let me take you back in time.....

to 1940.

Saturday was a bright and sunny day.

We arrived on the bright Green open topped bus

The village was busy.

The atmosphere was great.

Lots of vintage cars.

The Women's Land Army were there in force.

There was a Spitfire in the car park.

And some interesting things on show.

These boys looked familiar.

Now I never thought I would post a photo of my face on this blog.....

.....let alone my legs!!!!!

But I bow to blog pressure!!!!!

Not as glam as some of the ladies I saw, but I made an effort.

it's almost here...

......the 1940's weekend at Haworth.

I am very excited.

We plan to go tomorrow as it seems to be a better weather forecast for Saturday. We will arrive by steam train and get the vintage bus up the hill into Haworth.

Unfortunately my mum hasn't managed to finish my 1940's sweater-I will have to wear it next year!
These are some of the things going on over the weekend.

There are dances on Friday and Saturday evening.

The Lancaster fly past on Sunday and the children evacuees arrive by steam train on Sunday too.


They even have some classic films showing.

but I watched this film to get me in the mood!

Will be back with photos soon.

Sunday night....again!

It's Sunday night again.

Does anyone else get that 'Sunday night feeling' the sort of 'back to school' thing?

Last Monday it was the village Gala

I had fun on the tombola and won some prizes.

A knitted duck, a flower brooch and a handmade bar of lavender soap.

On the way home I spotted this window.

It's the studio of textile artist Gillian Travis. Her work is lovely and I have been in touch via email and am very excited about trying to get myself onto one of her workshops. Visit her website here.

Another lovely artist I 'found' recently is Richard Bell. He said it was OK to post one of his sketches here.

Pop over to his website and take a peek at Wild West Yorkshire. I love his work and if I pull my finger out want to get back into my own sketching again.

This chap has been stealing the bird food!

This weekend we spent most of the time in the garden. This is our lilac. Unfortunately the lilac and the garage behind will have to go when we build the extension.

The cherry tree in the orchard is in flower and the apple tree next to it has big fat buds.

Looking the other way, up past the old apple tree, you can see the cherry and apple tree and Bob's grave behind the bench.

We cleaned both greenhouses and the cold one is ready for my tomatoes and cucumber plants.

The forget-me-nots have seeded all over the place. They look great against the purple azalea.

So although we didn't get as much done as we would of liked, It looks a lot better than it did last weekend! Time tonight to put my feet up with a magazine.

I have been doing a little sewing, just a little.

Bit of this and bit of that.

I am so sorry readers. It is almost Friday and nearly a week since I did my last post.(see reason/excuses here!) So last weekend was a fun weekend.

Saturday was the usual shopping and cleaning (turned out to be the best day of the Bank holiday weekend so didn't plan that too well!)

Sunday and we went to the The Old Farmyard in Ripley again. Remember last years post?

Well I got to cuddle a lamb again, the photos were not as good this year, some were a bit blurred, maybe because I was shivering with the cold so much?

we saw the billy goats.

and we saw the hens.

We stroked the beautiful Jersey cow

and cuddled more lambs.

There is a little farm museum there in one of the farm buildings.

It is full of interesting things.

Some things from a bygone era

The family that own the farm must never throw anything away.......

........Just like me!

The dog thought the horse had shrunk in the wash!

There was some spinning going on too.

It was nice weather for ducks!

We called in the little shop in Ripley.

Beautiful cakes and sweets (boo hoo couldn't eat any!)

and a lovely Yorkshire Tea window display.

In the little church there had just been a wedding, the flowers were beautiful.

And at the end of the day, all the farm animals are let out into a lush green field to run and relax.
I will post about the rest of the weekend in the next couple of days and I want to share a few discoveries and crafting with you too.

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.