Flowers From The Garden

We have been enjoying such beautiful sunny summer days here, and the flowers are blooming away in our garden, with plenty to spare for gathering into big bunches and enjoying indoors.......my special jug for 'flowers from the garden' was a present from one of my sweet sisters last year .........and it somehow wouldn't feel right putting flowers from a shop in  it :)

 ...............i gather the flowers in this very old shallow flower basket that came from grannie's house when we sorted it out.....

 ...............i like to use it as it is the perfect shape for the job and makes me think of ladies of the past and their leisurely days of snipping flowers to arrange........

 ..............my days have been very busy, and not so leisurely as i mentioned last time, working on lots of new designs, mainly christmas ones.............but i have had the windows and doors wide open while making and making and sewing and sewing..................

 ................and this lovely fragrant bouquet in my sewing room to enjoy..............

 .................i have fitted in a little bit of crochet in the evenings, finishing off rosie's blanket (pictures of that soon) and making some more flowers for my next cushion in my flower cushion collection :)

 ...............one of the designs i have been working on had numbers in it.....the ones i practiced on were lying on my desk so i made some quick tags with them............

 ..............i love making these little flowers........last year i found the pattern for them on the internet and wrote it in my notebook, but now i can't find it again and am not able to attribute it to anyone......if you recognise it please let me know..............

                    .............a few more flowers inspired by the colours of my bouquet...................

 ................and here is some stitching to show you too, this is my house sampler design in this month's crafts beautiful magazine............i love red and white samplers, and i love stitching houses too..........

 ...................i added the home sweet home word embellishments by printing them onto card.......combining paper crafts and stitching is continually inspiring to me and there are always new ideas to try................

 .............some views from our garden this week.............lots of blue sky, the sweet peas canes, a little glimpse of the sea and roses growing over the old garage roof..............and below is the round shabby chic table in our tiny courtyard outside the kitchen door where i have lots of geraniums growing and some new red and white striped petunias..........the little door behind the flowers is the door to our old garden store................

 .................besides loving the summery days and being in the christmas zone work wise, i have also been washing and ironing and packing our suitcases as we are going on holiday in a few days....

................so next week i will be taking a little blog break.......but i will be back the week after with pictures to show and lots more crafty news then too..............thank you for visiting me here lovely readers, and thank you for all your sweet comments...........wishing you sunny days, bright flowers and happy times..............back soon xxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx