Janet Clare

a small comfort

JanetClare — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:28:54 +0000

# One son with a broken finger

# One son home ill

# One cancelled visit from my friend

# One car broken and in the garage

# One stressed husband working long hours…

a soothing cup of tea in the weak sunshine.

One small comfort.

spoon

JanetClare — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:00:11 +0000

Nearly stirred the porridge with this little chap today!

broken pinky

JanetClare — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:49:03 +0000

Goodbye, sunny Saturday afternoon- hello, three hours in casualty!

Joe is pretty proud of his broken finger and is enjoying telling everyone about his spectacular scooter accident and his heroic bravery.

Boys!

healthy lunch

JanetClare — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:07:12 +0000

I usually just have toast for lunch, but I made an effort this week and made tabbouleh with parsley, mint and lemon juice (I like it spiky) some feta and my latest food obsession- pomegranate seeds.

It was delicious.

# Betty isn’t really begging for food- she’s obviously far too well trained to do such a thing. We have discovered she likes coriander though- proving that even the dogs are posh here in the Home Counties!

peonies

JanetClare — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:09:31 +0000

I went out and bought myself some sunshine…

tea cosy

JanetClare — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:15:35 +0000

Pinterest! I saw this fantastic teapot the other day (original Mr Teacup teapot here on Etsy) which made me chuckle and inspired my new teacosy over the weekend.

Unfortunately, I’d forgotten to take Tony’s sense of humour into account before making it and have had to live through numerous renditions of the song every time tea is mentioned (which is a lot)

I may be making another new teacosy soon!

fairy tale food

JanetClare — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:37:29 +0000

This charming cookbook accidentally fell into my Amazon basket the other day (does that happen to you too?)

and it’s gorgeous! The beautiful illustrations are by Yelena Bryksenkova.

So after too many relentlessly rainy days I think we all deserve a happy ending when we get home.

Tonight there will be Beauty and the Beast treats for tea!

P.S. For the life of me I cannot work out how to get rounded corners on my photos using my new and improved computer- and it used to be so simple! Some upgrade…

Green dress

JanetClare — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:42:31 +0000

I made a green dress using a t shirt as a pattern.

I finished the edges with blue bias binding. It’s okay but I don’t love it,

it wrinkles like tripe and fits where it touches. I’ll be investing in a dress pattern!

The belt is old and from Noa Noa

and the cardigan is (of course) my all time favourite.

I’ve just had a fun weekend teaching at Hope and Elvis- thanks Louise and all the lovely ladies who came on one of my workshops.

You can see what we got up to at Robin Red Crafts

Heartshaped and on Hope and Elvis’ facebook page.

Talking of Facebook- Louise told me to create a business page, so I did.

Please go and visit me there as sadly, I haven’t got any friends at the moment…

Naked eggs

JanetClare — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:51:50 +0000

The boys had great fun experimenting with these.

Simply put a raw egg in some vinegar and watch the shell dissolve

then you can pick the egg up and bounce it and roll it

and of course, splat it everywhere!

Bobble hat

JanetClare — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:43:20 +0000

I’ve been quietly adding a few rows to this hat all week

and last night I made the bobble and excitedly tried my new hat on.

It’s ridiculous!

Too big and floppy to be a proper woolly hat and not enough structure to be a beret.

Not to be too melodramatic but that’s what life has been like here for the last few weeks- lots of effort for little reward.

Still, it gave the boys a good laugh this morning.

Maybe I’ll give it to the teapot and pretend it was always meant to be a teacosy.