Rocking Your Wold 2020: Week 19

So here we are on day 57 of lock-down. There has been a little easing of the restrictions but nothing very noticeable in the village.  Bars will be opening for very limited numbers next week, but I don't get the feeling that many folk are ready to rush back out and sit in public places yet. We are waiting to see whether there is any resurgence of infections before we venture any further than we need to.

But this week we have had sunshine every day, and that puts a whole new perspective on our days. We have eaten lunch out on the porch several times, and last night we sat out on the porch listening to music and keeping busy, Chris on his laptop and me with my crochet hook, until gone midnight and it stayed plenty warm enough to be comfortable. Chris has cleaned out the pool and pressure washed all the fly netting,and the terraces, so we are ready for Summer to come. I actually prefer these days when it is hot, but not too hot, so we stay comfortable all day. And it is lovely to see blue skies again.

While sitting out and watching the birds at the back of the house, this little butterfly landed quite close to me. It actually settled and opened its wings for me.

I believe it is a Speckled Wood Butterfly. We don't get many butterflies down here, so it was nice to see this one.

I did manage to finish my blanket this week so here it is, washed, and ready to go to its new home. 

When I put it on Facebook my son Mike put his name on it, which was good as that is where I was hoping it would go. It is a bit bright and busy, but I think his boys will like the colours, and will snuggle up under it come next winter. It is thick and heavy so will be very warm too. I will have to wait until things are resolved a bit more before I send it to him, but there is no rush for it right now.

I am currently trying to finish one or two other projects that have been lying around for ages, so I will have to be very strict with myself and try not to get distracted by some of the other lovely patterns that I keep seeing. I have got my eye on one smaller item I would like to make, so we will see!!

Last week I showed some pictures of my lovely roses. They really benefited from the hard pruning Chris gave them earlier, and are looking fabulous now. I took a few more pictures this week as others opened up and yesterday I put together two scrapbook layouts featuring the best ones. I used a template purchased from AnnieCDigitals, which I reversed for the second page. (I think its being a Libra; I like everything to be balanced). One page features the red/pink roses and the other the more orange/yellow ones. The backing paper and extra elements come from a range of digi-scrapbook kits that I have on my computer, and the script is my own typing. I am waiting for delivery of a new flat-bed colour printer so these can be printed as 12"x12" pages to go in my 'miscellaneous' album.

This week there has been a full moon and it was shining so brightly as we sat outside that I just had to get the camera again. These two shots were taken seconds apart, just at dusk, and without changing the camera setting, just tilting it to a slightly different angle, I got two very distinct images.

As Annie is a 'sewer', I thought she might appreciate this little piece that a friend in Ireland posted on our sewing group Facebook page. It made me smile, so hopefully she, and everyone else, will too.

And with that I will link up with Annie's Friday Smiles, and Rocking Your World.