will do the trick.

Decidedly murky here this morning. Very grey and very wet so it looks like DD's plans for doing things in the garden are scuppered. We have clay soil and it is just too nasty to work on when it is as wet as it is now.

Tea tonight will be roast beef and all the trimmings. I managed to freeze some meat in gravy from a previous roast so all I have to do is some veg, roasties and Yorkshires to go with it.

DD has just done us a bacon roll for lunch so I will go and have that before I start prepping the veg.

Sorry for my dismal post yesterday.

Hope you are all having a warm and cosy day today.
Sheila-x-

T'Internet Trouble!!!

We've had problems with the landline since Friday but the internet connection has been fine.........until today so I have been unable to get on here since coming back from Derby apart from a couple of minutes before it went off.

It wasn't a long visit today. I knew what I wanted and how much I wanted to spend and I pretty much stuck to that except for an impulse buy of a lovely new address book and a book about quilting with precuts from The Works. Mind you I was lucky to find anything in there....the place was a tip. I suppose it was understandable as they still have all their clearance stock out along with trying to put out new stuff.

I found the market quite depressing today. Another stall has closed down and another one was selling off all it's stock ready to close down. I really hope the fabric stalls stay else I doubt I will be visiting Derby very much.
Since getting back I am kicking myself up my own backside for not telling the three women serving on one stall how offensive and shocking I found the conversation they were having while I was looking at patterns and fabric. A market stall is just not the place to be having that kind of conversation. They might just as well have had a microphone and spouted their nastiness to the whole market place.

Anyhoo another pattern for adding to Marlowe's summer wardrobe and some fabric has been purchased....some funky and a more traditional one. I'll take some pics to let you see tomorrow as I am now about to start playing catch up with house jobs and of course feeding my pair. Andy starts back to work at 9pm tonight although not full time just yet. He'll need feeding up before he goes though as I expect it will seem a long night.

Hope you are all having a lovely day.
Sheila-x- 

My Little Duvet Hog!!!

Miss Doodle has turned into a duvet hog.
Friday I went to bed in my usual attire of a nightdress and spent the night shivering.....although I did manage to keep my permanently cold feet under cover.
Last night I thought I would play crafty and wear my pyjamas and some socks.....I still spent the night freezing.....feet included.
How one little seven year old girl can need a whole double duvet I do not know....lol.

We didn't do everything I wanted to do this weekend. The rain on Friday night/Saturday morning turned everywhere into a mud bath so I thought a visit to the adventure playground would be a bit miserable with mud underfoot and dripping trees above. Definitely not my idea of fun so after the cinema visit and lunch we had a lovely session playing with the dolls and their hairdressing salon.
This morning after another play with the dolls she is now snuggled under one of the sofa quilts watching a film while she waits to get into her posh frock and sparkly shoes to go out for lunch.
After lunch she will go home with Mummy and Daddy and that will be another sleepover weekend gone in a flash.

No plans to do anything remotely housewifey this afternoon and probably not much tomorrow either as I will be out for a good chunk of the day. The jobs never go anywhere though....they will always be there waiting.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend.
Sheila-x-

Role Reversal!!!

I thought it was hard when my kids were small to get to those stages in their lives when they didn't need you for things like tying shoe laces, brushing hair etc. Every step a step nearer to their independence which....don't get me wrong.....is a fabulous thing.....but.....I found myself totally choked last night when Ruby didn't need me to read her bedtime story.
Aunty DD had bought her a set of books to go with The Worst Witch which she has been watching on tv and when we snuggled up in bed last night she read to me first and then decided she wanted to do silent reading.
I had to physically remove the book from her hands to get her go to sleep and then she was up with the lark this morning so that she could finish it and start on book two. I am amazed and proud but also just a tiny bit devastated that she no longer needs that very special little ritual of the bedtime story.
My baby is growing up.
I'll just have to hope that Marlowe will want to come for weekends so that I can do it all over again.

We were having a lovely evening watching Zootropolis and eating ice cream until Smudge sent my blood pressure into orbit by pee'ing on the lounge floor. I don't know why he did it as he hadn't scratched at the door to be let out as he usually does. I was not amused.

Anyhoo....Little Miss and Aunty DD have gone off to the cinema and to do their 'ladies wot lunch' thing. I was going with them but passing on the film and going to do some shopping but I didn't fancy wandering around town in the pouring rain so I have stayed home to prepare the evening meal and tidy up. Sod's Law.....it is now bright and sunny.

Hope you are all having a good weekend.
Sheila-x-

Baby....It's Cold Outside.......!!!

........and it's not much warmer inside at the moment either.
I am waiting for Andy to chop some sticks so that I can light the fire.
It's very pretty out though as we have had a heavy frost and everywhere is white.

Most of today will be spent tidying up and getting the house clean and cosy ready for Ruby coming after school. She will want to be straight out of her uniform and into her jammies so I will have a pair warming on the radiator for her to change into.
No cooking as we are having Chinese tonight. 
This year is the year of the Rooster. I was born in the year of the Rooster so it is my Chinese birthday. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it....lol.

I could really do with a couple of hours out in the fresh air so tomorrow we may take Ruby to the adventure playground at Sudbury Hall.......along with a blanket for one of the benches, a flask of tomato soup and a flask of tea. I think she will like that before she goes off to the cinema with Aunty DD to see Sing.

I am so looking forward to the weekend.
Are you doing anything exciting?
Sheila-x-