Hehe Yes, we took a small trip at the weekend to Sussex to help at a conference and made a short foray into Battle (yes, 1066 and all that). It was very cold (we saw cars with snow on them) and dark so we didn’t hang about so this is a whistlestop tour, walking briskly [...]
We celebrated the start of advent by going to a candlelit carol service at St Martin’s Church last night and we managed to get what seemed the two orders of service without the words to the songs in them so lots of smiling and listening intently ensued. It was a beautiful evening and reminded me [...]
It was quite some time since we first met this chap and we’d walked round to the church many times without seeing him and have even thought he might have been run over as the church is near a busy road…. ….until yesterday when I found him sitting by a gravestone looking like he owned [...]
I’ve had a bit of inspiration from some of the beads I’ve found at our local bead shop. I really like the turquoise wires so enjoyed putting together this pendant to match it. I also like combining and twisting beads and wire round so am rather pleased with how this pendant turned out. This has [...]
Yes, my sewing up aversion seems to be almost at an end. Anise is finished, done, dusted, finito! I think it might have something to do with the very cold weather that has arrived and finding this beautiful button I’d bought at a knitting show some time ago! Tamyra doesn’t have a problem with the [...]
I managed to snag a lovely pumpkin for the princely sum of 50p the other week and it has been sitting in the kitchen looking at me ever since. It was only this weekend when I came home with a large squash as well, I figured I’d better do something with the pumpkin to make [...]
The weather has taken quite a turn for the colder and because I did manage to sew up Alex… I cast on for another February Lady or Tamyra’s November Lady. She is rather smitten. Even taking a photo of the salvaged vintage buttons was difficult as she kept moving her paw into shot. Who am [...]
There is nothing nicer at this time of year than the warmth of the oven and the smell of sweet spices slowly baking. I love making Christmas cakes and the long slow 4 hour bake is a good afternoon usually spent knitting or playing with kittens wrapped up warm and thinking about Christmas. After all [...]
A handful of chestnuts gathered on an autumn walk… a last bunch of sweet carrots gathered in the garden.. It is the time to tidy away the old and start to get set in for the winter and new growth in the spring. New ways of doing and seeing. A new season. Even Sirius has [...]
Inspired by your encouraging comments on my case of unfinished objects, I took Alex out of the case and got sewing. I’ve tried it on and it fits great. I’ll need to do a bit of blocking to get the neck to sit flatter but apart from that it looks great. I found the buttons [...]