Must. Knit.

Feeling a desperate need to start a new knitting project. I love having a project on the go. Something to pick up when I have a spare few minutes. Since finishing my baby boy's blanket, I haven't got round to starting anything new.

I've got a few ideas for handmade and knitted Christmas presents (lucky family!), I'm just waiting for my new 40cm bamboo circular needles to arrive, then I can crack on and get clicking!

Watch this space. 

Do you always have a project on the go?!

Sense and Sensibility

I am a big fan of Jane Austen, I am also a big fan of the National Trust! I love wandering around the houses, finding secret doors, seeing the difference between 'upstairs and downstairs', the servants passageways, the grand four poster beds, chandeliers, curtains and ceilings! 

I decided to watch Sense and Sensibility on Monday night, the film with Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant etc. James my husband was out at football, and little Leo had gone to sleep. 

I utterly enjoyed having the film on and getting on with some card making. It is such a beautiful story and I love all the period costumes, language and houses! Plus some 'me time' to be creative!

On Tuesday my husband and I decided to have a visit to Salisbury, not too far from us in Winchester. We discovered, on our newly found National Trust app, there is a property right by the cathedral in Salisbury. 

We found Mompesson House in the cathedral close, it was beautiful! My favourite part was some doors that were actually bricked up behind! The guide was explaining that people would put these doors in that didn't go anywhere, to give the impression to visitors that their house was bigger than it was, that it went on and on! Brilliant!

We also found the little tea shop in the garden. The garden wasn't massive, but it was very tranquil and a bit of a haven. There were bees buzzing around the many lavender bushes and croquet on the lawn! We enjoyed a delicious and very peaceful cream tea.

All in all, a lovely day!

As we were leaving Mompesson House, I spotted a book by where we had left the buggy... Mompesson House was where they had filmed Mrs Jennings' London house in the 1995 film of Sense and Sensibility! 

So of course when I got home I just had to put it on again to spot the rooms of Mompesson House and figure it all out! Very exciting!

Do you enjoy visiting old houses and grounds? Have you been somewhere and spotted it in a film or on tv?