Well last Friday I was working which is most unusual but I'd swapped my week around due to my niece's wedding. I was working from home and managed to finish a little earlier which was great.
I had the weekend planned as hubby was boat training, my plan was to craft with Bridgerton playing in the background which is exactly what I did. I have a friend and I make mini books for her two girls' birthdays each year and so I put together a new mini book.
This was the one I completed on Saturday
It was a different design than I'm used to so it was fun to create something different.
and this was the one I did on Sunday
I was using an eclectic mix of papers as I'm in 'using up' mode. Hopefully the girls enjoy filling them with birthday memories.
I've been busy at work this week, swapping my days back to normal, so it was nice to go and harvest some of the items I've grown this year on Wednesday night. This is my first heritage striped tomato, some orange cherry tomatoes and cucamelons (which are very strange and fun to grow but definitely an acquired taste).
and this raised a smile my first successful strawberry plant with a flower.
and I'm going to leave you with these smiley photographs of my grandson
can you believe he is going to be one next month.
And that my lovely people is my week, a quiet one but fun nonetheless.
So another week of lock down, we have been a little sporadic with our walks, but when we have manage to go after a long work day it has been most welcome.
I was mini book making last week but didn't get chance to share, these have been made with minimal paper and all the scraps from the bigger books that I've been making, they measure around 5 inches by 5 inches and were great fun to make, I'm grateful I have a time consuming hobby that provides a product at the end of it
The embellishment on the last one came from a pack of embellishments I picked up in Aldi recently, it was nice to find some scrapbook things whilst doing our weekly shop.
For Mother's day said 19 year old and his GF bought me a basket of plants, whilst they looked lovely they are always impractical for watering and as one was definitely looking grim I decided to repot them to give them at least a small chance of survival (I'm not known for my green fingers when it comes to house plants), unfortunately I was lacking on the plant pot front but had saved some yogurt pots, so hubby drilled some holes in them and here they are with my peace lilies, I'm hoping they flourish, but time (and watering regularly) will tell.
Last Friday my Mum had ordered a skip (whilst the recycling centres have reopened they are limiting what you can get rid of) and I had volunteered us going and getting rid of the stuff for her, we were in an outdoor space so when I got there I asked her to identify what needed to go and she left us to it, within a couple of hours the items were loaded up, the skip was full and she was much happier.
Said 19 year old then went on Monday and spent time clearing a piece of land and putting together and positioning her new greenhouse, it isn't massive and is fairly lightweight but it gives her a focus outside that she hasn't had in a while and she was mighty giddy to get it put up. It came complete with internal racking so she is most giddy and we managed to get her some seeds both flowers and vegetables. Said 19 year old also got some compost picked up and when we were on our walk recently we spotted a sign at a house saying 'free tomato plants' so hubby went and knocked and the lovely lady gave him 4 plants. If there is anything to be said about lockdown it is the community spirit that has become so apparent recently.
So some of you will remember that a few weeks ago we had a VE day social distancing picnic on the close we live on, a few of us took a few photos that day and I had some of them printed, I decided to create mini book for each of the neighbours including one for a neighbour's Mum and Dad who were there that day. I knew the papers I wanted to use but knew my stocks were greatly depleted (Papermania's Portabello Road), I went browsing places like Ebay and whilst I found some to buy most were part packs. I was chatting to my Mum about it on the phone and she said "I've got some of those, I'll find them out for you, it makes a change for me to be able to provide you with scrapbooking supplies rather than the other way around" and so she provided me (at a distance of course) with a bag that not only contained the majority of a 12 x 12 pack but giddy as you can get a pack of 6 x 6 too, which was the size of the mini book - happy days!
So last weekend was spent creating 9 of these little beauties, I literally spent all day on them on Saturday (which in hindsight felt a bit much)
A view from the top you can see they are all made up of various pages of differing size
I had to use a few additional papers from my own stack to finish them off but I was pleased with them overall.
Once completed I wrapped them in brown paper and string (like parcels from the second world war and hubby delivered them.
The ladies sent messages of thanks and it was lovely to find that they all liked them it was definitely worth all the effort.
The rest of the week has been mighty busy work wise, three out of the four days spent working and one at work itself which is as busy as ever.
Next grateful has been the lovely weather and whilst we've been busy inside working we have still managed to enjoy the early evening sunshine and blue skies. I took this on our walk yesterday, I love the palm plant flowering.
I hope you've had a grand week too, if you fancy joining in pop a post together come back and link up so we can come and visit.
Morning all (look at me actually posting early for a change), I hope you've had a grand week, this was my week on
Well we have had another strange week, but the strangeness of it is also becoming somewhat normal. Both me and hubby are working from home still, with me only going in one day per week as part of the precautionary measures as the charity I work for continues to deliver to some of the most vulnerable.
Thankfully last weekend was glorious (most unusual for a bank holiday in the UK), so we set up outside, hubby made use of the time to do a little more silversmithing.
And I enjoyed crafting outside whilst hiding under an umbrella as I burn so easily.
We even stayed outside into the evening and sat chatting and enjoying the barmy warm evening and spotted the international space station come over not once but twice whilst we were sat outside.
I've continued to contact my Mum daily facetiming her, it has been great to keep in contact this way and I know it has helped keep her sanity chip in place over recent weeks.
Sunday was obviously Easter Sunday and again it was a mighty strange one, I remember Easters of old from visits to church to Easter egg hunts none of which we had on Sunday. However, it was nice to notice this lovely gesture on our walk on Sunday encouraging everyone to take an little egg on their walk.
I have continued crafting, apologies for the poor quality photo but this was taken very late one evening. Using a set of Papermania stacking boxes that I'd had forever.
A neighbour dropped this little gift off just before Easter, it was such a lovely gesture, she's recently had an op and said manipulating the boxes was good physio for her.
Me and hubby have enjoyed having breakfast at home together and I'm loving the summer berries that are available at the moment.
And today's walk (Thursday) the sun is beautiful and the skies are blue
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