New Blog on the Block!

My very dear friend, Jo, from Serendipitous Stitching has come up with another brilliant idea. 

Was she going to let a little thing like the closing of a magazine, Cross Stitch Collection Magazine stop her from enjoying her favourite section, Blogger of the Month?

NO, SHE WASN'T! 

So, we now have a new blog on the block  - Blogger of the Week - run by the overbrimming-with-talent dear Jo herself.

She has sent some questionnaires out to various bloggers and the blog will feature one interview per week.  

Jo, really wants to feature both old and new bloggers, so please do contact her via the new blog if you would like to be included.

The first Blogger is already being featured.  So, please click on the link below to see who it is (and, who knows, I may be lucky enough to be featured one day soon - lol!)

On another note, I would like to congratulate Jo for being a runner up at the British Craft Awards.

She is such a wonderful blogger and stitcher and is definitely one of my greatest inspirations in both fields as well as having become one of my very bestest online friends (maybe one day we will get to meet in person, Jo).  So, I am absolutely thrilled that she has received some well-deserved recognition.

Congratulations, my very dear friend.

hugs, 

Summer Postcard Blog Hop

As usual, the wonderful Jo from Serendipitous Stitching always makes blogging so much fun for us all with her Blog Hops.  The current one is the Summer Postcard Blog Hop.

My postcard is from Sharon of Shebafudge:

 "Our garden has always been important to us.  When we lived in a 2 up, 2 down terrace with a tiny back yard, we filled it with pots to bring colour.  When we moved to our current address we cut all the conifers down and planted clematis, honeysuckle and climbing roses against the fence with all sorts of things in the one bed we had.  The yard has filled over the years with a variety of pots, plants, bulbs and baskets. 

Colin used to enter the Gardening Competition run by the local council and won 2nd prize one year and 1st prize the following year.  Sadly this fell foul of cuts and is no longer run.  Then we branched out into growing our own fruit and vegetables whilst we waited for an allotment to become free - 3 years we waited for our allotment!  

My favourite flowers include fuchsias (probably my most favourite EVER!), sweet peas, carnations, roses, lilies, irises and clematis to name a few.  I love anything that is highly scented.

This year our garden has gone absolutely mad!  There is one area on the way to the car whereby you can only JUST get through without brushing past the plants.  Considering this is supposed to be the full width of the house, that's not bad!  My favourite plant in the garden at the moment is the Potato Tree. This has grown this year, boy has it grown!  It is now the same height as the garage roof and about 8 feet across and probably 6 feet out into the garden.  It is covered in a mass of little blue flowers with bright yellow centres (http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/97176/Potato-tree-Glasnevin/Details)"

Ooh, I wonder who will get mine?  My garden is in Winter at the moment so no beautiful flowers to show in my garden like Sharon's.  However, Spring is around the corner!

hugs,