Dolly's Dreamings

Back to normal

Thankfully we are both negative and seem to have few after effects of Covid. However, we have agreed we do NOT want it again so will resume life with caution again.

 

We have had a couple f lovely walks and were down at the beach by 9.30 today and it was glorious. Yesterday I had my cancelled dentist check u which was all fine and I took my latest blankets to the drop off point for Ukraine - they were blankets number 6,7,8,9,10 and 11 and I collected wool for another half a dozen. The people were very kind and very impressed with them. They are not my cup of tea as they are very plain and not a pettern I would choose but they are the only pattern where I can get a full blanket and pretty trim from 3 balls of wool.

 

I make some from wool I buy, some from donated wool and my best friend bought wool for another two blankets too. I wanted them t be pretty because these poor people have nothing and I thought maybe rather than just a plain blanket they might bring a little joy and let them know someone is thinking of them and praying for them.

 

 

 

 

The flowers are very plain. I would like to have added beads for centres but not safe for babies.

 

I have also done some scrapping over the last two days - not for anything other than joy

 

This uses the new Cocoa Vanilla Storyteller and showcases the boyz and reminds us how it was dreadful before we got them sorted out on the right food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and this uses the new Simple Stories Vintage lakeside which I love too

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• being better
• a good dentist visit
• being able to help others
• new collections

 

Quiet days but lovely

Almost a week pain free - I am a happy happy lady

Life is good

 

Days have been quiet but lovely. Walks and even a trip into our local town (which we didn't like but we needed things)

 

I finished a huge project - a crochet blanket for our bedroom and I am really pleased with it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is the same as the red one (which obviously doesn't do with the bedroom) and I am aiming to sell it for just a little more than the cost of the wool. I am also now making one for my cousin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have also been scrapping a lot - much of which I cannot share until tomorrow but I can share these

 

me and a giant sunflower at Morten

 

 

My scrappy team mates and I on our weekly zoom call where we chat and set and share challenges

 

a whole field of sunflowers - I was so happy

 

 and another for the birthday album - pims o'clock

 

Today I am thankful for

• continuing pain free
• binge watching The West Wing
• black russians - we hadn't had one for ages - they are so delicious

 

and today's share - these are all the work of an amazing makeup artist. I can't believe they are makeup and not just phtoshopped. What talent to do this

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Lockdown project

Well at times I thought this day might never come - but it has and I am thrilled and saddened at the same time.

I started a lockdown blanket back in March. I have only been crocheting for under a year and have tended to make simple things. I have made s scarf and three blankets all based on simple squares - a sunflower blanket, a bright patchwork style blanket and a simple one using wool I happened to have. But when I saw this blanket pattern and wool I fell in love and had no idea that it was absolutely NOT for beginners and was very complicated. I swear I have made it almost twice as there has been so much I had to undo and redo. But I have loved the challenge and it has filled my evenings and been so exciting as it has grown. So now I am thrilled it is finished but also sad it is finished and am planning to make another one!

 

I am in the pictures just for size reference. It's a big old blanket and I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with it.

 

 

It is so soft and so beautifully dimensional and lumpy with popcorn stitches and backwards stitches (no idea what they are really called) and I absolutely love it and I am sad it is done.

 

I am also sad but also relieved that we have cancelled our holiday today. We were off to the USA again later int he year to explore the National Parks in Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and California and are now staying firmly at home. It was the only sensible decision and I feel relieved we have now made it . And I am doubly thrilled that we didn't lose a penny.

 

Today I am thankful for

• finishing a big project
• feeling accomplished
• making a tough decision but the right one

 

 

and today I share teeny tiny pencil lead sculptures - just WOW!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Friday Greetings

I was so grateful for technology this morning - as I am every day - as obviously I couldn't go to church today and Good Friday is always absolutely key for me but I could stream my worship and celebrate and meditate at home. Technology is wonderful and we are blessed to have it at the moment most of all, as without it we are even more isolated. We are able to have visual calls with family and friends, keep in touch with communities we belong to on social media, stream news and worship, puzzles and games, books and newspapers. It is keeping us in touch and I feel so sorry for the people who do not have this, especially the elderly.

 

The weather has been gorgeous and we have been spending a  lot of time on the balcony. Nigel did the shopping - oh my goodness that is an ordeal we both hate, and we have enjoyed our daily walks. People are still driving to walk on the heath but I have to say there are fewer. However the news remails worrying, the death rate is still rising, and we are scared. We try hard not to be, but we are and we only really feel safe in our own home.

I have been scrapping again though and whilst I cannot share some of the things that I have made I can share the things I have made with the free products from A Trip Down Memory Lane - this month they were Bloom Street by Paige Evans - Pink Paislee papers.

 

 

 

 

 

This was the euphoric moment that Nigel fetched our first small shop from Asda - amazing that shopping brings us such relief when it is over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also finished this lockdown project which has been thoroughly catscanned

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• technology
• streamed acts of worship
• sunshine
• Kira's continued healing