cup cakes anyone????

The house is so silent, its also a huge mess after the summer, its kind of creepy,I miss the endless shouts of Mom can you, Mom will you...I roam from room to room with an ache inside I can not describe.  The post holiday blues are well and truly kicking in, it happens every year.
I have a head full of ideas and a sketch book of drawings filled with ideas of things I want to try, yet here I am feeling lost... I need to get a grip,  I WILL sew today, Oh My! it will be the first time in six weeks I have sewn on my machine!
I spent most of my creative time knitting, its easier to fit in around the children, you can pick it up and put it down quite easily, especially the cupcakes, I think I can make these in my sleep now, these are the latest batch, a few more changes, I am not so sure about the decoration...it well, looks a bit like... Oh I shall leave that up to your imagination.
SO already I am missing the beach, sitting on a deserted beach when everyone has gone home and just looking out to the splendor of the sea, the sheer size and power of it thrill and scare me at the same time, last weekend I watched two lone surfers in wild waves, the sky was grey and the rain was the kind of see through rain that without you knowing it soaks you to the skin, the surfers battled against the elements for a few moments of triumph when they finally caught a good wave...thrilling to watch.
So whilst it rains, and rains... all the more reason t0 spend some time in my sewing room today, I have a bag I am putting together...a bag that marks the change of the seasons, its roomy in design and will suit my life style and once made it will no doubt be filled with the usual bits of Mothering nonsense that seem to collate in each bag I own, a couple of toy cars, little pencils and a pad, wet wipes and tissues and the lipstick that loses its top and get covered in crumbs despite having no crumbs in my bag???...I love being a MOM!!!

Personal...(off topic)

Thank you so much for your comments and personal emails yesterday about my hospital appointment...The appointment went well.   I had minor surgery... what can I say, maybe you can learn from my error... As a child I remember my Mom always telling me to get my face out of a book and get some sun on it, a tan was healthy and the knowledge we have about the sun today was not widely known to my parents generation, so I burnt and burnt yearly as a child under the suns rays, then as a teenager sunbed salons became the thing to do, so I followed the trend and spent a good few years using sunbeds, I burnt once under these rays so bad I blistered... Then I went to work in Europe and spent most of my time outdoors using factor 4 suncream, which then, was thought of as quite a high factor as various people still used coconut oil.  I am fair skin, blue eyes, I freckle, my skin is covered in little moles, which might sound unattractive but I kind of like them.  So I am a big girl now and I have the knowledge about the dangers of the sun my parents generation did not have... my boys are smeared in suncream and its reapplied every few hours, we avoid the mid day sun and I try and keep hats on them, as for me I use sun protection all year round, I have sun damaged skin and I want to stop it getting worse, factor thirty+ for me, I go and have my skin checked yearly after I had a skin scare.  So this year was no exception, only this year I did not get the all clear... so I sit here a little less of me than when I last blogged... Ouch it feels like bee stings...and really does not look pretty, its a preventative option and I am blessed I have that option... But if I knew then what I know now, I would not allow my skin to burn, I never even went brown...  Now I use a high factor suncream and apply it regularly I get the healthy look, but the damage is done for me, maybe not for you though...

Time for some sewing....