Build a little birdhouse in your soul....

It's wet and cold and I don't feel like doing much at all.


After dropping number #1 son in town for his Warhammer club, I went to retrieve a parcel from the Royal Mail depot. Not the one I had been waiting on unfortunately, so have been unable to finish a customer order until it arrives.
Having quite a few problems with our post at the moment. Sometimes our first post isn't until 6pm and I am regularly carded when I am actually home, the postman just has't bothered to knock the door. Trips to the depot are always a bit of a risk too as they usually try to deliver another parcel while I am collecting the first one. Does anyone else have similar problems?

Took the little ones for a run around in the park to wear them out which worked a treat and gave me an hour or so to get on with an idea I have had for a birdhouse cushion, with colours inspired by our visit to Delapre Abbey.
I'm really pleased with how it turned out and the colour palette used. I haven't used blues much lately but was inspired by the colours in this beautiful walled garden.

I got to thinking about nostalgia and how images, music and smells can take us back in time.
In my final year at middle school, we went on an outward bound trip to Wales and I have many fond memories of that week spent with my friends before we all went off to our respective high schools in September.
One of the girls was really taken with 'They Might Be Giants' and their song 'Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul'. Any mention of birdhouses and I'm back there, so the embroidered words on the cushion were a natural progression and I think finish it off nicely. Would have been nice if I hadn't been so carried away with the idea and actually checked the wording before I started sewing. Discovered after some internet research by my husband that it is actually 'Make a little birdhouse in your soul'. Sigh. Evidently 11 year old girls have a unique poetic licence!

Buttons, Pond Monsters and Blueberries

First task of the day was a trip to buy buttons for a special cushion I am making for a customer order. I found the perfect button for a girly cushion in my button box, but unfortunately there was only one and the cushion requires two. Managed to find some more in my local market, so happily trotted off home and spent the rest of the morning enjoying the sun in my sewing room and messing about with the blog design.


After collecting the wee boys from the childminder we visited Delapre Abbey to explore the gardens. We discovered an old pond so covered in algae it really looked like a bright green swamp, so naturally the boys were entranced. Someone had chucked in a large log which made a perfect 'pond monster' and we spent a happy half hour throwing pine cones and calling to the monster who was very rude and did not answer once.
Poor Zakk managed to trip over and scrape his knee so we made a hasty retreat to the car and scoffed blueberries until he felt better.

Collected eldest son from school and was greeted with an abridged version of 'schools out for summer' Hooooray!! That means no coursework for him, and no coursework supervision for me! Yippeeeeee!