Giving Thanks

Tonight I am saying a little prayer to thank my Guardian Angel and all the Good Spirits in the Universe.

We could smell the acrid stench of burning plastic this evening and assumed that the neighbours were burning rubbish.  But - that wasn't the case.  The Man of The House quickly discovered and dealt with the  dishwasher plug that was blackened, hot and smoldering....

We'd put the dishwasher on earlier than normal this evening, usually it would be clicked on just as we head off to bed.

Imagine if we had put it on as as normal tonight??  We do have a smoke alarm but the kitchen but we sleep at the other end of the house...we might not have heard it.  ...GULP...

Thank you my very special Guardian Angel - always looking after me and mine.

xxxx

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Hope your Guardian Angels are keeping you all safe tonight.

xxx Valula xxx

Contented

Evening all...

I'm feeling very content this evening.  A lovely friend of mine, Kasia, called for a couple of hours of coffee and company.  And, I had a really enjoyable few hours in the garden.  How could I fail to feel uplifted after such a day?

Our veggie patch is really taking shape - we've planted out broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower today but accidentally mixed up all the plants so its a bit of a hotchpotch of brassicas (horrified gasps from proper gardeners everywhere), ah never mind, it's very in keeping with everything else in Hedgehog Corner.

Secretly I am quite proud of the progress in the veggie patch because its been all my own hard work, normally Him-Indoors would do most of the heavy stuff but an old war wound is playing up so he is officially out of action.  It is taking longer but is very rewarding.  All I have to do now is work out a way to keep the family pets out of the beds.....

Oh yeah, I found my camera - yippee!  It was in my make-up bag...of course...where else would I have put it.  Unfortunately, this clearly illustrates how often I put my war-paint on these days!

So, with no further delay here is the wavy cushion cover I recently finished crocheting.  I found the pattern on Ravelry and it was a bit complicated to follow initially but I got there in the end and I'm quite pleased with it.

Incidentally, the dodgy looking blanket hanging on the back of the chair is the first thing I ever crocheted.  I made it over 7 years ago when I was pregnant as a gift for our new baby.  She loves it and sleeps with it ever night :-)

My only problem now is deciding which of the ever growing list of projects should be done first...such hardship ;-) 

This little fella was hiding out in the local charity shop, needless to say I couldn't leave him there...he cost me the princely sum of 10c!  Happy days.

TTFN,

Valula

Friday Feeling

Since finishing working I've found that I am busier than ever (not sure how I ever found the time for a full-time job) and that there are a couple of things I miss...being paid, chatting with nice people and.... having 'The Friday Feeling'.  For some reason I was abandoned by The Friday Feeling quite unceremoniously!  That said, I am very happy to report that today I have The Friday Feeling in bucket loads, I'm really quite giddy about the-fast-approaching-nothing-planned-weekend.

Wooooo-hoooooo! Bring it on!

Since I last blogged (quite sometime ago) I've been busily hooking, gardening and thrifting:  I have dug another veg bed over, nearly finished crocheting a couple of cushion cover and have thrifted a beautiful old piano.  I've quite fallen in love with this grand old dame, despite not being able to play a note.  The chap I bought her from said that she was given to his 98 year old Granny when she was a child and that she was secondhand way back then.  At a guess she is probably over 100 years old so she is right at home in our old house.  Of course, I justified this purchase as being an investment in my children's musically education :-)   

Unfortunately my camera has vanished *poof* so I can show you any pictures.  Still I'll keep beavering away and hopefully it'll reappear soon.

In my last blog I mentioned my first date with Saucy Singer, for our second date we were planning on enjoying a nice little fabric but it didn't quite go to plan.  Oh no - you see Saucy Singer is quite the little diva and occasionally she really lets the sparks fly.  Her last tantrum left us all baffled and total in the dark....she had tripped the main fuse board for the house!!  Oops.  Maybe a little smoozling and a visit to the Singer-Spa will mellow her....

Hope you have The Friday Feeling - whatever you have planned :-)

Valula