W'I'P's (have to be careful what I write!)*** and weekend wanders

Morning my dears, hope you all had lovely weekends, ours whizzed by so fast that Youngest asked for another Sunday, we wholeheartedly agreed with him but sadly were not able to grant his wish xxx

A little while ago, I took part in a Pay It Forward with Stuff 'n' Bits  and as part of the 'game' you have to send on gifts to five bloggers who read your own blog.  I made these a little while ago but didn't post any pictures until I knew every one had received their pressie as I wanted to keep the surprise :)

I made little pincushions, each one slightly different - I only took photos of the one as my camera battery went flat and it takes so lo-o-o-o-ong to charge that I posted them before I remembered to take any more pictures!

I great fun making these :)

***Last time I wrote about my W ork In P rogress, I was inundated with some rather unsavoury sites, erhem don't want that happening again - hehehehehehe 

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Sunday had us reaching for our boots and waterproofs. We'd promised both our boys that we could go out on the hills and they could each take a friend.  With one eye on the steely grey sky we set out. It was a bit of a pull as Himself had parked in a sheltered valley and the footpath took us directly to the top of the hills.

We all puffed a little, especially one our walkers who isn't as fit as the other boys, but he cheerfully kept up.

Once at the top, the farmland became open moorland, where every inch of marshy boggy tussocky ground had been transformed into a magical, fluffy floating mattress of white cotton grass.  It was wonderful - I couldn't stop taking pictures. The wind whipped the little cotton heads back and forth and the area seemed to flow up and down in white billowing waves.

I don't think I have ever seen the cotton grass so abundant and so early as we did this weekend - it was beautiful.

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Thank you for all your comments both horrified and encouraging regarding my moment of temporary madness and a pair of sharp scissors!

I have to share that the blanket is now all better, the ends are woven in and the excess has been wound into little balls and are already being used up.

I do get these moments of recklessness where even I wonder what on earth possessed me to do it, but fortunately I do seem to have survive most of these 'leap off the edge' moments.



All for now, I am sure I could waffle on a bit more, but seeing I have lots of chores to sort out, I better get on with them :) Lovely chatting with you and speak to you soon from my little corner of the world xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx