plan's no.2

It's Friday and where did all the sunshine go?

We have had nothing but grey skies and rain!

Did you see The edible garden on Wednesday? I have not seen them all, but I really enjoyed this weeks all about fruit. They also did some printing using leaves and flowers. The technique is called Hapa-zome. well worth trying to catch it.

The pressie I got with my birthday money arrived today.

I love it, it is a beautiful book.

The 1940's weekend is May 15th and 16th and lets hope the sun comes back for that.

Now reasons for not crafting (excuses)-

1.Busy at school with up coming orders for next year and reports.

2.Guilt that I should be doing something in the garden. Go outside and 'potter' but don't do much out there either.

3.Been out gallivanting on day's out with Hubby.

4. Plans are afoot that mean the house needs a tidy up/clear out. (more about that later).

5. MAIN REASON (excuse) I can't 'do' anything is my so called craft room and the spare bedroom are VERY,VERY messy. I am such a hoarder and keep far too much stuff on the pretence it will "come in handy for something one day".

Now I know that here in Blogworld we all like to imagine all our fellow blogger's houses spick and span, clean and tidy with our favourite chair waiting with a plumped up crocheted cushion on it, a book by the side and some neat little crafting bag just waiting for the owner to pick up again. Well sorry It ain't like that here!!!!

Piles of books and magazines, bags of unfinished work, wool, felt, paper, paints, etc all over the place.

So my friends this leads me onto reason (excuse) number 4. Hubby has decided he wants to build me my very our workroom. Now I have to agree to certain terms to get said workroom.

1. The mess the building work will make.

2.The disruption it will cause.

3. I have to move some of my well established plants and I am not sure it's a good idea to try and move some old roses but I have to give it a try.

4. I will have to put into storage most of my 'stuff' which means little or no crafting for months on end.

The upside is I get a workroom, we get a larger kitchen and an en suite in the bedroom.

It's not going to be pretty! So please bear with me on this one. It may get messy, it may get tearful, it may be boring you to tears but keep thinking of the workroom!

So for the moment we are in the planning stage. An architect friend is coming bank holiday monday to measure up and before then we have to give the house a bit of a tidy. We will be going out for the day Sunday and it's the village gala on Monday so if I get chance I will pop down and join in the fun.

Have a good Bank Holiday Weekend everyone.

Plans

It has been the most wonderful weather here in West Yorkshire.

Sunday was spent in the garden but I have to admit to not doing much, it was a lazy sort of day. Simone has put me to shame!

I took some photos of the flowers and plants that are opening up in the spring sunshine.

It's nearly that time of year again. Remember this post from last May?

We plan to go to Haworth for the 1940's weekend and I am planning what I will wear.

I have bought a pair of shoes I fell in love with. They are so lovely, I didn't get them just for that weekend but they will be my special occasion shoes. I got a bargain 'A' line skirt for £5, it's brown wool with a cream check. I have some steamed stockings and a lovely brown beret with flowers on it. Now all I need is a top of some sort.

I have ordered these books from Amazon. My knitting skills are not up to much but my lovely mum has said if she has the time she will make me a 1940's style sweater. Just need to find a pattern-quick!

These are just a few of the lovely gifts I received for my birthday. The large silk ribbon flower brooch was sent from my good friend and my Mother-in-law bought me the book for some crafty ideas. The perfume was off hubby and some pretty book labels with butterflies on.

I will show you what I bought with the money Shan sent me when it arrives!

Hubby found this tiny nest a few years ago and I found it again, hiding at the back of a cupboard. It is beautifully constructed. The broken egg shell, I found the other day in the garden.

The trees are popping in the garden.

Cherry plum blossom.

Red Acer.

The old apple tree.

Not a lot of crafting going on here at the moment. There are reasons (excuses!) I will let you know about them next time.

The Yorkshire Dales

Hope you all had a lovely St Georges day? I have posted about it on my school log blog here if you want to see what our school got up to yesterday and on the same day in 1904.

Today was such a beautiful day. We went for a drive to the Yorkshire Dales.

First we went to Skipton. We didn't go into the castle today but walked around the town and along the canal.

We bought some lunch, salads and chicken and some tasty bread and apple juice and drove to Appletreewick to eat our picnic.

It was busy in the tiny village because the Craven Acoustic Festival was being held at The Craven Arms. Groups of musicians playing various acoustic instruments playing some fantastic music.
The Craven Arms dates back to the 16th Century and contains many of it's original features such as fireplaces, gas lighting, heavy low beams and stone flagged floors. Built on the back is the Cruck Barn. This is new but build using the same materials, tools and methods used over 300 years ago.

