Sunny Seaside

 We're back from the sunny seaside after a really lovely time..........regular readers of this blog will know that we usually go to the beautiful isle of anglesey at this time of year, to stay in the pretty little seaside town of beaumaris while my hb sails in the menai straits regatta...........

 .........this is penmon lighthouse, one of my favourite views........i love the pebbly beach there too......

............ this little beach hut cross stitch  was made into a quick seaside pincushion that i took with me.....i'm still using up lots of little motifs in this way :).........

.............we were joined for a few days by the family too and had a fun time with them, as well as meeting up with other sailing families, friends and acquaintances............charlie and daisy love the whole seaside experience, and we also visited a country farm this time and saw lots of baby animals but i'll save that for another post..................

 ..........i took along my little greengate tin of red, white and blue hexies ready to begin sewing them together..............

            ..........i tried a few different layouts, but this was the one i liked the best...............

 ................and the hexies were very quick to sew together into the seaside flowers...............

 ..........when i began going through my fabric stash looking for red, white and blue fabrics i found some pretty nautical prints which were perfect to include.........and lots of the lovely blue and red prints from pam kitty morning looked gorgeous too.............i am surrounding the seaside flowers with hexies made with white kona cotton from sew and quilt here......

............when we visit beaumaris we always love going to the janet bell gallery and this year was no exception............it was lovely to see janet again and her beautiful new paintings and other happy seaside products like calendars and cards, textiles and cross stitch kits...............

 ...........and it was exciting this year to discover that janet now has another lovely shop.....a children's boutique that she has opened with her friend zoe............it is called tinkers and belles and has the most lovely colourful and well designed clothes for little people and lots of adorable toys.......(and who wouldn't love a shop with a little corner cupboard filled with maileg bunnies and mice?)...........

.................my hexie quilt made steady progress for the first part of the holiday, not so much later on, but now i'm home i shall be getting on with it again..........btw thank you for all your kind comments about my home sweet home quilt in my previous post........i am planning to send it away to be professionally longarm quilted, something new for me to try.......i do love the look of those closely quilted ones and i think the design lends itself perfectly to that...........i will keep you posted...........and do please let me know if you have any recommendations for longarm quilting in the uk.............

..........i will leave you with this peaceful view.........i also wanted to include it because if you click on the picture to enlarge it you can see an air sea rescue helicopter which is one of the ones that prince william flies here on anglesey.........he might even have been flying this one :)...........thank you for dropping in to see me here and for your sweet comments and emails...........i am so looking forward to catching up with everyone now and being back in blog land again.............wishing you all a happy sunny week............back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx