I'm back!

Hello girls!  Apologies for not visiting with you for so long, I've been busy with family things, and also doing things within my village.  I am really pleased to say the sun is shining -- 'the sun has got its hat on, hip hip hip hooray' -- the jet stream seems to have moved further north.  Hopefully that means that my friends in US and elsewhere are getting better weather.  I'm hoping my flowers start to perk up a bit now, I have lost 1 Clematis and another is not so hot, so this sounds like a trip to the garden centre, that will set more temptations in my path as I look at the selection of plants.  But I must be strong and resist these temptations, and just replace my dead Clematis.

Just to show you how far I have got with this piece of stitching, it is certainly looking very crumpled, but nothing an iron can't cure.  I have just finished sewing my piece for the latest exchange with a tea party theme, just got to print out a favourite cake recipe that will be difficult as I love homemade cake.  I always feel very guilty if I haven't had time to bake and resort to buying shop cake, if I have visitors I just have to apologise for giving them shop cake.  We women are  never idle, we sew, bake, garden and if we have time do the housework.

This is a needlecase that Mo ( who is a member of the club that June and I belong to) made and gave one to each member of the club.  She is so kind, I love it!

I wanted to show you one Clematis that survived in my garden it is called 'Perle d'azure', it is climbing through a shrub called Winter Sweet (sorry don't know the latin name), this shrub just flowers in January and the scent is heavenly so my idea was that if I have a Clematis trailing through it, it won't be so boring in the summer.



This is a new climbing rose my DH bought earlier in the year it's called 'Sunrise', it has a great scent, there is a Honeysuckle right next to it so I get a double whammy of perfume.

A new craft shop has opened up near me I haven't been there yet, I bet June has.  I hope to get there on Wednesday, I first have to visit the opticians as the new glasses I had last week are not good, if I look through with just my right eye they're fine but from the left eye everything is just a blur.  I then have an appointment with the dentist had my 6 monthly checkup a couple of weeks ago which was ok, but now I am having problems, so it is best to get it sorted.  What an afternoon that is going to be, oh and I have to have a scan on Friday to check me out for kidney stones, so I am getting my moneys worth out of the NHS this week.  As you can guess the only thing I am really looking forward to is the craft shop.

Glad we have met up again, I'll try hard not to leave it so long next time.  Enjoy the summer weather and of course your stitching.  I love hearing from you all out there in blog land, so take care.