Another week...

...has passed! I can hardly believe that 4 weeks of the school summer holidays have gone already. They seem to be going so quickly this year. I am now off on annual leave myself too which is great. I was ready for my holidays as things have been so busy lately...it's good to slow down a little and to have some time with my family and friends. I am already really enjoying my time off and there have been some good things happening over the past few days...

 

 

...Miss M and I spent lots of time with lovely frends on Friday. My friend made Pimms and we sat out in the garden while the kids played in the paddling pool. I love these kind of summer afternoons. We made a cake to take along and picked a little posy of flowers from our garden too. The cake was a strawberry and almond cake called "Fantasy Cake" and the recipe can be found in Recipes From my Mother for my Daughter by Lisa Faulkner. I can highly recommend this book, it's fantastic, I have made lots of things from it all of which have been really nice. The cake was lovely with a drizzle of double cream...

...We have been at the beach again. The weather was perfect and we took a couple of Miss M's friends with us for the day. G brought the barbecue again and we had ice creams after, it was great. I just love to watch my girl at the beach, she adores pottering around, collecting treasures and paddling in the sea..

 

... I received some lovely happy mail this week. The gifts above were from my friend Hannapat of the gorgeous Cosmos & Cotton blog. Thank you so much Hannapat, I adore them...

 

 

...Miss M continues to really enjoy loom bands. She made me the sweet little charm bracelet above. I love it! I have been wearing it every day which has made my girl very happy...

 

 

...I have been a bit naughty and started a new crochet project. The colours are a bit different from my usual choice but I really like these colours together....sometimes it's good to work with colours you wouldn't usually isn't it? The yarn is Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino - it's expensive but it really is beautifully soft and so nice to use. I have almost finished sewing in the ends of the granny squares for the blanket I've been working on for ages. I worked out that there were 504 ends to sew in on the squares alone! Actually it has felt like twice that amount, I really can't make myself enjoy sewing in yarn ends. Anyway, I should have the blanket finished completely at some point this week..

 

I have to go and do some tidying now as we have more friends and their kids coming for something to eat late afternoon which we are all looking forward to.

 

Hope you have all had a great week? I will hopefully be back soon to show you my finished blanket :)

 

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