Silent Sunday

Gothic Prom Princess



Last thursday was Teenage Daughter's High School Prom. She didn't want to dress up as a pink meringue or Lady Gaga; instead she wanted a gothic fairytale inspired dress, in black. The dress was finished in a bit of a panic on thursday morning, but worth it. Doesn't she look fabulous!

A few minor adjustments to the tiara...

Where's the tiara gone??

A proud moment for dad...

Rosie has left the building...

The theme over at Sticky Fingers this week is Travel. I suppose I could have taken this opportunity to share tales of our adventures in Sweden with The Viking... walks through the forest picking mushrooms, swimming in the lakes, trampolining with the Swedish cousins...

However, this week, Rosie has abandoned Our Handmade Journey and travelled over to her own lovely blog, leaving Little Grandma all alone to cope with the chaos, knit the hats, admire the spiders...and so on...

Wish her luck on travelling solo...

Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday

The Gallery - My Weekend

A Post by Little Grandma

The theme over at Sticky Fingers this week is My Weekend

On Saturday, while everybody was living it up at 'cybermummy', and everybody else was drowning in the rain; myself and The Viking took cover at a local playcentre... along with half a million other people...

On Sunday we were treated to glorious sunshine.

Our back garden is a neglected rubbish tip nature reserve, so the three Little Uncles set off on a bug safari...
Lifting stones to reveal centipedes scurrying away, a cluster of woodlice, or a coiled millipede or two is a firm favourite with the boys... even more so since they discovered the reaction they can get when they introduce their new 'friends' to their big sisters!

Anyway, this 'monster beetle' didn't disappoint

A Boy's Best Friend...

A Post by Little Grandma

I am just about ok with spider's, even those of tarantula proportions, as long as I don't have to touch them and I know where they are. What I mean is, I would get pretty freaked out if I saw one sneak into my bed, and then when I whipped off the duvet, it was nowhere to be seen... ugh!

Anyway, this morning I spotted a rather large, hairy specimen on my bedroom wall. I hastily came downstairs and decided not to think about it... until...

...a little voice chirped up, "mum, mum, look, i've got a new best friend!"

So here he is, the Littlest Uncle showing me what his new buddy can do...

Belle doesn't want to be left out...

Turn away now ladies if you don't like hairy monsters....

A shot bravely taken with the macro lens on my mobile...

Silent Sunday