Fabric Fantasies

posted: Sunday, 21st December 2014

My sister needed to buy some fabric and I was more than happy to accompany her to the Curtain Fabric Warehouse which boasts over 1/2 million metres of fabric.

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More New Beginnings

posted: Thursday, 18th December 2014

I've had a vague idea for a bangle for about a year now but I can't quite get it to come to a full picture in my mind.

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Up and Out

posted: Wednesday, 17th December 2014

Annoyingly what started last Friday as yet another cold turned into a chest and ear infection and the start of my week has been miserable and antibiotics driven.

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Le Patio

posted: Sunday, 14th December 2014

Today is my last day in France (for this trip- I'll return in 9 days for Christmas) and still recovering from all the work over the past few days we headed out to lunch at Le Patio in Montreuil Sur Mer (the home of Les Miserables but the less said about that the better).

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A Souper Day

posted: Saturday, 13th December 2014

My mum is a great cook and has worked hard for today but I have to admit that my greatest contribution has been putting stuff on plates & in bowls and folding & decorating 36 napkins.

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Cats And Colour

posted: Friday, 12th December 2014

After charity shopping yesterday we visited a garden centre where I soon spotted a food & drink section where we treated ourselves to interesting Christmas alcohol & violet lemonade and oohed over beautifully packaged & coloured sweets and treats.

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A Clouder Of Cats

posted: Thursday, 11th December 2014

There are 7 cats living in my parents' barn at the moment and this morning I managed to catch 5 of them, in a variety of hues, dining together.

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Escape To France

posted: Wednesday, 10th December 2014

Just over a year ago in a time of great stress (we'd been in the process of selling our house and buying a new one for 3 months and had just realised our buyers were out to mess us around and we were close to losing the house of our dreams) we took a spur of the moment decision to run away to...

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Another Aztec Flower

posted: Monday, 8th December 2014

Thanks to Jenny Argyle's great Aztec Flower Pendant design I now have a third one all beaded and I'm considering colour combinations for my 4th!

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Aztec Flower Pendants

posted: Sunday, 7th December 2014

I got to see the talented and lovely Jenny Argyle in class yesterday and she was wearing such an amazing pendant I knew I had to make myself one... or two.

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