Busy old week :)

Hi every one :) sorry to have been so quiet but I was trying to post what I have been up to when the world of blog land collapsed on Wednesday nooooooooo :(
so this post could be quite long winded ... with a few photo's and I suggest you get your cuppa now hahahahah 

The Sampler Girl chart 

ok where to start mmmmmmm .....Monday tea time as getting ready to go to Bakewell on Tuesday  I was reading a post and remembered that Denise one of the ladies I was meeting on Tuesday always wanted to have a cup of tea with Gillie and I ... I promptly went into my sewing room .. pulled a chart out, a few threads and frantically started stitching.... yes I was mad ..lol ... I finished the said item and 8.11 am the following morning just before I got ready to set off .... and here it is :) I did the Sampler Girls chart a little tea if you please and stitched the hearts in red ,white and blue to remind her of her trip to see us erm I mean of coming to England ..lol
So to Tuesday .. I set off in good time the weather was nice and the journey down to Bakewell was a little eventful as I came of a junction early due to problems of road works and had a slightly different route than what I had driven before ho hum all in the adventures of a stitching mouse .......

Bakewell, Derbyshire

Bakewell is a lovely town and has a beautiful river that has trout in it so here is a view that I took :)
We all met up at the Wye needlecraft shop at eleven and went for something to eat and drink before we went back to the shop to browse and add some things to our baskets .... I must admit we weren't overly impressed with the hand dyed threads as there were a lot of empty spaces .... but ho hum 

stash :)

I did manage to get some gingham linen for a chart that I won the other week from barbara :) when I find her blog link will let you know .... it is very late here and I want to get this done while I remember heheheh  soooo here is my stash haul :)
We had a wonderful day Denise , Gillie and I and we rounded off the day going into the Lavender Tea rooms at Bakewell .... this is well worth a visit if you go there 

inside the tea room 

tea for three

 We had the most wonderful afternoon tea with a lavender bun , a cream scone and a Fabulous cup of tea in proper china tea cups in the court yard and boy did it go down well ..lol ... I can't post photos of us as I didn't ask permission of the ladies DOH !!! but I can show you the cream tea ......The inside of the tea rooms were full of china , pictures and the toilet was well worth a visit just to see how it was decorated ..lol .. they really did have taste as there was a sampler on the wall too ..:)
We had a fabulous time and was sorry to have to say good bye at the end of the day but we needed to get back to our homes and yep I had a detour on the way back too !!!! road works 

lavender cream tea

Wednesday DH and I went to sunny Lincolnshire on a mission to pick up some Fire engine doors from DH 's friend as they were needed for the weekends 999 show at the Doncaster Air Museum ..... 

They live right near an RAF base and the Typhoon planes kept going over our heads ... I tried to capture these but I only got dots ...lol  I will try harder next time heheheh

Thursday was spent taking DD2 to the dr's as she had a very bad ear infection and had to have the ear packed with antibiotics as well as going on them too ... so that meant a bit of too-ing and fro-ing as she was staying with her other half.... so I was mum's taxi service again ..lol 
while I was there go myself booked in and sorted out .. why not hahahah 
Friday mmmmm can't remember friday ..lol 
Saturday ... DD1  dd's friend and I went to a Mind Body and Spirit show .. it was very disappointing as they had moved venues with out us knowing and also there wasn't any of the stalls that DD wanted :( and they didn't have a new body or mind for me either :( hhahahah 

PIF from Tricia

OOOO but when I got back home the post man had been and left me a lovely packet all the way from Tricia  which was my PIF from her .... she stitched me a really cute scissor fob and attached it to some really wee scissors and included a snowman chart as she didn't want me to be upset as she hadn't stitched me a snowman ..lol and she put in a teabag :)
OK so if you are still with me not long to go ..lol

stash from Tricia 

Sunday I went to Manchester to see Karen and drop off her un official birthday present which she loved and I spent a lovely day yackking and drinking tea and getting lots of cuddles of Freddie (Karen's new furbaby)..... I got home from there after driving through fog and rain about 8.30 pm shattered :(


SSSSSoooooo you can see why it was a  busy old week and hopefully it will quieten down this week as got lots of catching up to do stitching wise not to mention trying to tidy the sewing room up as have been having a sort out and re arrange and so far it looks like I just had a whirling dervish in there ..lol
so there you go folks ... well done on keeping up hehehehe 
so I shall leave you in peace and take care and happy stitching till next time :)
love mouse xxxxxx