Work hard in silence,

let success make the noise.

Good morning all you lovely girls out there! I had a lovely sleep in today so I'm a little bit late at blogging today. We have beautiful weather to look forward to today with a nice 28C expected so I'm planning to use the lovely weather to my advantage.

Here are some beauties of Italy....bella Federica and bella Elisa. They were both presented with a school top each before they leave us. I believe they don't have uniforms for schools in Italy, so for the girls it was quite a novelty. 

How happy they look with their tops. They were also presented with pens that have the school logo on it.

They have beauty, youth and intelligence.....

......a quick rest before they start work. lol

Lol.....er.....still resting. 😇

....and a little play.

My lovely week was consumed with much time spent looking for a slouch hat pattern and finally I found the right one. There are so many free patterns out there that surely it shouldn't have taken me long to find one. But no....it took a fair while. I did come across many out there that I liked but they were all patterns you had to pay for. I very much like the slouch hats or woolly hats (beanies) that have the bands around them and then the body of the hat. This one is a surprise gift so I can not say who it is for just yet.

 A lovely niece of mine has ordered four slouch hats in tones of pink, so this is the start of them. I have decided to do them on circular needles so there will be no stitching but for the start and end thread I just have to sew in when I finish each one.

 Actually, while I was taking the photographs outside this morning I could hear a pigeon somewhere up the in tree. I did a quick scan but could not see it, I kept hearing it so I kept looking for it. Here we are...way up in the tree. He's probably wondering what I am.

 Following close behind is this little rascal Milo. He seemed very interested in the lemon fragrance of this bush. I wonder what he is thinking....I was hoping he wasn't thinking about digging the bush up.

I'm about to head off to the shops shortly so for now I will sign off. Have a good Sunday and as always I wish you happiness and I send that wish across the ocean to my lovely Italian friends. 
Ciao, Anita.