Amsterdam

Thursday 28th July 2011

We don’t tend to go on ‘proper’ summer holidays anymore – the joys of self-employment and a lot of pets maybe?  So when Mark bought us a ‘bargain basement’...

Mary’s mittens (Nicola’s mum)

Tuesday 19th July 2011

Another ‘show and tell’ triumph!  Mary, a workshop participant back in April, made these, Frost Flower mitts (yes, yes, very soon now, they will be a kit…) and I adore them! You...

Kit images are emerging

Wednesday 13th July 2011

I think I am going to like my new camera. It can do some interesting things, like make my camera skills a little less pathetic.  Some of the images for the kits are underway, here are a...

Serious displacement activity leads to happy outcome…

Friday 8th July 2011

(That post title, by the way, sounds like a clever cross-word clue in the Telegraph – the one I can never do but do a victory-lap of the kitchen if I get even one right). It may be the cold...

Garden crisis averted; and the trials of village flower shows

Saturday 2nd July 2011

I’m fully back in love with the garden.  I have decided that I need more than a ‘Colin’ (Colin is my hedge man, also a post-man and I increasingly feel he doesn’t enjoy his...

Be careful what you wish for

Friday 1st July 2011

I always think the saying:  ‘be careful what you wish for, you might just get it’ is rather sad and limiting.  Because, mainly if we wish for something, we know we do want it, and the...