Crafty in the Med

I am here to enjoy meeting other bloggers and to share my love of craft ,mostly crochet, my thoughts and my daily happenings here in Alicante,Spain, my adopted country. I belong to a local choir because singing and music makes me happy. Flea markets and book shops are two of my favourite places to be. I read lots......sci´fi/fantasy,buried treasure, and off world adventures. I have a passion for history! I walk and walk and walk for about 10 months per year during the hot months I swim.

Thursday, 6 August 2020

Heritage make





KEEPING THE FLIES OFF

 
 

During a Mid June clean out, I found a card my niece in Point Vernon,Australia had sent to me asking me to crochet for her a jug/sugar bowl cover......that was years ago😞...and I had completely forgot about it !!!!🙁. 

As I felt pretty guilty about not doing that for her I tried to make the cover for her special.  I called it the three generation jug cover as I blended in bits of crochet made by my Mother,my Gran and myself. 
My Mother gave me a lot of bits and pieces from my Gran's crochet......some were unfinished makes. 
The hexagon centre was my Mother's,the centre flower was half done by my Gran...I completed it. 



 
My part was the edging in variegated Katia Jaipur fine cotton and adding the beads. 


 

I like to think that when Mum gave me her crochet bits bag a few months before she passed it was for a reason. I am convinced that they would both be pleased that I have shared their crochet with other members of our family. 

In this way I can give my niece a small something connected to her Great Grandmother, her Grandmother and her Aunty 😊 

Thoughts of my Gran and my Mother went into every stitch that I crocheted here.



Stay safe  

Amanda :-)


PS: That parcel still sits in my house because I was told at the Post Office at the beginning of July that Australia has closed its' frontier at present and I cannot send the parcel yet.














The winner reminder






FRESH START GIVEAWAY
 
Santa Barbara Castle




I tried to set up a video clip to show you how I was using the Random Number Generator online to select the winner. Blogger kept rejecting the video clip so I took a screenshot!  
As you can see there were 20 entries in all.....

and


the Winner is........ 

 No.....

 



14

which corresponds with the blog "A new life in Wales "



CONGRATULATIONS 
Pam

 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟


Please contact me and send me your postal address
  
Amanda 😊






Monday, 27 July 2020

The Inevitable!



Exactly that!!!

I am smiling :-)

I really did not want to try New Blogger out at all especially after all the problems I have had recently with Blogger but .....as my old Aunty May used to say best git ee over and dun wit.....,down to earth but wise old lady was my Aunty May! 
Well I did and initially all was well. I wrote up my last post "The Real Thing"while testing New Blogger. I had a few snags situating the photos on the post as they kept skidding back to where New Blogger wanted to put those images! I finally got that sorted and finished my post. I published it and it uploaded to my blog window. As I always do I logged out of the blog and checked if I could see my post online!! Yep...all fine there.....!!
 I then noticed  no thumbnail image appeared on my blog roll to indicate I had a new post . I checked the Reading list and no post appeared there either just the previous post. There you have it I had a new post that the blogworld could see on my blog but the blog roll image and the update on the reading list was missing completely.  After waiting to see if it they would appear from the depths of bloggerland on their own by logging out and logging in to blogger again but did not happen ! I therefore tried this that and the other to try and activate those two missing elements!  Consequently I got really fed up and reverted back to old Blogger and the missing thumbnail image appeared in seconds as it should do on my blog roll and the post appeared also likewise on my reading list!!

So much for the first try with New Blogger !!     I am hoping this is something that may have happened to other bloggers out there and if so I really want to hear how you solved it..please!!
I have read somewhere that old Blogger will change to New Blogger at the end of August for everyone!!  I hope they will have sorted this glitch by then!!



 Suncatcher 

Another lockdown make which I finished at the end of April and displayed from my balcony window.

 


bit of a gloomy cloudy day..tch!

 have a great week!


Take care now!


 Amanda.   x