Monday 31 December 2012

A Happy New Year






This year has not been a very healthy one for me but I am so thankful for all the other things that have happened in my life. I am so grateful to my dearest OH who has looked after me so well. My three lovely daughters who have given me so much love and my gorgeous grandchildren who have brightened my life with their hugs and kisses along with the tears and tantrums (theirs not mine).

We have said a sad farewell to friends and relatives through the year and this time of year brings back memeories of those long gone but never forgotten. I look back on 2012 with thankfulness for the new friends I have made, the time I have enjoyed doing my stitching and knitting, the time I managed to spend in my garden and the love of a good family.

As tomorrow dawns I will also be celebrating another birthday so more celebrations with family.

So here's to 2013 and a wish for you all to be happy, healthy and trouble free.

Love and blessings,


Monday 24 December 2012

A Very Merry Christmas

I'm all ready for Santa to come tonight, everything is done......hopefully.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning when Lily and Callum come round to open their presents, I love to see their faces when they open each parcel and hope that it puts a smile on their faces and not a frown.

Just hoping that my middle daughter, Kim is feeling better as she's come downwith this horrible sickness bug that's going around so instead of going out celebrating with her friends this evening, she's stuck at home with us.

I've nothing stitchy to show but I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that Santa is good to you all this year.

Love and hugs.

Monday 3 December 2012

A lovely exchange and a little bit of finishing


November flew by and the way December is going Christmas will be here before I'm ready for it.

We have the Christmas tree up and some decorations but I need to put a few more up to make it look a little bit more festive. I've spent this afternoon shopping on line for the grandchildren and I can't believe how much a little toy costs but it only comes once a year and it's a chance to spoil them a little. I'm looking forward to Boxing day when all four grandchildren will be here to open their presents. Lily is 4, Josh is 3, Callum is 2 and Becky is one so it will be madness in our house, I can't wait.

December 1st was my youngest daughter's birthday and she celebrated it by coming down with a cold and lost her voice too, not the best of birthdays.

Saturday was also the day for opening my exchange from Diana, she doesn't have a blog but she should have. I've been participating in a Gift of Friendship exchange for quite a few years now with a lovely group of ladies and this is what I received, it was an ornament exchange and I received not one but two beautiful ornaments and some lovely extras too.


This is what I sent to Diana, and she said that she liked it.



There's not been a lot of stitching going on apart from a few Christmas cards that I like to do for some stitching friends. I did make a couple of ornaments up that I'd stitched ages ago  but for the life of me I can't find the other four ornaments that I'd stitched  to hang on my mantle. Never mind I'm sure they'll turn up one day.




Healthwise, I am improving day by day, still being told to rest but I'm feeling so much better in myself and so much happier.

Hope everyone else is happy and healthy,


take care,

Sunday 18 November 2012

I won

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to win Teresa's giveaway on her blog At willow tree pond. Along with the chart she sent some sticky notes and some hand dyed thread and as I'm not one to win very often I'm one happy lady.


Hope that everyone is having a happy Sunday


Wednesday 7 November 2012

November catch up

I can't believe how quickly the time goes when you're busy doing nothing, and that's mostly what I've been up to, nothing. 

Still under orders to keep my leg up and rested but if that's what it takes to get it better then it's not too much to ask. You'd think that with all this time on my hands I'd have plenty of stitching or crafty things to show but to be honest after three months, I've not. I've done a lot of reading and watched TV until I'm so fed up with it that I don't even want to turn it on any more but I like it on in the background for company.

I did finally manage to finish Bushel and a Peck by La De Da, it was so easy to stitch with only four or five colours in it.




I also stitched Lizzie Kate's 2010 snowman for an exchange but Lily saw me stitching it and liked it so it might end up on her tree if I can finish another ornament in time to send to my exchange partner.


I've done another couple of little ornaments but they need putting together and I've made a new start.


Little House Needleworks Season of Rest, what could be more apt than that!

Hope everyone's ok and safe out in blogland, that's all for now,

Sue xx


Tuesday 21 August 2012

Thank you

Thank you for all your good wishes for my recovery. I am feeling a lot better but am still so tired but at least I am able to walk a little further.

Tony took me shopping the other day, just to get me out, but it meant a ride in the wheelchair and all the time we were out I wanted to get out of it, I felt such a fraud even though I really needed it.

I'm not one for sitting about so it's driving me mad having to rest my leg and let Tony look after me, he's been so good but he's back at work this week and it seems such a long evening sitting here.

