Crochet Mood Blanket - Week Two

I know that I am only two weeks in to a year long project but I am still loving it!

Here is my progress for the week:

Day eight - Lime, I had a migraine and a weight gain :(

Day nine - Pomegranate, I was angry that I couldn't go away for the weekend but pleased I had a win at bingo!

Day ten - Turquoise, I was relaxed but busy and I love this colour :)

Day eleven - Spice, relaxed, happy and cosy indoors.

Day twelve - Citron, Monday over, feeling happy and a win at bingo!

Day thirteen - Lipstick, first walk of the year and feeling great :)

Day fourteen - Silver, it was my birthday and I was feeling good :)

And here they are all joined together:

Even if I say so myself, I think it's looking great :)

I really can't wait to get started on this week's colours.

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

Week Two

As we've just headed in to week three I thought I'd share the highlights of last week:

Someone wasn't happy to be back at work!

I got back on my diet:

Had lots of cuddles with this boy :)

Even though he decided to attack his toys and make all of this mess!

I spent time looking out of the kitchen window and daydreaming :)

Obviously I had dirty pudding :)

I was really upset that I had to cancel my birthday weekend with Paul because the neighbour's fence was almost down and Alfie could get in their garden :(

But my luck changed when I went to bingo and had not one but three wins!

I had a lazy half hour in bed on Saturday morning crocheting a blanket for my niece Alice :)

I did some Slimming World batch cooking so I'm prepared for the week:

And spent the evening cheering on Scott Mitchell in the darts final:

I used to play for a ladies darts team and have boxes of trophies in my loft, watching the darts has made me want to pick up my arrows again :)

I'm looking forward to this week because not only is it my birthday but I also have the first crop of the year. 

Thanks for stopping by 

Jo xx

Crochet Mood Blanket 2015

Last year Stacey Wentford-Hall came up with an idea to do a crochet mood blanket.  The idea was to crochet a square a day, choosing a colour to match your mood, and at the end of the year you'd have a lovely blanket.  Unfortunately I was late to the party last year so didn't join in, this year is different though!

Now I've crocheted ripple blankets, cowls, scarves and hats since I taught myself 2 years ago but I have never done a granny square!  I think they scared me a bit, so on New Years Day I took the bull by the horns and did my first ever granny square :)

So here is my progress for week one of my crochet mood blanket :

Day one - Bluebell as it's one of my favourite colours:

Day two - Camel, because I was going to the beach :)

Day three - Grey, because it was raining.

Day four - copper, because the weather was horrible and I was snuggled indoors while the roast dinner was cooking :)

Day five, Meadow, back to work :(

Day six - Khaki, I took the tree down, work was busy and it was a long day :(

Day seven - Magenta, despite having a headache I was feeling relaxed and good :)

I'm joining as I go and being good by sewing the ends in too!  Here is my progress so far:

I really hope that I can keep this project up throughout the year because I think that not only will it be a mood blanket it will be a memory blanket too :)

See you next week for another update.

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

Week One

Week one is already done and dusted, here are the highlights:

I've watched some lovely sunsets through my kitchen window:

Alfie spent a day thinking he was lord of the manor!

Before catching up with For the Love of Dogs at Christmas:

Maddie was overjoyed at spending some time at her nan's house!

I had some of my mum's amazing turkey stew, it was delicious.

This face melted my heart!

I spent my Christmas money on treats for me for a change!

And went to bingo on New Years Eve :)

Before seeing the New Year in with my girl.

Although I had a massive weight gain over Christmas I still enjoyed a dirty pudding :)

I thought the fence was going to come down when we had strong winds!  The neighbour's landlord got a quote in March to get it repaired and now he's waited so long he'll probably have to replace it!

I crocheted my first ever granny square for my 2015 Crochet Mood Blanket, more on that another time though :)

And I also started on my Cosy Stripe blanket from the Attic24 blog, it's been so lovely to be working on stuff for me instead of Christmas presents for others :)

I went to the seaside to visit this pretty girl.

And enjoyed a Chinese with Paul :)

And then I drove home in the worst fog I've seen for over 20 years!

It seems that as quickly as Christmas arrived it disappeared :( Today it's all back to normal and back to work, that will be a shock to the system because I've been off for 16 days now!

I hope you've had a good week
Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

December's Five Favourites

Welcome to 2015, I hope your New Year celebrations went well.

I've picked my five favourite photos from December, it was a tough job this month and I know I'll end up scrapping a lot more but here are my favourites:

You can read the story behind this photo here.

I really love this picture of Maddie and her cousin Alice, I love how I've caught them just as they're looking at each other :)

How happy does Paul look in this picture taken at Gorgeous Gertie's? (Sandra this photo was meant for you, he was being rude in the first one I took hence the cheeky grin!)

My sister Jessica with her sons Jack and George showing off the Christmas presents I made them :)

All ready for Santa to arrive - yes I still believe :)

So now I'm going to get them printed ready for scrapping.

You can read about why I started this challenge here and if you think it's something you'd like to do, that will motivate you to scrap then please join in.

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

November's Five Favourites Finished

It's the end of the month so it means it's time to share the layouts I've done using my five favourite photos from November!

Alfie feeling better after being poorly:

A selfie! I rarely scrap photos of me but I did like this one :)

All of us together having cuddle time :)

A day trip out to see the poppies:

Which turned in to a double page, another rarity!

I really do love this idea of picking five of my favourite photos each month and getting them scrapped.  I seem to faff a lot less about which photos to take to crops because I know I've already got five ready to scrap so I'm definitely going to continue this project in 2015.

As today is the last day of the year I've been having look back at the goals I set myself last year, I think I managed to tick most of the boxes :)  My goal for 2015.....

...to be happy!

Happy New Year to you all, I hope you have the best of everything.

Thanks for stopping by

Jo xx