One A Day Tuesday Tallies (1 November 2011)

A little less productive week this week but pleased with my progress all the same.  My ripple along now looks like this:

Three and a half rows of ripples this week which makes the pram blanket now 5 stripes (10 rows) long.  Also have my eye on another little project which I may be tempted to start in the next few weeks but want to get some more of this blanket finished first.


Didn't get as much done over half term as I would have liked but this is due to an emergency operation and a 4 day stay in hospital.  Have got another 3 rows completed since Sunday (my end of week) so really happy with my progress and I have an hour train journey tomorrow afternoon to ripple away then an evening with no kids and just ripples and tv for company!


Please visit Gingerbread Girl and click on the links from her blog to see all the other wonderful one a day projects.

Enjoy your week and hope to be back next week with lots done.

Alphabet Of My Life

I have seen this alphabet list on a number of blogs recently and thought I would give it a go.  There is a question relating to each letter of the alphabet for you to answer.  

This is my alphabet:

A. Age:  38

B. Bed size:  King
C. Chore that you hate:  Ironing 
D. Dogs:  Always been and always will be a St Bernard.  Sadly we are not currently owned by one.
E.  Essential start to your day:  A huge mug of tea.
F.  Favourite colour:  Yellow
G: Gold or silver:  gold
H: Height:  5'9"
I:  Instruments you play:  Recorder, clarinet, saxophone and a bit of piano
J:  Job title:  Civil Servant
K: Kids:  2 - Liam (9) and Freya (8)
L: Live: Stourbridge, West Midlands in the same house I grew up in as a child.
N: Nick Name:  Can
O: Overnight hospital stays:  sadly lots and lots
Q:  Quote from a movie: Nobody puts Baby in the corner.
R:  Right or left handed:  Right
S:  Siblings:  Martyn (35)
T:  Tea or coffee:  Tea, just the smell of coffee gives me migraines.
U:  Underwear:  Matching
V:  Vegetables you hate:  Easier for me to say what I like; sweetcorn, onions, small amount of peas, cauliflower & mushrooms.  Really wished I liked more.
W: What makes you run late:  Kids but being late is my major peeve in life.  It is just so rude.
X:  X Rays:  lots and probably most of my body has been either x-rayed or scanned at some point.
Y:  Yummy food that you make:  I love baking cupcakes and they are extra yummy when we use free range eggs from our 4 pet chickens.  Make a great roast and all the trimmings too.
Z:  Zoo Animal:  Giraffe.  Just love going to the safari park and hand feeding them.  I get more excited than the kids!


Well that's me and my alphabet.  Would love you to leave a link if you share your alphabet.

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?

Ladies it has been a while but this week I have crochet on my mind!  These darker and sadly colder nights are making me want to snuggle up under a blanket and crochet.  This is one of my current projects (one of many!) I am currently working on.  My Giant Rowan Ripple:

Only just started this and I know it is going to take a long long time as it is the size of a king size bed.  It is so soft and warm snuggle underneath it when I am crocheting!

Don't forget to pop on over to Julia and look at some other crafty work desks.  I'll try to visit as many as I can over the next few days as I just can't help but have a peak into your crafty worlds.

Thanks for visiting

One A Day Tuesday Tallies (25 Oct 2011)

A little bit more productive week this time around.  The big life issue that was causing me stress has been dealt with this week and to be honest I have used crochet as a way to de-stress and have rippled away pretty much none stop during my spare time.  I have also managed to make a whopping 5 scrapbook LO's.  This is very unheard of for me, especially during a working week.

This week my Lucy & Heather's Ripple Along looks like this:

Another 4 rows!

But I have also been working on my Rowan Giant 4ply Ripple which is to fit a king size bed and now looks like this:

I have made this from scratch this week and is 3 rows long.  This gives me a total of 7 rows made this week with 3 being extra long.  I am really really pleased with what I have achieved and hope with it being half term I can make good progress on these two projects again.  Sadly I am still waiting for the mid blue for Liam's Red, White & Blue Granny blanket.  I am thinking I may have to try and match another mid blue from another manufacturer even if that means I have to frog the last 2 rounds on the 6 I have completed so far.  Fingers crossed the shop can get some in over the next 2 weeks or frogging it is.

Please visit Gingerbread Girl and click on the links from her blog to see all the other wonderful one a day projects.

Enjoy your week and hope to be back next week with lots done.

More Scrapping

Sarah's Cards October kit has well and truly got my mojo back and yesterday afternoon I produced another 3 LO's from the kit.

This photo was taken Christmas 2009 when we went to see Santa on the local canals:

This is a really old photo dating back to October half term in 2007.

Finally this one is from the Summer holidays and our visit to York last year.  I like mixing up old photos as it means my albums which are stored chronological order look different with both the papers and my style of scrapping which I hope is improving with time.

I have now run out of cardstock but there is still another 2/3 LO's in what I have left. 

Finishing this kit is this weeks aim and with no work with a bit of luck it should be no problem.  To think I use an entire kit in the month it arrives is quite unbelievable!