Busy days

Gosh where has this week gone? I know I have been reasonably busy,  Sewing all day Wednesday -  Joshua's, family birthday party on Wednesday -  Supermarket shopping Friday plus the dreaded h/w (don't like to mention that here! so will whisper it - housework) , oh and Sarah came and cut my hair..........hooray! (I was begining to look like shaggy sheep ) and all day yesterday I was at the first lace day of the year........lovely day.......lots of folk I know and my special lacemaking friends to gossip with all day.

I have some photo's of Joshua's birthday party, when I down load them from my camera I will show them here, but no photo's of yesterdays outing - somehow I just forgot to take any.  There I have done them. The orange thing is another Lego cake made to eat at home.

Brian is gradually improving - thank goodness, but his leg and arm are still very weak, and his leg collapses under him sometimes.  He says he has to think about how he puts his foot to the ground before taking a step!  He has started doing exercises to strengthen the muscles and is swimming early every morning again.  I expect it will take some time to get back to normal - after all he was out of action and doped up to the eyebrows for over two months altogether.  I am finding it difficult to allow him to take over the reins again - I have done his chores as well as mine all the time he was ill.

He had a good day out with our sons yesterday - unfortunately Chelsea lost the first game at home for many many months..... but they had a good day any way.  Kevin has told me today that Dad had trouble walking from the car to the ground as they had to park a long way from the entrance and that he was getting cross with himself - his strength will come back slowly we have been told by the Doc. provided he does as he is told and excercises!

Birthdays

Although his birthday isn't till Thursday, Joshua had a party yesterday afternoon.  He shared the party with another 7 year old also named Joshua - Mummies then can share the cost! They went to a local play area called Little Angels.  It is like a giant climing frame made with metal rods (scaffold?) commando nets, rope walkways, bouncy castle like stuff, tubes, a plastic ball pit,  shutes and a massive slide. great fun if you are between 3 and 12.  After the fun they had chicken and chips in a basket and plenty of soft drinks.
Grown ups are not allowed on to the equipment unless it is to help a little one get up and down the steep steps and commando nets but I went on it.......hehe.......I just love slides and this one was superb! long and bumpy! My son-in-law was amazed that I had done this and I got away with it because I made Emily (4) take me to it and go down with me.......

Joshua was telling me the other day that he had lost anpther tooth and this photo shows that it was a bottom one - his two new top ones are growing well.  Don't they look funny when they have a gap in the front - we had been teasing him over Christmas about the top  gap but the teeth have grown so quickly.

Mummy Sarah made the cake - Joshua is obsessed with Lego so of course his cake had to be a lego brick! he loved it. I didn't get any as it was all eaten by the children but Sarah is making another identical for Thursday afternoon's tea, so we shall go and have some then.

Although I haven't been posting lately I have been busy,one of the quilts shown is now finished and the other is well on it's way. 

The bag I made in a few days and has been on it's first outing, I made the handles a lot longer than they are now and found that they were too long so I have altered them - I can still get them over my shoulder, so I am happy about that!

These little pin cushions have been mad using paint palets, circles of fabric, wadding and a hot glue gun! they are for friends of mine as pressies.

I have done quite a lot of sewing over the last couple of months as my DH has been so very poorly and has done nothing but sleep - he missed christmas totally as well as the New year celebrations - he is now on the mend but has to watch what he is doing as being inactive for so long has meant that he has lost o lot of strength .