Barcelona, the one where I didn't go up a cable car!

Och what can I say Barcelona was fab! Totes brilliant. We went to Sagrada Familia which was epic. I can't really say much about the holding it was just too breath taking. This pictures are just to remind me about all of the quilt inspiration I saw there.

Getting sloshed

See these ladies?? Best * mates * ever!!

I knew I needed a break but maybe not quite how much I needed a break. Anyhow after a fab few days in Barcelona I headed up North for a class in Parrs rulers. The night before my bestest, Irene, Wendy and I headed to our fav Aberdeen bar the foundry. It's cheap it's cheerful and we love it.

The last time we went I mentioned on Facebook that they were doing the slosh but I never knew how to do it. Queue horror from loads of chums. "You never did the slosh??"
Well no, my mother would have been mortified if any of us did anything like that at a wedding.
Another fab chum Kirsten took me in hand and in the middle of her office much to the hilarity of her co workers she taught me the slosh. Actually some of them joined in!
So this time we were primed, Irene went up and requested the slosh, I went up and did not just one song of it but two!! It was fab.
Well some of this may have been consumed:

For those of you who don't know what the slosh is have a look at this, it's a Scottish tradition.

Budsmam does Orkney

Honestly blogger!!! this is from 2016 why you put  it here! i  was updating it!

We loved Orkney, what a fabulous holiday, truly chill out. Some highlights.

Skara brae

This dinner service was used by Captain Cook, it was on display in the house beside Skarra Brae.

 To be honest there are over 450 pictures in my flickr album from this trip, I cant really choose which ones to put in! 

Barcelona the one where I went on a cable car

For people of my era, you can only hear the soaring tones of Freddie Mercury when someone says Barcelona! Aww Freddie, such a loss.
A yahoo our holiday plans have been a bit disrupted by Mr Budsmams hike across Iceland later this year. So we were later in going on our spring break.
But it was well worth the wait!! Oh my goodness how amazing is Barcelona! Right I'm going to keep this text light, but a favourite visit was to Monjuic, a hill fort. You could walk up there, or you could take the furnicular railway most of the way, or if you suffer from vertigo like me you could take the cable car ..... I am always trying to challenge my vertigo .... What an eejit!

Another finish!!

And I remembered to take a pic this time!! :-) it was the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt for 2016. Alietare, how could I not do this one it was inspired by Florence!! So this is the second ticked off the Q2 list
I blogged about it here.
One of our staff is a foster mother, she asked me if I had any quilts for some distressed children she was fostering, well of course I do!
I rushed this plus one other into work for her and managed to get a picture in our archive before handing it over.

Yeah scan see the archive boxes in this pic! So tick tick tick off my Q 2 list

FAL 2016 Q2 first finish!!

Yea!! My first finish!!
Guess which numpty didn't get a picture of it before it was donated ..... Flippity flip!!
It was the Reveille quilt top, I rolled it over from my Q1 list to my Q2 list! Then stoopid numpty that I am I got so excited that I had found a good home for it it forgot to take a pic.
I blogged about the making of it here
I wanted to donate it to the weaving Musical threads blanket appeal but totes forgot to take a pic of the finished article .... Does that disqualify me? Hey ho if it does then that's no biggie. It's gone to a good home.

This was the finished top before quilting.

Daft auld librarian

I have just been called a woose by a very senior member of staff :-) why? Because I cried at the leaving lunch for our fourth year undergraduates.
Work can cause so much stress but these guys are the reason it causes so much joy. I will miss each and every one of them.
See that below? That's this daft auld librarian greetin while they clapped me, they read out every member of support staff and applauded them.

They gave us all individual certificates and little trophies! Mine has gone into my little corner of happiness at work to remind me of what is really important.

And just when I thought it was safe to put the hankies away one of the students asked to see me, I thought she had a referencing question!! No she had made me some fabulous choux pastries and an amazing handmade card ..... Queue the waterworks again!!