Bloggy Visit

This past weekend,

I had the joy of a bloggy friend to visit!

Such fun!

Kate and her son came to stay

and we had a great time.

The first day I subjected her to a Christmas market I was doing,

but she certainly made the day fly by!

It was the first time I've ever done a market

and had a decent coffee!!! - Thanks Kate.

 

The second day we managed a bit of sewing!

We decided we wanted to make a block

which could be made into a small Christmas wallhanging

and would remind us of the visit.

(The block pattern is Bonnie's Happy Scrappy Houses.)

 As Kate said...

Can you guess who's is who's? :)

If you know me,

you'll know it's the top one...

although we should probably have swapped

and made a block for each other. Next time!

 

Of course mine is not quilted (yet)

and shan't be for a while.

So Behind...

My blog is stuck in traffic!

My mind is full of thoughts...

mainly concerned thoughts for a sick friend,

thoughts for a friend with a troubled marriage,

happy thoughts about my children...

So I am behind on many things.

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The summer comes and goes here

so we try and make the most of

any sun we can get...

Last week the children had a great day out

at a water park

and the handy thing about crutches

is that Mummy gets a seat

to sit and watch the children play! :)

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We had a lovely bloggy/quilty visitor

and her family to stay

which was a lot of fun.

The men got on like a house on fire,

the teenage visitors were fabulous with baby

and the boys played well together.

Here Kate and I are sewing

(Kate is doing Cross-stitch and I am EPP-ing)
at one of our picnics where the sun eluded us...

Both of us, were wrapped up under quilts,

while the men and boys climbed the Fells.

I managed to finish another rose-star...

And I have African blocks to show

(in another post!)

from Kate's visit.

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5 houseguests means a lot of shoes :)

(I have a shoe ban upstairs on the cream carpets

so the bottom of the stairs was a good place

to pile them up LOL)

Not that many considering there

were 9 shoe wearers in the house ;o)

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Now that things are back to normal here

we can spend time being silly again...