Wednesday 12 September 2012

retracing my footsteps

The children are both back to school, (thankfully the poorly one was better by Monday, thanks for the get well wishes) and the professorial house guest has left (having had a lovely time at the pub and learnt all about English beers!), and so with a little quiet time and by mentally retracing my footsteps I have managed to account for some of the lost time of the last few weeks.

At the end of the summer I was lucky enough to meet up with some blog friends. Lisa wrote the most delightful post about her trip to Alnmouth, I feel like I've been reading Lisa's blogs for ever and it was lovely to finally meet her, and her boys, who I recognised immediately. Lisa had come to meet Thimbleanna, who stopped off on her tour of England in Barter Books, which is the perfect place to sit, and chat, and feed your children giant cookies. It was a real pleasure to meet them both, and the time flew by far too fast. I was treated to the cutest ever bunny - who is inexplicably upside down! and a charm pack of gorgeously festive fabrics, must start planning a little project.


The plan for the next meet up was hatched over a glass of bubbly at Kew Gardens,  and after what seemed like months of planning The Coffee Lady and her lattes came to play. Realising we hadn't taken any photos we had a  "workshop" photoshoot,


which in reality was more like several days of tea, laughter, lego, fairies, food, wine


 fabric, cat worshipping, mahoosive scones, and even the odd cup of coffee!

Now I've found those 3 weeks, I'd really quite like to go and relive them all over again.....
next year perhaps....


17 comments:

  1. OOO that's cute fabric off Anna, glad you found your 3 weeks xx

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  2. Ooh, Christmas fabrics are gorgeous. It'll be here before we know it! J x

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  3. What a lovely time you sound like you have had. T x

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  4. Ah, bloggy friends in real life! Lovely stuff : )

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  5. Can't wait to see what you do with that pretty fabric!

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  6. You've been soooooo busy. It must have been wonderful meeting up with your blog friends.
    x

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  7. Oh, if only it could happen again next year! It was wonderful to meet you! Btw, I keep forgetting to tell you, I only used an initial for your son's name -- not because I couldn't remember his name but because I couldn't remember you actually using their names out "here". ;-D

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  8. Ah, lovely blog meeting, just the best thing ever. Time to plan another mahoosive meet up for next year maybe?

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  9. Such fun meeting blog friends...wonderful, Tess! I've met two blog friend for real over the years, such fun. LOVE seeing all the craft goodness behind the scenes. :o) Happy Days ((HUGS))

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  10. Tess, you must know just about everyone in blogland by now!
    Happy weekend xox

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  11. I spy an Amish basket...

    Envious of your fun time with the Coffee Gang, but if I had been there I would have eaten all the cake and done none of the sewing... xo

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  12. Doesn't blogging introduce you to the most lovely people, some of whom, marvellously, become good friends. Glad you found your missing days :)

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  13. Glad to hear everyone is feeling well, back to school, and sorted out. I had one home from school last week too. Its nice when routine is able to set in. Your meeting sounds lovely, looking forward to seeing your projects!

    Janine

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  14. I've met some local fellow bloggers too this year and it's been great. We should all have some sort of bloggers convention somewhere in the middle of the country with gallons of tea and cakes! xCathy

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  15. Oh meeting up with such lovely people, what a treat.

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  16. That sounds like so much fun! The best thing about blogging is the friends you make along the way.

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