It's been a good year for the roses.....and the peonies.....and the poppies....lots of pictures..... mainly of exactly the same thing!!!!!

Welcome to new followers - come on in and stay awhile.

Still have not blog visited ("No -  but you had time to write this"...."Not really, this was written a week or so ago and then I added in some extras from the weekend")

As always could I please ask that my photos stay here - I notice a few straying and being stripped of belonging to my good self which is a shame...

I cannot begin to tell you how much pleasure our teeny tiny garden gives us ("I think that she has forgotten that she has told us that already..." Brad in Baltimore)

I bought this old flower vase many years ago from a jumble sale - it usually lives in the garden shed.....along with some other vases.....

Can you smell these - take a big sniff!

These peonies and my favourite rose do not last very long - just a day or so.  This little white rose is extra special for me - I will do a post just about this rose! All the flowers seen here originated from my mum's garden many years ago (not these particular flowers - that would be daft!!!!!!!).

We are merely custodians.....

Change of setting....

Please switch to another channel if this is now a bit boring.

"A BIT!!"  Nigella in South Ken...

Just showing the top bit of this container - beautifully shaped openings for each flower

Of all the photographs that I have ever taken I think that these might be some of my favourites (family excluded of course!)

How I love the folds. pleats, ruffles and crimps

 Go and get your best rose hat if you really must!

My dear old hat slowly falling apart sadly

Sort of fitting in with the posting brief..... I have plonked these photographs here too:  I bought these two old cushion covers from the car boot on Sunday - a bit rough and ready and frayed but only 50p. I turned one into a purse as a gift for my manager as she has supported me in my studies for the past two years (to become a fellow of the Higher Academic Academy...for what it's worth!).

"Jenny you really know how to splash the cash and spoil someone......" Albert in Alberta.  That's a bit cheeky Albert!  I am possibly a bit tight fisted....in a good way.....'saving in order to be able to spend' sort of way......it's the thought that counts.....

 Anyway by the afternoon it had gone from this (note the big stain toward the bottom...after washing still there):

Real roses sneaking in....

 Moved indoors for the sewing process....oh dearie me....should have tidied up first of course.....

Hang on a minute .....this WAS after a tidy up!!!   Have I mentioned before that I am partial to a bit of colour and pattern.............

 Enough already....

Those plates (plastic, vintage Melaware) were left out after camping the other weekend - sometimes it takes a while to put things away and I don't know why they are in this room in the first place!!!! What the heck is going on!!!

Sew, sew, zip, zip - all done...

To this.....

 Bottom admiration always encouraged - thank you!

  Partial to top stitching as usual

Could you please admire my bottom....

Tra la  la
Fiddle dee dee
Roses are the thing for me....

'Grow the roses...those rosy roses...grow the roses of success'....

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