Busy Busy Busy

I'm a busy bee at the moment so just a quickie post with this shot I took with the Hipstamatic app on my phone this morning.

Did I ever mention I love spring blossom?

Blogging For Scrapbookers

I did the Blogging For Scrapbookers course by Shimelle the first time around and today it is having a rerun with a few tweeks.

I don't know what I want to achieve this time around other than hoping to learn new things and meet new people.  I made some lovely friends last time around who I am in touch with on facebook.

Anyway we will see what it brings.

Officially yesterday was the first day of spring here in the northern hemisphere.  It is a bone of contention with a lot of people when the equinoxes are but in reality they change every year.  This site show them all for years and years and years.

For me spring is here when the blossom starts appearing on the trees.  This morning this was the sight that greeted us on our walk to school.  I swear there was no blossom on friday afternoon on the way home. It is amazing how it always appears as soon as spring springs.

I discovered Meet Me On Monday where we answer questions about ourselves and here they are


1. What jewelry do you wear 24/7? - I only really have my wedding and engagement rings plus another one my husband bought me for my 21st so those.  My watch is never too far from my wrist but not 24/7.

2. Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it? - cut it

3. How many siblings do you have? - 2 a sister and brother both younger

4. Were you named after anyone? - I think County Kerry in Ireland. I have been told it was that name regardless of whether I was a girl or boy.

5. Coke or Pepsi? - Definitely Coke.


Oh and one more thing.  Remember my shop The Craft Garden - well I'm working on a new venture which will mean I should be able to reopen later this week.  Not the same products and with a much smaller stockbase but with a floral emphasis.

Plantwatching

Remember that pot with the ivy and bulbs in that I thought were daffodils?   Well yes they are and I remembered why I didn't remember what they were.  The pot was one I bought from a local florist after easter or mothers day last year - I don't remember which - and was preplanted with the little miniature daffys.  They didn't last long after I bought them which is probably why there weren't very memorable. 

Anyway this is how they look now a week after my last photo.  Amazing what a bit of warmer weather can do.

I'm also keen to see this tulip open.  These are growing at an incredible rate and over the last 24 hours another bud has appeared aswell as this one.

Skywatch & Has Spring Sprung

First of all is my rubbish skywatch piccie for this week.  It has been one of those weeks where I don't really get out and about anywhere interesting so this is a pic of a bird feeder in my back yard.  As you can see the sky is blue without any clouds.  We have had quite a few days like this lately but the temperatures soon drop once it gets dark and most mornings we have frost.

So yes during the day it might feel like spring has sprung but it is still technically winter and spring is only on the horizon.  

I've been watching Lambing Live on BBC2 this week.  I think it has been a fab show.  Whilst I was searching for a piccie for it I came across this article which is rather negative.  As anybody who has watched it will know many lambs have been born live on air.

                                   

 My bulbs have starting coming up but I can't for the life of me remember what they are.

These ones are OK because I put a label on (very blurry sorry).  Tulips

but these two I really can only assume they are mini daffodils because they look the same and the ones I put in with the ivy have some buds that look like daffys.  Time will tell