Where has the time gone 10 years since this wonderful
gift arrived in our lives changing us for the better ...forever
Shelley sent this
The rest of the photos are from the annual
Birthday BBQ
Just noticed my finger!!!!!!!!!!
It is the girlies birthday tomorrow
She loves M&Ms and Kit Kats
Think she'll love her cake
Aimee was learning to play the violin through the school.
The teacher left a few months ago and hasn't been replaced
She loves music so the answer was to pick another instrument
Her mum managed to find a local teacher of the keyboard guitar and drums
She has chosen the drums
This is her at week six
She rocks does our girl
Our grandson loves superheroes
His grandad went to help create a bedroom for a superhero lover
Mum and Dad painted the room yesterday
Mum sourced the wall art on internet
Grandad and Dad put it up today
Mum dressed the room with new duvet cover curtains lampshade
and another couple of other pieces of wall art
The result is one happy chappie who can hardly wait to go to bed
I love old fashioned standard lamps.
Every home in the fifties and sixties seemed to have one.
Problem :- hubbie not so keen
A trip to Country Affair Kinross last weekend I spied one in the
corner, it was white with bumble bees painted on it with a mis- matched shade
Colin's face was a picture when I returned to the car with it.
Asked him to trust me and so another bit of recycling took place.
I forgot to take picture of the stand before I painted it
I striped the lampshade
Got lovely material at Rejects
Hey presto
I am delighted with it and looks great in the livingroom
The best bit Hubbie likes it too
It was a sad day today
It was the last day this beautiful old building would be used as a place of learning
It started off as Grange Secondary School (high school)
My grandad, mum and myself were educated there.
My mum and I had our primary education at St Johns Primary at that time it was
located in a building a few streets away from the Grange
The original had outside toilets and separate playgrounds for boys and girls
An increase in numbers resulted in St Johns being relocated to the Grange building
Our girls were educated at Claremont Primary
This is the school that St Johns is amalgamating with
Aimee has just finished P5 and Murray his pre school nursery at St Johns
The girl returned home today with her shirt signed by her school friends
as they are about to head to a new adventure in a brand new school
At 12.45 today St Johns had a closing ceremony and at 15:30 closed
its doors for the last time
I have to say I like our daughter and grandaughter found it a bit emotional
Oh and as a wee bit of extra info my mum was Dux of both schools
It's now onwards to Redwell Primary School
I do not like decorating
The pleasure some people get from paper and painting totally missed me
Hubbie isn't keen either and as I have said in the past he ends up wearing more paint
than ends up on the walls ceilings doors etc
The love of decorating doesn't get handed down through the genes either
Colin's Papa was a decorator to trade
Shelley our oldest girl works at Quarriers she emailed
to say she had helped paint a shed at work. A cold shiver
ran down my spine she has the same knack with a paint brush as her father
Ah but the girlie was prepared she is all ready to start
She makes me smile x
I finished the cushion made from Liberty 'Dorothy' fabric
I got from Colin at Christmas
I did a square of embroidery for the centre which I really like
It was also the nursery sports day
This is Murrays last year as he starts school in August
Mrs Goodman has been his nursery teacher for the past
two years. She has helped turn the wee teary shy boy into
a confident chap more than ready for school
Here they are today
Oh and Murray was delighted his mummy came 3rd in the 'Mummy' race
When I was out of action earlier in the year I had a lot of time
to think one of the things I did decide was to wear what I like and when
I made a full recovery I would do things that I enjoyed. One of my weaknesses
is I do tend to try to please people and worry about what people think of me.
Anyway when we finished the utility room and the study it freed up a room
upstairs that is now my wee crafty / relax room. It needs walls plastered and decorated
but I have decided it will be full of things I love so I busy making
things to go in it.
I so wanted a crochet blanket for the daybed in bright colours just everyone
that I knew while growing up granny used to have
So here are the 100 crochet squares just got to put them together now
P.S
The girlies got their hair done today if you look closely you can see the young girlies
red blue purple temporary streaks all prepared for Fridays school disco
Not the best photo was taken in the car
I needed something to keep my ongoing embroidery project in
A hunt about the house found a basket filled with pine cones
A wash and a swap around and hey presto something that
looks pretty and is practical
What to do with the pine cones?
Another swap around and they ended up in the fireplace
Only problem will be having to find somewhere to put them when the
winter arrives and we need to use the fire
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