Nestle amougst the Glaciers Part two

 Hi,

Today I thought I would tell you about the three trips we did,  one was to  Gruyere,  here we saw how the Gruyere cheese was made and then to the village for lunch,  The cheese is turned everyday by a robot,  see the photo of the cheese store above,  we were given a free sample each.

Free sample 

The village of Gruyere where we had lunch

This is us as we  walked into the village

View from the village,  as we walked back to the coach 

Then we did a trip to Nestle Chocolate factory in Broc,   I was not able to take many photos but this one is outside the building where there was this lovely fountain,  and I managed to take the photo of the model made of choclate.  very interesting visit seeing how they made the chocolates,

We also did a visit to Charlie Chaplins home,  and his museum which was his former home now made into the museum,   I think I am a bit young because I dont remember much about him and the films he made,  the guild was very knowledgable but she kept on about films that I had not seen or perhaps had seen as a young child and I did not remember,   in the end it became a little boring,  and we were not the only ones who lost interest.  never mind it was a beautiful house and here is a photo of his garden.

Three interesting places,    I think we enjoyed the chocolate factory ther most and tasting sdamples as we went around.   

Margaret

Nestle amongst the glaciers part one

Hi,

 I am sorry it’s taken weeks to get this post done but I came back from Switzerland with a cold which turned to flu,  I am not a 100% yet but better than I was,  we both spent the first two weeks in bed with it and only just starting to go out again.  There was a woman who was going to cancel because she had a cold but her friend persuaded her to go on the trip,  we all have to thank her for passing the cold round the coach.  What a lovely lady …. Not. 

This is part one of our trip to Switzerland,  we really enjoy our coach tour and the weather was good,  in april it could have been anything but good,   ok there was still a lot of snow around,  the cows have yet to go up to the top pastures,  most of which still had snow,   today I thought I would show you Montreux,  these are the flowers that graced along the lake side walk of Lake Geneva.  I hope you enjoy the walk 

And finally this is the statue of Freddie Mercury who was a former resident of Montreux

I hope you enjoyed the photos it was a lovely day when we walked along the lake side,  in fact 

we had beautiful weather on the whole trip in Switzerland.

Margaret.

Happy St Georges Day

 

Hi,

Happy St George’s Day to all my friends and followers 

International Tatting Day

 Hi,

Happy international Tatting day,  ok it’s the 1st April but it’s not an April fool,  it really is a very real international tatting day when us tatters,  celebrate tatting,  not sure if I will be tatting in public but I hopefully will be doing some tatting at some point,  and of course we enjoy chocolate while tatting.

This teddy is part of the christening present I am making for Matilda,  the christening if you follow the blog was at the beginning of March,  well I am still working on it,  but as I had nothing to show for our day,  I decided to show you the teddy.  The pattern is from the book tatted animals by Inga Madsen,  I love this book and this teddy was also on Maisy christening present I made her.  (They are sisters). I know I am making slow progress,  I have another appointment at the Royal United,  no results yet from the heart echo, but now they want to do something else.  It just goes on and on.  I am still here as they say.

Have a lovely day 

Margaret 

Floral cards

Hi,

Last month I was going to make some floral cards,  well what with a hospital in stay and then the bug I caught in the hospital,  last month came and went with not much done.   I have now made the  floral cards I had cut out to make,  the one above is a free one from craftsuprint,  and the one below was the left over pieces which I made into a small thank you card.

This next set is from Flowers of the month kit by Debbi Moore,  the first one is January,    February and then the last one is March.  I do love this kit and they have some beautiful images for each month,

January this one was a small image and I added a bow and some peel off lines around the image, the flowers are decoupaged,  their was no backing sheet so I used the envelope strip as a backing paper.  I put the flower image as a diamond.

February,   The flowers again were decoupaged and I used the envelope pieces as a backing paper.  I put the flower image at an angle to be different.

March and I think this was my favourite so far,  again I decoupaged the flowers,  and used the envelope sheet as the backing paper. On this card I put the flower image straight.

Three  months and three different flowers, colours and I tried to make them different 

I hope you like these floral cards.

Margaret.

March is crochet month, crochet key ring hangers

 Hi,

I have not posted as much recently,  still waiting for the results of the heart echo,  I am still here and today is a beautiful day here in somerset,  the sun is shinning and although not quite as warm as it has been the last few days it’s dry,  rain is forecasted for next week.

I made these few crochet key ring hangers over the last couple of months,   Last time I posted some of these was back in November link to  Blog.   I try do something different on a sunday,  and these seem to fit in well for sunday working.   I have some knitting to get done unfortunately I am suffering with my hand,  it got damaged when I was in hospital and is getting worse.  so knitting is only done for a short while in the evenings,  and the  christening present yes I am still working on it,  I am now doing the embroidery part,  will show  you when  it’s finished.

These key ring hangers could be used to hang anywhere,  the pattern is from asli-ime on Instagram and she as a YouTube channel called knitting my hobby

Hope you are having a lovely weekend

Margaret

Cute mouses

 Hi,

Here in the U.K. today is Mother’s Day,  I’m not a mother but I hope anyone who is they have a lovely day.

On Facebook  DM delights card making group have a monthly competition this month is cute cards,  which I am entering both these cards,  they are from the kit Cute animals thinking of you,  by debbi Moore.

Have a great day

Margaret.