Yes, I will be back soon, I promise, but for the moment I don’t really feel like blogging. Anyway keep smiling and hooking and sewing and knitting and doing all those wonderful things that brighten up your space and I will see you soon! I think there should have been some commas in there!!
Archive for June, 2009
I have been busy – honestly!!
June 13, 2009Well, here we are again! Time to show you some shots of our garden. I have been spending quite a bit of time pottering around it and the flowers are now coming out a treat!
The strawberry pots are blooming and producing our first crop of strawberries.
The irises are very majestic and magnificent.
The foxgloves are home to the bumble bees.
The peony flowers are so big and blousey.
And the canterbury bells are the tallest I have ever seen them!
So from pots…
to paths…
to rocky areas…
and golden birds…
to hooking!
The backs have been carefully sewn.
The flowers positioned and embellished.
But why so many brooches?
I am making them to raise some money for the Sun Shine School in Israel. This is a small Christian school in the Arab area just outside Jerusalem. The teachers have 59 children from 14 different nationalities all aged between 2 and 6 years. The children are taught in English and are very bright and cheery, despite the physical size of the school. It is in the ground floor flat of a small building. The newest teacher has just graduated from Cambridge and she looks after 6 little 3 year olds in what was the stock cupboard! If I had been living out there I would have helped in the school, but I am not, so all I can do to help is fund raise and that is what I am doing! I am very grateful to Lucy of Attic 24, who has let me use her posy pattern. Sun Shine goodies will soon be packaged and ready to go to their first venue. Brooches, cards, note-lets, sewing kits and eventually a series of little books where a bear visits the sites of Israel! Now where did that idea come from………??
A glitch!
June 12, 2009Hurray! I’m back! I am able, at last, to access my blog little world! It has been here waiting for me. Waiting for me to sort out the glitch. Well not me personally but my right hand man! The router wouldn’t work. So for nearly the last two weeks, he has been tweeking and pressing keys left, right and centre to try and get us up and running again! And he has done it! We are here!! Yippee!!! So tomorrow I will be back with photos and blurb about all the things I have been up to, and there has been a lot of hooking and sewing! See you tomorrow.
Just one more!!
June 1, 2009Don’t you just love colour! Bright blues, sea greens, shocking pinks, zesty lemons. At the end of last week I sorted out my double knitting wool so that I could continue making my brooches, and over the weekend I got carried away – as you do! I have been looking at Sarah London’s blog and at her granny squares/hexagons. It is such a riot of colour. So I started. Just a little hexagon. Well one more round! You know how it starts!!!
A bit more. Oooo I like that colour. What next? Well one more round, of course!
Until yesterday, it looked like this.
Yes,…. errr,…. well,…. it is wavy! I like the colours, but I am disappointed. Perhaps the cushion pad will make it right – let’s hope! Anyway it will make a splash of colour on the seats outside. A plumped up treat for an aching back!
Then while I was finding the right photo to show you, I spied the photo of the carousel from York.
Look all the colours are there! I took this photo because it reminds me of Dad. He loved carousels and fairground organs. He always cried when they played. He would have been 90 last Thursday. So this cushion will remind me of you, Dad. And somehow I’m not so disappointed!
