When autumn is a favourite season of yours, it is always going to be a special time to invite folk around to craft a day away with you. Last Friday, I optimistically ordered warm sunshine and requested no rain as I gathered together the last of Belle’s cottage garden jewels popping each precious bud into […]
Hello and welcome back or indeed, hello and welcome, to so many new readers who have found me over the summer! I have had a long and wonderful time off full of sunshine, flowers, family, friends and workshops and a heck of a lot of building work too. Somehow though, I have managed to be […]
There will never be enough adjectives in the English language to describe the nice things in life for me and regular readers to this blog will know I tend to favour wonderful and lovely a little too frequently in my writing and not from sloppiness either I might add; these two words simply fluff up […]
Recently I was gifted a beautiful Easter embroidery pattern by the extremely talented Jane @summerhousesewing. As well you know by now, I am inspired by a great many stitchers and embroiderers on Instagram and I have followed and admired Jane’s work for sometime. I do get a buzz when she posts and I will seek […]
A tale of two halves today. For the first, I have turned all alchemist and tried my hand at something quite process driven which turned out to be a most calming way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon. And for the second half an opportunity to return to my flighty, perhaps more intuitive style of […]
