My Bag's Number 1 Fan!

Elizabeth is quite smitten!

Daisie xxx

Last Night's Tea

I was going to do a post last night but it just got too late and I got too tired.I wanted to show you all the amazing Yorkshire puddings we made to go with our tea last night, here they are just before they came out of the oven. They were very tasty indeed and I put it all down to the lumpy batter, courtesy of Elizabeth and Francesca!!


And the moment we have all been waiting for; my latest knitted master piece. Am quite pleased with the way it turned out. I managed a quick crochet lesson with my Mum yesterday afternoon while Simon and the children did exciting things with glitter! I must confess that the flowers on the bag aren't my own handy work, mine didn't look as good as Mum's so I used hers this time! Have started a crochet project though, just need to practise a bit more but it's looking good and then I'll be knocking out flowers in my sleep (or at least dreaming of what to make with them)!


Daisie xxx

Old Friend!

Have been shopping and out to lunch and then had a visit from a very old friend, Heather, we were at school together when we were 11 and we both turn 30 in a few weeks time! Blimey, that's a long time! Here she is with two of my babies, Francesca had gone for a snooze!


Am off for a lesson in crochet tomorrow while Simon and the children create some marvellous things for next Saturday!

Daisie xxx

Can You Guess What It Is Yet?!

Here is Nathaniel 'helping' me with my latest knitting project, can you guess what it is yet?!



Francesca has had a cinema day at nursery today, the children each had to bring a twenty pence coin to buy a ticket (the chairs are all numbered and they have to find the right seat) and two ten pence coins; one for popcorn at the interval and one for fruit at the end. Francesca of course needed a purse to take all her money with her so I knocked together a quick 'Ella' type purse for her yesterday afternoon but it had to be pink! She's rather pleased with it!!

Hopefully the knitting Nathaniel is doing will be finished after the weekend and you can see my lovely new creation. Am planning a crash course in crochet when I can pin Mum down to a time, quite exciting, I like acquiring new skills!

Daisie xxx

Ta-Da!!

Here it is! This is a baby handbag for a little girl made with the recycled (unravelled and reknitted) yarn that my Mum gave me on Saturday night. It's really fluffy and the plain purple yarn is really velvety to touch, it's rather lovely isn't it?! Am wondering whether I have enough of this yarn left to make a big one for me...


May be back later, am out this afternoon so need to prepare veg for tonight, yawn!

Daisie xxx

Spring!

Well, we all thought spring had sprung but we awoke this morning to flurries of snow. We were all very excited but sadly it didn't stay :-(

The sun has been shining in between snow showers and Francesca and I got a cleaning bug!! She is a domestic goddess in training, and here she is mopping her bedroom floor, what a treasure!


After our lunch yesterday we planted our seeds, Elizabeth is growing Busy Lizzies (well, what else) and Francesca is growing Lobelia and Petunias to fill our hanging baskets in the summer. We keep looking but they are taking ages (so says Francesca) to grow, keep watching there are bound to be more pics of these as time goes on...



And when I cleared a space for them on the kitchen window sill I noticed that my orange tree has some little oranges on it. They're not ripe yet so I suppose technically they are greens, not oranges but am still quite excited!!



Anyway I need to go and do some more of my knitting, it's nearly there and just needs a few more rows and sewing together so hopefully all will be revealed tomorrow.

Daisie xxx

Flowers On My Piano

Happy Mother's Day to all those special women everywhere!

There were flowers delivered to my bedside by the two most beautiful girls in the universe followed by fresh coffee and toast by my wonderful husband. I then lay in bed for an hour with my fabby new book "The Secret Mothers' Club" by Joanne Fedler. It's a must read for any neurotic mother, it's a relief to finally think 'am glad it's not just me that thinks/feels/does that'.

Here are the flowers on my piano;


I also received two beautiful cards from Elizabeth and Francesca, Nathaniel is a little small to be crafting yet but I forgave him when he smiled!!


Fabulous writing with no help; "I didn't even get my name card Mummy!"

And 'joined up' writing from my biggest baby;

I migrated from bed to bath with my book still in tow, love to read in the bath and especially as it was mother's day (or maybe I was just lucky) no one needed to poo while I was soaking. Nathaniel joined me for a while so now smells like a girl! The girls got in when we got out and then we sat on my big bed and painted our toes.

All that and it's only lunch time, we are hoping the weather will stay dry so we can go for an explore in the 'deep dark woods' this afternoon.

There is a piece of pork and some parsnips waiting to be roasted for our evening meal and I feel like the most treasured Mummy in the whole world.

Hope all other Mummy's are being spoiled too!

Daisie xxx