Easter Swap Goodies

The lovely Lynda of Hookin' with LaaLaa kindly organised an Easter Swap.  I was paired up with a very talented lady Gill The Vintage Gardener.  

This parcel arrived really early yesterday morning just as I was on my way out of the door heading to work.  I couldn't wait until I got home so I tore into it with passion and only took photos after the ripping had finished (sorry).

Look what arrived:

 Softest scrummy yarn...

 This little guy has lavender inside ain't he sweet?

 Beautiful collage of vintage bits

 Sweet handmade card

 And my most favourite of all, this little book

It's just the most wonderful thoughtful gift...

A beautiful book handwritten with beautiful colour pictures, full of ideas and inspiration for me to make myself a container garden

The pages also contained seed packets of things that were mentioned in my little personalised guide,

I have a sorry garden, to be honest it's mainly due to the fact that I have four boys at home who play in this garden and I never wanted to be a nervous wreck watching footballs clashing off my lovely plants!  That being the case I have never really allowed myself to be a gardener.  Now my boys are getting older and they are not so boisterous I think it's time to inject some colour into my bare garden.  I mentioned this and my lack of experience to Gill and she created this for me.  I kept getting it out of my handbag at work today and just flicking through it and grinning like a mad woman! 
I was really touched at the time and effort that had gone into it, I promise to take your advice and ideas on board and bring some colour to my garden this year!

I was so exicted I popped out at lunchime and bought this propagator thingy to get my seeds going.

I will show you my lovely flowers when they arrive.

Thanks again Gill I love it all and thanks Lynda for organising us all again xx
 

p.s.don't forget there is still time to enter my Tea Cup Candle Giveaway.

~ ♥ TTFN ♥ ~

Sunny Fridays, and Monkeys...

I have had a rare day off work today, last day of the kids school holidays (hooray!).

What a beautiful day it was too, the sun was shining all day and I felt like I was wasting my day sat at the kitchen table with the sewing machine.

I started making my mam a new peg bag and I needed it finished by Sunday so I had to get stuck in. My last peg bag was quite cute but this one was much more simple (hope she likes it):

Once this was done, as the machine was out I made a little sock monkey, I did the machine sewing in double quick time and then took all my bits out into the garden to finish it off, dragging the kids out with me (kicking and screaming to be parted from their beloved computers!).

Here he is all done and dusted:

I think I had better knit him a little hat and scarf, whilst catching up with my soaps tonight!

Back Soon

Kandi x