Angels and Popcorn

Isn't she lovely?

This beautiful Valentines Angel was sent to me by the lovely Thea of Hearts and Bluebells blog. I was lucky enough to win her giveaway and am delighted to welcome this lovely angel to our home.

She is made most beautifully, with lovely little details such as her pretty face with tiny choker round her neck and her little heart bag, and just look at those tiny sweet shoes!

Thank You Thea, she is adorable!

Do pop over and visit Thea's beautiful blog, you won't be disappointed!

And if that weren't generous enough, Thea also added a sweet heart tin filled with yummylicious Lindt chocs - only the tin remains now of course! 

Now it's empty, ideal for pins maybe?

On the crochet front, my good friend Jane at the flowerhouse showed me this book last week, and I couldn't resist buying it too - loving the hexie throw on the front, and there are lots of other temptingly good projects inside that I'd love to try.

Meanwhile, work slowly progresses in the evenings on the pink popcorn baby blanket

Thanks to all your helpful comments and ideas on my last crochet post, when I was feeling decidedly under the weather (thankyou for all your good wishes too - am now much much better thanks!), I now know where I'm heading with both the pink popcorn baby blanket and the blue/green tapestry cushion.

12 blocks in now, so still not that many, but now that I have added just one extra round of crochet (thanks Vivienne!) they measure a reasonable size, 4 1/2 inches. I may add a further round but until I decide how I'm going to join them then that may not be necessary.

Am going to aim for a blanket around 30" to 33" wide, so will be looking at 7 blocks across x 7 or 8 blocks long. 

So part way there then!

Even though I would love to be doing more crochet trims, I am trying to focus my crochet attention on the blanket, but have put one set of pillowcases into use on the bed.

This is the pile of books and magazines at the side of the bed!

Whilst the sun was out yesterday morning, I decided to have a quick potter in the greenhouse where I found some hyacinth bulbs, forgotten since last winter.

As they had happily emerged sitting in nothing other than air (the bulbs above), and some others still sitting in the packet were also showing signs of life, I popped them into some compost in the hope that it is not too late for them to flower.

The moss was provided by the lawn, which is currently more moss than grass!

Logan enjoying some sunshine.........

I also potted up a couple of pots for the porch................

Have a happy and sunny weekend everyone, and thank you for all your lovely comments on my last few posts!