Where's mine?

I'm not sure what happened or why but I seem to have missed out on the creative gene that other female members of the family have.

 These are a couple of flowerpot people youngest sis made. She's done a few. She also paints stones and leaves them around the place for kids to find.

This is a quilt middle sis is in the throes of making - her daughter also makes them. In fact I think she got her mother started on it although her Mum has always had a creative bent.

And this is a blouse my eldest daughter has just finished. The black and white to the right is a dress she made herself. She's a lovely seamstress and made a wedding dress for one of her friends when she was barely out of her teens.

Both daughters had lovely gardens last summer, I haven't even inherited my grandmother's green thumb!

So what I want to know is who's got my share of those creative juices? Cos I haven't 😉

Until next time,

 Diana 

Bits and pieces

I have been doing something this week 

that I haven't done for about 40 years.

I've been sewing!

I had to borrow eldest daughters' sewing machine, 

mine is sitting rusty in the garage.

It was so nice to use , nice and smooth to sew with.

Unlike mine that used to sound a bit 

like a freight train coming up the passage.

I'm almost tempted to start sewing again.

What was I making?

Squab covers for the caravan.

By the time I got to the last one 

I had it down to a fine art.

Well almost. No they're not perfect

 but I'm quite pleased with my effort.

I've also had my 'hair done today. 

It is very straight and fine and hard to do anything with.

So I decided to get a colour put in it instead.

PINK!

I loved it when Helen Mirren went pink, 

but I wasn't game enough to have it done all over.

So we decided on a "smudge" in the front.

It took two or three goes to get the colour right

 but we think we've got it nailed now.

Tomorrow we are heading up to the caravan 

for a week or so - unless the weather packs up.

Our summer hasn't been terrific, 

but I am not complaining when I see 

what is happening in other parts of the world,

what with the flooding in England, the snow in 

America and the bush fires in Aussie.

So what's a little wind.

We have been extremely lucky we have just had wind,

 even if it has been pretty non stop for months.

So we will head off in the morning, 

both our daughters will drop in

 and have turns at feeding Claude over the week

 and all going well my GKB will have enough 

fine weather to catch a fish or two.

I just enjoy getting away for a while.

P.S. Claude has just discovered beds, couches and easy chairs after 14 years, and he rather likes them. Woe betide if I should lift my backside off  my seat, apparently they're more comfortable if someone has been kind enough to warm them for you.

So on that note I will leave you

and see you when I get back.

Diana