1st Crochet Project (Family Heirloom?)

Whilst I was emptying a pine storage box that my husband had made me, I found this, this was one of the very first things I had made when I learnt to crochet back in my younger school days, I think I might have been about 11 or 12, my Gran taught me to crochet and she gave me the thread to do this project with. It is a pattern from a crochet book that I had off my parents, my sister has the book now as she does crochet as well. This piece I gave to my mum and she always had it covering her dining room table. I am quite proud of the fact that this is now some thirty odd years old and it has still kept its shape and is still in one piece.

Before I Finnish

When I was looking through my pictures file I came across this one of Kyrie who is our first dog this was when she was just a few weeks old and we don't have any others as she is really camera shy in fact when you take any type of camera out she seems to know and runs away and hides, she looks such a cutie but is in fact quite bossy especially where my son is concerned but I love her anyway. Will have to stop playing with my blog now and go and do some homework will try not to leave it too long though before I am back. See you all soon.

Valentines Day

Well here we are on Valentines weekend, hope you all have a happy one, during the past week I have been promoting my baking and a few of my friends at work have already sampled my cakes, I was chatting with a colleague Jan who I had made a Christmas cake for and someone else joined in the conversation and next thing I new I was taking an order for a valentines cake, here is a picture, of it he seemed happy with it but I was not quite as confident with my decorating skills I got a little nervous but I hope he enjoys it.

My husband had also been telling his work mates about what I was doing and Chris a young lad he works with asked if I would make him one also, he wanted writing on his, not done that before and I couldn't manage it on the other one but I went for it and here is the result. Have not heard from him yet so I hope it got to work in one piece as my husband was the delivery boy.

Sweet Award

I've been given an award from Jenny who has a lovely blog and some fabulous creations so do go and visit her, now there are few rules so here goes:

1. Copy and Paste the award on my blog.

2. List who gave the award and link back to them.

3. List 10 things that make you happy.

4. Pass the award on to other bloggers and visit them to let them know.

Have struggled to get this added to my blog as I am really a novice unlike my friend who nominated me for this award, but here goes

Thanks for the award Jenny.

I would like to send my award on to my sister Julie who has a fantastic blog showing all her knitting ideas and I hope you will visit her soon. I would also like to pass this on to Sue I love her family life.


1. Kevin who I have been married to for 25 years this March and I love him very much.
2. My son who can be a pain and is the double of his dad in more ways than one.
3. Family, don't spend a lot of time together but are there when we need them.
4. My time, although I don't get a lot of it.
5. My dogs who are a handful but each have their own lovely characters.
6. My dream to have my own bed and breakfast on one of the Scottish Islands.
7. To spend more time with my husband and enjoy ourselves after all the years of hard work.
8. Knitting, crocheting and baking and creating special dinners for family and friends.
9. More time to do number '8'
10. To finish all the DIY jobs in the house with my husband he has prinmised to re-design my kitchen so I can have a range cooker in it, my idea of heaven.