March 2010

Hello, and welcome to March, the month of Spring Things beginning to happen.

What?

A Little Late you say??

Hahaha, I know, you don't need to tell me, I do of course realise that we're actually into April today and I'm a whole big fat month late with my calender post (again). Kind of funny really, it's how I've been feeling this entire year so far. Like I'm constantly behind the times, clumsily trying to catch up with myself, tripping over the days and weeks as they speed by far too quickly.

But hey-ho, I'm quite ok with this trippy/belated state of affairs, I refuse to get stressy over it. I'll just be doing things in my own sweet slow way for the time being, I'm thinking of it as Attic24-time (ie pretty much a month out of synch with the rest of the world).

So would you like to have a little lookee at my March calendar pages before we allow April to step in?

The above beautiful image is from the Ideal Homes calendar, and is just gorgeous isn't it? Jugs of pretty Spring Blues, very inspiring and uplifting.

Here's The Bossy Calendar telling me to do floral prints and brighter colours :: right-oh then, I shall do my very best with that one. Although thinking about it, tis quite hard for me to go an awful lot brighter than I already do here in the Attic house. It's already pretty bright and breezy within my abode. Could try a bit of floral goodness though, couldn't I? Yes, I might just try that.

The above very pretty image has been hanging in my kitchen and is from the Prima calendar...the crockery up there is  not quite my cup of tea to be truthful, I prefer robust, slightly chunky handmade ceramics over delicate flowery china. Love those roses though.

And lastly this is March on the H&A calendar :: a light and airy room in pretty pinks and blues. A bit too grown up for me perhaps, I prefer my rooms to be a little more eclectic. A bit more messy and homespun.

March here in Lucy Land has been pretty good. We've had some jolly nice weather, almost spring-like at times. Many mornings have found me coming home from the school run and sitting outside in my little back yard, drinking coffee and eating something naughty-but-nice. I've just enough space to wheel the pushchair into the yard, manoeuvring the wheels between my big pots of Dead Things. Its been lovely to sit and breathe in the fresh early spring air with Little B sleeping beside me as I sip and munch.

I've been love-love-loving the Spring Issue magazines that were out during March, I think this is my favourite season in Magazine Wonderland. Such beautiful, inspiring, joyful images and subject matter, I just want to dive right into almost every page and skip about in the Springtime. I was reading this particular magazine (April issue of Country Homes) whilst milk tankering one quiet, sunny afternoon, I remember it well. I remember stroking those little feet (my boy is always kicking his little socks off) and ooohhing and aaahhing over the gorgeousness of the pages. Not a bad way to spend a gentle half hour.

Oh those little toes!! I thought you might like to see them again, personally speaking I just can't get enough of them.

March was the month for my clump of front garden snowdrops to do their thing. It was wonderful to watch them grow day after day, they gave me so much pleasure.

So pretty. All gone now mind you, their show is over for another year but they were much appreciated while they were here.

I bought some seeds a few weeks ago in a fit of early March Excitement. Not planted yet, as is my usual annual habit of buying them, admiring them, loving the packets, popping them into a bowl in the kitchen and forgetting about them until June. In fact, right now I couldn't for the life of me think where I have actually put these three packets, cos I don't think I've seen them in the kitchen anywhere. Ho hum, some things never change, despite such Good Intentions.

This was my Attic window view, taken On Time (yeeehaawww!) on the first day of March. I remember it being a lovely day :: bright and breezy with skuddy grey clouds and weak (but welcome) sunshine. Above photo in the Morning Light....

 

....and then again in the Afternoon Light.

I wonder how many pictures I've taken of this view in the two-point-three years that I've lived here? I never tire of it, it remains as magical now as it did when I first clapped eyes on it.

So March is no more, but it was a Good Month for me all in all. 

And do you know what?

I think April is going to be EVen Better.

Bring it on.

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edited to add :: the top picture of the pretty piggies is the March page on my Laura Ashley Kitchen Calendar, its my main "writing on" calendar which helps me try to remember not to forget!

Comments

[anita]

I've been meaning to leave a message on your blog just to say that I love it!
aahhhh and those baby toes....

[Shannon]

Loved seeing your calendar pics, and loved the little tooties even more! And what is the pig patchwork from? Adorable.

[frances]

Lucy, I wish you and all your family a very Happy Easter. What joy you bring not only to that family at 24, but also to your many readers.

I was just thinking as I began to read this post about the beauty of the way that you've shown us little B's fingers and toes, and then I read that those little toes also charm his mom. Well, they would.

