I was back to playing with the more autumnal stamps and colours this week, after the monochrome of last week’s elephant. This week, it’s a heat-embossed copper squirrel playing in the orange and red leaves of autumn. I did think about doing the squirrel in silver, since grey squirrels are more common than red ones,… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: The Autumn Squirrel
Fat Quarter Sewing: The Purple Tablecloth
I’m getting to the end of my rainbow. After this one, I’ve just got the orange to go, since I don’t propose to separate the blue and purple into Blue, Indigo, Violet. Just one blue and one purple will do. It’s back to lots of flowers for the purple tablecloth. Suitable, given all the bee-friendly… Continue reading Fat Quarter Sewing: The Purple Tablecloth
Home or Office: Restrict or Relax?
I first drafted this a few weeks back, at the beginning of the month. I’ve since rewritten. You see, we were preparing to return in earnest to the office. Couple of days this week, a few more next, then full time on-site at the start of July. That isn’t now happening, for various reasons, for… Continue reading Home or Office: Restrict or Relax?
This Week in Crafts: Elegant Elephant
One of the advantages of switching back to birthday cards is getting to play with the stamps sets which arrived when I was coming to the end of the 20-21 Birthday Season and therefore didn’t have much need for them. But I really liked the sets, so I got them anyway. And then put them… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: Elegant Elephant
Adapting Marvellous Creations
When it comes to chocolate, I’m normally fussy. I don’t much care for the overly sweet mass-produced stuff, though sometimes desperate times call for quantity over quality. Except for one: I am quite fond of the Cadbury’s Marvellous Creations bar. If you haven’t come across it, Marvellous Creations is Dairy Milk with extras: jelly beans,… Continue reading Adapting Marvellous Creations
Recently Read: Reducing the TBR Pile
It’s been a good month for the charity shops. For donations of books at any rate. I whittled my shelves here, and then, to my mother’s relief and delight, had a go at the ones in my childhood bedroom. I managed to reduce the collection at home-home down by two bookcases. I hadn’t thought I… Continue reading Recently Read: Reducing the TBR Pile
This Week in Crafts: Summer Butterflies
I can’t remember seeing many butterflies so far this year. Plenty of bees on the balcony, but not so many butterflies. Or in the park next door. There’s time for them to turn up, and perhaps they will, now the sun seems to have come out. In the meantime, at least I have plenty of… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: Summer Butterflies
On Card Making Plans
Just after Easter, I thought to crack on with Christmas cards. I was coming to the end, near enough, of my Birthday Season, with only a couple occurring in the summer months and I thought it would be an ideal time to get on with festive cards. Be prepared and organised. Such good intentions. Of… Continue reading On Card Making Plans
Notes From My Office: May 2021
It’s been a quiet month, work-wise. Especially for the last couple of weeks. Photo by Alena Shekhovtcova on Pexels.com On the other hand, that did enable me to get further along with the map-project, even with having to redo a large portion of stitches. And now I’ve had the first dose of my Covid vaccination.… Continue reading Notes From My Office: May 2021
Nature Notes: May 2021
Cocoa and Mum The balcony has been quite busy, this last blustery month. The weather has felt most wintry and not at all how I’d expect May to be. Coal Tit Fledgling But the balcony has been very encouraging, and not just with the plants. Over winter we added birdfeeders, and in April a birdbath,… Continue reading Nature Notes: May 2021
