Our trip to Europe

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I love the little vignette with the gorgeous little Eiffle Tower I bought in Paris on a recent trip to Europe.

The Tower looked so pretty at night with the twinkling lights 

Amsterdam was so beautiful with the most interesting architecture. We actually stayed in believe it or not the red light district. We hadn't known that when we booked our holidays. The hotel was buit in the 1700's. It was quite quaint 

We then joined the ship to cruise The Rhine through Germany and then the speed train to Paris.

The ship was lovely as was the beautiful hotel in Paris

We made some lovely friends along the way. 

The Champs De Elysse and Arc De Tromph in the

 A Beautiful childrenwear shop

the hotel in Paris

I hope you enjoyed some of our holiday snaps. They are a little mixed up as my ipad is a nightmare to try and post on. It jumps all over the place when I'm writing and I can't get the photo's to post in order. I wish I had my laptop again.

Until next time I will be visiting some friendly blogs and linky parties.

Jeanette ann 

After the rain

After returning from holidays we were amazed at how our little garden. It was so pretty,everything was fresh looking.  We had had so much rain which is unusual for this time of year and Spring too.
So I'd like to share a few photo's with you. Hope you enjoy them

 The hollyhocks are getting so big and just about ready to bloom. They last most of the year so I am quite excited about them.

 I just so love Margarite Daisies, this one is called Red Baron and is beautiful don't you think ?

I hope you enjoyed my garden pretties. Have a nice day wherever you are in the World

Love to you all. I so like visiting you and will try to catch up with as many of your lovely blogs as I can in the next week or 2. Until then xx jeanetteann 

Catching up

As I explained in my last post,I deleted by accident posts from the last year and a half :(

Sooo here are a few pretties from past posts

My passion for pretty china

My garden

sewing and embroidery and more 

A lot of catching up to do in the next few weeks so until next time toodles
jeanetteann 

No good crying over spilt milk

I am so sad, I was tidying up my blog and in my foggy jet lagged state (after our long flight from Europe) I deleted all my posts for the last 11/2 years uggggh sooooooo annoyed with myself.

Oh well serves me right for trying to be too perfect.

Well onwards and upwards right. Positive thinking is called for and move on without regret. No good crying over what I can't change.

Coming back from our holidays has put me in a restless mood. What do I get my teeth/hands into now. More little smocked dresses to replenish my stock, my wool stash to make yet another scarf/jumper that I don't need, or something totally different.

Maybe as we have had ooodles of rain and the garden is in beautiful bloom a visit to the garden centre would be nice,and I haven't been trawling the thrift shops for yonks.

So much going through my head and yet jet lag still holds me back.

I think a drive in the countryside would be a good way to clear my head and start fresh.

Spring is around the corner and that's a good thing to motivate.

A lot of posts to catch up on again and linky parties and blogs to visit. 

Until next time xx jeanetteann 

New gorgeous thrifty find and marmalade

I was so thrilled to find this pretty 36 piece dinner set

I couldn't believe the price when I saw it $15 the whole set 

I am sure it has never been used it's so perfect.

It is so lovely for a Spring lunch in the garden, although

I won't be able to wait that long before using it. 

In my last post I talked about the fruit  I cooked ready to turn into marmalade

Well it's all done.

I love the look of freshly made preserves in the kitchen.

I'm visiting some nice linky parties this week

The links are on my side bar.

Happy week 

xx jeanetteann