Sunny Sunday

The summer finally arrived and with it my mum and her friend. I always look forward to see her and the assortment of various friends who arrive from small town just outside Prague to explore England. They usually disappear very early in the morning and come back late at night beaming with their treasures from charity shops, beaches or free leaflets from tourist information points. They get really exited when the waitress from tearoom gets the order right ('I managed the whole sentence !). They marvel at sheer number of people of different cultural and racial backgrounds and the choice of yogurts in supermarkets.

My mum on the other hand stays cool, because after nearly 14 years she knows it all and now is the perfect guide. Without thinking she works out complicated travel arrangements (How do we exactly get to Brighton ? Oh and what if we miss our stop ?!!! Brighton...), sorts out the visits to various museums and galleries in correct order, as her friends usually don't realise that to visit Hampton Court and National Gallery in one day is practically impossible. You see, you can visit Prague Castle and National Museum (and probably another couple of museums in between) AND you can walk it !

The visits are usually 'enhanced' by experiencing a real 'English life' (no idea what's that either...) in a form of my husband, who with his dry sense of humour usually mentions something silly, which those poor friends of my mum's take quite seriously. He also keeps them on their toes by ordering Indian or Chinese food or telling them with a straight face that when the sugar runs out they need to go back home. (Me & my husband don't take sugar, so we always buy some for our guests).

So far, this has very little to do with crafting and that's how it usually is - to accommodate our guests my craft room is turned in to a guest room and for two weeks I am turfed out... Although I don't get to do much crafting, I get to talk to my mum about new craft books, colours or fabric materials. My mum is a potter and runs pottery classes from her studio at home, so we always discuss new projects and bounce off ideas. When I finish writing this blog we are going to finish off decorating our cakes that we started yesterday...

I hope you are having a fabulous sunny Sunday and next week I will be back to crafting ! Until then, you can always pop in to Handmade Harbour and soak up the craftiness there...