A Special Weekend

Hello all you lovely people I have just come back from fantastic weekend away, a birthday treat from 3 of my lovely friends.  We went to visit Grassington which is a picturesque little village situated in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales here in England.

Each year Grassington holds a Dickensian Festival, this year was the 31st  celebrating Charles Dickens bicentenary.  It was amazing to see how the whole village throws themselves heart and soul into to making this a memorable event.  Visitors come from all over England and the cobbled streets are packed, the atmosphere is light-hearted and festive, even though it was bitterly cold everyone seemed to be enjoying the antics of the villagers dressed in period costume and enacting scenes from the Dickensian era. There was a traditional Christmas market selling festive treats, street entertainment, shoe shine boys, chestnut sellers, and best of all lovely mulled wine and mince pies to enjoy while standing around the glowing embers of a fire.

Fabulous street dancers.

This troupe entertained us with traditional Christmas carols, dancing and acting, great fun!

This was hilarious and had everyone rolling around with laughter.

Poor Oliver Twist in trouble again.

I hope you all had a great weekend, I have been trying to catch up with all your lovely blogs and have discovered that Shari over at Lauren's Closet is hosting a  great Giveaway, do pop over and visit her beautiful blog.

Have a great week! xx

Christmas Coasters.

I try not to think about Christmas until my birthday is over, well it is and so it's time to think about gifts for friends and family.  Not everyone appreciates a hand made gift but it's lovely making things for those that do.  Even better when you can kill two birds with one stone as it were as I have done here. 

I love these I have made them to put onto my coffee table and I'm going to make some for friends too.  All I need is a pretty box to display them and I'm sure my friends will love them.

Do you recognise it ? it's Motif #13 from Beyond the Square, that's where the killing of birds comes in haha

Progress 74 out of 100

It's just a Number!

I have been dreading this birthday for ages, I know what you are going to say, it's just a number and yes I suppose you are right but I have been dreading it all the same.  I have been saying I am still 59 for the past week but unfortunately I can say that no more.  I feel just the same, it's funny you never seen to age in your mind, I'm still 16 in there, certainly don't look it though and all the aches and pains let me know yes Linda you are 60!
I opened the kitchen door to find my lovely son Barry standing there, with a bunch of flowers and a birthday card in his hand, I am going to make you breakfast mum what would you like, bless him he was standing there apron on and all ready to start cooking breakfast for me.  Then a friend dropped by on her way to work to give me a big hug and a  card, I have had countless texts and lots of lovely messages on Facebook. Then in the evening I went out for a meal in a beautiful old hotel with family and friends, got lots of cards and beautiful gifts so all in all it has been a lovely day, I still don't want to be 60 though ha ha.

Lovely flowers from my son. :)

Thank you to AnnMarie for this...

I think it's beautiful and I'm sure it will take me ages to fill it because I'm only going to put £2 coins into it,  then I will have find a way of getting into it without smashing it, I think it's too pretty to smash.
I can't wait to try some of the patterns in the Crochet baby clothes book either, there are some lovely patterns in there and they all seem to be easy to make. 
This is just a few of the lovely gifts I got, thank you to everyone who made this day so special. :)