Lilley's handcrafted lovelies

a little bit of christmas...

...we had a fabulous, though of course slightly manic and crazily busy christmas week...

...I'm still trying to catch up with the all that festive business and get back on track, but I promise to be back here a bit more regularly soon!

this moment...

Inspired by SouleMama

In her words...

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

 

another hat for Milo...

...so he may not need any more hats, but I loved the colours in this yarn and I knew it would look fantastic in hat form!

The yarn was from my little collection of lovely yarns from snowberry and lime.  It was intended to be a christmas gift but I must admit it went straight on his head and has become a regular upon his head ever since.

He (like most babies I'm sure) went through a stage of detesting hats upon his head and would remove them constantly, but recently quite the opposite is true, he loves wearing hats now, I expect it has something to do with his now found ability to say 'hat' and to put it on his head himself (well sort of), plus, of course, his daddy is quite a hat wearer too!

You can see all the knitting details on ravelry here.

this moment...

Inspired by SouleMama

 

In her words...

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

 

this moment...

Inspired by SouleMama

In her words...

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

this moment...

Inspired by SouleMama

In her words...

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

foraging and preserving...

...wild plums...

...plus a sneaky apple and a nice big bag of brambles.

We got a rather hefty 3lbs worth, which has since made it's way into a rather tasty, slightly festive jam and a delicious plum loaf.

What a lot of delicious fun we had this weekend! I hope yours were as wonderful.

moving week(s)...

...well it's been over a week now since we moved all of our many pocessions from one house to another and we are still long way off being unpacked and organised!

But here's a little of what's been going on...

:: Milo started nursery and experienced his first real injury. 17 months we've kept him pristine and on his first morning away he manages to fall on to the edge of a toy box!

:: we had a perfect ending to our last day in the old house with the must beautiful double rainbow at sunset (only one rainbow pictured above, but there were two, promise).

:: of course there was the big move day itself, keeping a toddler entertained and away from hazardous boxes was a very difficult task.

:: craft night in took place on wednesday at it's new venue.  It was really really great and I'm already very much looking forward to the next one.

:: I managed to fall the entire height of our new staircase on saturday night (no drinking had been taking place I might add).  It was incredibly frightening I properly tumbled all the way down, but despite a few bruises and a suspected broken finger, which on discovering I could still knit was decided probably wasn't broken after all, I am completely fine.

:: I have been buying lots of flowers to distract from the masses of boxes and general untidiness of the house.  Johnny bought me the sunflowers after the ones I grew failed.  There is a florist at the end of our new street, I imagine this may become a problem.

:: having a safe-for-toddlers garden, means I have to spend a lot of time fishing green tomatoes out of Milo's mouth and sweeping up piles of compost which have kindly been removed from pots for me.  However watching him stomp around outside collecting stones and sticks and squealing with delight at the huge tree, make the very stressful moving business throughly worth it.

Right that is enough, unpacking distraction, for one morning xx

Hapa-Zome Jam Jar Covers...

...after making our delicious jam last week, Bethany, my niece, and I set about making the jars pretty.

Firstly we made some labels in various shapes and sizes and then we decided to add some lid covers, but not just any old fabric lid covers, oh no! 

We picked some violas and strawberry leaves from my garden, cut some cicles from an old pillowcase I had, grabbed the hammer and a chopping board and created some beautiful hapa-zome jar lid covers.

A had a go at this once before, you can see my original attempt here, and really enjoyed it but had yet to make anything actually functional with this technique so was glad to have a good use to put these too.  Plus it was lots of fun to do with a little helper.

a seaside holiday...

...here are a few snaps of our little seaside holiday...

It was really really wonderful indeed.  Sorry I've not been around since, I've had my niece staying with me this week, and entertaining a one year old and a 8 year old is a lot more work than I imagined!

Back at the weekend I promise!