Block of the Month & Friday Smile for Donna's Doo

I have been here there and everywhere, including two trips away from home) but haven't had time to post anything here for quite a while. 

Each month I am having fun swapping a Block of the Month with Diane the Cheshire Quilter and when I received this lovely blue heart from her I realised that it must be April. Hang on! Where did March go? My snail trail block still hasn't arrived so I guess I'll have to have another bash at it soon.

 I braved an attempt, or two or three at the Basket Block. It was a struggle for me to produce anything near perfect enough to send Diane. No 1 went in the scraps, this is No 2 below and I posted No 3 (the best of the three) to Diane. 

I forgot to take a photo of it, in my haste to get to the post office, so No 2 will stay here. 

If you'd really like to scrutinise and compare it with No 3, pop over in a day or two to Diane's blog, when it has arrived. 

Thanks so much to Diane for bearing with me and helping me on my learning curve and I did post to the correct house number this time so we don't have any more snail mail!!!

Now I'm joining in with Annie's Friday Smile

Why not share your smile and make the weekend brighter?

I got together last week with my lovely friend, Dolores, to join our mutual friend Donna in Derby for quite an unusual doo. It was a multi celebration as Donna had her 50th birthday, she is moving to live in France, she was married last year and her Dad was 80. Wow! 

The celebration was a ceilidh and we were all invited to dress as French Onion sellers. So we did!!!

Here's the birthday girl, Donna and we wish her and her husband, good luck and  every happiness in their new lives in France. What an adventure for them.

 I'm sure lots of regulars to my blog will remember Donna (Doone) and join us in wishing her well.

Bonjour from Dolores and her DBF (great 'tash!)

and "Allo, Allo" from Me and DH

I had spent ages stringing together dozens of heads of garlic to take with me and Dolores, wisely, bought a string of plastic onions but we both forgot to take them to the party! I came back home after our few days away and my house still reeked of garlic! As went to the party we had to stop at traffic lights and I can tell you, a few heads turned and smiled as they spotted us in our outfits.