Planning Me Time

Yay, it's nearly Friday.

I always look forward to Friday as it means no more work till next week, for me, and the weekend is nearly here.

This week I'm sooo excited though, as I have a plan for tomorrow.
My extra work day means I am suffering from a lack of pottering/crafting/me time these days. So this week I have been plotting and preparing to make sure tomorrow I can spend the WHOLE day doing just that ( don't tell Mr BM ! )

I've done an online shop , so I don't have to waste any of my precious craft day in the supermarket.
I've also done extra house work so I won't feel too guilty about indulging myself .

I was actually hoping for rain ! I love being snuggled up indoors when it's pouring outside.
Looks like it is going to be another exceptionally nice day, if the forecast is correct. Never mind, I was out and about yesterday, admiring the gorgeous autumn scenes. The freshly planted crops looked so spring like......



And the villages looked very pretty in the sunshine......




So I won't be sad to be indoors tomorrow.

I've also been preparing by sewing in the ends on my circles........



And buying white yarn, 5 balls is probably excessive but at £1.19 a ball ,from The Range , it's not going to break the bank.....



I can't wait to start joining my circles , to see what they look like with a white border. I'll be joining as I go , great tutorial for this method here.

Yes , I'll be drinking lots of tea, hooking away , and checking out my favourite blogs. As well as looking at all the great inspiration here .

I'll be taking photos to share with you lovelies , so pop back soon to see the results of my hooky day :0)
Jacquie x

Squashes, Piles and Pies

Ummm, that's about the weirdest post title I've come up with so far!

Hope your week has got off to a good start. I've got loads I want to share ,again, but not much time so I'll get on with it ,shall I ?

The squashes in the title of this post is actually one squash, this one....



Picked up with my shopping , I think it looks lovely with the sunflowers rescued from our rainy garden..........



Here's a close up of the sunflower, got to love these too .......





Next to piles......piles of brightly coloured circles.........



I've got 120 now. I've been making them in groups of three similar colours over the weekend. Meet Blues and purples.....



Orange and greens..........



Blue,pink,red...........



Yellows and greens.....



and my personal favourite Pinks and turquoise.........




I'm thinking I may have made enough now, no maths involved , just guess work :0)

I want to add a wide border like I did for this smaller blanket I made earlier this year.....



This is my favourite thing of all time that I have made,it's inspired by Lucy at Attic 24.



As you can see from the picture it's not big enough to cover our bed , I wish it was. So these lovely piles are destined to become a double bed sized blanket.
I've used brighter colours this time and I'm planning to join them with white.....



Now quickly onto the pies. Another misleading title, as there are no pies yet !
Just several jars of this .......



Homemade mincemeat. I followed this recipe . It was very simple, the boys did a lot of the work.......




I'm hopeing it makes some great pies when the time comes. Maybe it will become a BM household tradition. Speaking of the Festive season, I've also joined my first swap !
Yes Hooking with La La's secret santa swap was just too tempting.......

Have a great week, speak again soon .
Jacquie x