A day in the sunshine.

Wasn't yesterday wonderful! The first proper day of spring. I wandered about without my coat on and even had a picnic. It was brilliant!

My dad and i went up to Greenwich to visit my sister, and we couldn't have had a better day for it. We decided to have our lunch in the park and then walked up to the Observatory.

 I spotted this chap when we went and had a mooch about the shops. Gotta love a nutcracker!

We then went into the best junk shop i have even been in. Room after room of all sorts of wonderful things. I spotted these 1980s milk bottles and couldn't resist. I'm going to put flowers in them.

What have you been up to in the sunshine?

My new favorite thing.

On Sunday i went and had a roast dinner with the family, it was a truly lovely afternoon.

At some point during the afternoon was talking to my little sister and mentioned that i have always wanted a typewriter.  And so she she gave me this little beauty!

I love him and i will now be able to type out labels for all the bits and bobs that i make. Hooray!

Banana and blueberry loaves.

Good morning! Are you well this Monday morning? I do hope so.

The other day my boiler broke. Right in the middle of a cold snap. Darn.

I was very chilly waiting for the man to come and fix it so to keep warm i turned on the oven. And then i decided i might as well make use of it (silly not to) so i whipped up some banana bread. And it was very tasty!

Any excuse to give Betty a work out!

I was given these very cute loaf cases for Christmas. I think they look fab, all spotty and flowery.

I promise i didn't eat them all myself........but i did eat quite a few!

For my Valentine.

It was also Valentine's Day last week. I decided to make something for my boyfriend, something i had been thinking about trying for a while.

We are both very into scrabble. We play a lot. So i wanted to make something with a scrabble theme and a valentine theme.

And this is what i came up with!

I bought a vintage scrabble board and some vintage tiles. I then set about making words that were important to us; places we'd been, things we'd done and some soppy bits and bobs.

I also bought a very special gold tile to use where our names joined. I then attached them all to the board and had it framed.

I am so pleased with it and my boyfriend loved it! It now hangs pride of place in the living room. Hooray!

Pancakes, pancakes, pancakes!

Now i realise that i am a wee bit late (ok, ok nearly a week late) but i just wanted to mention the fact that it was pancake day last week!

A perfect excuse to eat lots of naughty things like golden syrup, chocolate spread and lemon and sugar (except in my house it was lime and sugar as we had no lemon, whoops).

Did you have pancakes? What did you have in them?

Craft it Forward 2013.

Now then, you might remember that i tried to take part in Craft It Forward 2012. This did not happen in the end as i never received anything and completely forgot all about it. Which was a shame.

However, i was itching to take part in this years Crafty web of giving so i quickly said a big 'yes please' to the first one i came across!

The idea is simple. You find someone who is taking part and if you are one of the first five people to comment on their post you will receive a little hand made gift from them. You must then post about it and the first five people to comment on your post with get a little handmade thing from you. They must then blog/facebook/tweet about it and the first five people to comment on their post will receive something from them and so on and so forth.

So here is mine. This is what i received in the post the other day from a lovely lady called Suki who write a blog called The Owl club here.

Wonderful little handmade badges. I will put them on one of my coats i think. So would you like to take part in this? Hmm?

If so please post a comment below. It's that simple. If you are one of the first five you will then receive something lovely and handmade by me. All you have to do them is post about it and the cycle will continue! Hooray!

A few things i've been working on.

I have not been productive recently. This is bad.

I promised myself that whilst on holiday i would get lots of things made and be very good and creative. But i have mainly been sleeping and drinking chai. Naughty!

I did manage to get a few bits done. And i'm really pleased with them, so that's good. But i need to get a wiggle on and get lots more things finished. Repeat: i will be good, i will make new things...

What do you think? Do you like them? I am hoping to get lots of new and lovely things listed in my Etsy shop soon. Watch this space.....