Dyeing with Rosie

Maisie and I spent an enjoyable afternoon with Rosie on Friday. Can you see the fun we had? Rosie had prepared all the post of delicious colours and after soaking our skeins of yarn in vinegary water we set to work with sponges and let the colours run riot! Not at all sure what we are going to make from this colourful yarn, maybe some socks? Have to wait and see...thank you Rosie, we loved every minute,including looking through your books and deciding that I needed to add even more to my wish list!

(click this image to see a multitude of minis!)

Yesterday we went to the Northampton Balloon Festival. It was wet and my photography was pants! I didn't see one balloon! I did enjoy seeing all these cute little Minis in one place though. Maisie and Amy had fun as usual, those two are great together, completely nuts! We went back to Amy's house for some tea. It was a bit tricky getting Maisie to leave Amy, but we managed it in the end......Maisie was fast asleep by the time we got home. Barry wanted to watch this film he had kept on about, so I made myself wake up a bit and I prepared to watch it with him. A boring old film it was too, something to do with Thomas a Beckett, not my cup of tea at all! Even more annoying was the fact that I had woken up and next to me was Barry, fast asleep and snoring! I switched the television off as I decided it was bedtime! ;^)

(Photograph by Barry)

Maisie and her friend Amy playing with the bubble machine...the batteries didn't last too long!

I am now in the process of sorting out the blue room. The blue room is our dumping ground and it's got out of hand. We have got visitors staying next weekend and we need to be able to open the bed that is folded in two in there right now. I have started but the bags that I had already tied up for recycling etc have to be opened to see what sort of recycling they are. What a shambles, I had put some strange items together in those bags, must have been going through a mad phase when I filled them. Still its good therapy and getting rid of stuff that brings me down is freeing my mind up so I can move into the next phase of my life with ease. I think it's going to be a long job but I'm keen, I like it when I'm keen, it doesn't happen too often. I'd really rather be knitting or sewing on the whole but again, if it gets sorted then the craft stuff is guilt free!

We're going to a BBQ later on today, the weather is dull and damp unfortunately but no doubt we'll enjoy the occasion, it's nice to get out and enjoy good food with friends.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend? I'd love to hear what you've been up to whilst I've been so busy!