A Happy and Blessed Day

Some months back I showed this quilt that I had made for a friends wedding. The friend is someone I went to school with, when she was 14 her family moved to the north of England and when I was 16 my family moved right down to the South West of England, to Cornwall. Although we had moved so far apart we kept in touch and both came to know the Lord and watched each others families grow from a distance. Yesterday was the day for her second marriage. God had clearly brought this couple together and their marriage day was one full of God's love and blessings as they gave their vows before family and their heavenly Father. They both gave speeches which declared their love for one another and for God and for the excitement they both share at the expectation of where He is going to lead them next. To top it all, the sun shone...a rare occasion here in the UK this summer!

Wedding Quilts

This is the wedding quilt I made for my son and daughter in law when they got married on 2008. Its not a great photo and I haven't done anything this big since. I think I posted it before but not this photo showing the whole quilt. I hand quilted it and I think I will stick to hand quilting on big projects in the future. Just going to do the hand sewing part of binding the Amy Butler quilt then it will be done :)

Wedding Quilt

My old school friend (we have known each other for over 40 years)is getting married in July so I have been mulling over in my mind what style quilt I should make for her. I kept thinking I would like to use just basic squares, knowing this would be quite simple and therefore quick to make but was wondering is this really just a bit boring? However, I just kept coming back to the thought that actually I really like basic squared quilts. I have a lot of Liberty squares that I am going to make into a quilt for myself...who knows when?

So I searched Amy Butler squared fabric and came across this beautiful quilt on http://www.redpepperquilts.com/2009/11/amy-butler-love.html

So now I know what I am going to make for my friend, I am going to buy ready cut Amy Butler squares from her 'Love' range...perfect!

So the 60th birthday we were going to turned out to be a surprise wedding, we knew but the rest of the family didn't know although they had guessed...there's no keeping surprises from some people!

Then when we arrived back at our daughters we celebrated Grandpa's birthday

Today we went to Kingsbridge for coffee and to visit the farmers market

Christmas Wedding

Yesterday afternoon we went to the wedding of some friends. It was in the pretty village of Aldbury. 

Only official photographs were allowed during the service and it was too cold to stand around outside at the end...so no photo's of the couple. The service was lovely with lots of candles and Christmas carols.

The reception was held in the Greyhound Inn, we were handed hot mulled wine on arrival, followed by a yummy three course meal and mince pies!

A great idea for place names, they are now hanging on our Christmas tree

Absent from the Lap Top

I have had a really busy week and not found time to blog for a few days, now this coming week I am off to a conference with hubby then down to Devon for a couple of days to visit my Mum and grandchildren. I came across this old photo which is taken at our eldest daughters wedding in 2003...take a close look. My son,while at university (when I am sure he should have been working hard) did a bit of swapping around of faces. It always makes us chuckle.

The Royal Wedding

Last Thursday I drove down to Devon to spend a couple of days with my Mum and then one day and night with my daughter and family. I had arranged to sit with my Mum and watch the wedding, I took scones, strawberry jam and Cornish clotted cream and made a cream tea for us to eat while watching!

We really enjoyed the coverage of the wedding, I liked the fact that the whole wedding had a stronge spiritual emphasis and that William and Katherine had written their own prayer.I pray that God will bless their marriage and life together.

 When the wedding was over I took my Mum for a drive across Dartmoor where we found an ice cream van and stopped to eat a cone each in the car. While our children were growing up we lived in Devon and spent many a lovely day picnicing on the moors and paddling in the lovely cool streams. Such a great place for children to grow up. And now some of my grandchildren are enjoying the same upbringing, moors and beaches what could be better!