Sandcastles & Crochet!

The Children made Some Sandcastles
While I made some crochet squares inspired by the colours of the Sea!!

The girls had some fun swimming.........

while Sean played in the rock pools

Mmmm! An almost Deserted Beach!

Heaven!

The other side of the bay

An Abandoned Lobster Pot

Going Home!


Even though we live only three miles away from the beautiful beach of Spanish Point in County Clare, we tend Not to go there on beautiful Summer day's such as today and instead often head there for a walk on the beach on an Autumn or winter's Day. On those rare day's like today that are so hot and Sunny, Spanish Point Beach gets so packed that it is to me unbearable, so we pack up and head a little further out the coast only a couple of Min's drive to a lesser known Beach mostly only known by locals and people who frequent the area with summer houses etc.,

This Beach always brings to my mind Enid Blyton stories of my childhood as there are lots of little nooks and cranny's that I don't notice on other beaches and a mysterious island just offshore, and lots of rock pools, I always feel like it is an adventure waiting to happen! Anyway this lovely weather is set to last for a few more days so we will make the best of it while we can. The best thing about the beach is that all of the kids are now at home and in bed extra early as they were so worn out after their big adventures! Hope you are enjoying the good weather too!

Moe

x

Good Day Sunshine!

It was such a beautiful day today, I spent all day outside with the kids in our New Patch planting vegetables, dont know if any of them will ever grow as it proved a bit difficult trying to dig and watch the smaller two at the same time who were so excited and went off in a tangent planting their own things here there and everywhere! Oh well at least they enjoyed themselves! We planted potatoes, carrots,leeks, cabbage, lettuce, rhubarb, strawberries, tomatoes, onions and cauliflower. Sean came in in the evening about 5 pm and just lay down on the sitting room floor and was asleep within a couple of seconds totally wiped out!

Later this evening I finished off a baby cardigan in crochet, this is my first actual garment made in crochet so I am so pleased with myself that I managed to follow the pattern and hope that it is the right size but I think it is. My friend is due a baby in a couple of weeks and I am hoping that she will have a baby girl as I have a stash of pink baby things made for some reason! Hope you all had a lovely day wherever you were!

Moe

x

Bad weather & Vegetables!

One of my greatest pleasures at the moment is the fabulous smell of these scented summer stock

My Crochet Stack for Aoifes Blanket continues to grow

As Do the Marigolds on my Doorstep!

I'm Loving this blue enamel bucket which looks so much nicer in real life!

Even though we have not planted anything yet one of the most important things for Aoife was to put in this scarecrow ( a Halloween one! that was in my store!) to scare away the birds!

Mmmmmmmmmm!

Cant help thinking this is just a slight bit too big! Oh well we can but try!

O.K - The weather forecast was good, After weeks of pestering my husband to sort out some kind of a vegetable patch he finally did it for me yesterday I couldint wait to get up this morning I had great plans of planting out my spudswhich are sprouting away nicely now but god it is so windy here you wouldint believe it, So eventually after planting two rows of potatoes we had to give up it was just too bad, hopefully tomorrow will be better! I am having trouble with the exposure on my camera which seems to be over exposing everything it is a fairly new camera so I guess I will just have to get out the instruction manual and see if I can fix it, so please bear with me till I sort it out!

Kilkee, County Clare

Isint this little house so beautiful? In such a lovely location while the weather is nice, but being realistic probably really awful to live in in the winter!

Was in Kilkee in County Clare, to meet another Bride about her Wedding Flowers and couldint resist taking some pictures of the beach while I was there, it is a beautiful Horse-Shoe shaped beach, I always love Kilkee it is such a beautiful little Irish Seaside town.

Busy Busy Busy!

Busy Busy busy, No time to waste Today! No Time for Crafting today either :(

Just as well that I love my Job!! Thankfully the weather here in County Clare, Cleared up to reveal a beautiful day. Best of Luck to Anne pictured above who married Donal in Quilty Church by the Sea a beautiful Venue. It really is a man's world, by the time I had finished the wedding flowers it was time to collect the kids from shcoll and child minders etc, back down to earth with a bump as usual! Must go and get the hungry crowd some dinner now, hope you like the wedding! I Love the colour of the bridesmaids dresses.

Crochet Fever!!

OOPS! There is a gremlin on my work in progress!

This is the blanket sewn together original in the middle and new either side
Aoife my six year old has laid Claim to this blanket so she is waiting patiently for it to be finished so that she can put it on her bed!
This is The Original Blanket

This week I am suffering from Crochet Fever! I was being driven demented reading all about the escapades that Lucy at the http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/ attic 24 blog and Vanessa over at http://doyoumindifiknit.typepad.com/ Do you mind if I knit blog are doing in the last couple of weeks, Lucy made the most fab blanket its so gorgeous and Vanessa is working on her equally fab blanket too, so I rooted out all my scraps of wool and although I had asked Vanessa for her pattern and really wanted to make it, I decided not to because while rooting out the wool, I found some baby blankets that my Mum had made for aisling when she was born, and for my niece, she had passed away when Aoife was born but I still used them for both her and Sean & people always commented on them.
So I decided that I would add to the original baby blankets and make them big enough for them too use now that way they would each have something that Nanna made for them which would also be functional, so far so good it seems to be working out ok, I will keep you posted as to how it turns out! I am just using an original Granny Square Pattern for the squares, the only problem is that I really want to make Vanessa's Blanket and I really want to make Lucy's Ripple blanket but I now have a line of children also waiting for a blanket each, aisling, sean and my niece! Oh Such is life, so little time, so much wool!!!!

Seans New Jumper!

Welcome To my new blog, here you can read my daily rantings and ravings about whatever crafts im working on, whatever wedding I am doing flowers for and anything else that comes to mind!

Today I am going to show you a new jumper that I have just finished for my two year old Sean, two year old boy's are so great because you can put what you want on them and they never really complain! unless it's uncomfortable! I have two older girls and trust me even at that age they were fussy as to what they would or wouldin't wear! I am also working on a crochet blanket but I will tell you more about that tomorrow! I have already spent too long today playing with the set up of this blog so I will leave you with a couple of pics of sean proudly wearing his new jumper! and getting a piggy back from his dad!