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spoon
Nearly stirred the porridge with this little chap today!
peonies
I went out and bought myself some sunshine…
Well laid plans…
I start every day by making a list of things I hope to achieve that day (often a wildly over- optimistic one) but my plans are often overtaken by other events like the day last week when I took Betty for a walk and came back to find the car under a tree… amazingly the car was fine and no-one […]
Back again…
from my little unexpected absence. I’ve made and done lots of things I could have shared here, but for some reason, I simply stopped taking photographs. I really don’t know why. I usually take so many. Anyway, the problem seems to have resolved itself as last night I took 42 photos of absolutely nothing. As you […]
Cliche
I seem to have accidentally started collecting needlework cliches.
Lounge part 3
So, in this half of the (still not finished) lounge we have a wall mounted tv, and a thrifted (1950’s?) sideboard which hides all the ugly DVD players etc on which sits a funny ceramic giraffe (bought on holiday in Crete years ago) and a pretty jug from Rae Dunn. […]
Not work
I always come home from the Festival of Quilts bone tired but exhilarated. But this year I also came back with the realisation that I’ve let sewing and creating become work. That’s to say: if I haven’t got any actual paid work to do I don’t sew or draw or knit or paint or… anything anymore. This is not good. This will stop. […]
back
Well, my noisy, funny, messy, hungry, lovely boys are back to school the house is eerily quiet and empty and I am trying to catch up on all the emails, work and chores that I have largely ignored for the past 7 weeks. It’s going to take a while… but, it’s good to be back. P.S. We now have a woodburning stove and carpet in the lounge. […]
Aged
The plumber has been! We’re glad we waited for him, because this is what our pipes look like.
Colander
This vintage colander planted with little Alpines is just about all the gardening I’ve achieved recently. And when I say ‘gardening’ I really mean tipping the un-drunk water from our dinner glasses on it before we come in for the evening. P.S. I’m just home from teaching at The Fat Quarters near Newcastle- thanks for […]