FO Friday: Tux

Managed to do a fair amount of work on this while camping. Finally finished it this morning.

I think I'm going to add some fabric borders and make it into a small wallhanging.

Camping Trip

Despite the weather forecasts for the weekend, we went ahead as planned with our camping trip. It's not too far from home to just ditch and come home if it was really bad. It was our first real pitch with the new tent, the Vango Maritsa 500 (we got it far cheaper than this from Go Outdoors but they don't seem to have ti listed atm).

The campsite we went to was Holme Valley Camping & Caravan Park (yes, it's a v basic website!). We had a lovely time. I have to say that the owners were very friendly and helpful and the showers/toilets were always clean.

The ducks were a little over-friendly though...they ate our leftover curry that was sat outside :-o

We went into Holmfirth on the Saturday and there was lots going on. There was bunting all over the place

We went to Emma's Tea Parlour where Erin had a kids' afternoon tea, which comes with apple juice in a child's tea pot and her own cup and saucer. I thought this was a fantastic idea!

There was cake after too!

It happened to be Holmfirth Arts Festival and there were lots of free workshops in the market. Unfortunately the problem with doing lots of crafts is that I'd already done most of them. the only workshop I fancied was the rag rug one but it was a 2-hour workshop and we didn't have time. I also found I'd missed an evening with Kaffe Fassett. Whoever made the carrot cake that was on sale for 50p, it was delicious!

On Sunday we drove over to Hebden Bridge for a look around the shops and a wander. We bought some tea from a lovely shop; Hebden Tea.

I have been very busy

Unfortunately it doesn't involve a lot of crafting!

Last Tuesday was exam day. I can honestly say I have never felt that ill going into an exam. I think the kids had a bug over the weekend because Orla slept a lot on Sunday evening and Erin kept saying her tummy hurt. I spent some of Monday just sleeping and felt sick most of Tuesday. Luckily when I got into the exam I managed to focus. I finished early and was happy with what I'd done. Of course I'm now going over every tiny mistake - the exam paper is released a couple of days after the exam so I've been able to sit and look at it in detail.

This weekend we've been camping - I'll be doing a post on that soon! While camping I managed to do a little more work on Tux.

Other than that there hasn't been after craft until today when I whizzed up a few crocheted squares that are being donated to Woolly Hugs.

 

 

Finding Things In Cupboards

So I have an old treasure to share with you. This has been tucked away in the little alcove/doorless cupboard in our bedroom since we moved in as it didn't fit with the decor. Before I do though, I'm going to tell you the story behind it.

By coincidence someone on a forum today asked how everyone met their husband/partner and my somewhat amusing reply to this is always "I found him in a cupboard". This is usually followed by a long-winded explanation of how my housemates had invited him round to fix the server that lived in the cupboard next door to the bathroom and he happened to be there when I got back from lectures one day.

Anyway, we ended up moving in together during our final year at York University. It was a little terraced house near the racecourse and was a little unique. The first floor consisted of a bedroom and living room with a bathroom coming off the living room. There were also stairs from the living room into a light, bright attic room. Downstairs there was a galley kitchen at the back, a dining room complete with William Morris wallpaper and at the front of the house, a library! It was lovely; my favourite room. Walls lined with a random selection of old books, two old armchairs and a fireplace.

On a visit to my parents I happened to mention how much I wanted to 'inherit' the painting in their room and my mum told me to just take it. It's a few years ago now but iirc they were taking it down anyway and I told them not to get rid of it. Anyway, it came back to York with us and hung above the fireplace, in the library.

When we eventually moved away from York, it's never really gone with the style of house we've lived it. It still doesn't to be honest but when I came across it today we decided it would go up on the wall anyway.

The painting is The Road To Coniston by Claude Muncaster and my Dad bought it years ago when he married my Mum as his present to her.

What interesting finds have you had?