Baby Blankets Summer Hideouts and Bales of Hay!

Just finished a couple of crochet baby blankets for my friends new addition!
Really pleased with how they turned out!

This one is just treble crochet enclosed with a shell stitch all around

This one is just 12 Granny's sewn together and edged with a Pram edge added on.

The Weather continues to be Lovely Here, Farm is a hive of Activity

The Kids have been having great fun playing with the bales of Hay,

Hide & Seek,

And Hay 'Surfing' (a new one on me! but if it keeps them quite!)
And Chilling out later in their tent !
Hope Things are good with you too!

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Nearly There!

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Yeah! almost there now, the blanket is almost but not quite big enough to fit Aoife's single bed!! Just a few more rows of edging to go and I'll be done! As you can see, Sean dosen't mind that its not quite yet there, he took it for a test drive anyway!! What do you think of my new look blog? I did a little "tweaking" yesterday!!
See you tomorrow!

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Everybody Salsa!

Hey there,

how are You Today? As for me I'm fine, better than fine actually, the sun is still shining and making us all feel so good (apart from a small bit of sunburn that is, but we won't complain about that!)

Today we had our school spots day, the kids just loved it last year it was rained out of it and had to be abandoned halfway through so it was refreshing to have nice weather for a change.

I have been busy already getting things ready for my knitting and crochet swap over at Mel's blog http://melaniegalloway.info/?p=543#comments . I have found lots of great little projects to do, should keep me busy for a while, but unfortunately I won't be able to tell you what they are for quite a while yet!

I Love Wednesday's as it is my evening off away from the kids and housework, instead I go Salsa Dancing! It is just so much fun everybody should try it! I do it to keep fit and it is called Salsa Slims and the guy who teaches us really makes sure that we work out, but a whole hour seems just like 5 Min's you can hear the collective groan in the room when he says OK ladies last dance! I am so bad at any kind of exercise that I have to do something and this really does not feel like exercise at all. I have been kinda busy outside now that the weather is nice and have been doing a small bit of work on my vegetable patch, whether anything will grow or not who knows, guess I will have to wait and see, just posted a couple of pics of the kids at the sports day, my crochet blanket not finished yet still working rounds on the outside! and also thought you might like to see the view from my house, here it is in all its glory! it is really beautiful, espically in this nice weather,

Off to Salsa Soon so better get the kids some dinner!

Chat again Tomorrow!

Moe xx

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Blog Swap Number 1!!!

Hi There,

I have just decided to take part in a blog Swap organised by Melanie over at A Country Dream Blog : http://melaniegalloway.info/, it is a Crochet & Knitting Swap and I am really looking forward to it - already scheming as to what I can put in for my blogging partner! It is hard to think of cosy things on such a beautiful day as we have here today in Ireland but nonetheless it is still fun!! So if anyone else is like minded and would like to take part in this blog Swap head on over to a Country Dream for the details,
As for me I'm off to get my crochet hook!
See you Later!
Moe xx

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

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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!

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!!!!