It is always so easy to make decisions from the comfy of an well worn comfortable arm chair.. ideas can be hairy fairy or hanging in the air...especially if your tic tok brain is locked in a battle to get the thread through the eye of the needle.

This week hubby faces a big decision...should I go or should I stay in working in the heat of the desert. It is the heat in the first place and all the stress that brought on his heart condition. It all boils down to health vs money. Easier said than done then to ask me what do I think?

Firstly, I am not inside his body. I am not the heart that is giving problems and want to jump out every time the heart rate goes up...he has to make the decision and him alone, so I will let him decide for himself, it is not up to me - Me? I will just sit quietly and try and get that darn yarn through the hole! My decisions are easy and comfy - should I put a pink or blue ribbon on a new created love heart ...It is crafty decisions and does not do my tic tok brain and strain or stress! But whilst sewing away I will pray for guidance for him from above and inner peace  / health  that no money or power in the world can buy. And I may I say peace to that♥

English Proverb 698:
(from the book : 1001 Things to make you smile from Marion Kaplinsky)


Whilst all this turmoil is going on, my fingers are steadily sewing away and I managed to finish a few more love hearts... we all have decisions to make, whether small / big or life changing, whatever it is - try and make the correct one♥

It is with a jump in my step that I get out of bed in the mornings now! (I deal with the aches and pains later...after I had my dose of caffeine). The sun is shining and spring has arrived! It is still a bit 'cold here and I cannot be brave enough to ditch the Winter duvet or any jumpers yet. It is just the lovely early morning and late light nights that bring hope in my heart for warmer weather.

My camera never leaves my side and I just love clicking away to capture the lovely blooms that sometimes only stay with us a while and they also inspire the colour chart in my heart.  Here are but a few I took this morning and hope you will drink them in, gaze at their beauty and enjoy them as much as I do. My tic tok hearts beats faster when I realise once again how wonderful nature is.

Yellow in its full splendour to make your spirits soar!

Friendly little faces smiling at you...

Red- the colour of warmth and love♥

It is with this lovely beauty around me that I cast my worries aside and throw myself totally into my crafts. In my little world where it is only me, my sewing machine and the the lovely flowers imprinted in my brain that I can escape into another world. A world where there is no hostility / anger / resentment / hate etc etc.

I just love colours and with my Free scraps project, more little hexagons were created and gives me peace of mind whilst I sit and sew under the blue skies and chilly wind...

A handful of colours thrown together- like nature ...

Almost enough to start the double bed spread!

Have a lovely week ahead and enjoy every minute of it. Escape into your own little world if things get too much and create something!


Luvvies
x

My my how does time fly! With the long winter that visited us (univited) if I may add, it feels like Spring and summer would not come at all, BUT the last week it arrived. Also arriving with it are thousands of little immigrants in the form of snails...they migrate from the neighbours into our yard.

On a sad note, my hubbie has not been well for some time and after a cardio version last Friday he has been running around for one week now just to get a letter to say he is fit to go back to work in Qatar. The specialist said: you must get a letter from your GP....The GP gave him a note..'fit to work' although she has not seen him...his work rejected it...the GP phoned him back and she will now 'write' to the specialist to get a letter from him to submit....in the meantime he is missing his flight back....looks like he is not going to go back at all by the looks of it as the 'heat stress' in the middle East caused all these problems...oh well...will patiently wait and see what happens next!  To add to all this...his one friend who he has known since 1977 passed away and he could not go to say good bye...All we can do without  raising the blood pressure and add to pressure is sit back and enjoy the birds singing in the trees and have a nice cuppa in true British Fashion♥

The garden has been an inspiration this last week and lots of time was spent in it ( a lot of time hand picking snails.....then 'offer' them to the birds who just LOVE them...(are they French)? Apart from the French Finch..hehehe

At last Spring has arrived♥♥♥

My little garden friends (hubbie hates them) also woke up and now I have someone to talk to again whilst gardening

In the meantime, to get rid of my stress levels (apart from collecting snails...) I have been working on my blanket, my 'Free' scraps project and made some more hexagons and some little love-hearts - all in the making

Little love hearts made from scraps - in the making♥♥♥

My crotchet project from scrap wool is almost finished... (was suppose to finish by January........)

More little hexagons see the light....

To lift my spirits, my grandson is making music for Nana♥♥♥

It was with great pleasure that I saw the sunshine this morning and decided to have a look to see how far my 'FREE project'' is getting on...it all started out with one little hexagon and I received so many pieces of 'free' scrap material from people that I decided to prove a point that you do not need oodles of boodles of pounds and pennies to create something.

Even a person with not a penny to the name can create by just asking for odd pieces of scrap material, just need one needle, a pair of scissors and some thread to start making something - there is no excuse! (the PC's are free to use at the local libraries for inspiration)

My project started out after I was challenged by the words - I have no money to make something -. I put myself in the shoes of a destitute person who has no money - just ask, and people are willing to share some off cuts with you and hey presto! By achieving something the inner soul gets renewed and inspiration brings hope, which we all need so badly these days! Apart from blue skies and lots of warm sunshine♥

Here is the project half way and I feel great knowing that I have made it, from 'nothing'.

I am half way there... anyone has any more  'scraps' lying around for me?

A mix up world of colours♥

Keep being inspired by other people's work of art!

An only a few more hundred to go....

Happy Crafting wherever you are with a song in your heart!

Luvvies

Singing and announcing that Spring is here!

Tree is in bud and doves are waiting for their brekkie♥

Odd bits sewed together with love....

Pieces of odd fabrics become something new...

My grand daughter Adile - busy with her art

Day Time  and Night Time Shell - wall hangings  painted by Adile

Visiting an art exhibition .....in Northampton to get more inspiration for creation♥♥♥ Grand children enjoying the 'art'

My little stall helper....out in the SUN!

Lovely little faces in the  garden last year - taken 06.04.2012 (this year.....but a few sad ones.....)

Taken 04.04.12 - This year...not a bud in sight

More colourful scraps of material

Cannot stop making them now in my spare time -BUT with a challenge - I ONLY use scraps - no machine work - only use the old fashioned needle, hands, and off cuts from all over - all made for 'free'. Soon it will become something, one day....it shows me one thing- you do not need money to make something especially in these 'hard times' when we all try to make a penny without spending a penny.......

A bit blurry...but 'readable'

My favourite quilt of the show....

Wow Wow Wow -Such lovely quilts....

Too many buttons and ribbons to choose from......