A Right Royal Affair

Today was the day of the wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton. I got a wee bit excited, but it seems I was the only one in this house! Tilda spent the day dressed as a cat, Winnie started out in a posh frock, but it didn't last long. She slept all the way through the service then woke up with a new tooth!

Later on I got a Little Tikes horse on wheels for Winnie for £7.50 and a bottle of glitter paint for 20p in Asda. Bargains!

This is me dressed up as a daisy in the fancy dress competition at our street party for Charles & Di's wedding in '81!

I made a functional, but really unnatractive ipod holder for Tilda as the sound of it being dragged along the floor proved too much for me! Tilda chose the button.

We also heard the terribly sad news that one of Nyree's kittens, Lily, passed away in the night, so rest in peace, sweet little Water Lily.

Work In Progress (WIP) Wednesday!

This week, alongside the realta blanket, I'm also working on a Cassandra Shawl
using some Violet Green 4ply Merino.I've just completed the first of three sections.
This pic shows the pattern best;

and the colour is more accurate here;

Also, here are some more pics from the weekend.
My rolls which were ever so pretty but not entirely cooked

Pics from the barbecue on Monday

And here is Tilda on her way to the cinema with her ear-defenders. She lasted about 30 seconds before the noise became too much for her - she's going to try again when she's ten!

Oh my woolly word!!

Somebody has abducted my usually fairly pleasant 4 year old and replaced her with some sort of demon! She had the mother of all tantrums in Tesco - when I went to take her toy back to the shelf, I literally could hear her from the other end of the shop and its a Tesco EXTRA! I took her downstairs while Steve paid for it and had a good audience of tutting, smug, judgy onlookers for the ten minutes it took. When we eventually got home, she walked into the house and slammed the front door, locking us out. Luckily the kitchen window was open, but Steve knackered his shoulder in whilst climbing the gate. Here's Winnie waiting in the car for Steve to break in!

Behaviour didn't improve much for the rest of the day with lots of pointless destruction and fibbing. Hopefully I'll get my nice girl back tomorrow.
I put together all the various bits for Steve's demo doll - the head came from a B&M Bargains doll, the body and limbs were bought separately. Nyree  brought round the glass beads and polyprop beads to weight it with and I stuck them all together. The so far nameless doll, weighs approx 6.5lbs but feels so much heavier!

 

I also managed to put together a slip knot photo tutorial as well, so the day wasn't entirely wasted!