Yoo-hoooo!!!

Well hello!!

 

If you've dropped in to my blog by accident then a very warm welcome to you!  I've secured all of the exits so that you can't escape - well I have to have someone to listen to my whitterings don't I?!  Otherwise I shall be a very lonely blogger!!

 

I began this blog quite a while ago with all good intentions, unfortunately life got in the way as soon as I'd set it up and it quickly became neglected.

 

So I think I've now beaten 'life' into submission, I've rescued my little blog from it's high, dusty shelf, removed the cobwebs, given it a lick of paint - and apart from the flippin' title not sitting correctly on the prettyful title bar which I can't work out how to sort yet - Peapod Ponderings is ready to face the world once again!

 

Ta-dahhh!!

 

The door is flung open to welcome all visitors (mind the wet paint now!!) - just in time for my favourite season too!! Autumn!

 

Yum!! I feel that it's only fair to warn you that there is very likely to be mucho sighing and swooning from the Peapods camp once Mother Nature opens her paintbox and begins to apply her brushstrokes to the trees!

 

Well now.

 

I had a wondrous day yesterday.  I met Mommy Pod in town and we spend a lovely few hours browsing charity shops and looking for bargains.  I did quite well really.

 

I espied these beautiful little green glass sundae dishes hiding up on a shelf - as there were only five of them I'm guessing that the original set comprised half a dozen, but for £1.75 for all five of the little treasures then I couldn't leave them there could I?  Anyway - being "one sundae dish short of a set" seems quite fitting to the Peapod ethos - so home with me they came!

 

Wilkinsons still have some sale items dotted around the store and I was happy to find this lovely lantern for £3.00.  It's quite a large one and will be perfect for the garden now that the evenings are drawing in a little.  I do love having candle lanterns in the garden.

 

Oo!! And I got some bath mats - noodly (is that a word?) chenille ones for just £3.00 each too.  I'm not going to put them in the bathroom tho.  Oooh no.  I'm going to be all anarchic and use them as bedside rugs.  Something to wriggle our toes in upon awaking from one's slumbers. 

 

I also bought a new duvet cover - Oh dear.... I just cannot resist bed linen.  I never spend silly amounts on one set - I probably never spend more than £15.00 on a king size.   I did think that  this was a bit scrummy so I treated myself to it as a payday treat.

 

What made you smile yesterday?

 

Here are mine, in no particular order:-

 

• My early morning phone call from my lovely man when he got in from his night shift.  We speak on the phone about 6 times each day (yes I KNOW that might seem excessive but our relationship is only four months old!!! lol) but that first early morning one is always special for some reason.

• Buying breakfast (2 coffees, 2 bacon rolls) for Mum and I in Wetherspoons and paying the princely sum of just £3.00!!!

• My daughter's GCSE results which she was sooo worried and stressed about.  Thankfully she got the grades she needed to get into college next month so she's a happy girl and so is her (slightly relieved) Mum!

• Hearing the song "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira blasting out as a ring tone in the PDSA shop and looking up to see a woman of at least 75 years old sheepishly fishing a very smart looking mobile phone out from her shopping trolley!

 

Hmmm. 

 

I think I've whittered enough for one post don't you?!! 

 

In the words of Arnie... "I'll be back"

 

Have a wonderful day x

Hello there!

Welcome to my blog! Pull up a chair (no, not that one - the spring's gone!), there now... cuppa? choccie hobnob?? Comfortable? Good!! Glad you dropped by.

Peapods is the name of my house! So called because it's sooo small... we're very close to popping out of it! Still -it's cosy, compact and bijoux I guess!

So - what projects do you have on the go at the moment then? If you're like me then you're really good at beginning things............. and then get very easily distracted!! I'm convinced that I have a form of ADD!! That's Attention Deficit Di.... Ooh look!! A Fly!!!! hahaha.

I'll be ok - very industrious and focused on the piece I'm currently undertaking - until I see something else I want to try and find myself thinking... well.... I can come back to this project can't I?! i'll just "try" this new one just to see if I can do it!!

Hence why I still have cross stitch pieces which have about 100 stitches on them....... dating back 20 years or so!! The Princess of Procrastination. That's me!!

I've recently discovered crochet. Well... not 'discovered' it in the literal sense - just.. warmed to it!!

My dear old Nan tried SO many times to teach me to crochet to no avail. Then just a few weeks ago, inspired by the gorgeous items I'd seen on various blogs, I begged my Mum to try to teach me! Well... we sat in the shed on her allotment, and laughed til we cried at my efforts which only seemed to result in a lot of bad language and a pink woolly cobweb. I really did think there was no hope for me in the world of crochet.

Sniff.

But... I persevered.... and with the amazingly simple tutorials over at http://attic24.typepad.com/- the wool began to do what I wanted it too and lo and behold ... A GRANNY SQUARE was produced!! YAY!!! GO ME!!!!

And from that one little square.............grew these!!

Whoop Whoop!!

I know... It's very sad isn't it to get excited over a bit of knotted wool... but it's taken me 42 bloomin years to get this far!!! Let me have my 5 minutes of glory!!

This is a work in progress which will miraculously sew themselves into a throw for my friend's Xmas prezzie.

Well... they might.... unless of course another distraction comes along in the meantime.

OOPS!!!!!!

I'm just trying it out ok?........ y'know..... just to see if I can do it like..... I can always finish the other project another time can't I? Hmmm?

Ooh I can see the knowingly raised eyebrows from here!!!

See you soon!!!