Well walk tea room

I visited the Well walk tea room in Cheltenham yesterday. It is fantastic, proper tea sets, real tablecloths and lots of lovely things to look at whilst you are eating!

I had cheese scone and soup and homemade lemonade. Next visit I will be having a slice of cake!

I was inspired to do some baking and made a cheese and tomato quiche (I looked a few different recipes and then put them all together with a few of my own touches) 

I also made some mushroom and stilton pies!

After reading Sue's blog over at The Quince Tree I had to make her crumbleberry cake - I used rhubarb instead f berries and added crushed nuts and oats to my crumble mix for the topping. It was delicious - I can't wait to make it again and might head out to pick some blackberries soon!

A mixed bag!

I have been so busy recently it has been hard to keep track of everything we have been doing! Here is a few of the things!

We had a really nice meal at the storyteller in Cheltenham - nachos ands the best refried beans ever to start! (I want to go back just for the starter again!)

Then I had vegetable fritters with bread, carrots and pickles! I forgot to take a picture of the pudding but I had a mixture of sorbets - they were delicious!

On Saturday we went to Bristol to have a wander around some of the cool independent shops and came across a bit of yarn bombing - the first I have seen in person!

This is one of my new camera purchases (I am actually falling behind with showing you them all I have acquired a few recently!

Then finally a present plant - with a fez and a moustache for our friends birthday. We enjoyed a BBQ saturday evening to celebrate! Hope you are all ok - I will do another catch up post soon!

Quick bag

I made this quick bag last week, I haven't sewn a project for a while and finally decided to do something! I made a simple pattern my self and made this bag - it is not perfect but I am pleased with it and I will try another one soon!

I used some of the beautiful fabric lexie gave me for the pocket.

And because it is me and I love silly things, I addd elephant fabric to the inside of the pocket - I love peeking in and seeing it there!

Hotel bowl and dish

Whilst out on my charity shop and car boot shopping trips I have found a few pieces of hotel ware - I really love this bowl and the stag (although I like to think of it as a reindeer) on it.

I would love to know which hotel it came from!

Then there was this little silver spoon from the royal hotel in Falmouth!

And a tiny glass jar!

Oh and in case any of yoy wanted to know the nail varnish I have been fashioning in the photos is avon nailwear pro in sea breeze!

Another walk

I have been trying to up my activity, so I have been going for walks in the evenings, well I decided to mix it up a bit and introduced the 'balancing a bottle of water on your head' trick to my walk! I got quite good at it ( a few people stared but oh well!)

I even managed it whilst on the rope climbing!! 

Whilst on the rope climbing frame, take a seat and watch the trains go by!

Walks and lovely friends

I recieved this lovely card and flat pack vase from Debi at puddleduck grange - she sent it to me so I could put some flowers from my next walk in it. We finally have had some dry evenings so I went on a little walk and just look at what I came back with!

I found lots of fairies (well that is what we always called them growing up)

But I also managed to find some lovely flowers in the hedgerow to fill my new vase, how lovely do they look sat on my craft table - certainly brightens it up. Also such a clever design - when it is not in use I can store it easily! Perfect - thank you so much Debi.

Camera collection

My camera collection has increased quite a bit recently! I have been lucky in a camera shop and at a car boot!

I added 2 more brownie cameras to my collection!

I really love the below one - one to just look good though - it is really difficult to find any film that isn't 35mm so I am now on the look out for cameras that take 35mm (and I can't resist a brownie!)