“It’s ok to remove a fly from a friend’s forehead, but don’t use a hatchet”. Chinese proverb, source unknown. Love it. Read more...
Object graveyards
I am clearing out the ‘shed’ part of my workshop so it is no shed and all workshop! Amazingly, almost everything that was in the shed (not part of my mosaic life) has found a home elsewhere. There is nothing like decluttering and sorting stuff so that things have a proper home rather than being […] Read more...
Honestly….
It was a ‘mama melts down’ day. My resources low, a child who whined soooo much and protested at any attempts by me not to do what he wanted (yes he’s in his toddler two’s) and a little girl struggling with asserting her top dog status with the little boy and then whining when it […] Read more...
Creative Evenings
For the last few months, several local mums and I have met in my workshop to sit and ‘make’ together. Everyone just brings something that they want to work with – paints, paper, canvases, needlework, beads, mosaic… we have done all of these. Vicky, our neighbour and friend, has re-discovered her creative talents and has […] Read more...
Wage Peace
Wage Peace Judyth Hill Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of redwing blackbirds. Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees. Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact. Wage peace […] Read more...
Oh I DO like to be beside the seaside
Picked from our friends garden on holiday and made into crumble (yum!) Back from our week at the sea. I needed more faith – the wellies and mack’s were unnecessary – we had warmth and sun almost every day. And, oh how lovely it was to be by the sea again. The sea is in […] Read more...
In praise of slow…
Life has really slowed down for me in the last couple of weeks. I’m days off being 40 weeks pregnant (waiting, waiting…..). I have been on maternity leave for just over a month now and it feels fantastic to have used the first 3 weeks of my maternity leave to put to bed household projects […] Read more...
A different way of doing Christmas gifts
Since last posting, the Christmas presents have been bought, wrapped and unwrapped. The decorations have been taken out, hung and put back into the attic. Much food has been eaten and drink drunk. Even the post Christmas 28 day detox (vegan) has been successfully completed (about a stone lost between the two of us). The […] Read more...
Deep thoughts about…carrier bags
I was in a large DIY store last night, shopping for paint samples and varnish etc… We are in the middle of DIY ‘heaven’ at the moment – four rooms plus our hallway being done hence me writing this blog from a room piled high with all the contents of the other rooms! As I […] Read more...
Unseen art & the one-eyed monster
On Sunday we went to see a comedian performing his show called “Britalia”. I spotted it in Time Out and thought “yeah!”. The theme was all about how he grew up in Brixton (London) but in an Italian family. There were several moments of empathic delight as I sat and listened to him, relaying his […] Read more...