Hi! Happy Sunday!  Here’s my roundup for this week’s Sunday Sevens from the last week.  Not a lot of creativity going on the Thimberlina household, but busy nonetheless!  I’ve had a real struggle to narrow it down to 7 photos, and that’s without cyber mom and pop’s kitchen – unfortunately there has been no progress this week – it’s going to be delivered any day, so hopefully there’ll be something to show you next week.  Some of the pics are taken on the same day, as on the days I was working they were very uneventful so nothing to show.

1. I attended a dinner for Lady Captain’s day at the golf club.  The lady on each table who had a raffle ticket stuck under her side plate could take a table centre piece home, and on our table it was me!

2.  I’ve been a bit of a social butterfly this week and everywhere I’ve gone I’ve seen jumpsuits!! These are 2 of many…..

3.   At cricket in Settle there was a man watching from behind the advertising boards.

4.  Wonder if the above man works here……!  Cafe in Settle.

5.  Another pic from Settle.  This was a home match for us, Yorkshire played Cumbria, and beat them by 126 runs.  They did better than England have this weekend!

Can you see the Steam train in the back ground!?

6.  On Saturday we went to Ripon races.  I had a selfie with the bell ringer! I’m not a horse racey sort of person, but I just know that he had to ring the bell at the start of the race.  There’s photos of him doing it on my post at the same races last year here.

7.  I’ve managed to doing a few more laps on my huge granny square this week.  Each lap is taking about 2 hours!!  Some of you have seen it before – it started with just 3 balls of wool for something to pass a bit of time at work, but I loved it and kept searching out more wool in the same colour to make it bigger.  I got my last 6 balls from Minerava Crafts – they’ve got a huge selection of colours if you fancy making something similar.  The wool is King Cole Opium Cotton Blend and is made up of narrow yarn with chunky bits. So far on this I’ve used about 10 balls of wool and I’ve got 2 left.

The bottom pic is this week, the others are just to set the scene!

7a.  This is an extra one and was taken tonight after I’d picked my 7 photos.  An impromptu alfresco tea.  It’s unusual to have all the girls from the family in one photo – mum, sister and niece.

So that’s it for this week.  Hopefully the next week will be more productive – I’m only working one day!

If you’re new to Sunday Sevens head over to Natalie’s blog to find out more and join in too if you fancy sharing a bit more of goings on in your life outside your sewing room.

Cheerio x

Happy Sunday Everyone!  

Today is such a treat!  It’s my first full weekend off in 4 weeks!  H is at Nanny & Grandpa’s, hubby’s still knocking out the zzzzz’s after we had a late night at a wedding do (oops, wrote weeding do first!! no it wasn’t a garden party!), and now i’m just going to quickly do my Sunday Sevens before I knock together another Dimpsy T.  And we have absolutely NOTHING planned for today!!  Well, maybe just watch the first team play the semi finals of a cup match, see mum in law and do all the washing……so not much really!

Here’s my week in 7 photos.  I must say that at first (19 weeks ago!!) I found it hard to gather together 7 photos.  Now I always have too many and I love looking back at my pix of the last week.

1.  Driving through Halifax we saw a couple in an old Morris 1000 who’d just got married!  I couldn’t get a photo from the front, but they did look lovely!

2. There’s usually a pic’ from the golf course in my Sunday Sevens and this week is no exception. I’ve had to increase the exposure so you can just about spot this little fella in the tree!  Not a very good photo, sorry, as I got closer he didn’t scarper but he did hide behind some branches so I couldn’t take a close up.  He must be shy!

3. What a View!  This was taken on a road called Albert Promenade in Halifax.  I was stood by, sat eating a bacon buttie on a bench enjoying the view, looking across to Sowerby Bridge.  If any of you in the UK saw the series “Happy Valley” with Sarah Lancaster in, then this is the valley!   If you didn’t see it it’s worth watching on catch-up.  A bit gruesome in parts but very enthralling!

4.  H going out to bat.  We travelled up North for Yorkshire to play Northumberland.  We got them all out for 38, so our innings to bat was very short lived.

5.  As we’d travelled quite a distance (only 2 1/4 hours for us!) they decided to play a 20-20 match as the first game was over so quick and the boys weren’t ready for home.  I escaped for an hour and went to John Lewis in Newcastle.  We don’t have one near me but I believe we’re getting one in Leeds next year!  The fabric’s a bit pricey, but great quality and usually up to date with RTW clothes on the high street, so worth a visit if there’s a sale on!

6.  Driving back I asked H to take a picture of the Angel of the North – this is the best one!!!!  Click on the link to see what you’ve missed!!

7.  Me, hubby and Holly Jumpsuit having a night out!! Must say Holly’s a good dancer!!  I’m aching this morning!!

The ‘feature photo’ is an update on the kitchen!  This week the range cooker has been professionally cleaned and looks like new, the spotlights in the ceiling are in, and it’s had a couple of coats of paint.  The kitchen is being delivered next Friday and I have one very excited Mummy!!

Sunday Sevens?? Still not sure what’s going on??  SS is the brainchild of Natalie over at Threads and Bobbins – it’s your week (yes it could be yours too if you fancy joining in!) in 7 photos. Natalie’s very organised and even collates it all together on Pinterest.  Often we do things that don’t warrant a blog post of their own, but it’s still nice to share them we your blogging buddies!

