New loves / Old loves

Good afternoon

I thought I'd best sit down to blog - there's a quiet little while between the boys coming home from school and getting dinner prepared - the choices were blog or hoover - blogging won!  I'd planned to post tonight but realised I need to call my Mum and those calls are never short!

Time to catch up on the last week and the photos I've taken before the Bank Holiday weekend and probably more photos come along!

Last weekend 3 of the VV household braved the rain and headed out to a free event we'd seen advertised by the side of the road. Apache Approach - a chance to get close up to one of these wonderful helicopters that we often see & hear in the Suffolk skies. It was being held at Framlingham College (a nearby private school);

From top left - Framlingham Castle & Mere, Old Love (MrVV & I), Apache appears,

Getting closer, whipping up the leaves with the force, On the ground.

Taking off, Goodbye & Like Father Like Son.

We had a chance to get close and talk to the flight crew - I think Little Son would quite have liked a flight in one of these!!  When it arrived we were warned to take off hats / take down brollies etc - most listened! The same warning was repeated when it took off and we were told the force was stronger. Some of the crowd didn't listen and there were brollies / hats blown away!!

This past week in Suffolk has been a right mixed one - sunshine & showers. When we had a sunny afternoon I got out into the summerhouse and gave it a good spring clean. As a reward for my hard work I took my cup of tea out there and sat quietly watching the birds on the feeders.

A rainy day, a sunny tea-break, an abandoned & underused watering can.

Bluebells, watching for birds, forget-me-nots.

Alpine strawberry plants starting to flowers, new leaves on the silver birch (shame the pollen is making me sneeze!!), daisies enjoying the sunshine.

My new love in case you haven't worked out is Instagram. Whilst the Android version isn't quite as snazzy as the I-phone version, its enough to get me hooked! If you are on there let me know - am always looking for new people to follow. I am VickiMowe on there - trying to limit myself to just one or two pics a day as I could easily get sucked in totally!!

I came home from another busy morning in the charity shop to find the postman has brought me some lovely lunchtime reading;

 My WI magazine with actually surprisingly lots of interesting stuff in it - loving anything Jubilee at the moment and the new CK magazine/catalogue. Now I did fall out of love with MsKidston & Co at the beginning of the year but this current mag has some lovely things in there - I won't be buying but can happily drool. Had to chuckle there's one dress in there for nearly £80 - we have an almost identical one in the CS for about a fiver!! I tried it on but the colour didn't suit me :(

Right - I shall bid you all goodbye, wish you all a good bank holiday weekend and shall see you soon.

Ours plans - Wrap up and get on with it - hopefully out & about May Fairing, Car booting and seaside visiting - oh a little craft selling on Saturday too :)

xxx Vicki xxx

Home working - attempt 2

Good evening

Like most bloggers who posted yesterday, I've fallen foul to the problems that blogger has had in the past 24 hours - seems everyone who posted yesterday has lost their posts. Blogger has reset itself to a point in time when it was working - losing my post I wrote yesterday afternoon - oh joy.

Anyhow - I shall attempt to recreate my post - just because I like to keep my blog as a diary for myself as well as sharing things with you, my lovely readers, commenter's and followers.

Now what did I say??? Something along the lines of;

As I may have mentioned before I am very lucky to have MrVV work from home - his office is the little study at the bottom of the stairs and his warehouse is a few miles away - though at some points our garage seems to double as a warehouse too. At least we'll never be short of something to sit on!!   Well this week, I've joined him working from home too - some boring and some more interesting.

As the weather has been lovely - I decamped to the summerhouse;

 

As well as cutting pattern pieces out for more raggies, I've also been kind and done a mountain of filing for MrVV;

A lovely sunny spot to work - even the view is quite pleasant - ignore the laundry but note the blue skies and yellowing grass;

I needed to get some raggies made - some for the fair, more for the shop and 4 for an order I received when I was in the Post Office the other day! A lady I sort of know, stopped me and once she confirmed I was the right sister, she asked me to make her 3 dolls to take to the US later this year. She then asked if I I could make her a boy version too as there were 4 children in the family she's visiting. Of course I said yes - a boy doll is something I've thought about for a while - I just needed that kick to come up with something. Here he is - he's based on my youngest son and sons of several friends - meet RaggieWill;

 

Apart from that stroke of luck, I  had another on Tuesday :). Each week I go to visit my Grandma, to help her with her housework, have a coffee and of course put the world to rights. She's very interested in my crafting and I often take her examples of what I've been working on and photos of any stalls that I do. She was impressed with the teacup pincushions. This week when I arrived she took me over to a cupboard and told me I could take whatever was inside. Oh how lucky - it was full of china - mostly covered in pink flowers - my favourite sort. My late Grandad was a collector and he owned so many tea sets. These got used each summer when they hosted garden parties mainly in aid of the local WI. Here's what there was;

14 teacups and saucers

Loads of spare saucers and some tea plates - enough to make some cake stand both 2 and 3 tier :)

I can't remember exactly what I wrote after this but it probably is no longer relevant - thanks blogger. Whats the betting that the original post appears at some point too! Oh well.

Just one more picture for today - the print that hangs on the back wall of the summerhouse - kind of sums up the whole working from home business;

Off to make some more dollies - the plan is to have 5 made by Monday, then another 5 by next weekend!

See you soon 

xxx Vicki xxx