Spring always seems to drag it’s feet when it comes to arriving at our rural idyll so I’m sure you’ll forgive me the posting of some piccies I took yesterday when the garden seemed to be alive with bees … except for when I wanted to photograph them!

I promise you some more crafty goodness in the next few days, there are pics and posts waiting to be made by Jolene, and I’ve also been making more bonnie birds and Jolene’s been trying her hand there too.

I’ve been meaning to make these for an age and whilst the inspiration is very much borne of the spring time the design is based on an earlier bowl I made way back when, here. 

I don’t know about you, but as we prepare to plunge into the depths of winter (haven’t we already plunged?) it seems like a remarkably good idea to do everything we can to remind ourselves that the long dark nights and the miserable weather only last until spring … actually the weather never really improves beyond getting a mite warmer, it does at least get lighter though!