stefaniegk - what a lot of great photos

Alexampersandra - love the shots of an empty library - kinda spooky!

We have a numbers entry for the challenge, based on a game children play with dandelions to work out the time. I found this lovely website page explaining more of the folklore behind the idea (I don't know if it's just a UK thing or not!)

So here's Scarlett telling the time:
One O'Clock,                                                                        Two O'Clock

Three O'Clock,                                                                       Four O'Clock


(It's not the most reliable method, It's only 1.30!!) Finally, here she is posing with some flowers still in full bloom

Love the (wind break?!) sunny dawn - love it!

I made a home for bees out of old flower pots and bamboo canes: http://paperbeau.weebly.com/3/post/2013/05/craft-15-bee-house.html

I made a bee home for my garden out of all-stash materials

http://paperbeau.weebly.com/3/post/2013/05/craft-15-bee-house.html

oh wow - everyone's gone all out this month

Here are my two cards from kartiana, I LOVE them!

"Coffee Paws" made with real coffee, smells SO GOOD! What coffee is this - i need to get me some hehe! My mini poodle isn't tall enough to get into the coffee.. but I've had many a morning waking up to find the landing covered in toilet paper!



And "Dogwood Blossom" made from a german book Kartiana had - I just love the colours!

[Anofeles]

Ok - I think I've picked up on everyone who posted photos while I was on holiday (and more recently, not feeling too well):

Anofeles - Aussie is getting brave near those bees! I would love to have a home for them (other than my lawn!) does it really work?

Natasjadreams - what a lovely view - I hope you and D'ood had a great holiday

RaeRaggs - bahahahahaha! Great photo! How on earth did you get your LV to stay up like that?!

Alexampersandra - that cake looked great - did it go down well? Also - loved the work photos - Clyde looks so cute peeking out between the books hehe.

Wildfyre - I am just stunned by all the colours you have - what a great job to be surrounded by that every day!!

dftba - how cute is Jax!!

goldfishpollywog - love that you home-school, and it looks like your little guy is super happy with it too! If you ever need some pointers maths-wise and don't know who to ask, pm me, I'm a maths tutor myself.

KodaNRoxyDogs -love your collection on your pc - they must make you really happy

cinnamon teal & phoenixfiredesigns - always more photos please! I'm in love with your photography styles, and Alby and Annana make a great models!

whenindoubtsew - kangaroo!!! I only saw wallabies wild when I was in Australia.. I did goto a baby kangaroo nursary though what was great.

waterbaby - oh my! I am so interested by your photos from work.. lemme see what you film LEMME SEE!! haha

halogenspock - looks like your lv is having a great time in the workshop with you


And here is a photo of Scarlett checking out one of our edible wild plants - Wild garlic. It's delicious as garlic bread! I'll be popping up more pictures of the UKs wild foods over on my blog once I've organised them all. Scarlett was very interested in the whole thing, you see!



Also on the food theme - I don't know if you have as much trouble with poached eggs frothing and splitting and overcooking as I have in the past.. but Scarlett finally taught me how to perfect the poached egg!



We do have the best "high-places" photo.. YAY! The family was down to stay, and we went to see the Lighthouse at Lizard's point (the most Southerly tip of the UK). But first, on the way to the high place, we saw this great 'jump-over' in the hedge and had to take a photo



And the we took a picture with the lighthouse in the top left corner, on the cliffs up to see it



And finally we got a picture of Scarlett up in the lighthouse itself with my mum (My dog Whisky wasn't allowed up, so we got a sunburn instead!):





More photos from the day up at my blog

Wow - Just one week holiday and I'm so behind! Here's my April completed:

I also love those skirts

I made my first dress (well, I made the flowery underslip for a rather see-through dress) for a wedding I went to at the end of April.. and I'm so happy with how it came out. I definitely think that it had a lot to do with feeling part of a community of crafters, seeing that other people had done similar things gave me the confidence to give it a go - thank you!

More photos and info as always on my blog

i LOVED seeing the first pics of Rose -thank you so much Wildfyre

and I've loved browsing through everyone's pictures - so interesting to see different worlds this way

Scarlett and I have finally uploaded some pics from our holiday.. see my blog post for all of them.. there are plenty and I'm sure you'll love them all, around half of the 40 odd pictures are of Scarlett

Here are a couple of my favourites (simply because I think you non-English-ites will like them too!):

Waiting for a tube train in London:



Looking at all the different types of Jam made in Essex:



phoning home:



and getting through a kissing gate into church grounds:



the vertical pictures are showing a bit big huh!! definitely I would advise heading over to the blog post linked above if you would like to see more pics of a quintessential English holiday.

oh, SunnyDawn I'm GUTTED I didn't receive those cards... I will be printing them out and backing them anyway hehe!

Here's my replacements which arrived safe and sound and I love:

beautiful summer flowers

one for fun


and the card and some suprise inchies!!

FairyHazeDesigns - you can move the books all around your  two bookcase atcs - they aren't attached so go nuts and find your favourite composition.

Here's a whole bunch of atc's i received while i was on holiday:

TWO! Beach themed atcs, which came with a bunch more scratch away paper for me to play with - thank you Pilar B. Farmer - I love them


and the envelope and card they came with


Secondly, a great sunset ATC from fairyhazedesigns, i could get lost in the swirly sun!


I got some great ATCs finally from the March swap too and I'm posting those in the right gallery but I just wanted to say thiank you to Sunnydawn here too!