Oak crucks, stone quarried and shaped by hand and thatched using ling heather which grows on the moors.

The Craven Arms is named after Sir William Craven a local lad born to a pauper family who went to London, worked hard and became the Lord Mayor of London. His story is better known as 'Dick Whittington'.
This is the weather stone that hangs outside the door. A bit of Yorkshire humour! (Paul Hudson is our local BBC weather man.)

We saw lots of lovely lambs in the fields (I have added a new button on my sidebar about the rescue sheep, by the way!)

Then it was time to make our way home.

So the above is my contribution to Jackie's Handwriting game
I told you it was bad! ( hope it isn't too small to read.)
But more important is that you please read about the sheep in my last post.
Thankyou.

Handwriting

Hello! just a quickie to let you know I am joining in with Jackie's Handwriting post.

With a bit of luck I will do a post in my own fair hand tomorrow-be warned, it's not a pretty sight!

read about it here.

Also please pop over here to read about how you can help some sheep in need and here to read how Tracy came to be their new mummy! It's time to 'rustle' up some crafty stuff girls, to help the sheep!!!

Week 2

As I come to the end of my second week of my Easter Holiday I thought I would give you an overview.

I am still using Hubby's computer when I can but it does mean I have not had time to browse through your lovely blogs. I promise as soon as it's sorted I will catch up with you all.

I spent Sunday and most of Monday in the garden. It was so sunny and spring was here! The buds on the old apple tree are popping.

Lucy helped me.

Then Shan came on Tuesday and we played with fabric paints and collage. The transfer inks were fun to use but I have yet to transfer them onto fabric. I played around with birds influenced by Charley Harper. We love Charley Harper.

Shan let me choose fabric from her stash and I had a go at collage too.

I waved goodbye to Shan at the station on Wednesday and on Thursday I went to York with two friends from work.

It was so cold!

We did all the tourist things... a trip on the open top bus...

a walk through the Shambles....

...and a trip by boat down the River Ouse.

We travelled by train to York and I was on the train again on Friday, My Birthday (thank you for all the birthday wishes on my previous post, and thank you Simone for the card!)

This time the sun was out and I went to Saltaire with my Mother-in-law. We had lunch at the cafe and bought far too many books from the book store.

She didn't feel up to walking around the village so it means I can drag Hubby there again soon to do the tour.

I got lots of lovely gifts for my birthday and hope to photograph some of them soon. It was such a nice day, very relaxing and calm. Hubby treated me to a meal out in the evening too!

Today was also a sunny day but I needed to tidy up, do shopping and get my hair cut so didn't take advantage of it. Some friends are coming tomorrow so I hope the sun continues and we get chance to sit out and have tea and cake outside.

New Post BELOW

Please scroll down to read a new post-For some reason blogger has posted it under my 'computer is dead' post!!!!!

It's all about the first week of my Easter Holiday and I had to steal Hubby's computer to do it!

Computer is dead!

My computer has died! I will have to wait till I get back to work next week to see if anything can be done but if not I might have to save my pennies!

I will try and read some of yours when I can cadge time on Hubby's work computer but won't be able to play!

Maybe if I am good I might get a new one for my birthday! (dream on!)

Hope you are all ok? look forward to catching up soon!

Lyn

xxx

A week in one post!

I've kidnapped Hubby's computer. Right this is a quick overview of my first week of the Easter holiday. I say quick, It may take a while!

Easter Sunday

Lovely day spent in the garden. All these lovely flowers blooming!

The above is a lovely small flower called Hacquetia Epipactus. They are actually small yellow flowers surrounded by lime green bracts.

Easter Mondy

Not such a nice day weather wise, but we went to watch the motor racing at Oulton Park. I took some photos of the ancient trees.

There use to be a very grand house here and the race track is in the park of the estate. The house is long gone.

TuesdayHubby took the day off so we went to Styal,

to Quarry bank Mill.

Then we had time to have a stroll around Dunham Massey. The sun was coming out.

Wednesday-Friday.

I took my mum to visit my mother-in-law in Church Stretton, Shropshire.

This is the thatched church in Little Stretton built it 1903and this is in a beautiful old church in Woolstanton.

We went to Acton Scott Victorian Farm where they filmed the series 'The Victorian Farm'

Saturday

I went to a workshop at The Royal Exchange. It was run by one of the costume department. She showed us how to make these flower corsages.

They have a new blog and I think they will be putting up photos of the workshops that take place there.
So that was my first week of the Easter holiday. I hope to tell you all about my second week, but highlights will be the garden, applique with Shan, a day in York, a visit to Saltaire and My BIRTHDAY on Friday!!!!! so please come back and see me soon.