Monday Mosaic - My good fortune

I want to share my good fortune with you. My friend over at Random Ramblings has just celebrated her blogversary - a year since she started blogging. She set up a giveaway, anyone who commented and left a link to their own first ever post would go in to the draw, which would be done by the ever present random number generator. And I won! My mosaic shows what I won, a lovely bag with elephants on the border (I collect elephants) and a bookmark (I read a lot) and a fridge magnet which is too true it is scary. And some chocolate. Well, I thought I had better eat it, after all - it would be rude not to!
Some will think it was rigged but it wasn't - honest! Because you see, RR and me have met in real life as we found we lived close by, and we have even introduced our husbands! So the good fortune I am sharing is not that I won the prize but that, through the wonder of the internet, I found a really good friend.
Over at The Little Red House you will find more mosaics, by the way, it isn't Mother's Day here in the UK, that was weeks ago, but a happy one to my US readers

Mosaic Monday - Easton

My mosaic this week features Easton Farm Park. It is a favourite place to go but is a bit run down now and a bit expensive to get in but we go once a year and have a good day there. I can walk round the grounds but hubby is confined to the concrete bits so he has a cup of tea at the cafe when I go for my walk. And it is a bit smelly in the hot weather!
More mosaics HERE

Mosaic Monday - one I made earlier

I have to admit to having been a bit lazy this morning. I have a lot to do today and was busy over the weekend so I had a look through some of my earlier experiments and thought I'd share this one. Just some pretty things in my bedroom
Happy Monday - see other mosaics HERE

Mosaic Monday - Happy Easter

I hope it isn't too late to wish you all a Happy Easter. In my mosaic I have included pictures of the crosses which I own. The top one is a plain silver one which I was given when I became a Methodist preacher. The one on the left is an amber and silver cross which my mum gave me for my 50th birthday. The one on the right is the gold cross that belonged to my mother's mother and the one at the bottom is a pretty cross given to me by an aunt and uncle when I was a little girl. The one in the middle is copper wire and I made that one myself one afternoon, quite out of the blue.
I hope you all had a great Easter. And by the way, please forgive me if I don't return your visit, blogger keeps crashing on me at the moment
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Mosaic Monday - Spring is Sprung

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is
The little birds is on the wing
But that's absurd
The little wings is on the birds

These are some pictures I took in my garden at the weekend. Spring seems very late this year

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Mosaic Monday - A Birthday

We went to one of our favourite places as it was my husband's birthday - Sutton Hoo
You will see from this and my wordy blog that we go there a lot as it is close by and a lot of it is very wheelchair friendly. Hubby can borrow an electric buggy there to go round the shorter walk and we both quite like the restaurant and it is somewhere that we can go for a walk together without him struggling or me pushing. So it wasn't exactly a special birthday treat as we might well have gone anyway, but we don't always have lunch there so that was. He had the Suffolk Rarebit with Salad and I had the Stilton and Roasted Vegetable Tart with Roast Potatoes and Salad. It was very good.
In the exhibition centre, in addition to all the usual displays, there was a collection of drawings and ephemera of Victor Ambrus, who is an artist who works on the "Time Team" programme on television which is about archaeology. I don't know if my US readers know of this programme or the artist, but if you would like to you can find out more HERE
We had to have our lunch rather early as when we got there we found that there was a lecture lunch planned so 50 spaces in the restaurant were reserved for that at 1:00. We went for our usual sprint round the mounds and after lunch looked at the exhibition and the gift shop. My photos show the famous Sutton Hoo Helmet plus a few views from the restaurant terrace (yes, it was warm enough to sit outside!) but hubby is shy and doesn't want me to put his photo on my blog, although I sneaked his ear in! There are more photos tagged as Sutton Hoo on Just Jotting Along
I put the photos together for the Monday Mosaic If you would like to see other people's photos for this week go HERE
If you are paying me a visit leave a comment and I will try to visit you when I get up tomorrow, in the UK it's past my bedtime already!

Mosaic Monday - Secret Garden

The last place I worked had a beautiful walled garden and had some art exhibitions in it in the summer. The mother of the boss kept it so well and it was a real oasis on a fraught day.
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Mosaic Monday - Family photos

I didn't realise until after I had done this that there was no MM last week. But I left it here anyway as I really don't have time to do a new one - man coming to start work on the house today and need to finish shifting stuff before he arrives!


I have spent quite a lot of the weekend sorting through a couple of shoe boxes full of old photographs. These are all from my mum's side of the family. On the left, her mum, at the top her Uncle Arthur and her paternal grandfather, below her Great Aunt Bessie and her father and in the middle her paternal grandmother. Now I have just seen that there is no official Mosaic Monday this week (don't forget I wrote this last week!) but having done it I shall leave it here anyway. If you would like to see previous weeks Mosaics from all those other lovely bloggers out there click on the link in my sidebar for Little Red House

Mosaic Monday - Aldeburgh

Hi, this is my first post for Mosaic Monday . I welcome constructive criticism as I am trying to improve. I have recently started learning to use Paint Shop and am enjoying it hugely. I am also trying to get my head round a digital camera with a lot of menus. So my mosaic consists of some photos I have taken in Aldeburgh in Suffolk UK. I used to work there which was great except that in the summer it was very difficult to go back to the office after lunchtime.
Please feel free to wander round this and my other blog while you are here. There are photos and artwork on both