Dad and Daughter Day

My Dad asked me yesterday if I would like to go metal detecting with him, I of course jumped at the chance I love digging for buried treasure. Unfortunately, the weather was not the best just as we started to dig, it decided to pour down and we looked like a pair of muddy drowned rats, that did not stop us though. We had a great time and although we didn't find any Viking treasure we did find some lovely stoneware and vintage bottles.

I was very lucky and found two vintage cream pots from Carricks Cumberland Dairy, I think they are aged about 1880.

I also found a vintage glass ink bottle, medicine bottles and I think the large one may have been a gin bottle, although I am not sure I will have to do a bit of research on some of these.

The photo above shows two dark green bottles. The first one is 5 1/2 inches high and the second one is 5 inches.

The last items I unearthed were four brown Bovril bottles.

My Dad also unearthed some stoneware and glass bottles, although I haven't had a chance to have a look through his hoard!!

 

 

 

 

 

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Crocheted Fingerless Gloves

I visited Loopy, the wool shop in Ulverston and picked up two balls of Debbie Bliss Rialto DK Print wool in the reduced basket, £3.00 each, I couldn't resist. I have never crocheted using multi coloured wool before. I do know that if you crochet for example a pair of socks you must always start each sock with the same colour so they match. However, I wasn't particularly bothered if my gloves matched or not, I just wanted to see if I could crochet one pair of gloves using one ball of 50g wool, which I did, although it was a close call as I did make the cuff a little longer 15 stitches instead of 10 and also made the thumb a little bit longer as well by about three rows.

I loved crocheting with this wool, it's extra fine merino and feels so soft compared with crocheting acrylic which always leaves my fingers feeling a little bit sore afterwards, although that could be the fact I do not like leaving things half finished and push myself to the end :)

The pattern I used is the same pattern as the mustard coloured fingerless gloves in one of my previous posts.

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Mini break to York

I went on a mini break to York recently we stayed at the Crook Lodge Hotel which is just five minutes walk to the town centre. The rooms were lovely, breakfast was great and they have private off road parking which is definitely a huge bonus. Brian, the host is very nice and has loads of helpful information on where to eat and visit.

We had some amazing meals while we were in York and I always like to try something new wherever I go. On one occasion we decided to try The Lamb and Lion in High Petergate, I ordered roasted wood pigeon with caramelised carrots and layered thyme potato. It was gorgeous and definitely something I would eat again.

Hot purple figs, plums, apricots marinated in mulled wine with a clotted cream and apricot purée and homemade ginger biscuit.. gorgeous!

On the walk back to our hotel we went past a lovely shop window which had a large decoupage stag, this reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend at the Ulverston Scrap Store, she mentioned she was going to decoupage a little cow with Liberty fabric (which she has recently done and it looks fantastic).

To get to our hotel you can walk through the Museum Gardens, there are so many squirrels, my husband and I could not resist feeding them, they are so cheeky.

I also managed to find a bit of yarn bombing on my travels are well :)

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