Halfway There...

This is the top half of my crochet throw, the one that has "taught" me how to crochet. I'm pleased with it although most of it has been a battle and to be honest the throw won on more than one occasion! But, it has taught me the basics and I am a lot more confident with the craft now.

Weird times...

Well, these last couple of weeks have been strange, haven't they? These stupid, inane, idiotic riots for one. What are these people thinking? People dying as they try to defend their business? This has nothing to do with any socio-economic problems that might be occurring in their areas, as these sort of people don't want to work. If there was 100% employment in their area they would still be on the dole! It just makes me feel like nailing my front door shut and forgetting there's a world out there. On Saturday night some little twat set fire to a car in our car park. Dave and I had just got to bed and we heard a load POP then a lot of shouting and running around, we quickly got dressed and ran out to the car park to find one of our neighbours putting out a blazing car with a fire extinguisher. The owner of the car was crying her eyes out and we all just stood around wondering what the hell was going on. Apparently five or six cars around this area have been torched in the last couple of nights - just little knob heads who have seen what's going on in London, Manchester and Birmingham on the telly and decided "that looks like fun". I despair. The men around here have all swapped mobile numbers and are keeping a constant watch on our car park now - if nothing else it's been a great male bonding exercise!

Onto nicer, cosier things. Thank God I've got them! I baked some gorgeous (even though I say so myself!) cupcakes from the Eat Me book. One taster said they were the best cakes she'd ever tasted.

Blueberry Clouds they are called.

I've also finished one quarter of my crochet throw, all sewn together.
I'm very pleased with it, never thought I would get this far! I'm feeling a lot better in myself lately, I think the meds are finally kicking in. I'm really enjoying my hobbies this past week. I look forward all day to cooking dinner and doing my crochet or stitching. For a few weeks I just couldn't be bothered with anything. I often wonder, women who don't have hobbies, what exactly do they DO???

Baking ...

I baked some cupcakes on Sunday, and they turned out the best I've ever done. I'm also getting better with the old icing bag too!

The picture is not the greatest, Dave did take some lovely arty-farty shots of them but I've lost them! I quickly took this one of the last remaining cupcake last night before I ate it! They were Lemon and Poppyseed and you can find the receipe here if you fancy giving them a go. I can highly recommend them!

Thought I'd sneek in a couple of crochet squares now I've distracted you with cake!


No. 39

and No. 40. Don't think anyone noticed. Phew, think I got away with that!

Sorry, another boring crochet square post ...

I've been at it again! When I catch up the plan is there will only be one a week and that won't be quite so boring, but I have to record them on here, it's the law!
These are squares No. 30 to 38.










Just to break up the boredom of crochet squares I thought I would show a picture of the other thing I've been working on, Ninth and Hudson. I'm stitching this one as a momento of our Honeymoon in New York. It's a New York scene without being too New Yorky if you see what I mean. I've actually done a bit more on this since this photo was taken, it's almost finished.

HAPPY 4th JULY...

I would like to wish a very happy 4th of July to all you who celebrate it. This date is also a day for my family to celebrate as today is my parents-in-law's 58th, yes 58th, wedding anniversary. A very happy anniversary to Ray and Betty! Here's the card I made them:- They are the only people I ever make anniversary cards for, because, well I think they deserve it, don't you?

I've also been busy making more crochet squares:- No. 23 No. 24 No. 25