Little Things

 

Little things making me smile recently include:

♡ Teatime picnics on our fire escape balcony in the sunshine.

♡ Adding cup stitches to a current WIP. I love how they work so well with the stem stitch circles around the blobs in the fabric pattern, creating textured circles within circles. Plus they are fun to make!

♡ Completing thread cards ready to go into kits for upcoming sales events and to stock up my shops. Fire Flower II has been flying off the shelves recently so there is lots to do! The thread cards themselves take forever to make but I can't see any other way of getting so many colours into the kits so I'll have to keep on making them. 

♡ Guide meetings held outside in a local Division campsite. This particular site is in Chiddingly and, this time of year, is absolutely full of wild garlic releasing the most incredible scent! I love love love being surrounded by trees and woodland, with just the call of the birds and the cows in the field. And the happy shouts and cries from the Guides too, obviously. 

♡ Amazing sunsets out of our kitchen and living room windows. The view we have from the balcony is absolutely the best part about our home and especially at this time of year where we get to appreciate it with the long evenings. 

♡ It being warm enough, and light enough, to sit outside in the evenings to work on computer stuff. This photo in particular was from a newsletter writing night so; Friday night, PJs on, sat in the golden sunshine with Easter egg chocolate and a coffee. 

♡ Cheeky little snails. Toddler F is fascinated by snails at the moment and spends a lot of time searching in flower beds for them. This one was waving us off from my parents house one evening last week. 

♡ Working on April's ATC cards. The theme is Farmyard Friends and I've not given myself much time to complete these so am totally cheating with my sheep fabric. Even with the cheat they are still taking a while so I have them as my bus project and they are popping out all over the place!