A happy, smiley, thankful sort of blog post.

Although the skies are grey and heavy, my mood is golden and light. Well, that may be stretching it a little, but you get my drift. So even though I still can't put weight on my left ankle, and now the right one has produced a small bright red itchy patch so as not to be left out of the attention stakes, I am in one of those moods when it's good to reflect on the positives. My friend below says it all... the GOOD bit at the bottom can be turned to show BAD, but of course, that rarely happens!
And the main reason I am in a happy sort of mood is due in part to the box of goodies that arrived from the lovely, clever Alex yesterday. If you remember I won her giveaway, news of which came on a rather grey and heavy day, mood-wise.

This was the box, revealed when I had opened it, complete with prettily-wrapped goodies.

And here they are, revealed. A warm woolly hat, a green swirly brooch, a lovely beaded and embroidered heart sitting in a fabric box, a photo album with a crocheted cover, the mad loveable dog and gorgeous rabbit complete the contents. Here's a close-up...

And this is where rabbit and box ended up... the box is holding small crocheted squares, plus a large fancy one I don't know what to do with yet!

And dawg is in my cupboard looking after Yvette, the french knitting dolly and keeping company with the rocking horse etc. He hasn't stopped smiling, so I guess he's all right with being in a cupboard, and I am definitely all right with it as I get to see him every day, several times, same for rabbit of course.

And this is an overall view of one of the craft shelf units, so you get a bigger picture of rabbit and gorgeous fabric box.

Thank you Alex, so much... I love them all.

Other things which made me smile today.... almost-finished crochet project, smiling because it means I can soon choose what I want to do next as well as the satisfaction of seeing a project from start to finish in one fell swoop. Often they go in a cupboard, where they are forgotten until the next time I decide to have a blitz on clearing out cupboards.

Then when I was dusting the dresser in the hall, there was this photo of Simon, my eldest son when he was a year old - and now he's almost forty!!! I just love this, taken at a boat yard where my late mother worked at the time - would they could stay like this, I sometimes think! Then I hobble around the house on my poorly ankle and thank my lucky stars I don't have a toddler to chase after of course! But still, there is something sweet about that innocence.

A couple of new magazines to read, this always makes me smile, and thankful I can afford them when there are many people who struggle to feed themselves, let alone have the luxury of expensive magazines.

And I am thankful the forecasted rain didn't happen and I was able to enjoy pegging out and bringing in fresh-smelling clean washing.. pegging out being one of those simple pleasures, as we have talked about before.

And I am thankful for the friends I have made via the blogosphere, and look forward to reading comments, and more blog posts from you. Enjoy your week!