Happy Easter

Here's what my dining room looked like!

 I took great pride in laying the table. I made all the decopatch eggs and decorated the plate. 

 Everyone had a few treats.

 There's my pegs coming in useful again... 

 Boo!

 Lemon cake

Hope everyone had a nice Easter. 

Crafty Room

I promised to show you my crafty room didn't I! It's been a lot of hard work but well worth it now. I wish I had some before shots to show you. 

We literally gutted the room and started all over again... I've been organising every shelf and sorting through my handmade crafts and storing them appropriately. 

 My grandma knitted those Care Bears!

The 'my favourite memories box' contains all your letters! 

xoxo

A weekend away

Remember me saying that Pete had another surprise for his 30th birthday? Well this was it! We went to York for the weekend. This is York Minster

We also visited York Sweet Story on their opening day. 

 The tour was really interesting because we got to see how chocolates are made. I'd never really considered how they made the shells for chocolate so I learnt something new!

 There's lots of old buildings and cobbled streets around York which are nice to look around. 

You know how I love a tea room!

We happened along a street that was full of charity shops! I had a little root in this one because it had a vintage section upstairs. I got two jumpers and two bags and they were so cheap. Yes that's Pete you can see outside reading his book!

Then we made our way to the Bed and Breakfast The Wolds Retreat which is part of Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation Centre. 

 

As you can see from the photos it was a really lovely place set in 42 acres of beautiful grounds. 

We were lucky enough to have breakfast in the window overlooking the grounds for both nights we were there. Such a lovely start to the day!

We went on 3 specific walks around the grounds

So peaceful!

 Lake walk

 Hehee!

 A roaming chicken!

 Woods walk 

 We saw the most amazing sunset too.

 The following day we went to Burnby Hall Gardens which was in the next town. 

 I had fun taking photos, it's been a while!

 A host of golden daffodils 

 What a cute face!

 Giraffe statues

A lovely trip away. 

Thanks for the mail

Thanks to Becky and Rusty for the mail!