Bringing Colour into Winter

Do you know the Flower Fairy books

by Cicely Mary Barker?

I opened the page on the Primrose Fairy.

Isn't she lovely?

There's a poem to match each fairy too!

I really appreciate the fact that we can find beautiful potted flowers

during these winter months.

I picked three of my primroses to put on the Primrose Fairy page!

Of course, we're getting light snowfalls here in town and it looks so pretty

when it settles on the trees and bushes and in the gardens.

I just love this garden gate. Don't you?

The red berries got a good covering of fluffy snow.

and the evergreens in the nearby park looked beautiful.

It's the perfect weather for Cheese Raclette!

It's a combination of small potatoes in their jackets

and a special kind of raclette cheese which is tasty and melts easily.

I used two types of cheese:

Bagnes and Alpages.

A nice crunchy carrot salad on the side and a turn of the pepper mill on the cheese.

You can read more about raclette when I did an evening cruise on the lake:

Raclette Cruise

More colour to bring into the home in the form of a beautiful bouquet of tulips.

They are still in bud and will bring me great joy as they open up.

I chose this photo for my new blog header. The frame is bright and cheerful

to bring you some happy colour in these winter months!

There's always something on my crochet hook.

I'm going to make a garland with these hearts and I'll be posting the finished decoration

in a future blog post.

This lovely pattern comes is called Sunburst Granny Hearts and comes from

Bunny Mummy

Easter Day!

Tulips and chicks

with a grey start to the day,

but there are already sunny spells this morning

 and it should be lovely this afternoon!

Hot Cross Buns were eaten on Good Friday

and this morning too.

Quite delicious with butter and homemade marmalade!

Just the other day, I made some natural organic lip balm

using Shea butter, almond oil, beeswax and lavender essential oil.

It's beautifully nourishing for night-time or during the day.

I put the tiny pots into little sachets for gifts

and gave two of them to my family this week.

Such a joy to see primroses popping up in all the gardens on my afternoon walk!

I love writing with a fountain pen

and I have notebooks where I like to write phrases and quotations

and sometimes poems.

I recently wrote these powerful words by Gandhi.

I hope that your day will be a lovely one!

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Crochet pattern from:this site