"Where are the friends?"

Today I had the great pleasure of meeting Anne (a fellow blogger and friend) and her lovely family. They stopped in on their way home and it was just so wonderful to put a 'face to a name' and to get on as well as we do 'online'.

We had a lovely visit, but becasue DS1 had missed their arrival because he'd been at nursery and had been a bit confused at their departure he came up the stairs later and said "where are the friends?" So although he hadn't been that social, I think he had enjoyed the visitors as much as I did!

DS2 was a lot more social...



Here we are braving a few raindrops for a photo op with my very generous gift from Anne


I was so delighted with this beautiful quilt.


I had seen Anne making it on her blog and just loved it. I joked that I hoped it was for me, and it was!!! I have been stroking it and you know when people say it looks better in real life, well it does. Much, much better! The colours work so well together and I love all the different fabrics and the beautful applique. I pinned it to our curtains for the photo and liked it hanging up so much that it's still up in the lounge at the moment and I'm enjoying it immensely. Thank you so much Anne!


I made Anne this very little sewing caddy gift seen in a past issue of Popular Patchwork magazine.
The front...

And inside

(the reflection is off a tiny chocolate bar)


Although today (and most of the weekend) has been rainy, Friday was glorious so we went to Underley farm in Kirkby Lonsdale to "pick your own" strawberries...


DH does the picking...


DS1 does the quality control (with friend)


And the children enjoy the swings and play area...


I had hoped to bake Anne a pie, but settled for chocolate brownies and fruit cake as the strawberries and most of the gooseberries managed to mysteriously disappear :-)