Monday 9 February 2015

Allsorts

Friday was a day made for Violet Beauregarde because it was Bubblegum day. I chose to mark this day by wearing a pink cardigan and pink necklace to work. The plastic baubles in the necklace reminded me of gobstopper sized balls of gum.
 

We had a couple of options for things to do over the weekend and decided to start Saturday off with a walk. Our destination was Lakeside at Eastleigh. Despite it being quite close by I've only been there once before. This was with my sister and T when he was 3, so quite a while ago! We walked around the lake, the edges  of which were populated by patient fishermen.



The lake is bordered on one side by a small wooded area which is where we spotted this tree. The opening at the bottom most surely be someone's front door. Could it be for a family of squirrels, like this little chap who was scampering around.


I love the texture of these stone gabions providing the border around a herb garden. I remember first seeing them on an episode of Grand Designs.


Back home I used the excuse of it being Ballet Day to make a ballerina from my Pinterest board with S. S went for a blue multi layered tutu whereas I chose the more traditional look for my green one. The blonde ballerina was made by S for a work colleague who loves the ballet and asked if S would make one for her when I told her what I was hoping we would be doing.


Sunday morning G, T and S all woke up not feeling 100% with sore throats and the potential for colds to be brewing. Plans to go out were shelved which was fine as I had plenty to do indoors.
I wanted to complete a couple more crafty ideas from Pinterest to decorate the dining room in readiness for Valentine's Day. The first involved using the hearts from a couple of packs of cards and red ribbon which I then strung across the mirror.


I bought a dictionary from a charity shop specifically to cut up and use for this next one. I cut out definitions of words such as nest, love, embrace, depend,  and adore and using a craft punch cut out a heartshape from each. I then sellotaped them to a length of twine and hung this one from the dresser.
Both simple but effective.



11 comments:

  1. A good weekend was had by all! Hope the shivers and colds have passed now, and I love the valentine's decorations!

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  2. Lovely ideas! I hope everyone is feeling better soon.

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  3. love the dictionary bunting ! You do some lovely activities x

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  4. I hope everyone's feeling better, I know there's lots of bugs doing the rounds at the moment. Bubblegum Day and Ballet Day, who knew such things existed. I love the ballerinas, and the valentine decorations, great ideas.

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  5. I've got back into pinterest again after closing my account a while back. It is so addictive! I love your playing card bunting. I hope that everyone is feeling better. x

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  7. That playing card bunting is such a great idea! I hope you're all well now - it's been a week of colds and germs in this house too. x

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  8. I so can see you in that pink cardi brightening up everyon'es day. I love the fact you know that it is bubblegum day - or do you just make these things up? hahaha xxx

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  9. Oh what fun ideas you have for decorations and your bubble gum pink ensemble is really gorgeous!!x

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  10. And of course, just as you are getting ready for half term everyone gets ill! Typical.x

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