April 2011

When I was out in the park gathering twigs for my hooky hearts a little while ago, I ended up with a few too many. Rather than sling them out, I popped them into little water filled glass bottles/jars and dotted them about the house on windowsills. Slowly over the past few weeks, the buds have begun to open and unfurl and I have been amazed. Truly. How wonderful Nature is, its ace!!! The above twig is in the bathroom and is a cherry....ooooooo there are buds, there are buds!! And soon enough there may even be blossom!! My very own Bathroom Blossom!!!!

These twigs are on my kitchen windowsill, the leaf buds were tight shut when I first put them there, but now they are in full flow and it's like having a mini tree growing indoors. The green of fresh new leaves is sooooooooooooo beautiful, it's wonderfully vibrant and I love it. I'm so glad that here in my patch we are well and truly into the Spring season now, I adore this time of year.

April, April, I could blow you a thousand kisses just for being you!! Isn't the above picture so impossibly pretty? Its from the Ideal Home calendar, beautifully inspiring as ever. I think I will copy this sweet idea and pop some blooms into egg shells this Easter. I've got quite a few egg cups about the place, I'll try and round them up in preparation.

This is the April page on my Laura Ashley calendar, reminding us that Easter time will be coming soon and I for one Cannot Wait. I love Easter. Love decorating for it and celebrating it, but best of all I love that every Easter we jaunt down to visit my folks by the sea. I've missed the sea so much, I'm craving it. I'm writing this and in my head I'm reciting bits of that Sea Poem, you know the one..."I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied..." Yeah, I feel it a-calling for sure. No, not going to deny it either. Take me to it.

I purchased Eggs last week, of the mini speckled chocolate variety, nom-nom I have a huge weakness for these little things. It's marvelous to have a glass jar of these loitering about the place to provide a welcome chocolate hit when the need arises. It's been quite a frequent need this week, I always crave chocolate when the stress levels rise :: by stress I mean the low-grade variety caused by Small People with Very High Temperatures. Little B is coming through a very horrid cold/virussy thing combined with cutting his pre-molars, ouch. He has been utterly miserable, poor mite. Chocolate eggs have been entirely necessary (for me, not him).

Talking of Little B....I am happy to announce that he is now a fully fledged Toddler, complete with the most cutesome little buckle-up boy shoes. He took his first tentative toddling steps about three weeks ago and it has been absolutely joyful for all concerned. We've not walked far outside yet, just up and down our street a bit, with some daily pottering about in the back yard. I've taught him how to handle a sweeping brush and how to stack flower pots and how to pass me pegs as I hang out the laundry, so it's all good. We like pottering outside together, I foresee much of that going on this Spring.

A couple new purchases for April, I do like to treat myself to a wee Supermarket Sweep every so often. I bought a new mug which is almost my Ultimate Favourite Colour of All Time but not quite. It's a bit more duck-egg than Tiffany, but it's spotty and fresh and spring-like and I like it. I also bought some more paper napkins (darn-it I forgot to photo them, they are printed like red n white gingham check, very pretty)....

.....and new light Spring/Summer cotton rosie jammies. I fell in love with these as soon as I saw them, and the love affair has grown ten-fold since I made them mine and brought them home. They make me so happy!! I put them on whenever I can get away with it (erm, yup, have 'em on right now) and they instantly make me feel relaxed and dreamy and content. I have to tell you that wearing them whilst crocheting is almost off the scale of my personal pleasure-o-meter. Seriously.

I don't think I'm writing this April post very well, it's not very Aprilish really is it? I do apologise. How about a bit of an Attic view then??

Taken on 1st April as is my little ritual, it was a bright and blustery day if I remember rightly.

Scuddy clouds, a little threat of rain that didn't come to much. Perfectly right for April I'd say.

I was thinking to myself not so long ago that last month I passed my Blogiversary :: Three Years of Attic24. Three years!! I've written over 500 posts in that time you know. It's quite something to be now into my fourth year of calendar pages/attic views. Lots to look back on. Last year I found it too difficult to write these kinds of posts on time, but previous years I love that all that seasonal pondering is archived. You can read all my "Calendar posts" by clicking on the Calendar word in my category cloud thingy over there to the left. You don't have to. But sometimes I do just that and meander back through the months and seasons, I find it quite soothing and therapeutic.

Pffffffffffffffffffffff...running out of steam.....needing to go to bed shortly, it's been a tough day. Before I go, I want to tease you a little.....show you a snippet of something I worked on last week.......

A pretty little Spring time project, I think you're going to like it. More coming soon.

Been lovely to have you visit, thank you so much for dropping by to listen to my April chatter. I'm off in my rosy pyjamas to the Land of Nod now, I like it there.....see you soon for some hooky floral springtime goodness! ♥

Edited to add :: for those of you in the UK, the rosy pyjamas are from Tesco x

 

Comments

[Alex]

I love everything you do! I´m learning to crochet with your tutorials. I´ve done my first birds and are really easy and lovely.
I´m from Argentina, very far from you and really enjoy your family adventures.
Lovely surprise to discover your blog!
Alex

[sue]

sooooo,,, do we get to see the new spring project??? :-)

[Jilly]

how sweet is that pic of your boys shoes..lol bless.. you are so inspiring Lucy x x x

[bojoura van uden]

Hi Lucy,

First I would like to say; I love your site/blog
You inspire me to be so creative!

