Clean & Quiet edit..

Half term came and went, children returning to school, house back in some sort of order, quiet reigns............

It's always too quiet the first couple of days when the children go back to school. I have that sort of ringing noise in my ears from being in a VERY LOUD environment for some time as small boys volume is either "maximum" or "mute" (when asleep). The Daughter has worked her way through a small rain forest of paper with various artistic creations and I nearly did myself an injury playing on Wii boxing but the less said about that the better.......

The last couple of days of half term were spent out and about, we even took a trip out to the coast and let the children dig large holes in sand for reasons only known to themselves. Hubby & I turned a very unflattering shade of blue and wondered what on earth possessed us to go to the seaside in such challenging temperatures but it was a really bright lovely day, the sort that makes me think that spring may not be too far away...... I really love Spring. Summer is probably my favourite season (reclined on lounger in garden, feet in paddling pool, tall glass of *insert appropriate drink for time of day*)
but Spring is just so hopeful and promising with it all to look forward to!
EDIT(just browsing my pictures and found a sunny day in the garden last year sigh.............although ignore the building site and army of toys its improved a lot since then!)



There seems to be a lot of colour around at the moment which is probably highlighting Spring like tendencies for me. I'm working on a crochet flower garland/bunting for The Daughter's room even though we have a reasonable amount of bunting around the house already but can you ever have too much bunting? ;-)
She chose herself a new lampshade for her bedroom as well :-)


I've been attempting crochet in circles but luckily Kathy has saved me and sent a pattern for the lovely cushion like the one on Julia's blog. Thank you Kathy.


More spring like items about to come my way from LuluCarter..... This is a very talented lady who makes me sigh when I look at her lovely creations and a few weeks ago I found myself drooling over one of her latest designs, a modern day dreamcatcher. I am so in awe of people who dream (pun intended) up such original idea's and found myself sending an email straight away asking her to please let me know as soon as they were in her shop :-) To cut a long story short we are expecting a delivery very soon!!


More talent in blogland came from Ruby'sMamma in the form of this lovely beaded bracelet - again, finding myself sighing over sweetie coloured glass beads resulted in an another "request" email and now have it adorning my wrist making me smile whenever I catch a glimpse of it.


Thanks also to Mel for sending me lovely cards - The "Keep Calm & Carry On" one is to be placed in a prominent position as a reminder to do just that when I commence my spring cleaning. We have dust bunnies breeding like, er, rabbits, under sofa's and I know there are a few large spiders thinking of taking up residence in dark, cobwebby corners so on with the marigolds and out with the feather duster. You never know but I might even use those attachment thingies on the vacuum cleaner....

Have a good week!
Lesley x