Hearts, Flowers and Holidays

A few more hearts for you today...this one is a gardener's heart.... if you would like to use the same blue forget me not flower you can find it here... 

 And this little heart was inspired when I saw the adorable postcard-y fabric....I thought a little heart for a leaving gift would be nice - and the words could be whatever you chose of course, but I liked the idea of it being linked to the postal service in some way rather than the newer forms of communication.......

                                       All the fabrics in this post came from Fancy Moon here..

Here are the flowers promised in my post title....a little collection of some of my favourites, there are so many to choose from at the moment aren't there....This week it was so windy here I brought the big tulip pots inside to stop the leaves being shredded! I'll be showing the tulip pictures in a later post for a real tulip-fest (I hope!).......

And a holiday? Yes, tomorrow we are heading off to the countryside for a week's r and r. We'll be staying in a little cottage among the sheep dotted rolling green hills of the beautiful Lake District - a bit like the picture above by Beatrix Potter -  though we are hoping for better weather than this..... I've been gathering together all the things we take on our country holidays - knitting, patchwork, books, kindle, flapjacks, quilt.....oh and walking boots, wellies and waterproofs too....

We love our Lakeland holidays - the first time we ever went there together was in our teens when Mr P had his first car and we went for the day...quite an adventure then...

So I'll be a bit quiet this week and that is why! You can imagine me taking photos of the sheep and the daffodils and looking out for Peter Rabbit!

Thank you to everyone who has recently become a follower, and to everyone who visits me here in my little bit of blogland, and for all the sweet comments. I hope you all have a wonderful week, with sunshine, spring flowers, blue skies and lots of crafty times. Back in a few days! xxxxxxx

Beside the Seaside

Hello! I'm back from my little break and feeling relaxed and refreshed.

Surprisingly, the seaside was a little bit grey this year, but a lot less windy than last time so the regatta sailing was on for Mr P - and the pottering, knitting, reading, shopping, coffee drinking and generally lazing around were on for me!

When the family came down we added beach combing, paddling, a bouncy castle, and delicious ice creams from the Red Boat for a real seaside day out.

One of the highlights of Beaumaris for me in recent years is a visit - or possibly several - to the lovely Janet Bell Gallery on Castle Street. We love Janet's beautiful paintings and have a lot of prints of her work around our house. The Gallery also has other artists' work, all with a seaside theme, and a range of gorgeous gifts (the kind you want to keep for yourself!)

So now it's back to designing for me - and guess what I'm doing this week? Christmas themed designs - so it must be August now...

I hope you have a good week. x