10 things that made me smile this week and one that made me cry ....

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Thing 1.

My Victory wrap is finished - and I love it.

I think it is my favourite of all the wraps I have made.

It was so simple to make, growing very quickly, and the way you add the border is so clever.

I will certainly use the pattern again.

The pattern is by Erika Flory and can be found here in Ravelry.

 

 

Thing 2.

When we were staying in Fowey with friends last weekend a fair bit of retail therapy was undertaken.

One small purchase was this beautiful little peg doll that just caught my eye.

She now sits happily on the shelf in my kitchen.

 

 

Thing 3.

This is the view from our bedroom window and I am loving looking out each morning and seeing how everything is flourishing.

We even have a flower on our Wisteria for the first time, and very happily, it is white as hoped.

 

 

Thing 4.

On Tuesday my bestest friend in the whole wide world came to stay for a few days.

Jane and I worked together for 18 years and when she left Bradford-on-Avon last year on her Narrow boat to head off on her travels with her husband it was one of the hardest things ever.

My blog was started as a way of continuing all our day to day chats.

We have been through such a lot together over the years from working together, to raising our families, and best of all we share the same passion for all things yarny ( as well as passions for tea, chocolate, shoes, a good chat, laughing etc, etc )

Before she left we both had a little rebellion and decided right there and then that matching tattoos would be the coolest thing.

We designed one together and decided the words 'Best of Times' just said it all.

The dandelion clock symbolises the passing of the years, and consequently became my main reason for including it in my Just Pootling header.

( so as not to confuse with random body parts... mine is on my foot and Jane's is on her arm.)

 

 

Thing 5.

Whilst she was here we treated ourselves to a bit of pampering at a very gorgeous new

hair salon that has just opened in Bradford-on-Avon.

 

 

Thing 6.

I have a new little pile of squares getting ever taller.

The plan is that when sewn together they will become a baby blanket for a soon to be

new arrival.

 

 

Thing 7.

Very contented animals on a wet and rainy Saturday morning.

 

 

Thing 8.

One warm Chihuahua, who kind of wants to know what's going on outside of the blanket.

 

 

Thing 9.

A naughty Saturday evening treat.

 

 

Thing 10.

I am having so much fun putting together my Bloggy Birthday Giveaway.

Here's a very little sneaky peak - not quite there yet but all will be revealed soon !



 

 

 

Those were the happies.

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The one sad is that our beautiful cat Angel was run over this week.

It was right outside our house.

 He was a real homecat and very rarely went out the front, but for some reason that day he did.

Its not a particularly busy road being in a small village but he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.



 

 

I have friends who are going through some awful times with their families right now and I do keep telling myself that he was just a cat, but he was our cat and a part of our family for the past 11 years and we loved him very much.

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He had a very big character, always head-butting you when you least expected it - usually when you had a cup of tea in your hand, he kind of quacked instead of meowed and he snored as loudly as any person. He also had a habit of doing 'bunny legs' on the kitchen table,

 

 

and stealing Lilou's bed.

 

 

He had a particularly special place in our hearts because he was from a litter of kittens that belonged to my Sister-in-law, Tracey. We lost her in a car accident a week before the kittens were born and we were determined that we would have one of the kittens and call it Angel.

In actual fact, because the girls managed to persuade Dave that there was no way we could have one and leave the smallest one behind all on his own we actually had two...

 Cosmos and Angel.

 



 

 

 

Having lost Cossy last year I have absolutely no doubt in my mind at all that they are now both

 sat on Tracey's knee, purring very loudly and happily.

Angel will almost certainly be snoring a bit too.

 

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