I have a question. I have a blog, it's about all kinds of creative and fun stuff.
I would like to ask your permission to publish a translation of your tutorial of the granny stripe blanket.
I really would like te make a translation from english to dutch. Of course I would tell it's your design and tutorial.

If you would like to take a peek;
http://www.jufrouw-annette.blogspot.com

It's in dutch, but if you would like to know more, please let me know.

With kind regards,

Bojoura van Uden

[Paula N. Keen]

I have to tell you, you brighten my days and nights ! I live in the United States and follow your site daily ! I love your patterns! I have been crocheting for over 50 years as well as crafting ! I have made many of your projects and love them ! Your colors are delightful ! Wish I could find them here ! Well, please keep up the great work ! I love your attic photo's too ! My son-n-law is from Nottingham England. So he tells me some of the places there too ! Love it !God Bless, crftyldy from the U.S.

[Louise]

Lovely photos, thank you for sharing.

[Jennifer Dessert]

Hello. I just discovered your wonderful blog through Thimbleanna and I have already used one of your lovely tutorials. you can see it here

pasqualirumpus.blogspot.com

Thanks for the inspiration! Jennifer

[Hannah]

reading your post and looking at your beautiful inspirational pictures, i can't help but smile.

[Sharon]

Hi
Love your blog!! a lot of your pictures remind me of home. Where in th Northern part of England are you? I am from a small village, Hunmanby (8 miles from Scarborough)

[em-kara']

You are most definetly my fav blogger!

[Pirkko Ylijoki]

I love your blog, it is very interesting. I often go to read and watch what new are you doing.
Thanks so much.

Pirkko for Lappland

[Karla]

Hello Lucy!
I used your self portrait photo in a post. I hope it's all right? The post is "April Ladies" - http://digitalpongaio.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-ladies.html
As said in the post, I greatly enjoy your blog! (and what a scrumptious little foot in its toddler shoe!) Thank you for all the lovely moments.

[Peggy]

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your blog. Your crochet ideas are so inspiring. I am now making my own granny squares. Your photos are so lovely! I did mention your blog on one of my recent post. Thanks so much for charing.

[Meredithe]

Luv the pj's! They're just my thing. Pity we don't have Tesco's in Australia. Like the sneak peak of the "spring hooky thing". Hope Little B is much better by now and love his new shoes - how sweet!! Meredithe

[Katie]

Mmmmmhhhh, mini eggs! My favourite and gone way too quickly anytime I buy them. Perhaps I should try putting them in a jar and they may last longer while I admire how good they look!
Hope everyone is on the mend now and you are enjoying Spring time :-)

[Allison]

I fully admit to copy-cat-itis. We came back from the Isle of Mull yesterday and whilst in Tesco refilling the dwindled stores I chanced by the underwear section and picked up the lovely jammies on sale!! You must bring luck Lucy.
Bath, new jammies and a few rows of granny stripe blanket before an early night. Heaven.....

[Julie]

I feel a shopping trip coming on, those jammies are just my sort of thing!

I hope Little B is soon much better and you are all enjoying the recent lovely sunshiney days

[mathea]

Your post today is a perfect April post - a little bit of this and a little bit of that, forever changing like April weather. I'm finally beginning to believe that Spring is here - no snow this past week and several sightings of crocus and snowdrops... yes, I think this is it :-)

[sue]

Love your little hooky treat, wondering what it might be, just know it will be fab!
Jim-jams the BEST EVER invention in my book and funnily enough I feel my most creative when I'm wearing mine! Hope you're having a gloriously sunny weekend. ♥

[Annie]

Nature is indeed truely wonderful.

[Izzy]

Have you and or your family ever run up that hill or mount that we see out of your attic window? What did your house look like from up there if u did ?

[Josie]

Hi Lucy, just stumbled across your blog through ravelry!!!!! I've decided to start crocheting again having not really done any since leaving York almost 2 yrs ago! Lovely to see you're so happy in Yorkshire and I cannot believe junior is toddling! We're all very well here in New Zealand and send our love to you all. I adore the egg shell posy idea :-) I'm of to browse your blog for some very easy projects for a deeply unaccomplished crochet student
Josie xxxxxx

[Angie Campsell]

love your blog and tutorials.any chance you could do a tutorial on a granny square for a left hander pretty please.Angie

[GK]

Lucy. I just came upon a blog called Cosy Things, and she refers to you quite a bit - inspired by your borders for blankets etc. Your blog still my fav, just love it.

[Joanne]

What a lovely blog, reading it always brings a smile to my face and makes me appreciate the small things in life that make me so happy! By the way, would it be rude to ask where little B's shoes are from - they are sooooo cute!

Jo
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