Lovelly weather and one pot cooking.

Another lovelly day, my time would seem to be supped away by the up coming wedding on Saturday, not that I am complaining, a good summer wedding is a treat which ever way you look at it.

So all this mornings beauty pamperings have been completed, numerous outfits have been tried on and retried on with different accessories and now I am happy to leave choosen outfit 'hanging' ready for Saturday, I do hope this effort will mean I dont have the customary change of mind Saturday morning and end up going out with half a dozen garments strewn on the bed and a landing full of shoes and hats. I cant promise but heres hoping!.

I also had my daughters bridesmaid dress to alter, this is now complete and hope it will preserve her modesty, as the dress was a little on the large size, think Marilyn Monroe over the air vent but in sexy pink instead of white, with her colouring and blonde hair I think she will look very beautiful.

I am never one to complain about good weather, but it does seem such a waste of ones time to spend the evening in the kitchen cooking, only so many salads can be eaten in one week. Today I decided to go for a one pot tea, firstly because its quick and easy and secoundly because I hate to waste anything, and as the week has progressed the 'odds and sods' in the fridge seemed to be multiplying, no left overs to be seen now. I am coeliac and also allergic to red meat and fish, so a rather restricted menu is available and no prosessed food for me, things you wouldnt believe contain wheat flour or pork fat. So todays meal comprised of chicken strips, yesterdays left over baby potatoes, fresh leeks, rice cooked in vegetable stock, chopped tomatoes and half a carton of double cream, and seasoned with salt and pepper and of course some fresh and dried herbs and served with crusty [GF] bread.

And now am off to sort through my wool sacks where I store all my bargain finds, I have found a very nice tea cosy I would like to make for my 'garden tea pot', the pattern was in a book called 'really wild tea cosies' by Loani Prior, I wont tell you which one I have choosen just yet, but will upload once completed. I still have plenty of hand stitching to do on my Daisy Patchwork, in fact I must start taking some work in practise photos. For today I will leave you with a different Daisy inspired peice,I choose to do a cross stitch with many of our favorite things, on the border I did one tree for every year of her life, she like me loved cake, and was a home girl, happy stitching............