weekend goodies

We have had a lovely weekend so far. Friday night we went to a restaurant called the Old Bore at Rishworth. Its a place I pass twice a day but we have never been in. I took this photo on the way home from work on Friday...

...then when we arrived at 7.30pm I took a few more photos-bit blurred but I think you can tell it's decorated like an old Scottish Hunting Lodge.

The menu is excellent and the service is also very good. We had a really lovely evening.

Now this meal was our Valentine meal. We always try to go out for a meal around valentines day, usually not on the day itself.

Saturday I went to my friends to bake chocolate chip cookies with her and her two daughters aged 7 and 10.

We did have a fun day, lots of licking of fingers and excited waiting for the cookies to bake. The girls all chocolated up, then went to play upstairs while we had a glass of wine and a good chat.

Today started sunny and I plan to do a bit in the garden and tonight we are going to see Sherlock Holmes at the cinema. Hubby bought me a card and a lovely felted purse with a heart on it from the Royal Exchange Craft shop in Manchester, am I not a Lucky Lady? I know Valentines day is not for everyone and I wish all my readers a happy day what ever they are doing today.

It is apt today the sun is shinning because I have received this lovely Sunshine Blog award from Bad Penny over at The Hen House. It makes me smile. I would like to pass this on to a few people new to me. They may want to pass it on to someone else or they may not, either way please pop over to see their lovely blogs by clicking on their name.

Donna
Felted House
Middle Cottage Diary
A Homely Heroine
Thimble Fingers

Snoopy Dog Knits
Ashfall

Frogs Dogs and ferns

Sad

I have a heavy heart tonight. Remember this post? I took some children to a local Bird Sanctuary with a cheque for money they had raised.

Well unfortunately the Sanctuary was forced to close it's doors last week. All because the council was trying to get it to have a Zoo Licence which they could not afford. I feel so sad. Please pop over to read the last post the trustees put up on the website and tell me if you understand the reasoning behind it!

Lovely things...

I have found a lovely website here. take a peek, lots of lovely things to buy, special interiors and vintage goodies. It's run by Jo and called coast and country home and it is based in Norfolk. She also has a blog here.

It was snowing on and off today but hasn't settled.

It did look good all swirling round and with the sun shining too.

I am so looking forward to catching up with friends and family in my half term next week. And I will send off a few parcels amd do some more crafting.

Hello to ALL my followers! I have a few more join me recently and I do try to make contact to say hello but sometimes I can't find a blog. So Thank you ALL for following!

Bye for now!

New post

I had such a lovely weekend, very indulgent! I managed to do a small watercolour of Nadolig. He is a cat who lives in Wales and I did the painting of him for his owner, Mr Griffiths who is feeling unwell at the moment.

I made some button hearts and started an embroidery, not done embroidery for YEARS!

Tonight, Hubby is treating me to a night out. We are off to Hebden Bridge to watch 'Nine' but first we may have time to sit down and eat at the very nice Fish and Chip restaurant in the town.

-He knows how to treat a girl!

PS I have put a new post on my Emporium so click on the picture of Lucy in my sidebar to have a peek.

Taking it easy

Hello everyone!

This weekend I plan to do a bit of crafting, a bit of cooking a bit of walking, a bit of gardening and No cleaning! Well I have done a load of washing and washed up, but that's it!

I have been making some button hearts for Lissylou for her BHF stall. Lissylou also recently posted about her note books.

Above is a page from one of my notebooks.

*I keep note books, I list things in them.

*Things I would like to see, do, go to, watch, visit etc.

*I cut small items out of magazines and stick them in.

*I doodle in them and sometimes sketch things in them.

*They are great to look back through.

I am planning a little embroidery later too.

I received a lovely package last week from the very generous Simone.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

J.M.Barrie

A beautiful card, a Sweet Sally Sewing Set, the 2010 Friendship book and a lovely felt heart. The felt heart goes so well with a scarf my sister bought me for Christmas (Sorry the photo is a bit dark!) Thank you Simone.

My class 5 at school were making collages out of recycled plastic on Friday. They worked very hard and I thought I would show you some photos. Shan gave me the idea (which I wrote down in a note book!) and these photos show the before photos.

They then got arranged between two pieces of cling film and covered with baking paper before ironing with a cool iron to fuse the plastics together. I will show you the display when I get round to doing one.

Also at work last week we made fruit smoothies in class 3. There was a tiny bit of fruit left so I made some mixed fruit jam. just enough for a jar and a half. I will take a jar into school next week and the class can taste a bit on some wholemeal toast as a treat.

On the way home on Friday, I saw an elephant!

Can you see him in the sky, with his trunk held high? (not sure where his legs are though!)

Some things to see and do

First things first.....Noelle on sew on and sew on is having a giveaway to win a cute little house, pop over and put your name down.

Above is the front cover of the Touchstones latest leaflet. There looks like a great exhibition on at the moment.

Cute and curious handmade creatures from four leading craft makers. Julie Arkell, Abigail Brown, Samantha Bryan and Anya Keeley.

Touchstones is a lovely little art gallery and museum in Rochdale. Well worth a visit.

I am going there on the 20th to do a Rag Rug Workshop!

They also have this exhibition on which looks interesting.

Then at the Royal Exchange in Manchester there are lots of lovely things going on.

So don't forget to pop over to Noelle's blog via link at the top and enter her giveaway.

And the winner is......

Gerry!

We tried to get Lucy to pick the winner, but she couldn't understand what we wanted her to do. Hubby did the draw in the end and picked out Gerry. So I will send off the prize as soon as Gerry gets in touch.

I enjoyed this though so think I will do another. Maybe for Easter? I do hope You will join me!