New book and a poorly pet

Meet Sheba. This photo was taken when she was feeling happy. At the moment she's feeling a little sorry for herself as she's just come back from the vets after an overnight stay. She'd managed to dislocate her knee and torn her ligaments, so she had to have an operation and now sports a natty blue dressing. We think she did it on our laminate floor as she finds it very slippery to walk on, so we've now got some rugs down to avoid it happening again.
She was very happy to be back home, and is now having a nap.


Onto the new book, Simple Crochet by Erika Knight. It was kindly sent to me by Ruthanne/Kittythimble after I'd posted a comment on her blog about it. She'd bought a few copies from The Book People when they were selling it for just £1, and I'd missed the offer. It's an inspiring book with some lovely projects in it and the *how to crochet* photography is nice and clear. Ruth's a lovely lady, so pop on over and say hi. Thank you Ruth, the book's great!

Oh yes, the postman also brought me some bamboo crochet hooks that I got from ebay, so I now have a range of sizes to play with! Now I've got my eye on some Debbie Bliss yarn. I can see I'll end up with a yarn stash to go along with my fabric stash!

First Al Fresco Meal of the Year

Asparagus and wild mushroom quiche (sausage rolls for J), new potatoes with butter and garlic chives and salad.

Yay, summer's coming!

Mothers Day

I know, I'm a tad late in talking about mothers day, but that's because I wasn't online much last week as my daughter had come to visit. She lives in Essex with my eldest son, and we don't get to see each other very often, so it was lovely to have her here for the week.

As it was mothers day when she came, she arrived bearing gifts....

Some fun things for the kitchen.



These gloves come complete with ring!



A garden organiser



And a sweet little snow globe



While she was here, we baked cakes.





These are vanilla cupcakes and we also made some blueberry muffins. We had so much icing left after decorating the cupcakes, that K decided to decorate the muffins too.

We also visited the Museum of Welsh Life. We had gone there last year and had a lovely day out, but by the time we got to the little shop it had closed, so she wanted to go there again to look in the shop!
While we were there, she also wanted to take some pictures.

Hubby and I.



Meandering stream with a willow.



Statues.



A gorgeous tree. It had one branch that had grown around each side of another branch.



I love the mossy rocks in this picture.


So, we had a lovely week together and that's why I was quiet.