Eeek!

Posted by on Nov 30, 2006 in Craft | 3 Comments

Getting to the end of all the things I have to get done before our trip including making these little dingle-dangles for the Ornament Swap… must… keep… going… :)

Walking up to Stanage Edge, Peak District

Posted by on Nov 29, 2006 in Travel | No Comments

The U75 walkers hit the Peak District this w/end.. fueled by an amazing rum cake, ale and the thought of the view from the top, we crossed about a mile and half of *very* wet marshland, scrambled up scree and hid behind a wall* at the summit of Stanage Edge to drink tea from a ...

Ornamant swap – received one already!

Posted by on Nov 17, 2006 in Craft | No Comments

Wow – received my first one already! :) I’ll have to re-think my pinecone-stamp-on-felt-idea though… (I think this one is gocco’d) * why am I wearing mittens in these photos? here’s why…

Mitten II

Posted by on Nov 17, 2006 in Craft | No Comments

So… I gave up on the first mitten – the yarn was too thin and I got dispirited with my ladders.. ;) Gave up on dpns and went back to the teeny tiny Japanese circs I got from Purl.. This and some thicker wool = much better :) What was weird though is it made ...

Holiday Ornament Swap

Posted by on Nov 8, 2006 in Craft | No Comments

Woohoo! Nicole and Kathleen just mailed out our groups for the swap… [waves at anyone in group 10]… All of the other people are in the US or Canada so I better get going… :)

U75 craft club

Posted by on Nov 8, 2006 in Craft | No Comments

So funny to see our pics of our craft club in the December 06 issue of Crafts Beautiful Magazine… :)

Mitten started

Posted by on Nov 6, 2006 in Craft | No Comments

Started to make a mitten using some more of the pink alpaca and also some schoeller & stahl self striping yarn I got at the K&S show.. I remember now why I’ve never tried socks… ladders! I’ve tried all the ways to avoid them; knitting the last and first stitch on each needle tighter than ...

sketchbook painting…

Posted by on Nov 6, 2006 in Sketchbook | One Comment

Woke up too early again this morning so did a bit of painting before breakfast… The pear’s a bit floaty and the flowers look like they’re in a cup of blue tea but it was fun to do them… :)

simple seems to = £££

Posted by on Nov 6, 2006 in London Life, Travel | 2 Comments

Ok, it’s probably a bit of a fashion victim kind of bike, but I love it.. it’s exactly the kind of bike I would draw if I just closed my eyes and imagined it (although it would have a wicker basket on the front!)yum….

busy like a bee….

Posted by on Nov 2, 2006 in Craft, Dancing, London Life, Sketchbook | No Comments

You know that feeling that your day is already full and you couldn’t possible squeeze in another minute to do anything? and yet somehow there *is* time to do everything… Other days you have ages to get one tiny thing done – and don’t… time is a mysterious thing…. So anyway… I was up at ...