My day in pictures

This post is sort of inspired by the lovely Kim's 'Morning, Noon and Night' posts over at Mothering with Mindfulness. It was going to be 3 peeks into my day, but on looking through my photos, predictably, I can't narrow it down so it's just going to be my day in photos - with a few gaps, most notably around food preparation and eating times when the camera got forgotten, we didn't have anything too exciting to eat today so not to worry!

8.30am, after seeing Theo off for his first day back at school (insert very glum face and unfortunately no photos allowed!), Venetia and I headed out to pick blackberries on our drive, since the farmer down the road was about to come and give the hedges a drastic haircut.

It was a gorgeous morning with beauties of nature all around us, my photos really don't do justice to them.

This is the first punnet of blackberries that I'm actually managing to put in the freezer. I have picked so many over the past few weeks but the gannets keep eating them!

Just in time, here he comes!

I picked plenty enough to be enjoyed for breakfast as well.

Mid morning and a little bit of last minute name tag sewing into shirts - yawn!

Since my thread was the right colour I had a quick switch to some, marginally, more interesting sewing - I've been quietly cutting out these finger and hand puppet blanks whilst watching the last couple of 'Bake Offs' - and it's my first Christmas present making, woohoo! Since the girls love painting and drawing on fabric I've been trying to think of possible makes to incorporate this, and blank puppets seemed a good and simple idea.

I love puppets of all kinds anyway...

So I'm really looking forward to seeing what these will become with a little bit of their imaginations, and how they might then play with them, hopefully together.

After an early lunch we made the most of the lovely, late sunshine we're enjoying and hit the beach, literally!

The sand was beautifully fine and hot.

But the sea was even more inviting.

Sam and Venetia took control of the camera for some underwater fun, slightly hit and miss!

An underwater smile!

Strange hair!

 

And then a fast forward to this evening with some hand sewing of binding, on this wool quilt, while we all catch up on the Bake Off for this week. I now have custard tarts in my head - maybe a blackberry one would work?

I wasn't allowed to take photos of the boys glued to it, but here are my 2 girls, fresh from a bath, snuggled up together watching it, and most definitely not tired, not tired at all! Maria was asleep 5 minutes after taking this.

Goodnight,

Sally.