it's been a while

Well, where to start. I didn't intend to be away for such a long time but the last few months have been quite challenging to say the least.

Not much sewing has happened (although I did manage to finish a Christmas table topper).

I spent August in France with my family and it was wonderful to be together again. 5 weeks of fantastic weather and loads of yummy food made it very difficult to go back to rainy Ireland!!!

September came and went, as October and we are now heading for winter and Christmas!!!

As a family we'll be facing some difficult decisions over the next few weeks. Some that I will share with you and hope for some advice. At the moment I am just grateful to have a loving husband, a fantastic son and amazing family and friends.

No picture because our laptop died but hopefully soon.

Hope all is well in blog land, I missed you!

Lots of Love

Peggy

HOLIDAYS

I have neglected this little blog. I didn't think that the holidays would take me away from the computer. but it has! so I just wanted to leave a quick note than I'll be back in September. Hopefully refreshed and eager to start again.

Hope you have a great holiday!!!

Peggy

Baby it's cold outside!!!

Hey there, hope all is well with all of you. We are just back from a small break in the south of France.
With all the rain we 've had in May, I decided that enough was enough and booked this little trip hoping to warm up my auld bones and soaked as much sun as possible. Well little did I know that it wasn't meant to be!!!
You would think that going to the south of france you would be guaranted sunshine and warm temp. Well no,you would be wrong and more wrong. It was the worst weather they had experienced for the last 10 weeks!!!! I know they needed water as the heat apparently had been unbearable ( wish I could vouched for this). Anyway it rained the whole time we were there; it even snowed in the Alps and the Pyreenes!!!
The worst part: Ireland had a heat wave!!talk about bad luck. Of course as we landed back in Dublin and made our way back up to Donegal the rain started again and it hasn't stopped.!! I feel like crying!!!

Yesterday was particularly bad (weather wise) and we spent the day doing this:

Jack's new addiction!!! I suppose it could be worst. But I wish somebody would notify Mother Nature that it is now summer in Ireland and that we have enough of this rain and low temperature.

Right I am away to work on my Dear Jane.

Take Care

Peggy

google reader 1000+

Hi, hope all well with all my blogland friend. I know it has been a while but I have had few problems with computer. It hadn't been working well for the last few months. Unfortunately I did nothing to fix it and as you can imagine it kind of died!! the truth is that is was riddled with virus and despite the best effort from my computer geek neighbour it is still not working right. So that's the reason why I haven't been around lately!

I opened my google reader yesterday and there are over 1000+ posts to catch up on. It is overwhelming!! part of me wants to read them all to catch on what has been happenning, the other part just want to click the "read button".

Jack at a recent birthday party. He didn't want to wear the party hat and foud this tiara instead!!!

On top of that my phone decided to play up last week end so I had to get a new one. Good news ii it is an I phone 4!!! (Yeah) Bad news I have to enter manually all my phone numbers as you can transfer them through the sim card. Apparently the sim cards are different!!!

Gosh I hate technology!!! It make me feel so helpless at time. So that what I'll be doing this week end.

What about you any plan?

Today

Today I:

- danced on the coffee table

- played peek-a-boo

- looked for a monster

- watched the rain fall

- played nurse

- finished quilting a new baby quilt (hi to baby Tiernan)

What are you doing today??

PS: My new fab addiction is pinterest. Go and check it out!! check my boards and become a follower too :))))

I needed another bag so I made one!!

I made this bag using the pattern from Kim & Kris at the Diy Dish  . It was so quick and easy to make.

Well actually the hardest was to pick the fabric (I know it is from moda but can't remember the name. sorry)!!!

I think this is exactly what I need now that spring is here! Well it was here up until yesterday. Now the rain has decided to make a comeback!!!Typical!!

I love kids'birthday party + a no sew scarf!

Hope you had a great week end. It was very busy for us.

Well first we inflicted our bodies with a sugar overdose!

yeah I love kids ' birthday party.(Jack was invited to his second birthday party in 3 weeks) 

-It gives me permission to eat as much sweets, cakes...as I want ;)))

-Plus it would be rude not too. .

-And I really could live with myself with all the waste and leftovers!!

I am sure you all agree with me.

I also managed to do this:

Please forgive me the picture isn't great I was in a rush. Please also excuse the old t-shirt and the paint stains . It was sunday and I don't get dress on a sunday!!! But I do get a shower though!!

I love scarf. I didn't always. But since moving to Ireland well it has become one of my must have fashion item. I got the link here http://www.peasandcrayons.com/2011/01/diy-shredded-jersey-scarf-part-2.html. I tried on an old t-shirt ( ok yes I got it from the rag bag! ) I just didn't want to ruin one of my great t-shirt!!! (like the one on the picture)

Anyway it took me less than 5 minutes to do this and that included looking for a full size t-shirt out of the rag bag.

I am going to try in different colours. I love it  Try it. So easy, quick.

Have a great

Peggy