Phew, that was close...

...just managed to finish my September Ornament for the Stitch and Stash SAL in time this month. This one is by The Sunflower Seed, from the 2008 JCS Ornament edition.
I changed the colours round a bit. The original had gold metallic splashes coming from the sea, which didn't seem right to me, so I did mine in silver, and once I'd done that the red didn't really work for the border so I switched it for the blue green.
I did the star one from the same series a few months back (here) so I finished this one the same way, and even though they are totally different colours, I think they go quite well together.
Ah well, off to find one to do for October now (or more than one, I really need to catch up on this)

Look who has come to stay...

If you read Julie's blog, you will know that Julie often knits bunnies, and generously sends them as gifts to people. Well, a while ago Julie made a present of a boy bunny named Seymour to Barb (no blog), and more recently, on hearing that Seymour lacked female company, provided him with a bride of the more matronly persuasion, arguing that he wasn't ready for a young and trendy companion. Anyway, I joked with Julie about what a young and trendy knitted bunny might look like, and as of today I have found out.
Meet Miss Blossom Bunny, who is as young and trendy as they come, and, dare I say it, even a teensy bit emo.
Check out her earring and necklace, and her little shoulder bag (because every hip young bunny needs somewhere to keep those essentials like lippy, mobile & mp3). Her short skirt over black leggings look is very up-to-the-minute don't you think.
As you can see she has already discovered the disco ball (left over from Naomi's float when she was Fairy Queen) and is demanding that we throw a party ;D
Thank you Julie, she's "kewl".

Eventful Day!!!

So, today was the Village Football Club's annual "Funday Sunday", which comprises craft stalls, demonstrations, games, bbq, beer tent, entertainment and demonstrations in the village playing fields. Anyway we borrowed our neighbours' gazebo and went down and set up a stall with David's photos and my jewellery, including this new range of Pride and Prejudice jewellery

It was a beautiful day, as you can see from this general scene, taken from the front of our stall and looking across the field:-

Around 1pm we had a flyover from a Royal navy Sea King helicopter, here you see it coming in over the church:-
and here it is hovering overhead:- and about 15 seconds after I took this picture the downdraft caught our (borowed) gazebo, lifted it up, poles and all, ripped it clean off the guy ropes (which remained in the ground throughout) and carried it about 20 yards up the field, to the Slate Quarry truck and fire engine you can see in the first picture; assorted postcards, photos and earrings flying everywhere; before David and I, the entire football team and half the fire crew managed to catch up with it and wrestle the thing to the ground!!!

Poor gazebo is quite wrecked. Fortunately, we managed to pick everything else up and our neighbours are very nice people and were quite understanding about it. So that was my Sunday. How was yours?

A day out

Today was the last day of the Summer holidays (for me anyway, David and the girls don't go back until next week), so we had a day out and visited Prideaux Place near Padstow. I think I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves, they show the view across the deer park towards Rock, (the deer were there when we arrived, but had run off before I took the picture), the house and the formal garden. Enjoy!

Still here...

...just been busy. It was the Village Show last weekend, and as I'm secretary the couple of weeks leading up to it tend to be pretty hectic, with the last couple of days seeing me descend into panic mode trying to get everything ready. Anyway it all went well and we had over 650 entries in the end. I forgot to take the camera down so I haven't got any photos of the show itself, (though there are some nice ones on the village website here) but fret not Dear Readers, I took some pictures of the girls' entries to bore you rigid with when we got home:-

First is Eloise's "Floral arrangement using 1 flower & foliage" for which she won a cup,

Next Naomi's first prize "Floral arrangement in an unusual container", and her 1 flower arrangement.

Naomi also won the cup for best photo by a child (again!) with this picture of a hibiscus. She got a first for her bluberry and white chocolate cheesecake too, but we ate it before I got a picture ;D

Oh and I got Best in Show Handicraft for one of my embroidered seashell pictures

Tintagel Carnival...

...last Saturday and the girls and some of their friends went as "The Belles of St Trinians".

Guess who went as the Emo kid? Check out the black lipstick...

Didn't manage to get a nice shot of Eloise unfortunately.

An Exchange and a Funky new haircut

Look at this! Isn't it lovely? I recieved it in an exchange from Robbin (no blog). I love this box and look how well the scissor fob matches my favourite Premax scissors! Sorry about the reflections- glass table!


And a funky new haircut? No, not me, here is Naomi, with her new "Alice Cullen" inspired hairdo. Wow! Look who grew up