Blogtoberfest day 11 - Sleepyhead

Blogs read from Blogtoberfest: 31 - 41 on the list
Named and famed blog: Georgy G Design

I'm going to be honest tonight and say I'm finding it hard to blog.  I have that tiredness that seeps into your very bones, so all of you aches and the only cure is to lie flat and let the sofa take the weight of your body ... I did have enough energy though to find a couple of quotes about sleep and to read some more lovely blogs.

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." -Irish Proverb

I'm going to take the advice from that one!

And this one has a ring of truth to it :)

"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"  -Ernest Hemingway

Sweet dreams :)

Blogtoberfest day 10 - work ... but not quite

Wisteria in our backyard

A lovely sunny day, hence the lovely summery flowers to show you.

Today was actually my work day, though it was a "Family Fun Day" for our clients, which entailed spending the day in the park talking to people and eating lovely food.  The children mixed well even though this was their first time of meeting, which was great; if only we could get over our social inhibitions so quickly :)

Blogtoberfest blogs visited today: numbers 21 - 30
Join in the fun here

Blogtoberfest day 9 - another challenge!

Blogtober blogs visited: 11-20
Named and famed!  Trudy at Playing in the Attic - thank you for your comment!

I've thought of something else for my Blogtoberfest challenge - I've been pretty pants at answering comments that are left, so I've decided if someone leaves me a comment during Blogtober before I get to them on the Blogtoberfest blog roll I will leave a mention and a link to your blog here as a thank you for visiting and commenting.  I'm hoping to redeem myself in some way :)  And it has been so much fun visiting all these different blogs, I'm loving the challenge.

What I did today - I had reflexology on my feet, which was amazing and relaxing the first hour and a half I've had to sit quietly and just be for the entire school holidays.  Then my dear friend gave me a bag of lovely fresh veggies from her garden.  So I made tea with some of them and had to take a pic of the perfect aubergines - nothing to do with the fact they're purple of course ...

Blogtoberfest day 8 - Lego building

I made the decision today to visit each one of the blogs that are taking part in Blogtoberfest 2012 AND to leave a comment on each one.  People put so much work into their blogs and I'd like to take the time to visit - and I've already left a comment on someone's blog saying I'm undertaking this so now I'm honour bound to do it!  Today I've visited blog numbers 1 - 10 from the list which you can find here.

Our Lego city begins to take shape ...

What else have I been doing?  Building a Lego city with Little Man of course!  We've made a police station, space station research centre and space vehicles amongst other things ... and we've not finished yet!

The little house that I built ...

A space mobile ... Little Man's specialty

A real Ninja move - hiding behind the space cannon - can you make out Doctor Who by the phone box in the background?

It's going to fill the rest of the holidays, which I'm glad about as Lego is the only thing that can conquer the lure of the games console - long live Lego!

Blogtoberfest day 7 - 5 is the magic number

Think I might have overdone the hexagons yesterday - I ended up dreaming about them!   But that didn't stop me making up more templates today.  Everyone in the family thinks I've gone mad, but hexagons keep me going when the rest of life feels a bit hectic :)

We had a magical moment today when Little Man, HB, Big B, Duncan and myself were all sitting in the lounge doing our own thing - Little Man leaned over and whispered to me, "the whole family's together in the same room!"   Even though we were all occupied with our own activities whether it be reading, drawing or hexagons, we were all together quietly enjoying each other's company.  A rare commodity these days as our 'little people' are growing up and spreading their wings, and very, very special. xx

Blogtoberfest day 6 - more heavenly hexagons

Continuing my obsession with hexagons ...

Teeny tiny half inch hexies - I'll be sharing what this is going to become as the month progresses, and give you the link to the blogpost that inspired me at the same time.  So watch this space ...  My tiny hexies are surrounding a hexie flower I'm working on for my hexie swap partner.

Then from one extreme to the other - I'm making a knitting bag from the Cath Kidston book "Sew" which calls for slightly bigger hexagons ...

From one extreme to the other.

I'll share progress on this project too ...

Both projects are using vintage fabrics which I've been saving for a couple of years until I found something I wanted to make with them!  I know I do use hexagons a lot in my patchwork and quilting, but they are so very therapeutic - the whole process from cutting fabric hexies, paper templates, tacking fabric to the paper - and that's all before you even sew them together to make the fabric ... it all seems terribly slow, but it's the perfect antidote to a busy life :)

Blogtoberfest day 5 ... a picture

Here's a little tunnel.  I wonder where it's leading ...

I love the way sun and shade play together; can you step only on one or the other?

I love walking through the trees when the light is like this, it's magical somehow.  Takes me back to being a child.  It makes me happy ...

What little things make you smile?