Fridayness

Ahh Friday today and I am glad. Don't know about you, but for me it's been something of a loooong, tiring week. Thank you so much for all your get-well wishes of late, I really appreciate your lovely comments more than you may ever realise. I am still not quite right within myself, but I am beginning at least to feel the end might be in sight. My energy levels are still way below par though, and for someone like me who likes to bounce and skip through the days, I am finding this lack of energy very frustrating. But hey-ho, life could be so very much worse and I am pretty darn good at finding ways of cheering myself up.

Lemons is one of those cheering-up things :: nothing like the sight of a bowl of bright yellow citrus in the kitchen to lift the spirits. This afternoon I'm going to be making some homemade lemon drink, which I am hoping will be just the thing to refresh and revitalise.

I did manage to stop by the market today on my way home from school, and as well as the lemons I couldn't resist another little bundle of yellow goodness.

Fresh flowers always feature very highly on my list of get-well-soon remedies (along with chocolate and magazines), and oh these little daffs are just perfect picker-uppers, don't you think?

I remembered I had this yellow vase to put them in too. I found this vase in a corner of the cellar when we moved in to the house, it was covered in so much dirt and cobwebs that I did not know what colour it was until I gave it a wash. It seems the perfect vessel for a bunch of cheery daffs.

And talking of Perfect Vessels, I've recently taken to drinking my morning cup of coffee from this giant colourful mug. It's so impossibly happy this mug, so bright and cheerfully stripy that I cannot help but smile when I sit a while with my hands wrapped around it.

Yes, hot, frothy, chocolate-dusted coffee tastes reeeeeeeeeeallllllly good in this mug. 

You can see I have been sat stroking the cover of my latest issue of Country Living magazine this morning. You know the score, you know my ritual with this magazine, you know I can't possibly open the cover until tomorrow. I am enjoying the delicious, slightly agonising wait for this pleasure, because I think the Spring issues are my favourite ones of the whole year. I am very, very much looking forward to going in to these pages.

What else? You see a little crochet something?

What's that then, that stripy crochety thing on the table?

Why, that will be my current project, started on Wednesday.

A closer look?

Want to see what it is do you?

Want to know what my wirly-gig brain has come up with now?

Yes, stripy isn't it?

Delicious colours aren't they?

A Closer look?

Oh ok then..........

There you go, a closer look.

And nope, I'm sorry I'm not going to tell you any more about it just yet because I am not sure if it's going to work out yet or not. This is already the second attempt I've made at working this idea of mine, the first attempt went quite hideously wrong.

But maybe I might get time over the weekend to hook a little so I can show you more next week.

Have a great weekend one and all, stay warm and cosy and happy.

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Comments

[Gina]

Hello Lucy, I've just discovered your beautiful blog via Lucy Locket. Your Granny Flower patch cushion is gorgeous!

[Alicia]

Oh, you are a bad influence. I just subscribed to Country Living. I'd never really looked at the magazine until I started reading your blog. Bad, bad influence. :)

[Catherine G.]

3 days without you ... I miss you. I need to see your colours this is very helpfull for me. Would it be possible to have the pattern (in French perhaps, i am the french girl who have discovered you a few weeks ago) of your so colourfull things. Thank you for existing in the blogworld.
Catherine C.

[Nicola]

Hi Lucy,

Advice needed please! I'm looking to start off with a very easy thing....I want to make a cushion. I've been looking at some fabric on ebay (i'm trying to keep costs down and have sold a couple of things on ebay so have money in my paypal account) but don't know where to start really. Any help gratefully received. Thanks

Nicola x

[Nicola]

Hi Lucy, Glad to hear you are feeling a little better and hope by now you are back to full fitness. It's such a grey dull day here so the daffodils brightened it up for me! I've just been to shop for Sunday papers and they were selling some daffodils, I refrained from buying as I've decided to be thrifty and only take enough money to buy what I need, maybe tomorrow I'll pop back for them ha ha! Love the mug too! Hope you have had a fab weekend devouring the pages of CL.