Just bet that this Sunday will find all of the Attic 24 little people having a fine Easter.

xo

[Lezlie]

I couldn't stand it any more. Your creative crochet blog made me want to start my own. So I did! And I love it already! Thanks for sharing your life!

[sarita]

Ha, ha, I had to laugh when you said you didn't know if you could make your house any brighter. My best friend does tye-dye for a living and Everything and I mean everything in her house is brilliantly dyed..curtains, bedding, rugs, clothes, etc. Its everywhere. I just couldn't live there, but it makes her ever so happy...:)

[Jenni]

Oh I love your view!

[Rehaab Mabrouk]

Sempre visito seu blog, seus trabalhos e suas fotos são belíssimos!

Parabéns pelo bebê e muita saúde, paz e felicidades aos dois.

Salam,
Rehaab Mabrouk

[Libby]

Your calendar pics are so colorfully joyous - and how I love your Attic view and the sweet Little B feet! In the US, it is April Fools day, so your column began just right!

Hugs and feet squeezies from Libby

[Pom Pom]

Yum! That cinnamon bun looks delicious! Aren't flower seeds glorious?

[Attila]

Now I thought the H&A March calender pic was "me" through and through; does this mean I'm grown up?! Surely not!
Lovely chubby toes!

[Robbie]

I'm with you Lucy bring it on!!!!!! April we are ready!!!!! Thanks for the post, Robbie <3

[the raffia maffia]

Hmmn. Ideal Home magazines... well.. they make me grind my teeth in jealousy a bit. Lots of smug sods.. "Jocasta and Paulo ripped off the old wood chip paper and revealed the original 18th century panneling.. which was nice.."
Pfft. I usually rip off wood chip to reveal dry rot, actually.. Lol

[Lisa]

Hello Lucy.
I have recently found my way to your blog.
I just want to let you know that I enjoy it very much. It is very inspiring and also reminds me how wonderful England and the english people are. I was fortunate to spend 2 years in London some years ago...
Happy easter from Lisa (Denmark) :-)

[Halfway Crafter]

I don't mind if you're a month behind... time goes too quickly anyway!

[Laura Robison]

Love it all - the views in your calendar and from your attic...and those precious baby toes that we miss in our family....did i see a cup and plate that definitely have the Lucy flair....layers upon layers of bright colours?

[Debbie]

Happy Easter to you and your family Lucy, and you can show those yummy little toes as often as you like as far as I am concerned!

[Rhonda Texas USA]

Ohhhhh those are the sweetest, cutest, most perfect baby feet!

Don't worry about being late. I am very often behind in everything and wondering how time has flown so fast. :)

Rhonda

[Kimbles]

Gorgeous baby toes!

[a-m]

I've been meaning to leave you a comment for a while, but there are always so many for you to read already that I thought you'd never get to mine. Now I've decide that's a bit silly, so this is what I've been meaning to say:
Thank you for the colour, the fun, the tutorials, thank you for the beautiful views, the gorgeous flowers and of course the inspiration. It is very much appreciated! I'm not sure my waist line wants to thank you for tempting me with iced buns and other sweet treats, but ho hum. When I wander to your blog it's like visiting a friend, so I thought I should say hi!
I love the baby toes they took me back at least four years, it all seems to go so fast! Take care,
a-m

[Julia]

Hello Lucy
I am giggling at your seed story, I do the very same myself each year - how many packets do I drool over, buy, and then stick in a tin and forget about! Ha!!
The baby feet pictures just melt my very soul, I have a very big weak spot when it comes to tot feet and tiny toes - they're just perfect aren't they in all their chubby deliciousness!

Sending you love,
Julia x x x

[Mamalion]

Love the toes, and I cracked up laughing when you said 'Welcome to March!' I was right there with you! I had to stop a minute, because my birthday is 1 March, and I was thinking 'Oh, it's my birthday! Wait...no, it's not!' So lest you think you're the only one behind, I assure you you're not! I was *sure* it was 1 March!

[Tammy]

I ADORE baby toes and chubby little baby feet. So PRECIOUS! And I love, love, love color and all things crocheted. Those calendar pages are so inspiring! Happy new month to you. Many blessings, Tammy

[innovartencrochet]

Bello, feliz abril!!!!

[Rona]

Sounds like you are moving in time with mother earth! She hasn't twigged its April yet either!

[Nancy Richards]

Another great and inspiring post. Thanks.
And those feet, beautiful. I have a pair just like that, hers seem so smelly already!! she's only 1 year
!!!!
Nancy
Dry bright evening in cornwall