Birthday Gnomes ... and a Trip to the Seaside

Well, friends, I am finally recovered after a long week of illness which started on Good Friday morning and left me in bed for four days and on the sofa for a further three days. I'm glad it's over and I'm ready to put it behind me. During that time I did little apart from a jigsaw which was a recent gift from my new friend, Jan (thank you again Jan !). Lovely Hubby and I worked on it together and finished it in 3 days (we did nothing else during those days !).

Fortunately I was able to celebrate my birthday in style yesterday. The day started with breakfast in bed followed by a lazy opening of cards and gifts before heading off to Osmotherley for lunch. We went to The Three Tuns which was always our favourite pub and I enjoyed a gourmet burger with some chilled Pinot Noir.

Here are a selection of pics from my day. I'm thrilled with my gnomes :) 

As the girls didn't get any proper walks whilst I was off sick we decided to take them to the seaside today and headed off to Runswick Bay early this morning. It was bitterly cold but the sun shone in between the clouds and we had a good dry day. 

When we got home we were all tired out and much in need of a pot of tea and slice (or two !) of cake.

I have a few jobs to do tomorrow and then back to work on Tuesday. I'm anticipating a tough week as my boss was on holiday last week while I was off sick so there will be an inordinate amount of work to get through. Nevermind, four days and it'll be the weekend again!

I hope you all have a lovely week.

Fiona x

Getting Ready for Easter

It has been another busy couple of weeks for us but this weekend I have found time to relax and do absolutely nothing, as well as making a few preparations for Easter.

Our Easter tree is looking lovely thanks to my sweet friend Khira in Finland who sent me these gorgeous yellow and cream felt Easter rabbit decorations. They have just finished the tree off nicely.

This morning I was busy making these chocolate cornflake Easter nest cakes to take to work. I made 12 but I don't suppose they will survive much past eleven o'clock when everyone makes their coffee !

It's been a good week for vintage finds:- a sweet little cottage shaped teapot by Sadler and some darling plates as well as some classic children's books (which were only 20p each !).

I'm currently reading The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe and even though I read it when I was small, I can't remember any of it.

It's my birthday on 2nd April and Lovely Hubby told me to get myself something as he didn't know what to buy for me, so I went off this morning in search of Cath Kidston's latest gnome salt and pepper shakers. I found them :) And also got some more pretty teaspoons. Lovely Hubby has strict instructions to wrap them up before my birthday. I will take pictures on the day of opening !

Finally, I had to share these lovely free range eggs with you. We buy them from a farm about 8 miles north of here and often there are double yolkers. Look at the size of these!

It's a lovely short week this week at work - only three days again. Amen to that. I can't believe Easter has rolled around again already.

Have a great week everyone, whatever your plans are.

Fiona x