Tuesday Tidbits (and tails)

Look what I received in the mail today. A beautiful crochet pin cushion from the lovely and very kind Rachael at Clever Cheshire Cats, isn't it gorgeous, I absolutely adore the colours, it's so pretty.

Rachael popped these in the parcel too, how did she know I love chocolate. A girl can never have too much chocolate.

Thank you very much Rachael.

After my stuff up with sewing on the weekend, I lost my mojo, again!  I just couldn't motivate myself to do anything, it didn't help that my dining table looked like this. Actually it was worse than this, I'd already started cleaning it up when I remembered to take a photo of the evidence.

After what seemed like hours, in fact it was hours, it took me ages to rearrange things and find homes for everything, my dining table looked like this, and it still does this evening. I'll be interested to see how long it takes me to pile crap all over it again. The rest of the afternoon I worked on the French Roses quilt until Fanny decided to start sewing teeny tiny stitches again, grrrr. I've turned her off and I'm hoping when I return to sewing, everything will be fine. Fingers crossed. No photos of the French Roses today, I don't want to bore you with the very slow progress.

This is one of the pears decorating the table. I need a table runner, but I don't feel like making one. I thought I had one that would work with the chairs and the pears, but no such luck.

I had to tidy up the desk in the study/spare room too, so that I could put my cutting mat here instead of leaving it on the dining table.

You can just see some fabric in a mess under the desk, my tidying didn't get that far.

A brilliant idea,  I found a metal letter holder in the cupboard, to hold my rulers.

I don't want to move Miss Fanny Pfaff into the study, because this is the view I have whenever I look up.  That's a rain gauge on the right of the railing. How good is that view, and look at that lovely blue sky today. We have had a couple of absolutely beautiful days, the weather is finally improving following the hideous weather we had through summer.



Feline fur babies photos.

Bailey has taken to licking his back leg constantly, and now has a bald patch. It gets better and then he starts again. We've tried a few different things to stop him, but it's turned into a habit, hopefully he will grow out of it eventually.

 He usually sleeps with his paw over his face, and he curls up his toes, too cute.

This was Bailey this morning, through the kitchen window, about to eat my lemongrass.

Lulu sunbathing in Karma's bed. Poor Karma, nothing is sacred.