Friends, I have stepped over the threshold into the big four-oh! Yesterday we celebrated and tonight I reflect on what makes a great birthday. Here’s my ingredients : – being given 40 kisses each by my children and husband when I woke! – smoked salmon and scrambled egg breakfast -gorgeous gifts including a new Nikon […] Read more...
World Premiere of new Christmas song…and a ho ho ho to you all!
Warm Christmas greetings to friends, family and blog friends! For like high rating cuteness, click play and watch this special Christmas message especially recorded by our two sweet bunnies! With love and blessings for Christmas and beyond. Concetta xxx Read more...
Getting ready for Advent…
Advent, as you may know, is all about getting ready…so this post is about getting ready for getting ready! This is another one from the archive…a fantastic activity which we enjoyed so much as a family and the children still talk about it and remember it a year on. So, as its 2 weeks to […] Read more...
Your footprints in my soul…
A dear friend of mine is pregnant with her first baby and sent me her first scan pic the other day. Got me indulgently reminiscing, as one does, and flexing my other artistic muscle, the writing one, which is deep within me and goes back a long way. She will be five soon, I can’t […] Read more...
A creative space…near you?
I was contacted a few weeks ago by a lovely lady, Debra, who runs a place nearby in East Sheen, called the Artyard, asking if I was interested in running some mosaic workshops. I clicked on the Artyard website and immediately started doing internal skips and hops of excitement! One real time visit yesterday with […] Read more...
Carve out your bliss
We were at ‘our’ farm again on Saturday (yes, it now feels like ourfarm, owned by the community of people who are working the soil and loving this patch of land back into abundance). There is a greengage tree, bowing with the heaviness of the most delicious, sweet fruits. There are blackberry bushes with enormous, […] Read more...
Crafternoons!
I love making. I love making with my children. I love it because it’s fun and appeals to my inner child. I love it because I believe creativity is a core aspect of our human language that needs developing, as much as learning to speak and verbalise. I have a bundle of books with ideas […] Read more...
What blogging means to me…
In November 2004, I read an article in a Sunday supplement about the new world of blogging. Being a keen writer and thinker on life & the universe, I jumped straight onto blogger and wrote my first post – not with any great purpose in mind – but just because I could. For a few […] Read more...
Daddy portrait t-shirts
This little craft project didn’t go up before the event, so that sneaky eyes could not see. I am not sure where the idea came from last year to do a t-shirt with pictures of daddy drawn by little hands. I think one day, Isabella and Toby sat at their drawing table and spontaneously drew […] Read more...
Arts, Kites and Musical Delights
Phew! What a weekend… Isabella, Toby and I went to the launch on our new local community arts gallery, Sprout. It was a drawing free for all, including the walls. Not every day you can draw on walls. Isabella suggested we draw each other and then draw ourselves – can you spot whose who? (clue, […] Read more...