Here be hares.......

Looking for a card and small present for a friend's birthday today, I seemed to get caught up in a bit of a hare theme!  I do love hares!  First off I found this lovely card -

 

Then I saw this wooden hare decoration -

 

I have to confess I bought myself one of these just before Christmas -
(from the lovely Lion Gallery in Leominster http://www.liongallery.com/1317/frames.html ) -

 

As I say, I love hares. I have two hare 'figures' in the house -

 

and one in the garden - too dark to take a pic now!

These hares (huge - ?papier mache figures) hang in Abergavenny Market Hall, from the Food Festival -

Hope you're having a good week!

52 weeks of happy - week 1

Found myself at a blog called Little birdie earlier - HERE and I liked the idea of 'focusing on little things that make us happy'....

Four things that made me happy last week -

Tilly (7 month old granddaughter) trying to crawl -

 

Had photos from Christmas printed and loved this one of Tilly and Ruby (2) -

 

Bought these yellow glass candlesticks from Ludlow market -

 and a new cushion -

 

Hope you had happiness in your week!

Narcissi and a dragonfly.....

Had hoped to 'jolly up' my unit in a vintage shop in Leominster this week, which I feel is looking a bit jaded -

but I've been sideswiped by a nasty cold - endless coughing and sneezing :(. Finally got out today, but only managed to find one new thing - this side table, with rather curvaceous legs! -

I did find a lovely old wooden stool just before Christmas -

Bought some gorgeous narcissi today, which are just filling the kitchen with their scent -

and cheering me up -

 



 

My amaryllis is getting pretty top heavy! Bit of a brazen hussy! -

This woven dragonfly was made by a guy on Ludlow market - its going to go in the garden when the rain stops!

Hope you're having a good day!

Flowers for the New Year

Hi - linking with http://flwrjane-smallbutcharming.blogspot.co.uk/  ..............

My amaryllis has just 'fanfared' open -

 

Ta - da!

 

And these Paperwhites were out before Christmas; coming to an end now, but still a lovely scent -

 

 

Little cyclamen are always so pretty, aren't they? Inside and outside-

 

 

 

This 'Nandina' has been a useful plant this year, with little white flowers, red berries and lovely colour-changing leaves -

 

The end of our garden overlooks meadows - though at the moment (enough rain, already!!), it's overlooking lakes!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

 

 

Big thanks to Helena!

 

Well, after an excellent tip from Helena at The Swenglish House HERE    , I seem to be able to include pictures again - for free - yay!!

We took grand-daughter Ruby (now 2) to a Winter Wonderland at the local Garden Centre last week and she loved it - was entranced! -

 

 

Also, now I can show you pics of eldest daughter's wedding - she got married on Dec 4th -

 

 

 



And pics of Ruby and Tilly (now 6 months) -

 

Well, it's great to be back, but this isn't getting Christmas lunch for 16 (!!) sorted, so I'd better get into that gear.

Have a lovely Christmas Day!

Happy Christmas!

    HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!!

                                     XX

Vintage who?!......

Heavens, where did all that time go??!!

Hope everyone's well. I hadn't really intended to start blogging again, but lovely Mise at Pretty Far West blog HERE (I can't do clever links, sorry *) mentioned my (somewhat defunct!) blog.......

All well here - we now have 6 grandchildren - 4 boys and 2 girls. Ruby will be 2 this Sunday and Tilly is 6 months.  One of the reasons I stopped blogging was that I'd apparently run out of photo space or some such and would have to start paying.....but I might somehow be able to sneak a photo in. No, just tried, it's denying me photo upload...

Best wishes to you all

X

* Yay - just worked out - I hope! - how to do a link.......