Not a crafty week

I have absolutely nothing on the crafting agenda for this week, due to having spent a wonderful weekend and start of the week with family and friends.

I have to admit to feeling a slight sense of loss for my crafty corner. It is only a very slight sense of loss though, as not only did we have lots of fun in the outdoors, but I finished the weekend with armfuls of apples from various peoples trees, a bag of onions to keep us going for some time and some magic beans for the boy to plant out next year to grow his own giant beanstalk with!

With thoughts turning to food, I've also been doing a spot of baking.

This recipe for Banana Breakfast Cookies is (photo doesnt do them justice) from Petite Kitchen. This blogger's whole remit is about simple nourishing food. The way she photographs her food makes my mouth water...that and the fact that it all looks and sounds sooooo good for you.

I've been meaning to give coconut oil a try for a while as both a food stuff and moisturiser and thought this was a good recipe to start with (as a food stuff - natch - I think it might be a bit bitty as a mousturiser!). I haven’t been disappointed with it on either score. As a moisturiser coconut oil feels and smells divine. As an ingredient in these cookies, its delicious! So far these cookies have been eaten for breakfast, second breakfast, as a lunchtime/tea time dessert and as a late night snack, so basically, any time is a good time to eat them!

Weekending

Lots of fun in the outdoors had this weekend.  Amazingly we didn't get AT ALL wet! Writing this with the sound of rain pouring down though. I think autumn might be reasonably close so my wellies and a splash suit for the little one are on order (used to be a city dweller. No real need for wellies!) and thoughts have turned to what colour winter woolies I'll be sporting this year!

After the rain...

Double rainbow!

ed. Sadly when I hear 'double rainbow' in my head now, I always hear this dude from utube. Brilliant!

Not raining but POURING!!!

I dont know if there are any other London dwellers about in blogland today who may also have experienced this, but today i got soaked! I'm not exaggerating when I say that I was literally soaked to the skin - dripping in fact! I've not seen rain like that since living in the tropics.

Here was the picture that greeted me from our flat when I finally got home. Would you believe this is completely unedited. It literally was that dark and threatening out there.

In other news my poor sewing machine is being held hostage! Booooo!!! I was soooo looking forward to having it back!

I went over to pick it up this afternoon with wheelie bag in tow (the argument against having a car in London "because you can just get public transport everywhere and its just so convenient" doesn’t ring quite true on occasions like this) only to find the shop locked up and no-one home.

I was fuming! Not only had I left work 2 1/2 hours early under disapproving looks from my boss to get there, and travelled 45 minutes on the number 8 bus (‘fun’ at even the best of times), but I had also rung ahead yesterday and today to double check they’d be there and open - and then they wern't!!!!!!! The cheek!

THEN it poured!


...and poured....


...and poured some more....

I obviously have some bad Karma hanging over me today or something. Maybe its the assignment spirit sent to tell me that I shouldnt be lusting after my sewing machine or spending time in blogland but should be focussing on my assignment due in tomorrow.

Before I go appease the pesky assignment spirit, I'll say a quick thank you to all the lovely people for the fab feedback and comments yesterday. The orange dress is obviously a hit. Looks like I'll have to make cutting it up count!

Easter in the Countryside

Very little crafting going on this week as the eating of holiday chocolate and spring walks in the country with my family have taken over.

We had lunch out a beautiful country pub in a beautiful old village...

had walks through fields ...

at country houses ...

along canals...

and through bluebell woods ...

Gorgeous!!! A perfect antidote for the work weary. I also giggled more this weekend than I have for about a month (and thats saying something as my husband makes me giggle daily!). Time with family is definately good for the soul!

Photos aren’t up to much this week as they were taken on my phone... still not sure why they look like they have been taken behind a film of Vasaline though!

Hope you had a good Easter too. x