This blog, my site, has been a bit neglected over the past year, and I can’t pretend that I’m suddenly going to turn a new leaf, and start to update it regularly, because I probably won’t be able to maintain that. I do need to generally need to sort myself out, some things have slipped, […]
It seems incredible that the Olympics are about to end, and very sad. I’m really proud to say that we took part as spectators, on the first day at Eton Dorney, we witnessed an Olympic record by Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the first heat of the morning, and for them to go on […]
it really is, stuff flows naturally, and almost takes on a life of its own! A couple of weeks ago, I made 4 tote bags, seems such a long time since I last made any! It was probably before last Christmas, and having looked at some of them recently, you can definitely feel that, so […]
Last week I was ill, this is unusual, and I’m not very good at being ill, so other than watching tennis and Inspector Morse, I finished off some sewing. I’d made the first one, a couple of weeks ago, and just looked at it, It is padded and quite lovely : ) It is 3″ […]
When I make something for someone, a particular person, I always find it quite hard, simply because I worry about if it will work properly, if they will like it, will it simply be good enough. So when I found out that our best friends were expecting their first baby last December, I knew that […]
sometimes making something that you know you have to be quiet about, makes you want to talk about it all the more, that is certainly the case with this! I’ve now been working on this for two weeks, I can tell you two things, it is a quilt, and all I have to do is […]
of calm, well not really : ) I do have two weeks though before my last Christmas event, it has been a bit odd this year with how they have fallen, and one sadly never happening : ( However, by then I should have re-stocked, and also be looking forward to the new year and […]
