No, that is not a siren! That is me, very very excited, because of this!!

Whoooooooo! Is that enough whoooing yet? : )

Want to see more, then go and have a look at this : ) And you can buy them here.

I simply cannot add any more to that, other than I’m now also listening to Bishop Allen, all rather lovely and wonderful : )

I have thought long and hard on new brooch/corsage ideas and have found it hard to come up with something different yet similar, interesting but not overwhelming, and finally simple yet pleasing, and now I’m happy with it.

I still have another six to make up in various different colours, and when they are all made, they will get listed somewhere, Etsy or NOTHS. I had wanted to get them done in time for Mothers Day, hahahahah, er yes, not much chance of that really.

Very busy here, lots of work at the farm, lots of stuff for Handm@de Winchester, and lots of stuff for Edward and school, this week he is seeing a Speech and Language Therapist, as he uses inappropriate language, and I would really like someone to explain what that really means!

Got carried away earlier and left a comment on the BBC news website about school places, oh well!

Also I seem to have become re-born to listen to music and see live music, couple of weeks ago we saw White Rabbits and Spoon, they were amazing, write-up here by my lovely one, and over the next few months I will be going to see Why?, Band of Horses, Built to Spill and I will be going to see Pavement at ATP in May, whooooooooo! Seeing Spoon made me feel like a teenager again, first time I have seen a band live since my teens that I have know all the songs! It was great!!

Hopefully more sewing soon, getting lighter in the evenings, makes me feel better : )

I have new ideas, but no time, grrrrrrr, but I also have piles!

I have since added to these piles with new ones, but still nothing is finished, maybe later this week?

So this is just a quick post, but before I go, if you can please make a donation and support Manda do her Race for Life, please go here. I wouldn’t normally blog this sort of thing, but Manda has been an inspiration to me and has given me lots of advice, so please if you can sponsor her, because it is so important for her. Thanks.

not the sort that makes you wince in pain, how could such a tiny cut hurt so much, but the sort like this,

how much do I love this! I got the same Rob Ryan papercut print in this version for John for Valentines Day : ) It is as much for me as him, as I love it so much, and will probably frame it and keep it, only way I’ll afford one of his! As the screenprint version shown above is $470 in his Etsy shop!

Another papercut artist on Etsy who I love her dark and wonderful imagination is Elsita, her work is stunning,

There is something so theatrical about this art form which I love, maybe one day I could get one of her originals……. Anyway I thought I would just do a little post of about some of the things I love, which of course as mentioned include my lovely JB : ) Happy Valentines Day!

I thought you might like to see a terrible photo of me, looking scruffy, but with my new bag : )

This was taken in the boys room, so therefore I hope explains so many other things in this photo : )

Getting the hang on doing more than one blog, and so I’m hoping that the thing I will next find more time for is sewing, fingers crossed!

…not one for anyone else!

er, yes, this is the design for the front of my new bag, it should be finished, but it isn’t : (

I now need it finished, it is a much bigger bag to hold all my farm work stuff, fed up with walking around carrying pads and bits of paper, it doesn’t make me look important, makes me look messy instead!
Also on Friday a quite rude and dozy woman serving me at Costa managed to spill almost an entire cup of Americano down me and my bag, so I want to get this finished!

Doing two blogs is quite hard work, though it is quite easy to write about yummy food! I’m doing a promo and giveaway on the farm blog. The promo is for organic sirloin steaks, and the giveaway, well that involves steak, and ice cream!! So if you are in the UK, head over here and have a look : ) I know it is naughty for me to keep on going on about ‘my’ other blog, but it is now part of me, and I wouldn’t if I didn’t think you wouldn’t be interested!

Yesterday John photographed some of my haberdashery items to add to his portfolio,

you can see more of them here, and I think you’ll agree they are rather wonderful : )

Hopefully my next post will be about a finished bag!!

er, I think is to say, hello I’m here, actually it is not as long as I thought since I last posted, oh well, it feels like a loooooong time!

and whoooooo, well that is all about these,

and these,

what do you think?? John designed these for me to use, and maybe to sell as well if there is a demand for them. We will be working on new designs within this range, so we will have a selection to use together! All very very exciting!

Hopefully I will make something with these soon, working on new stuff at the moment, going slowly, but at least my sewing machine seems to be behaving itself a bit better!

Lots going on at my ‘farm’ job, and I’m proud to present my new blog, Laverstoke Farm a couple of posts so far, and that will be building all the time, hopefully you will get to learn more about the whole farm, field to fork, and all of that business!
Please leave a comment on there, trying to drum up some people on there, so when we have some exciting promotions and giveaways(!) you will know all about it!

more blogging soon, and maybe this time I won’t feel like I have been away for so long!

weird, two blogs I follow, greenolive and Domesticali have both written posts today about what makes them happy, well this makes me happy,

more beads from Kate! They are so tactile, just so lovely to have round your neck : )

so what else, well I’m not going to get into a list, I could be here for hours! But I would say the following going on the past few days,
listening to Spoons new album
cutting out little leaves from linen and some of my favourite fabric
and
watching The Wire, just finished Season 3, watched the first of Season 4 tonight

a few things, oh and something to make me happy next week, the last season of Lost starts!!!!!

I cannot photograph anything red with my existing camera, so I have to rely on John to photograph everything red for me! Like this,

So I’m saving my pennies up for a new camera, the one I have is four years old, and I seem to be using it less and less because it can’t do what I now need it to, another reason for a lack of new photos!

Maybe if people bought some stuff from my not on the high street shop, or my Etsy shop that would help! Sorry that was so blatant, what do you expect : ) !!

proper post, well when I say proper I mean lovely things for me to use!

some of my my favourite fabric and some lovely mother of pearls buttons, very happy : )

Away for a few days, so hopefully a nice post on Monday or Tuesday, and I hope by then the rest of the snow will be gone!