If Carlsberg did Sunday Sevens they wouldn’t be like mine, they would be like the week Sewchet’s just had!!

Anyway back to my week (but click on Sheila’s link if you want to see how a week in England is really spent when the sun is shining!).

1. H had a match for Yorkshire and scored 44 – his highest number of runs for them this season.  He was shattered on the way home and fell asleep.

2.  Nights! Yuck!  Even after 23 years they don’t get any easier.

It was about 4:45 am and I was heading into Huddersfield, returning back to area.  I saw the most amazing sunrise.  I pulled over and took a photo.  As I looked in my wing mirror, before setting off, a car over took me.  Then 2 cars racing each other about 60mph in a 30mph zone came flying past!  After they passed I set off and about 200yds down the road was confronted by a smashed up VW Golf – one of the cars that had just flown past!  Luckily the occupants were ok, but the car was a proper mess!  Thankful I’d pulled over to take this photo otherwise I could have easily been involved in the accident.

3.  Didn’t sleep too good during the day.  It was so hot and there was a bit of commotion next door/ I opened the curtains to see what was going on.  A digger was almost horizontal!  they sorted it out in the end – luckily no casualties!

4.  The ceiling has been re-plastered and painted in my mums kitchen. In the Feature pic dad’s sorting stuff out under the floor boards and I was helping measure the ceiling for the new lights.

5. Played my club knock out at golf…. lost ;-(    Lots of poppies at the side of the pond this week, more purple ones and a red one had flowered too.

6.  Twice this week we’ve managed to have a pretend BBQ on the electric grill, and eat outside!

7.  A rare treat today a Cricket.  Rain stopped play, but Claire (one of the other mums) brought Pimms so we retreated to hubby’s van to drink it!  I didn’t know until it was too late that she had laced it with vodka.   Naughty friend!  By 5pm I was tipsy. By 7 I was really tipsy.  At almost 10pm I’m just about able to write this post!

We had to use my crochet hook to stir the drinks!   Luckily the sun came out, play was resumed and we won!

Hope you’ve all had a lovely week in some shape or form.   I’ve not sewn as much as I’d have liked to this week, and I’ve had problems connecting with WordPress on my Iphone so am a bit behind with my blog reading.   Has anyone anneals had trouble reading blog posts using the WordPress App for iPad/Iphone?

If by some strange wonder you’ve not heard of Sunday Sevens, it’s the brain child of Natalie over at Threads and Bobbins.  Head over to see hers, and find out more.

Fancy joining in? ….The first couple of weeks are tough but it’s surprising how it opens yours eyes to what you do day to day when you need to show everyone 7 photos at the end of the week! And it does get easier, I often end up with 9 or 10 photos and have to try and narrow it down!

Hi Everyone! We’ve finally had a weekend of warmer weather and I’m working. But never mind, I’m off tomorrow and hopefully it’ll be a scorcher! Friday was my first shift back after being off at the start of the week. I woke up at 5am when my alarm went off and the first thing I thought was “oh shit no! I forgot to do my Sunday Sevens last night!!😳”.   After all it was Monday morning for me. It wasn’t until I was dressed that I realised i’d still another 3 days left of the week!! So now it’s your Sunday and I’ve got the Friday feeling! Confused??!!  Me too! Read on!

1. I don’t think this needs an explaining but it’s the highlight of my week, already has had it’s own post but still needs another mention!! My GBSB day with Heather Jacks! 2. We have a beautiful pond on the 11th hole at the golf club.  It’s wasn’t as beautiful this week as my ball went in it! Noticed this poppy though which I’d not seen before.  Isn’t the colour gorgeous? 3.  Girlie morning and lunch swapping patterns and ideas.  Love these get togethers.  Those of you who went on the Spoolettes meet up will recognise it’s Helen & Jeanie my non-blogging sewing pals. 4.  I decided to spring clean the conservatory and whilst the floor was drying I finished off my shabby chic picture frames outside with a coat of wax. 5. H with his Grandpa! Seeing if he’s as tall, not quite but won’t be long! 6. Called into another none blogging sewing friends house to nip to her loo have a nosey at her new sewing room whilst I was passing at work.  Her other half has converted one of the outbuildings into a dedicated sewing space! I want to move in!!!!  She’s holding up a bag she’s made from some old dungrees, AND SHE’S WEARING A JUMPSUIT OF SORTS and she didn’t know about jumping into June! Hazel….you’re proper cool and in the gang and you didn’t even know!!! 7. One of the many lovely views I’ve had from my office this weekend! It’s been really busy and although I’ve been drafted into the the city for some jobs I’ve had a few rural trips too. As usual I’ve too many photos! Sorry Natalie!! But if it’s ok I’m going to use my feature image to update you on my mums kitchen progress. She’s having a new one, and is sooooo excited. Dads had loads of work to do, including knocking down the wall between the kitchen and dining room.  So in the feature picture at the top is before, during the wall demolition and now.  The kitchen’s arriving at the end of July buts there’s still lots to be done. I thought you might be interested as it’s always good to looks for ideas in the kitchen as well as in the sewing room! Thanks Nat for thinking up the Sunday Sevens! If you want to head over to her blog – Thread & Bobbins you’ll beadle to read all about it!