Cozy all wrapped up...

Lots of Granny Goodness...
In this multi-coloured Grandma Chevron Blanket...
It was a lovely afternoon,
Just me, the self timer and lots of props...

Grandma Chevron Blanket

made by my Mum...
It will be in my etsy shop soon and hopefully sold to a lovely dear...
Vintage finds: Vase and clogs...

Mr Vintage looking his best today...
Lots of gardening...
and a bit of thrifty goodness...
Vintage Find: Wrought iron set...





We have been adding lots of fences with pretty cottage pickets to
River Cottage...
It is starting to look lovely...

I am currently crocheting some flower motifs and trying to join them together to make
a cardigan,wrap...
I had to put it down today thou...
It was too nice outside...

I hope it is nice weather at your house too...

Just in time for spring...

Throwing caution to the wind...As one does...

The weather has finally cleared up...

and Spring is just 

gorgeous!!!

Lots of lovely green grass
and lots of flowers coming out..

Time to shake out the cobwebs...

and get motivated..

and there is nothing nicer than some "Lollie Pop" colours
in a Granny Chevron Blanket to do it...

This one is available in my etsy shop...

Over the holiday break I had this sweet idea
that I needed to have a change...
As one does...
and threw all caution to the wind
and did the
unthinkable...

Yes I got an 80's Perm!!!

I hear you all shriek in horror...
But you see I didn't have Internet access at the time...
I didn't have my dear friends to look at me in disgust...
No... I had a cold stark apartment, days of rain, and 3 males all telling me
"that would be lovely"...(of course they just said this to shut me up)...

Now I could just tell you I had a lovely breezy Body Wave...
The one that the lovely models in magazines have...
You know the ones...
with the fan blowing softly in their face making them look
bubbly and bouncy...

But in all reality...It isn't!!!
It is what it is...
An 80's frizz Perm...

The sort that is dry and harsh...
The sort that you need to add a huge blob of mouse into it to get any curl definition...
The sort that when you wake up in the morning you scare small dogs and children...
The sort that you really want to tie up and wrap with several bandanna's and hope for the best...

Now if I was at home I would have searched through and found pictures of myself
back in the 80's
and
"snapped" myself back to reality...

But that didn't happen...
Oh well...
Such is life...

Just as well it will grow out or drop out...

Just lucky my husband DID hear me when I said
"Wouldn't it be lovely if I had dreadlocks again"
his reply was differently not
"That would be lovely dear"...

Now I must track down those pics...
Just in case
I do need a reality check...

Starting out small...

I feel like everything is in slow motion since begin back from holidays...

We brought the rain back with us...

So the washing is taking forever to catch up on...

The house still is not back to anything I would call remotely tidy...

and the crochet is taking sometime to come together...

So I started with something small...

Little "Dilly Bags" 

to hang around the neck...
great for keys, phones or the old bit of change to go to the shop with...

I found the pattern for these in the Japanese crochet book
blogged about HERE...
I added some strips of linen....A cute little button...
and used soft cotton-acrylic blend...
They have a great spring feel to them...

I have also re-opened the shop...
so if you are after one of my cushion patterns please pop over...

I will be working on some more things this week so hopefully my week will end in
fast motion...

Thanks heaps for the lovely comments
I am glad to be back too...

Home Again Home Again

So glad to be back...

I did miss you all...

and want to say sorry about not letting everyone know beforehand...

Going away and posting that there would be no one

at River Cottage seemed a tad "silly"...

I don't think that needed to be advertize...if you know what I mean...

So where did I go?

well this was one spot...

Vintage Espresso
at Mermaid Beach...Queensland...

It was featured in the Spaces mook by Frankie...
It was just as lovely as the pictures in the book...

and lots of "touristy" spots in Queenland...

Beaches, Movie world, shops, and lots of markets...

It has been 10 years since we went on a family holiday
so this was pretty special for all of us...

But I did miss my crocheting and I did miss not having internet...
So this week I will be spending lots of time catching up
on whats been happening...
and hopefully some time coming up with some new things...

Oh and I want to set sometime aside for de-cluttering...
I did think about this while I was away...
I really, really need to de-clutter...

It's funny of what you think about when you are away from home...

Holidays are always lots of fun...
But they do make you realize that "home is home"...and I missed it...