THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

Our half term took us to London and beyond, to stay with friends and see the sights. We took a stroll to Buckingham Palace, through St James Park, had lunch at Ed's Diner, some delicious street food in Portobello Road, and a visit to friends in Amersham where we had a couple of hours at the Roald Dahl museum and an evening spent celebrating a friends birthday.  

HOME TO RELAX!

And even though we enjoy going away, and we do very much. In the words of Dorothy "there's no place like home" and as the sun shone it felt like we were on our holidays all over again, with visits to the beach with friends, barbecues, belly-boarding and evenings by the river.

SUN, SEA & ICE CREAM

Today we spent a lovely couple of hours on the beach, we arrived early and had the beach pretty much to ourselves for a while.  The water looked beautiful but was icy cold, but the sun shone

BEACH BAGS & MORE ...

I'VE HAD MANY MAKES IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS - HERE'S A FEW...

Always looking for ways to utilise the left over pieces of oilcloth from my bags, I think I've got it.  I've called them the Big Fat Devon Beach Bags and this is number 3.

I continued with my Mum & Me theme and made some pretty upcycled fabric Summer dresses

Shift Dress For Mum & Me

Ladies Smock Dress

 A weekend of sunshine saw us spending two days on the beach with friends

My lovely friend Becka


Out of the sunshine and back onto the sewing machine I made some vintage character fabric dresses.  Winnie The Pooh and Beatrix Potter.

Another Missy Bag upcycled from a 70's bedspread