Time flies

I can't believe that it is so long since I last wrote on my blog!

The weather is much better at the moment than it has been of late, we are actually having a lttle sun. It's amazing how much better you feel if the sun is shining!

I went to art class this morning and we focussed on painting skies. I started out with a blue wash, and tried the 'sponging off' technique, to create clouds, and I also tried (using wet - in - wet technique) to run colours in together, and that worked very well. my teacher was complimentary about my 'loose' painting! But it is amazing how much the colour of the paint changes when it's dry. What looked quite strong when wet faded almost to nothing when it was dry.

Last night I did a little more to the quilt I have been making on and off for several months. It is a piece (almost all) of a child's pink gingham curtain, which I bought from a charity shop. It has the most delightful pictures of child-friendly insects, you know the kind, the ones with faces, and they're smiling at you! I cut off the faded part of the fabric and I have surface-decorated the insects, some with beads, some with colourful buttons and some with stitching patterns, then I quilted around the shapes. Finally, I am putting a plain pink border around the whole. I'm in two minds about whether to create some butterfly shapes with stitching around the border. I'll see how I feel when the border is actually finished.

The DD's wedding is 'coming along' ok. We have sorted out the reference for people who know already that they are invited and who need to book rooms at the hotel where the reception is being held. We ourselves have had to book an executive family room in order to accommodate us and the grandchildren! I have had to chivvy DD to visit florists in order to secure the wedding date, even if we don't know for sure the exact flower requirements. I am making the cake myself, as I really can't justify paying the cost of a shop bought one - even with discount from M&S it would be a shocking expense. And considering that everyone is so complimentary about my Christmas cake each year, I'm sure I could make a very acceptable set of cakes to stack as a wedding cake.

Granny will be moving house in March. She has been offered, and has accepted, a new build Housing Association bungalow at Darfield. It won't be ready until March, I'm not sure if there has been any delay with the severe winter weather we have experienced. It will be wrench for her in some ways, I'm sure, with this having been the home which she shared with her husband for thirty years, and where she raised three children. But the move will allow her to have a mobility scooter, and this will give her the freedom she has been denied for the last couple of years. We are going to visit her tomorrow, and we will drive out to see the area where the bungalow is for ourselves.