Snippets

So, a bit of a mish mash post today - just snippets of my week.  A bit of this and a bit of that. 
Tuesday saw baby nut having a fine old time with a mixing bowl full of water and a straw.

There was rather a lot of mopping up/drying off/stripping off of wet clothes that ensued, but it was totally worth it - she had a brilliant time even though she couldn't for the life of her work out how the straw made bubbles when I had it, but didn't when she had it.  Bless her cotton socks.
On Wednesday I got almost tragically excited about this little treasure that I found in a local vintage/antique/junk shop:

It's the perfect solution to my birthday cake dilemma.  What do you make the child who can't eat any of the ingredients in a cake?  Why, you make her a birthday jelly.  Natch. 
Today saw some new arrivals at the house of a good friend:

Hello girls - hope you don't get eaten by the fox like your predecessors! 

I am so desperate to get some hens, but really we just can't fit them in our garden (which is actually more of a garden slash football pitch) so I just have to satisfy my henly longings by popping round to visit these ladies occasionally.
And finally, my current interim project - bedroom bunting for the daughter of another good friend.

I'm using my favourite yarn - Rowan handknit cotton, and have been following a pattern that I adapted from the inspirational Crochet with Raymond blog.  I say adapted - actually I thought I was just all-out copying it, but it turns out I didn't read the instructions for the edging properly and so ended up doing my own thing!  The result looks fine, and I'm really pleased with it so far - just the blocking and a bit of embellishment left to go.
Right, now I need to get cracking on the preparations for baby nut's birthday on Sunday.  Jelly anyone?  x