We have hatchlings!

Look at what we found hiding in our apple tree!!!

Four snuggly baby blackbird hatchlings.

And a few days later...

Mummy bird swoops in with some snacks for them and the noise is like a concert of excited birds all cheeping at once. A hungry chorus.

 Beautiful.

Summer Loves

10 Things I Love About Summer...

✰ The first crop of tatties from the garden

✰ Reading a book, and sipping tea in the garden


✰ My summer Birkies!

✰ My two pixies, happily playing together

✰ Blackcurrants from my parents' garden, ready for jam-making


✰ Camping with friends


✰ Desserts with strawberries in them, like Eton Mess


✰ Offenbach streaming out of my iPod whilst I work

✰ My lovely husband and his thoughtfulness constantly


✰ The relatively easy life we lead and the freedom we have


Awesome.

Super juice

My pixies rarely get sick, but the biggest one has a sniffle. I know, sob sob. Her little eyes are streaming so I have given her the usual protocol we use: high-dose vitamin C, echinacea and elderberry, green vitamins, homeopathic prescription remedy for cold and flu and a snuggly blanket for the sofa.


Then, I usually give them a super smoothie, combined with juiced vegetables in it. They think it's a real treat, the lovely little weirdos.


Juiced carrot, broccoli, apple and pear, blended into a smoothie with banana, orange, blueberries and strawberries. I usually sneak in some hemp and flaxseed oil too.

= Super-charged pixies :-)

Wire jewellery tree

My quickie 30 minute no-children-around-to-interfere project.

A little tree to store and hold all those bits of jewellery that seem to get lost in drawers and small peoples' handbags.

I twisted some vintage green glass leaves onto the branches.

The Big Pixie is currently sorting through her jewellery stash (probably pilfered from mine...) to hang on the tree so I may need to make another one.

What is it?

NOT a willy warmer Sharon :)

It's a...

...mobile phone cover!

I got one of those modern phones - you know the type; the ones you don't need a larger bag to carry it around in :) It does all manner of cool things and is far more technical than my little head can comprehend. I can even email my work to and from clients. 

Of course, all I seem to do is mince about on the internet with it ;)

But I am prone to buggering phones up quickly, so I thought I better sort myself a cover out fast. Some snazzy James Brett Ripple DK and I found myself going all hooky. Quite sad for a Saturday night, but we'd had friends over the night before so I was glad of the snuggle-in-bed-with-a-DVD-and-crochet-hook session.

And a shiny vintage button to finish off. Perfect.