Hello everyone, have just got back from seeing my wonderful Mum in Spain who was 70 on Monday. Here she is the day before with her very tall and a bit windswept grandson, my lovely Jake .We had a day out with a boat trip to an island just off the coast where I indulged with lots of pretty pics – some which I shall reveal in the April Photo Scavenger Hunt post in a couple of weeks.
She had a lovely birthday and appreciated her presents which were a new camera, wool and these wristwarmers which you may remember from a while ago. I also introduced her to the delights of Ravelry so that she can get some lovely patterns to use up all the wool!
I spent a lot of the week knitting and reading my fab Benni Harper quilt mystery books – have finished four this week and am loving them. I am also making good progress on the pink Sublime baby cardi though the eyelets are still proving to be a challenge – have had to abandon the stitch markers as I was doing something peculiar with them which meant I was making holes!
Had great fun with my camera again taking some more pics of the local flora and fauna – look at these wonderful cactus flowers.
We are off for the weekend to do our first re-enactment show of the year at Bolsover castle so I am really looking forward to that, the weather forecast is very good for the weekend and I am really, really looking forward to camping, the first of many this year. I have had four barbeques this week (3 in Spain and 1 here) so am definitely in Summer mood now!
I hope that you have a very lovely weekend and a very Happy Easter to you all – just remember that chocolate is definitely one of your five a day as it is a bean which is of course a vegetable! Thanks for visiting.
Stitches of Time 
Sounds like you had a wonderful time. Happy Belated Birthday to your cute Mum!
It’s hard to believe it’s almost time for the scavenger hunt again — I better get with it! Eat more beans!!!
Your Mum is beautiful isn’t she? And she is a great hand model, beautiful hands. Jake looks like a giant standing next to her! Bet the girls all love his hair! Beautiful wrist warmers by-the-way, the colour is one I love. Love Vanessa xxx
Hello Vanessa
Thanks so much for visiting – yes Jake does get a lot of nice comments on his hair and the girls do love it. My Mum is wonderful – she is more like my friend than my Mum and we have great fun together.
Alison x
That looks like enormous fun, so much work and detail in all of those costumes. Thank you for recently visiting my blog and your kind comment, I am very glad that it will never be my first time craft fair again! I do it all again in a couple of weeks!
Hello Rebecca It is very good fun and I do love making the costume. We have been doing it about 9 years now so we have quite a wardrobe of outfits.Good luck with the next craft fair. Thanks Alison