Happy Shepherd Hut Holiday Postcard

Mozzy Mr and I didn't go on a honeymoon, we're saving up for a deposit on a house (ahh the eternal struggle, right?) so instead decided to spend a couple nights in a shepherd's hut in Cornwall (specifically Moyles Farm near Wadebridge).  It was great.  The only tiny niggle was that we were surrounded by a large family of Bentley and Land Rover driving Tarquin's and Felix's who found us 'worker types' most interesting.  You can't have everything I suppose!

Our small, but perfectly formed home:

The all important supplies:

Juliet moment?

The beautiful Port Isaac, where scrumpy flavoured rock, vanilla fudge, flip flops, pasties, postcards, and gifts were purchased:

King Arthur's Stone (apparently) found in the Arthurian Legend centre, imagine: tin-roofed shed with amateur paintings of knights, mead, an enthusiastic sign maker with a laminate machine and procession of bored teenagers, that my friends equals an awesome day out:

Yo-yo blanket project didn't even get a look in, there was a pool table, and there was cider.



Holiday projects

As much as I truly loved crafting things for our wedding come the end I dreamt of projects that were totally wedding free.  So here is the beginning of project one of two that I am working on, a yo-yo blanket inspired endeavour (thinking placemats and coasters?) and the beauty of this project is that I can transport it with me whether I choose to roam. 

The fabric as ever is from Fabricworm.

The drunk ramblings of friends...

"Anna - you make the most beautiful bride and Sam, you are a lucky fellon"

"I actually factually love the both of you [...] Portland Street Soulies Rule!"

"Sunflowers, marriage and wonderful news,

A dress magnifique with mustard shoes,

Cupcakes and crochet, camping delight,

To see you together it's clear that it's right,

Wishing you love and a future that's joint,

Seeing your union somes up the 'point'"

"Hey Dudes! What a lovely day!  Thanks so much for the Widecombe badge, I've waited along time for one of those!"

"You bloody Gems! What a lovely vibe, entirely what it should be about!"

"To Auntie Anna, thank you for the tractor ride"

"Best wishes and lovely horses"

Holiday Postcards

This week we have mostly been enjoying beaches with little people:

Weird rain showers on a hot sunny beach:

And flowers, lots and lots of flowers:



I have also been playing around with new headers for my blog with thanks to A Thrifty Mrs for the tutorial, not sure this is the one I will settle for but at least it's no longer a blogger standard template.  Watch this space...

Wedding Day

After a year of planning, our wedding day finally arrived, the weather was good, things were casual, friends and family mingled......

..... the kids had their own dressing up yurt:

..... confetti bags were distributed:

..... we had a Portland Street reunion:

...Squeezes from family:

.... musical interludes from friends:

.... and some overindulgence:



What can I say?  Accept thank you to our family and friends for helping out and making the day as casual and fun as we wanted it to be, thank you to West Town Farm for an amazing location to celebrate, lovely smiley staff, gorgeous food and patience, thank you to our friends who came to the ceremony and lunchtime do, for mingling with strangers and making new friends, for showing our family exactly why we love you, thank you to my lovely bridesmaids for dancing like loons, and twirling for England, thank you to my mum for her tireless scouting of enamelware jugs, cake stands and for creating amazing floral displays, thank you to Colette for bringing to life my perfect wedding dress, thank you to Mary for knitting and crocheting some amazing flowers which just went down a storm, thank you to Lynne for fixing banners, making napkin rings and bringing a smile to the stressful preparations and thank you to my new husband for keeping me sane and for not judging my bourbon biscuit habit too harshly.

Yes actually, I will throw my toys out of the pram, and no I haven't found my shorts yet.

This week I have mostly been grumpy.  Which is wrong so near to getting married, but... the house is a mess, I veg pealed off a chunk of my nail that had just been manicured, we haven't sorted the music for the wedding, we haven't ordered the alcohol, I have to clean said messy house from top to bottom in preparation of impending relative invasion, and (!) I can't find my god damn shorts.  The house has eaten them and it's really annoying me.  So imagine me with the following look on my face:

It's mostly my fault the house is messy, I have unfinished craft projects all over the house:

and the allotment is taking up a lot of our time, with it being so dry my lovely plants are thirsty, the bounty is good though:

and to be fair I have finished the children's colouring-in books:



and Sam has finished the blackberry vodka, which is so so tasty, and therefore very dangerous!

My Lovely Menagerie

Let me tell you about my weekend.  It started with a half day's holiday on Friday, where I met Stoat and because I needed to shop for my niece's birthday present we encountered a 7ft Hagrid:

Stoat got a little over excited about the mega Sylvaninan Family rabbit:

Then on Saturday we embarked on my low key, and very awesome hen do, where in Make Art I made a lovely horse:

Ruthie went for a lovely stegosaurus:

Charlie a very lovely dinosaur:

Sadly I don't have a picture of Anne's lovely flip flop, but together we made quite the lovely menagerie.  There was another hen do at Make Art, they were dressed as superheroes, I feel I got a glimpse through the looking glass that night.  After much gin drinking and discussion about the Queen's tights the night ended.  And today I have gin head, I haven't been able to do much, just nice gentle activities like hand sewing banners for the Bar and Cake Table (note capital letters):

Still a way to go before they're finished but the hair of the dog wine is helping.