Varing shades of greens and textures that are found within the Forest

Over easter one of the items on the "to do list" was take the dogs for a good walk around the Forest of Dean.

This we managed albeit on a very soggy day but I did enjoy taking photographs and looking more closely at the textures, colours and freshness that we found on our trip and I think it was enhanced by the fact that it was raining as it made some of the colours "fresher looking".

New buds

Lime greens

Green Spruce

New Shoot of fresh green against the dark browns

My favourite picture of the twisted leaves

The leaves of the Bluebells

Blossom

Crisp White

Varying shades of browns and textures

Fresh green bamboo

Autumnal reds of Ivy in Spring!

Dogs enjoying the mud

This is Indie! The light was bad so I could not catch him running in the  conventional sense but I like this.

Blanket progress and spring garden.

Just wanted to do an update of both my blanket update and a visual of my garden too look back on.

Also a lovely Easter duck little brought home for me that he won in a Easter egg hunt.

Sorry for the mish mash of pictures do not seem to be able to edit layout of them when posting from iPad.

Easter table

Little Mr man is on school holidays having great fun with his pals which is lovely but I do miss spending time with him so I made an executive decision and have booked next Tuesday and Friday off to spend with him.

On Tuesday I am very excited as for anyone that watches BBC Countryfile will know about Adam's Farm which I love watching as it is a lovely place to visit and they are in the middle of lambing so will be awesome.

We are also hoping to take Indie and Willow to the Forest for a great run one day and down to Bream Sands another day, which will be such fun watching Indie meet the sea for the first time!

I am also looking forward to working on my crotchet blanket and my lovely kid silk cardi.

Also my folks will meet beautiful Indie for the first time which will be great. 

For those that have seen my Race for Life post I said Indie would be having a coat specially made, so here is my angel modelling it.

So hope everyone has an awesome weekend and I look forward to posting some pictures next week.

Anniversay and new goodie's

I had a lovely sit down last night catching up on loads of lovely blogs had not read for a while.  So inspirational it has to be said, to the point that I thought I would have a little up date of my own.

Today is the five year anniversary of meeting my beautiful now wife so bought her this card a little while back when me and the little fella went to Nature in Art

Recently I have finished my second pair of toe up socks from the Socks Toe Up by Wendy-Johnson using regia sock yarn designed by kaffe fassett I am really pleased with how they have turned out.

I am now working on a very girly lovely light flowing cardi for me cascade kid cardigan by Marelie Hurter but instead of using Kid Silk I am using Austermann by Meadow Yarn a lovely yarn company.

This is my progress so far

My lovely singer stand is looking awesome in the garden with my bulbs slowly coming up a pretty pinkish colour

Yesturday with the glourious weather we have been having over the last couple of weeks here I thought I would have a lovely half hour sit in the garden, (I find it very hard to sit still for long!)
But when I came to sit on my faithful recliner that is stored in the shed we found the seat part was rotting through and all the inside foam was falling everywhere.  So as I had recently sold some items on ebay I decided I would treat us and the garden to a new chair so headed off to Homebase.

I was chuffed to say the least as not only did I manage to get a new chair

But I managed to get the seat part which I could put on the old frame so now Mrs A-B can sit in the garden too or even Master H when he is about.

Just a little comment about the planter next to this chair.  Clever Mrs A-B got some pallets from work and made me a planter or two.  One holds my Daffodil, Tulip, Narcissi bulbs which is looking lovely at the moment.  We have one at the front of the house which has Lavender in and one which we use for fruit.  Such a great idea.

Finally just a little sneaky peak at my gorgeous kitchen painted wall again, still loving the painted house, with a home grown tulip on dislay.

Hope you like the post and thanks to Attic 24  According to Matt  Fabric and Flowers for your lovely blogs that in turn inspired me today.

If I don't post again for a little while have a great easter everyone.

Race For Life

Ok this is quite frankly shameless promotion but I don't mind it is for charity!

Me and my faithful lovely dog will be doing the 10K Race For Life on 1st of July and I want to raise as much money as I can.

Indie will be sporting a hand made pink coat which is being kindly made and generously donated by Kate of 3pusscats on Ebay. (Pictures to follow)

So please give generously and help us raise lots of money Race for Life

Freshly painted

Ok to some having rooms in your home professional painted is the norm, but not in my house.  So I wanted to share with you as (a) In love how amazing it has turned out and (b) I love the colours I picked.
We now have an impressive lovely green door, along with a gorgeous Lime Green hall, stairs and landing.
The kitchen is a rich Terracotta colour and all the wood work is gleaming shiny White.
The finishing touch to the kitchen is the loveliest kettle i've ever owed. It's a Breville and not only does the colour go, but it's sleak and glows in the dark!!

P.S. This blog was done via my phone and annoyingly I can not rotate pictures to be the correct way!

Preston-On-Wye, Hereford

Last weekend my partner and I had the joy of a long weekend away with the two dogs as little man was off on an awesome adventure to France.

We rented the most beautiful cottage which had everything and more you could ever need.  It was surrounded by countryside and half an hour from Hay-on-Wye the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains which has part of the Offas Dyke walk.

So here is a photographic imagery of our weekend.

For those who follow the progress of our puppy this is some nice shots to show just how big his paws are and how big he is getting, but oh so cuddly.

I managed to get a little crafting of the crotchet variety in with my never ending blanket!  I also could not resist taking a picture of some Welsh fleece blowing in the wind!

On the way back from our weekend we stopped off at a lovely walk in the Forest of Dean which is only a short trip from home.

Finally for those that know my family will know that we have been blessed with three truely and much loved dogs, with the fairly recent addition of Indie in October of last year.

However sadly our oldest and dearest dog Ebony passed away and is now watching over us have the time of her life with all her other doggy friends.  R.I.P. Ebony we love you dearly xxx