Nicola xx

[Andrea]

LOVE those colours and cant wait to see what it is going to be!! Going to get my mag tomorrow, I havent got the stamina that you have and have it sat next to me and not be able to peak until Sunday, so it will just have to stay with its others pals on the shelf of Tescos until i collect it and bring it home with me tomorrow!! Have a Good week-end! x

[ines]

Lucy, I adore the colours and style of your mug. I cannot wait to see what you are creating....a mother daughter bag to match the other gorgeous one you made for yourself. My first guess was an oblong bowl(the lemons would look a picture in such a bowl) but I decided to follow other possibilities.
Regards
Ines

[jennifer mclachlan]

LOVEEEEEEE the stripey mug!!!

hope youre back to feeling 100% soon! xxx

[Mary Poppins]

I have a very similar ritual too :)

I purchased Real Homes and it has been on the Coffee table for two days, am yet to delve in :) Saturdays are such good days for reading yummy magazines I find

I think a bowl too, would look lovely with some lemons in, though what happens to the edges do they flop somewhat, a crafter I am not, can you tell :)

Love

Mary
X

[rebecca thorne]

I really look forward to reading your blog, such lovely photos, beautiful bright colours, you make me feel all bright and cheery on a gloomy day.
The daffs look great, looking forward to spring now and as for that mug, WOW! you must really look forward to your morning coffee.
Take care
Hugs
Beki xxxx

[Lucy Locket-Pocket]

Another lovely post Lucy! I saw it earlier when I first got home from work but there were lots of other distractions at the time and I decided to save it to savour later when I had more time - a bit like your Country Living magazine I suppose!!!!

Have a great weekend, Lucy Locket x

[rosepetaljam]

I am afraid I don't have your restraint chick and have just devoured CL over a glass of Coppella apple juice - heaven! There is something on page 11 that made me think of you... oooh see how I have made you want to read it even more! Go on... just page 11... one page can't hurt... :-)

Joy!

S x

[boo]

My favourite magazine, my favourite day of the week and a new crochet project from Attic24!! What could be nicer?!! Have a lovely weekend and hope next week finds you fully recovered. Bx

[Potiron]

PS by the way did I tell you I ADORE your Mug????

[Tami]

Lucy - I love coming to your colorful blog each day to see what you're up to. I too have a very similar ritual with my favorite magazines. I recently discovered the British version of CL and love it although I haven't got beyond the cover :-) Thank you for brightening my day.

[mandy]

right I must go out and get country living tomorrow, and I love the daffodils, I have not bought any yet this year, but they certainly do cheer the place up don't they!
have a lovely weekend.

[Bertie Meadows]

Hi Lucy, your home looks so bright and cheery, and it's been such a grey day to day. You're really teasing us, I haven't got my copy of CL yet. I hope your energy levels are topped up over the weekend.
Bertie x.

P.S. You are welcome anytime, but only if you bring your carrot cake! x

[Cat]

I've only just discovered CL and love it. May have to treat myself to a subscription. And don't those lovely yellow daffodils just cut through the cold of today - my neon roses from New Year are on their last legs and may have to be replaced with similar fleurs tomorrow. I hope it's a technicolour crochet bowl!

[A Thrifty Mrs]

Gorgeous colours. Love those daffs.

[simone]

Thank you for your regular posts Lucy despite not feeling too great. I hope your lemony drink perks you up a bit. I was pleasantly surprised to see Country Living magazine for sale in the shops today. I feel cheered up by just looking at its cover. Have a lovely weekend and I will tune in next week to see what the 'stripy crochety thing' is!

[hen]

Ooh, you little tease! Is that Rowan yarn the cotton DK you like? Where do you find nice colours because I have bought the bright pink and the acid green from Liberty and the duck egg from J Lewis and all the other colours are a bit pants. I particularly fancy that bright blue one...Anyway, I shall look forward to seeing what you produce...
Thanks for the message re the hexagon bag. Of course you must use the ribbony-clippy idea, I'm sure it's hardly original to me, anyway! In fact, I am reminded from the deep dark recesses of my brain, that my Orla Kiely handbag has the same thing, but she used elastic which is good 'cos it's obviously stretchy but unfortunately, pink elastic eludes me so ribbon it had to be in this instance.
Happy weekend.
Hen x

[julia]

My copy of CL plopped through the door this morning and it may have to wait until next week until it can be read - sob! Enjoy your weekend, I'm intrigued with that latest bit of stripiness!
Julia xx

[cathleen]

Well, good morning, sweet face! Glad you are feeling better. I can picture you happily putting your daffs in your pretty yellow vase and sipping that deliciously-luscious-looking coffee (ooh, sprinkled with cocoa...I might have to try that) out of your bright happy mug. I can tell by your post that your energy is bouncing back happily into your charming little soul. Enjoy your magazine, crochet and your weekend, Lucy.

[Linda]

Lovely cheery blog Lucy. What's the surprise article going to be? Pretty colours.

[Helen McGrath]

I think your blog is the most inspiring of all you always manage to brighten my day even of these cold dreary days just love your work kind regards Helen