I'm Back!

Hi everyone!

It's great to be back home again, after a brill 10 days travelling through Ireland, Wales, England and back again!

Much fun was had by all, and it was so lovely meeting up with family and friends.

The main reason for going to England, was for a family wedding.

And one of the highlights for me was meeting up with some of my bloggy friends, at Susan's house.

Photo courtesy of LJ, more of which you can find here.

Susan and her hubby were the perfect hosts, spoiling us all with a fantastic barbeque.  And they even managed to make the sun shine!





L-R: Laura Jane, Jennie, Terri, Me, Trudi, Nicky

The kids having lots of Fimo Fun!

All in a day's work!

LJ needing the patience of Job to teach left-handed Terri how to crochet!

Susan's AMAZING homemade Ben & Jerry's ice-cream!!

Thank you my special friend for such a wonderful day!

I managed to get around a few fabric shops on my travels, so there will be some fabric pics to show you another day!

Hope you are enjoying the summer, which I'm told has just arrived in England (they must have been waiting for us to leave!).

Getting Ready

We will be staying and visiting several families while in England next week, so I wanted to bring a little something homemade to say 'thank you for having us!'

I hope these will do the trick:

Big Bro tells me his newly painted hallway is grey!  Let's hope this goes ok!

For another family we will be visiting - no clue what colour their hallway is, so I've taken a risk!

Unfortunately, there are more people we are visiting than time left to make gifts, so the shop bought ones will have to do. 

I don't know if it's just a Northern Irish thing, but we seldom visit empty handed!

I got a few more things ticked off the 'Things to do before you go on holiday' list, but it keeps growing with more stuff I keep remembering I need to do!

Tomorrow it's the hairdressers, the bank, a visitor to the house, and then out to a friends house.  That leaves Wednesday to wash, iron, pack & clean the house and chase away the spiders and rats ready for the house/dog-sitter!  We leave on Thursday!

I am keeping a close eye on the weather forecast, especially for the wedding on Saturday.  Thank goodness we are driving over, so we can pack for all seasons and not worry about weight restrictions!

Looks like I need to add 'Wellies' to the list, and scratch 'sun cream' from it!!

I'll check in once more before the off!

Have a good one!

P.s The pattern for this Welcome Wallhanging is available in my Etsy Shop.