WE WILL TAKE HALF A DOZEN PLEASE. CALLOOH CALLAY !

Oh you are all very kind indeed - you have kept me going!  Thank you, thank you and thrice thank you.- apologies again for lack of replies...I am busy typing elsewhere and my fingers hurt with all that writing BUT I will reply eventually.  I think  also that the weather and gloom contrives against me.  However, when all said and done it is only a blog - I do keep that in perspective at all times....reduced to tears listening to reports from a certain country yesterday.....

 Spring is just around that corner - peeping round...can you see it?

 Perhaps a little premature....but here is something trying to be a bit cheery in nature (literally!)

We are so pleased with our new clutch.........

Our merry little brood....how clever we are to produce such wonderments (what enormous eggs for such little birds...)

Callooh callay....our best eggs today

So we took lots of photographs of them....

....and some other nice bits

More bulbs from Wilkinsons last November - end of range, cheapo,  but no one told the bulbs... so they  flower just like the full price ones !

These polys were a £1 the lot from Homebase - just needed deadheading and WATER (they were also selling wonderful pots of hyacinths for a pound - I reckon that if they have buds  then they are a good purchase)

The old vase below was given to me by my mum was I was about 15/16....I have had it a while.  Most birthday and Christmas presents that I remember were either of the homemade or secondhand variety.  As those presents are still around and used today they have proved to be very good value indeed don't you think. Though I confess to hankering for a Tressy doll I think that my childhood served me well in terms of fiscal management.

I was chuffed with the eggs which I made using the delightfully simple pattern from 'What Lola Wants' here

I rummaged through the basket used for : 'Very small bits of cloth that might come in handy one day if I hang on to them for long enough' basket.  Sure enough I was spoiled for choice in the fabric department so made lots and lots of them.

I particularly like the one centre front - made with some of my favourite 50s fabric. After the 'photo shoot'  I then made some Lucienne Day fabric eggs  : I was pleased that the tiny scraps could be made into something 'useful' (?).  An egg only takes five minutes at the most to make so you too can have a clutch in no time.

 The one below is a lucky egg.....a double yolker

Behind the scenes documentary.......

'Arthur, ARTHUR!  Look at this..she uses pegs to hold things up...I always thought that she had staff to do that sort of thing'.

'Very interesting Martha - I have always wanted to watch pegs holding up fabric..... '

O frabjous day indeed!

Today La Cootard is mainly:

Eating: Leftovers
Watching: Repeats AND GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE OF COURSE
Doing: Nothing