Another Week Zipped on by ......................................

 Greetings lovely friends & readers

Well another week has zipped on by & here we are into February already !!

Whenever I need to just pop to town briefly, I quickly throw a linen dress on & toss my round-the-house-tatty-cotton-dress on the spare bed.  I hadn't realised Miss Pip was shut inside & came home to her curled up sound asleep on my house dress & did not have the heart to move her.

 

Alec does not return to school until next Tuesday so he came to stay at Granny's for awhile this past week.  We went to the Park, the Library & then to the local Berry Farm for an icecream cone. 

There are raspberries & blackberries available for picking at present so we picked a punnet of raspberries tho' alot went into a small boy's mouth I noticed 😉

We went to the Garden Centre as I had a voucher from Christmas.  We bought Petunias & Busy Lizzies to fill some pots that had long since past their best.  I also bought a new pair of Gardening Gloves as mine were full of holes.

While Alec watered the garden (& most of me !!) I filled another 8 bottles of Worm Tea.  (This is the liquid residue that comes from my Worm farm & makes wonderful plant food)

I Wish I had taken a "before pic" of this ceramic pot from Mum's. She had used it to soak some old paint brushes in - obviously the paint had been brown as that is the color the pot was! I spent many hours of elbow grease scrubbing the outside & the inside to get it clean, then put it through the dishwasher a couple of times.  The inside was still a bit stained but the outside came up well.

I applied a Re-design transfer to it & potted up some babies tears - it goes nicely in my bathroom on the end of the bath.

I always follow Down to Earth Rhonda's advice & toss my tatty old dishcloths in the rag bag at the start of a New Year.  I have been knitting up my cotton/bamboo oddments & now have 4 fresh new dishcloths to use ... & will continue doing this as I have lots of scraps of the cotton yarn to use up.  

Another way I like to start the New Year is with a new Ironing Board Cover.  This heavy duty cotton fabric was in my stash so I sat on the floor yesterday, traced around my old ironing board cover & made a new one.  As I use the ironing board so much for craft work etc my covers get a hard time & I just LoVe having a fresh new one 💕

My stepson sent through this gorgeous little photo of Juno wearing the dress I gifted her at Christmas time.  The sweet dress was made by my friend Julie who sews/blogs under the label bo and co

I thought I would share this delightful photo of Darcy - Sid's newest family member.  She has bought such joy into their lives & although she looked like she had "rolled in coal dust" when she first arrived, I notice how much she is lightening & going quite caramel. She honestly has the sweetest nature.

Wishing you all yet another great week ahead dear friends,

Thank You as always for your visits here today - remember to be kind to yourselves & to each other,

With much love & friendship to you All,

Julie & the furry ones x0x0x0

(NO idea why that has come out super huge dear readers - blogger does my head in sometimes !!! 😕)