ATTICUS AND HEDGES

 

Atticus is relieved to finally be changed out of the Santa suit ! Yes I know it's the last day of February but in truth if this set had not arrived in the post from Michelle, he'd probably still be in it !

Atticus is standing near all the bits of branches from our neighbours hedge !

Our neighbour reduced his hedge height a few years back and all was well , however his  gardeners 

complained that they couldn't reach the top!! Don't think they had heard of ladders or attachments or even scaffold boards ! Finally last year his new gardeners gave him a price to reduce it down again and he and us have been waiting ever since for it to happen ! In that time it's now about seven foot above the original cut back and like a row of mini trees on top of the hedge.

Paul's been nagging him on and off, the gardener's been making excuses so finally , the neighbour came round to borrow our chainsaw !

So Paul told him he'd give him a hand as we didn't want him hurting himself by trying to do it on his own.

This is what just two pieces look like that came down on our side ! And they were too heavy for Paul to move without cutting for some branches.

and of course they managed to break a love clay pot that had tulip bulbs just starting to appear ! 

So a gap is appearing, they stopped for a few hours and for Paul to have a look at the chainsaw which had started playing up.

So about ten foot done , although needs tidying up once all down. The tall green in the centre is his hedge the other side, which is nothing to do with us and he'll need to chase up his gardeners about .

So just another seventy foot to go !! And that's after we cut the hedge back to the fence line to put up our fence a few years back ! Maybe his gardeners will turn up?  Mm I doubt it, well not until they can say, sorry there are birds nesting so we'll have to wait !

and this is my flower garden !  Mutter mutter !

"Come on mum it will be worth it in the end " say Atticus " let's go have a cuppa, you know it will make it all seem better "

KNIT ONE PURL ONE !

 So you may remember I decided to make up some goodie bags for this tenth and final Chat n Snap event that will take place in October.

Well having done a deal with my sister Michelle, to make me lots of  lovely cardigans for the dolls, I decided to make some hats to add to the bags. Michelle's been making me twelve at a time and sending them to me and I gave her a target of forty but gave myself a total of fifty. 

Now don't panic ! Bea at the top of the page is wearing a prototype I'm trying using a pattern for a larger doll, needs a tweak or three first ! 

I now have thirty six cardigans in a lovely range of colours. 

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Now we've seen all the ones made so far, I've picked another three shades of lilac, two blues and a peach.

Some of the hats I've made.

Now it is supposed to be one cardie and one hat. But of course that would be too easy. Now I have fifty hats , I find I cannot just put any old colour hat in with any old colour cardigan. 

So I've been seeing which hats go better with which cardigans.

starting to see which goes with which.

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a little change here and there, can you spot them? 

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So there a couple of cardigans that I don't have hats to completement with at the moment and another six cardigans will arrive next month, so may need another couple. However I do have lots of hats already made and plans for more, plus plenty of wool to look through to hopefully find a few matches.