Charity shopping.

Last week I ventured into a local town with my two favourite girls, my daughter in law and grandaughter with the sole purpose of charity shop shopping. We chose Retford as the shops are very clean and everything is washed, sorted and hung nicely. I'm always on the lookout for pretty china, it seems very popular at the moment as Afternoon tea served in vintage cups and saucers is 'in' just now. I struck lucky and managed to pick up a few pretty plates.

                        £1:99

                   £1.00

                                            £2.99

       £2 for the plates and £1 for the sugar bowl.

I'm looking out for some of the bread and butter/ cake plates so I can have a go at making some tiered cake stands for a couple of gifts.

I also picked up some fabrics, 3 yards of blue denim and 3 yards of blue checked fabric for making shopping bags, the checked will be perfect for making folding bags with little pouches.

The Save the Children shop were selling some cleaning products and I spotted some dishwasher tablets at a bargain price of 50p for 10 :-) added to what I have these will last me all year! 

I treated us all to a nice coffee and cake, its not often we have a treat but a girly day wouldn't be complete without cake!!! 

I bought a couple of tops but need to photograph those before I share with you.

Hope you all had a lovely Easter 

Take care

Karen xxx

Easter

Happy Easter Sunday everyone. 

Love Karen xxx

Back to the 1940s

Thought I would share this with you all.  We have booked our caravan slot already for this fantastic weekend. Last year we had an amazing time!!

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Karen xxx

Simple pleasures

Thank you for all the lovely comments on my last post, you're all so kind xx

What a lovely couple of days we've had, the windows have been flung open wide to give the house a good blow through, the washing has been dried outside, good job really as I have washed 8 loads! ours and Mums.

Its all been ironed and hung ready to go!

Just the edges of the bath mats to air off on my trusty clothes horse that my lovely hubby made for me.

You can't beat the old fashioned ones! 

I remember as a child the one Mum had, it was a triple one and it made a great tent fastened to the wire fence in the garden and covered with old blankets. That tent was everything from a playhouse to a school or hospital and even an air raid shelter! I must have had a fascination for the 1940s then! Many a jam or red sauce butty has been eaten sat under that tent. Simple pleasures.  Lovely memories:-)

While I was busy with laundry and household cleaning lovely hubby emptied the conservatory and cleaned it from top to bottom, the windows and floor are sparkling clean and its all ready for sitting in there now its starting to warm up a bit.

Wednesday was a nice day for walk round the park, we still needed to wrap up well but by the time we got back to the car we were warm as toast and ready for a nice coffee. Here are a few pictures..

Back home and time to put a piece of pork and some veggies into the slow cooker for later.

I used half the bag of stew mix I'd frozen last week.

We had it with lots of extra veg then fruit with quark for dessert.

Tonight gorgeous grandaughter is coming to stay over, she had braces fitted on her teeth last Saturday so I will find out how the first week has gone, she was a bit frightened of eating anything hard or chewy so I think I will make Pasta n sauce for tea....better make a move and get the sauce made! ...

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Have a lovely weekend

Karen xx

Plymouth weekend.

Just back from a lovely 4 days down in Plymouth visiting my youngest son. I always like to take him some home cooked food and a bit of baking.

It turned out to be a bit of a meat pie fest!! That little lot should last him a few months and its filled a corner of his freezer. I also made him 4 tubs of bolognese and 2 shepherds pies the large shepherds pie we had for tea on Thursday night. The one think I make everytime for him is his favourite....

Lemon Meringue Pie

I made this one in an 8 inch deep cake tin.  The tea towel in the box is just to stop it moving around-in transit, we had a 320 mile journey and everything was packed into coolbags with ice packs. It certainly put a huge smile on his face :-)

We had a lovely walk on the Hoe on Friday, we did have to dodge a couple of wintery showers but eventually the sun came out and it was very pleasant.  A few photos for you...

Smeatons Tower

Sir Francis Drake

The War Memorial

Well you can't go all the way down to Devon and not have at least one Cream Tea :-)

Me with my lovely son... Love him to bits x

Back home and back to normal.

Thank you for popping by

Karen xxx

Mothers day.

Wishing all you lovely ladies a very Happy Mothers Day x I hope you all get the chance to see or speak to your offspring today and make lovely memories xx

I'm down in Plymouth at the moment spending some quality time with my youngest, we have been here 4 days and had a great time and a much needed rest.  Heading back up the motorway later today with a 6 hour drive! 

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Take care

Karen xxx