Sunny March Day

We have finally had some sunshine in the last few days, hurrah!!! So on Tuesday my little fella and i headed off for a day by the seaside.  He loves going to Southwold, we always visit the pier, and the beach of course but his favourite thing is the amusement arcade, so we spent a happy while wasting a £1 on the 2p shove machines.  It was just us and a couple of elderly gamblers, enjoying the deafening noise and flashy lights, i do like an out of season arcade its always slightly bleak but welcoming on a cold day.  After these delights we enjoyed a breezy picnic on the pier, watching the water clock and spying the Lighthouse, his second favourite thing in the town.  We spend most of the day answering the question "where is the lighthouse?", as by a strange quirk Southwold lighthouse is situated in the centre of town, not on some windy cliff.  So you can only actually see it from certain viewpoints despite its size.

Happy Valentines Day!

No flowers and chocolates in this house on the 14th of February.  Instead I made some soppy cakes for my other half , assisted by my little man his alphabet cutters and a splash too much of red food dye ( they say" Love you S", not" Love Yous" as my hubby read it).  I reached a new high receiving two cards, but one is from my son so shouldn't really count, and the other from my hubby so that is cheating too.  My Valentines surprises have ranged widely over the years, from a lava lamp to a pair of socks, but this year cupid brought me...........a vintage bread bin, in very Valentinesque colours of red and white.

It even has its original label( I don't think its been washed much), I'm going to use it for general storage.

It goes lovely with my hinged lid flour bin that he gave me for Christmas,  I think we are going to have to open a general store  as he also bought himself a set of scales not unlike those found in Arkwrights corner shop.

Job Done

Well I finally manged to finish off my proper work on Saturday (ie. the stuff that actually pays some bills).  The bulk of the work was picked up on Friday and the last tunic was completed on Saturday morning and posted off Monday.  They were fun blingy costumes to work on for Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of "Aladdin", which has its's first night on Valentines day.  The above pictures are shots of the leftover scraps, I am running out of places to donate these to, so any suggestions gratefully received.  I hate to just throw them away but can't keep them all in my ever shrinking house!  I spent a productive morning whilst my son was at pre-school finding my house again underneath the piles of thread and pins.  Nothing gets done when i am working and looking after little one all week, hubby is great and takes him out at the weekend so i can get on.  Its always lovely to have a tidy up once a big project is complete, and see the floors again!

May Wreath In February!

Ages ago i posted a photo of my "Lucy" style wreath-here is the finished article.  
In the end i made two, one for my sister-in law for Christmas, and one i kept for the Lulumama household to enjoy!  The photos are not my best but you get the idea.  It was very satisfying being able to change the position of the flowers until i liked the arrangement (Lucy advised using pearly head pins to fix your foliage and flowers), such fun!

Our Last Day of Freedom!  Two days after this my little one came down with the Chicken Pox.  Thankfully we had escaped the house for a day of fun at the.....Garden centre.  We looked at the fish and we ate some cake, Little W and his friend (the Gruffalo) enjoyed running around and reading the books like it was a library!

More snow last week meant we were confined to the village, even a short walk around the block seemed to sap the energy, i don't know how they cope in countries where it is like this for months on end, i was very relieved when i opened my curtains to see green again!

I recently had a birthday, i received some lovely gifts so thank you to everyone.  My husband very kindly "gave" me some pieces of cloth to make myself some dresses.  In truth we went to a big department store who were having a 50% sale on their Amy Butler fabrics, so after drooling over them all i settled on these two.  Two dresses for the thrifty price of £14.00 each, not bad eh?  One of them does make me look a bit like a 1940s char lady/Ma Larkin, which is hardly surprising as i took the pattern off a vintage pinny but who wants to fade into the background? We also have a fantastic cloth shop in Norwich called Anglia fashions, it has the most fantastic array of dressmaking cloths and haberdashery and very helpful staff, so i went mad and bought some coral baby needlecord to make another frock, this has gone on hold until my ballet work is complete so i will show you that one in a while....