Lol!

Me: I think I'm going to enter the London 2012 Olympics
Anna: What the disabled ones? You still wouldn't win!

My lovely sister making me laugh as usual!

In another news I passed everything! Woop!

Today's the day

I'm waiting for my results. I get them at 11.30am. I feel like a husband pacing in the waiting room whilst his wife gives birth. Though my results are not quite as important are exciting as a new baby. So i'm just going to keep waiting because there's not much else I can do.

Summer so Far

So far I've had a whole month of my four month summer holiday. It really has flown. So far this summer I've
-been on 4 trains
-enjoyed the sunshine
-not been surprised by the rain
-read 5 books
-spent time with friends
-tried to not to buy anymore pretty dresses
-sewed a dress

And I still have to look forward to
-a week in Scotland (including a 12 hour train journey each way)
-a week in Paris
-3 weeks of UBM (Whitby and Looe)
-Forum
-Lots more reading
-Sewing
-Postcard writing
- and so much more!

I've also set myself the challenge of reading War and Peace. So much to do and I look forward to every minute of it!

So Lovely

Painting by day, Sewing by night

Two days of painting my grandma's lounge. The best part was wearing my mum's old 80's t-shirt with shoulder pads!

I like how the denim looks splashed with paint. I am not a tidy decorator!

Raspberry pink thread. Good enough to eat.

My machine threaded with lilac and green.

But what is it that I'm a sewing?

Well that's a secret for now!

Domesticity

Hanging out washing in the sunshine.
Planning meals.
Supermarket shopping.
Making Jelly.

Pleasure in the simple.
Pleasure in the everyday.

Going to Bristol!

I'm going to Bristol today! I'm going to visit one of my best friends from Uni! I can't wait. Back soon.

Prettyness

Coffee tastes so much better when drunk from my pretty Cath Kidston mug. It tastes good out of doors and under the sun too.

Home

Home for the summer. And nothing says home like my cat Tigger!

Remembering the Sun

Not long ago the sun shone.

We basked in it.

We played in it.

We visited places in it.

We saw beauty in it

We adventured in it.

We took lots of pictures in it.

We enjoyed it while it lasted. We knew it wouldn't last long.

Snatches of Kedleston

Such a beautiful building and gardens, on a very typical English rainy June day. I can only imagine the house filled with ladies in beautiful dresses.

On another note I've been keeping this blog for a year today! So much has happened.