Calpe
We had a little trip out yesterday down to our nearest coastal town, Calpe looking for supplies. This town is a magnet for all the holiday makers and in the height of the summer it is impossible to...
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As we went coastal on Friday, Sunday we decided to go up into the mountains, rugged, majestic, craggy and somehow different every time we go up there, changing moods of the weather effecting the...
View ArticleWedding planner
I have been busy working on a very special project - A Wedding Planner for my beautiful DD and her boyfriend. I wanted to help them to enjoy the lead up to the special event by collecting various...
View ArticleGoodies
How can a whole week have whizzed by since my last post? A few months ago I took out a subscription to Homespun and I have been very pleased with the magazine, I thought I was getting withdrawal...
View ArticleHello again
I'm back, well sort of! I've been away on a long journey, not one, I have to say that was planned or that I enjoyed, but one that has taken us as family into uncharted, sometimes terrifying waters,...
View ArticleLife's little pleasures
We are experiencing higher than normal temperatures here for June at the moment (39c+) and on Friday DD and I had to return to the hospital to see her consultant. It was sooo hot, but I didn't care...
View ArticleFinishes
I enjoyed my goats cheese salad with honey dressing the other day at the beach, so as not to leave DH out I made my own version, just adding a few extra ingredients and tomatoes. Not a thing was left...
View ArticleA little applique
Back in January I had rather a serious fall, well actually I was completely knocked off my feet and bowled over. By whom you may well ask? it was one of our cats, yup Lucy came speeding around the...
View ArticleThe Unicorn
I've been playing with Romeo! no I don't mean a gorgous Italian, I mean the vanishing fabric. I have played a little with this before but not with metallic threads. Years ago I purchased a sampler...
View ArticleBaltimore
This year all of our Agarves have matured and are flowering, quite spectacular as they tower above everything else. Unfortunately we have had high winds enough to lift roof tiles off and these...
View ArticleCreativity
I came across this little cross stitch kit lurking in the cupboard with a couple of others and decided it was just right to do, simple and easy without too much thinking. Haven't thought what to make...
View ArticleTuesdays Treasures
Thought I would join in today's Tuesdays treasures hosted over at Melody's, this sweet little tea set was given to me by my great Aunt Doris. My grandparents would take me to see her in Forest Hill...
View ArticleHopping
I was doing a little blog hopping, as you do, and found this little gem, it is very simple but extremely useful. Its a car rubbish holder, we always seem to have bits n bobs in the car from car park...
View ArticleGrinding halt
Nice weekend with DD and A here just relaxing, A even cooked us all a couple of meals which was really nice to relinquish the kitchen duties and meant I could go and play. DD received a Wii for her...
View ArticleA good day
Yesterday I had another appointment with the osteopath, still feels like the torture chamber but getting better. DD very kindly offered to take me as DH was off to Alicante airport to collect DS yeah!...
View ArticleFiestas
What a long weekend, it was our hamlet's fiesta. We are quite exhausted. It started on Friday evening after the Festeros had transformed the plaza with bunting, a bar, tables and chairs etc, everyone...
View ArticleFun and frogs
It's all gone quiet as DS has now returned to the UK, it was so good to see him and join in all the things as a family we wanted to do at Easter but were unable as DD was in ICU. It was his first...
View ArticleRain
Yesterday the sky was very dark and we had some funny stuff falling from it, firstly huge great blobs then the heavens opened and it became a deluge, we had 25mm in 30 minutes. We haven't seen any...
View ArticleFrogz
I had finished all the components for the frog and they all just needed to be stitched together and stuffed. After a remake of the head pieces, as I had stitched them wrongly and the yarn did not like...
View ArticleLittle minis
This is our yukka at the beginning of the drive way with the mountain as the back drop, it didn't flower last year so its nice to see it in bloom againI have joined Lynette Anderson's project club,...
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