Hopefully I'll feel a bit cheerier soon and get back into my crafts......all this time on my hands and I don't feel like doing anything. Perhaps a look in sewandso might help!!

Take care all,

Saturday 11 August 2012

I am feeling proper poorly........

and sorry for myself. I went to A&E last Saturday because my leg had been swelling up since a week last Wednesday and by Saturday it looked like I had swapped a leg with an elephant. I was diagnosed with a DVT and a significant blood clot in my stomach from my groin to the top of my stomach.
I am now sitting at home watching tv as I can't move very far without pain. I can't even stitch as I can't get comfey so I watch and nod and find that the beginning of one programme has merged into the ending of another, but I am so pleased that it has been found and something is being done to get rid of this unwanted visitor, lol. My stomach looks like a dartboard from the injections but a small price to pay to be well again.

I am missing the grandchildren as they have kept away to give me some rest but I can't go without showing you this picture of my granddaughter Lily on her graduation from nursery,






Take care all and have a lovely weekend,


 

Tuesday 31 July 2012

A new start, a birthday and a foggy Tuesday

Hello all, and a very wam welcome to my new followers it's lovely to have some new friends. It's been a really damp day so much different to how it was last week when the sun was shining and I was out in the garden every spare minute that I had even though it was so hot.


Yesterday was my middle daughter Kims birthday, those 31 years have gone by so quickly. I went into labour on the 29th which just happened to be the day that Prince Charles married Princess Diana. I made my way through the wedding ceromony on the tv, went to see my Mum and then decided that I'd better get to the hospital.

Everywhere was decorated with bunting and balloons so it was a lovely calming feeling. I didn't have Kim until the early hours of the 30th as I was booked in for a c-section and here we are 31 years later and I feel so blessed.


I have made a new start in my stitching; it's the La-D-Da Bushel and a Peck that I picked out months ago to start. It's an easy stitch with only four colours so it's good for me to ease my way back into stitching again.




         and I've already picked out something else to stitch so my stitching bug must be coming back home.

As for the foggy bit.......that is my head. I've been on my new pills for about ten days now and my head is so fuzzy, I wish the sensation would go away.

I'll leave you with one last pic, this is Gizmo enjoying himself rolling on the lawn in last weeks sun.


Love as always,


Tuesday 24 July 2012

New Beginnings



Walking down the garden the other evening I nearly tripped over a tiny hedgehog taking an evening stroll in the veg plot and it wasn't long before we spied another two joining in the fun. I wish they'd been out a few weeks ago to catch the slugs that have stripped my dahlias bare. 

Since then I've noticed them lying out in the sunshine in the afternoon which is odd as I always thought that hedgehogs were nocturnal. We have a large slate trough in the garden and they must live under there as that's where they seem to scurry to if they hear the cats about.


The garden is looking lovely at the moment.
The roses are blooming though a lot of them have been damaged by the rain.



and the clematis that we cut down and moved has had its best year yet.


 
I've had a couple of little finishes and have started on a new stitch, it's been lovely getting back into the swing of things.


and now for the meaning of the blog title



Just like the lily in our garden pond, I feel that I am starting out in a new chapter of my life. Some things have been happening lately that have made me change my outlook on things.

I've realised that family and friends need more of me than I've been giving; I had a wake up call a couple of weeks ago that really shook me and since then I've tried to make sense of what a really matters. I've always been a believer in God and there have been quite a few long talks going on so I hope He's been listening.

I'm sure He has.

Sue x



Thursday 31 May 2012

My poor neglected blog

It's been such a long time since I've posted, a long time since I've had anything really interesting to blog about though there have been times when I should have come on here and chronicled a few life events that have happened in the last four months.

Time has a habit of stealing away from me, I never have enough hours in the day to do what I set out to do but I have fun getting there. As usual the grandchildren and my family have taken up a lot of my time, either visiting or being visited, lots of playtime in the garden and lots of aches and pains when I've "played" too much.

The garden has taken up a few of my hours, as I get older it appears to get bigger. We've only planted a few vegetables this year and we've almost decided that next year the veg plot will be set to lawn; Tony doesn't have the time and I don't have the energy.

Doesn't it make it all worthwhile though when something like this opens up and greets you on a rainy morning.


 Now the proud grandma bit,





Lily has taken up ballet and she's loving every minute of it while Callum is taking after his daddy...


Sharon and Carl are in Cornwall with Josh and Becca so I'm hoping to get some more photos to show.

I'm still stitching on and off, not a lot but when I feel the urge or want to unwind.

That's all for now.......take care,