FEELING A LITTLE BLUE

Cutting and stitching lovely linen with shades of blue. 

This being only a small glimpse of the bigger plan, and yes for once there is a bigger plan, there will be much more to come.

But for now this is it.

The repetitive hand stitch is strangely calming.

Be happy I am actually stitching something that isn't work related or a project thats been hanging about for ever and has lost its glamour.

I am!

Love Nora xxx

A NICE BIT OF SKIRT PART THE SECOND.

For those of you who have been kind enough to stick with me through these lean blogging times you may remember this post from earlier in the year.
Any hoo there was some fabric left over and a pile of hand appliqued doilies needing a new home.


After a lot of snip snip snipping I had a pleasingly large pile of sunshine yellow motifs.



Then there was lots of stitching in various shades of yellow.
Then we moved house and the skirt remained unphotographed but not unloved. 
This morning it was a. not raining and b. almost sunny.
So click click click and here it is another new skirt.





And the little photographer's assistant lurking in the background giving handy advice and direction.



Have a good week y'all!
Love Nora xxx

WASPISH WAYS

Whilst hopping from rafter to rafter torch in hand trying to investigate the cause if a suspicious damp patch on the bedroom ceiling the Hippy made a discovery.
At some point in the past it would appear we have had visitors in the loft.
There were several old wasps nests up there.
I love the textures and colours in them, the paper like structure is fascinating and so delicate.



This tiny one went off to the school nature table with the bombshell this morning.
I am starting to wonder if this place will ever again have anything of a crafty nature on it.
I am hoping the long drought will be over soon.
Love Nora xxx

LETS JUST CAKE A MESS.

OR THE SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN ROLO.

Today the boys had some of their new friends over to play.
It was an important play date. 
It is the first one we have had here.
They are thankfully, (big breath, fingers and toes crossed) starting to settle in to their new school.
So cake was needed.









I particularly like the leaning tower of chocolate one.
Though with this much sugar in their systems I doubt if any of them will sleep much before a week next Thursday.
Love Nora xxxx

ALL CLOGGED UP.

 

My Mother has brought treasure to my new house.

You may recognise the little red clogs, they are my little icon on the blog and occasionally over on Face book too.

I have probably told you the story of them before. 

But I love a bit of repetition.

When I was a very small girl the clog maker still had a workshop in the village my Great Aunts and Uncle lived in up in Lancashire.

Every summer when we went to visit Mum would order another pair of little red clogs for us.

We would then spend the next 6 months or so clattering around in them.

The smallest pair of them have travelled with me all over the place from home to home for many many years.

Now all the pairs are reunited.

The bombshell managed to cram his feet in to the largest pair and spent a happy hour clattering all round the garden.

I now just need to find a good way to display them.

At least now I have the space to do it!

Love Nora xxx

HELLO!

I'm back.









Did you miss me?
I missed you.
I've been living is a strange old place, full of stress and boxes.
But slowly slowly the boxes are disappearing and the stress is ebbing away.
The boys are settling in to their new school.
I don't think they have forgiven us for uprooting them yet.
We have good days, we have bad days, but the good days are really good, full of sun, sea and exploring, the bad days I don't like to think about.
Love Nora xxx

NORMAL SERVICE WILL RESUME SOON.

Just popping by to say "Hello" and sorry for the irratic blogging.

I'm afraid moving to the seaside really does interfere with the day to day running of well every thing really.

Who knew that it would take nearly 4 weeks to get broadband installed?

Who knew how difficult it is to have all you essential services connected with out broadband?

It took me 5 minutes of searching to find a phone number on the T.V licence, and let me not even start to talk about how difficult it was to find a number to ring B.T broadband, thats British Telecomunications folks, yes telecomunications, the people who bring you er, phone lines.

In the end the Hippy took pity on me and went out and bought me a dongle.

He said, don't waste it, just use it for emails and stuff, it will be really expensive to keep topping it up.

I said "Yes of course you are right darling"

Then he took the boys away for the weekend leaving me A)feeling sad I wasn't with them, B) alone with a slightly psycotic cat and C) with about 3 weeks worth of work to do in 2 days. He also left me alone and in charge of my own dongle. So here I am, uploading pictures and planning on watching a lot of things on the iplayer later.

Shhh he will never know.

In the meantime here are some pictures to keep us all amused.

Its been a hectic couple of weeks.

With leaving partys the thought of which still make me cry

And a landmark double figures birthday the thought of which also makes me cry.

How can it possibly be 10 years since every aspect of our lives changes compleatly, totally and utterly?

So to stop me being teary eyed and coming over all unnessacary here are some Easter egg hunt pictures taken in our new enormous garden.

Happy belated Easter folks.

Fingers crossed I will be back more regularly soon and that my wanton abouse of the dongle priviladges goes undetected!

Love Nora. xxx