Simons cat

If anyone likes cats or lives with a cat you must watch Simon's Cat. His latest one is Fly Guy it's on You Tube. If the link does not work just type in Simon's cat and you get all five coming up, he did a dog one too. I have not learnt how to paste a video up here so can't show you a picture.

Goodies.

This is the little stash I have from our holiday. The pale green floral cushion cover was from Parsley and Thyme. The green hand dipped candles, lavender bag, Teacher posters, linen hankie and plaster scroll (all on the right of the picture) were from Blists Hill Victorian town-more about that wonderful place in another post. The pewter bird necklace was from Newport made by Brown Bird. the cupcake is crochet and stiffened to make a basket and the postcards were from St Dogmaels and RAF Cosworth. You can't see them very well but there are two beautiful pieces of embroidered linen too. I am going to hopefully make these into cushion covers.

I also gave this little chap a home. I've called him Charlie, he is about 3 inches tall and is a cutie. We found him in a case in an antiques shop just waiting for a loving home.

Are you still awake?

Hope I have not bored you all to sleep?

While on holiday we called it the most lovely shop called 'Parsley and Thyme'. It is at a small cross roads outside New Quay, I hope they are a success, they opened in March and have had a good season but lots of shops don't make it through the winter when all the holiday makers go home. I hope this one works out as the lady who owns it was very friendly and I loved the stock she had. A lot of the things looked handmade and I bought a floral cushion cover from her, she wrapped it up in tissue paper and tied it with a ribbon so it looked like a little present just for me!

New Quay is such a lovely place. Dylan Thomas stayed here with his wife and children for a while and there is a Dylan Thomas Trail. The film Edge of Love with Keira Knightley was filmed here and is about the time they stayed in New Quay.

The houses I use to paint or draw when I was a child always had four windows-two up, two down with a door in the middle, a garden and an apple tree and a chimney in the centre of the roof.

The architecture in West Wales fits these memories of my early artistic efforts and although we once lived in a tiny country cottage for 8 months I know they are not for me, I still love the idea of them and dress them up in my mind and in the dead of night when I can not sleep, I decorate, furnish and live in these cottages.

I will post again later today to let you see what goodies I got from my holidays and my ideas for them.

Some holiday mosaics

These Photos were taken in and around Cardigan, West Wales. It is on the River Teifi and it's castle ruins and castle house were featured in a programme called Restoration a few years ago. The yellow and red houses, bottom right, are in the short lane leading to the castle grounds. Across the river is St Dogmeals with an Abbey Ruin and working flour mill.

These are from Aberaeron. A lovely Georgian town with the houses painted in cheerful colours around a small harbour. It is also famous locally for it's honey ice cream!

Hey Mr Postman!

I got a little obsessed with post boxes on holiday!

They are lovely and some are in the most unexpected places.

This post is dedicated to Shan!

I'm Back!

Hello, is there anybody there?

We arrived back early-Hubby needed to go into work! Anyway it means I have a whole day to do the washing and ironing-Deep Joy!

We had a lovely holiday and in the next few days will show you my holiday snaps. (It will also mean I get up to my 100th post quickly.) Crafting has been mainly my ripple crochet while on holiday but I also came back with lots of lovely ideas to try so hopefully I will get back into the swing of things and get something interesting done in the next month. I made a few little purchases too and will post later about those.

The Parrog, Newport, Pembrokeshire

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!