My Mojo returned on Friday afternoon!

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

We had another productive day in the garden, the dead wood has all been removed,  sadly it looks awful as the fir trees have died underneath it,  we can very carefully wound the two Clematis back in, fingers crossed they soon recover and cover the bare areas.  We also got some Leeks, Cauliflower,  kale, Spring Cabbage and Brussels Sprouts  (red and green) planted, some have had to go between sweetcorn plants but they finish in September so their should be room, we will them cut the sweetcorn down and leave the stems as supports.  Needless to say I was 'done' by 6pm!                             Luckily it was easy dinner so Paul could manage most of it, Salmon Wellington,  is a crowd favourite in our house, its salmon in a prawn & white wine sauce encased in puff pastry,  the girls had one between themselves while we were away (it serves 4 good portions) they had it with tenderstem Broccoli and french beans (no potatoes needed as the portion of salmon was too big) 😋 🤣😅  

We will be having new potatoes with Salmon Wellington tenderstem Broccoli,  french beans & courgettes sautéed in garlic and herbs.   We had a lot of courgettes to use up, the girls aren't fond of the just steamed.  Lucy and I love courgettes made into courgetti (spiralled) its great woth bolognese.  

We get our Wellington from Aldi or Lidl, they are both delicious, Sainsburys have them a lot more expensive and not as tasty. 

Karen I hope you enjoyed your Bowls match,  the winning is a bonus, the best part is all of the friends you have made and the extra socialising that brings xxx

Maria I hope your sister has some positive news, I feel for you my lovely, you feel so helpless when you are so far away.  Sending you big hugs  🤗 xx

Lilian, I'm sorry to read that your Dahlias have been disappointing,  I believe you got yours from Farmer Gracy in Netherlands same as I did,  I have only had three that have flowered so far, I have mine in large terracotta pots,  it's not ideal for them, we need to make a large flower bed to put them in, although I like to put them in the greenhouse over winter to protect them.  Are yours in pots??  XXX

Sue, I hope you didn't get caught in the "i feel ok so I will get loads done trap"!!  I have been bought to my knees by that mistake more times than I dare to admit.  I hope you had a good weekend XXX

I was so happy that my crafty enthusiasm returned on Friday afternoon,  typical that it chose the afternoon we go food shopping,  so I was crafting up to the point that Paul was getting in the car! 🤣😅🤣

I picked up my 49 & Market Birdsong paper pad and had a flick through, I have had 2 collections for a couple of months but haven't gotten around to using them,  this was when I was looking for the something to use for the New/Unused challenge.   I picked out three different papers and then made three different card bases to adhere them to.  I didn't want to cut this paper as it was so nice, it looks more black in photograph but its a very dark blue, almost watercolour effect.  I loved the sweet flowers but it was those tiny little birds that caught my eye.   I used a sentiment that I bought from Amazon a while ago and have never used it. I did see a similar card on Pinterest but theirs was a rectangle card.  I added three yellow sparkles to pick up the yellow in the flowers. 

I hope that you all have a great start to the week, 

Love & hugs to all 

Sandra xxx