PARTYING & APPLE PICKING

The week began with a party on Saturday, enjoyed by us, and our friends. Lots of fun, dancing, a fabulous rum punch and some vodka soaked jelly babies and a 4am finish.

I haven't made these capes for a while. Love the fact you can put them over anything and POW! instant superhero.

and other makes this week. Dapper Dogs 

and a some more apron dresses in black and white pinstripe, grey and white pinstripe and a grey check. 

The week finished with a visit to Killerton House a National Trust property near Exeter. Amazing blue skies for October.

Lovely house, small and liveable. I could actually imagine us living in it.

Lovely front door and hallway

Mabel looking at home

Great Christmas table.

Beautiful gardens.

Family portraits

The house makes its own cider and has 50 acres of apple orchards.  At this time of year, they pick the apples for next years cider, with an annual festival taking place (in two weeks time) to celebrate this years cider making.

 We spent a good hour in the sunshine picking apples, we even got to sample the apple juice (not the alcoholic type)

Next years cider

After a really enjoyable Sunday, we came home and joined the National Trust, and Mabel announced that when she grows up she wants to be a farmer!

WINTER ON THE BEACH

Living on the coast brings a different but enjoyable kind of fun on the beach in the Winter. As the temperature has been really mild, even me (as very much a Summer person) have really appreciated it.

After saying goodbye to my aunty who visited us in the first part of the half term, the rest of the time was spent doing a little bit of this....... filling the table with paints, cardboard, glitter, glue and paper.  We even started making a few Christmas cards! 

And of course there were the inevitable Halloween celebrations 

I even managed to get a few new makes. Oilcloth Bella & Mabel Bags

 And a lined pinafore dress I've called "All Things London" 

Superhero capes 

And then it was Bonfire Night and we were back on the beach watching the bonfire from the river beach in Teignmouth, while enjoying the fireworks. It was lovely to see groups of people with little fires going all along the beach, sat around enjoying a few bottles of wine. Times like this I really appreciate where we live.

Watching the bonfire in Shaldon from the beach 

Our side of the river they let the fireworks off.

Sparklers with friends

Our view from the Ship Inn finishing the evening off with a few glasses of wine with friends, girls playing on the beach and collecting a Chinese on the walk back home. What more could you want?