watching a small spider create a work of art

 

 

(and yes, that is actually sunshine sparkling off the strands of web) – summer has arrived here at last.

 

delighting in the beauty of flowers beginning to open

 

 

 

smiling at Toby having fun in the sun

 

and laughing at the collection of toys that have to go everywhere with him – it takes him a couple of trips to move them all each time!

 

And in between looking after home and family I've been sitting in the shade at the end of the garden and trying to finish off the pattern for the little pouch that I promised all of you lovely people back in April!

 

It's still in progress but hopefully will be done soon!

 

It's been mostly a happy, relaxing week now that summer has arrived properly. Hope you can say the same for your week too.

Lately I have been on a bit of a quest to find a new tea cup to use in the garden. A search brought on by something that happened a few weeks back when I was sitting at the end of the garden and noticed occassional ripples in my tea. When I looked closely I found that there were little pellets of caterpillar pooh plopping down from the grapevine overhead! For all I know this may be a delicacy in some corner of the world but I prefer my cuppa sans pooh thank you.

During my search I came across this little mug with it’s handy lid and it’s the perfect solution to a cup of tea full of caterpillar pooh, wind-blown leaves or other garden bits and pieces. I love it!

 

 

 

In fact I love it so much that I was prompted to make it a special coaster of it’s own. And since I am having some friends over for some chat and afternoon tea later in the month, I then thought it might be nice to make a set of coasters to pop our cups on and afterwards for them to take home with them.

 

I used the first 7 rounds of Attic 24’s crochet bag pattern, topped off with 1 row of single crochet (with no increases) worked in Rowan fine milk cotton (sadly just discontinued) with a 2.75mm hook.

 

 

I hope my friends like them, but if not there will be plenty of cake to enjoy. It’s a shame you can’t join us x