Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Monday, 11 March 2013

Winter's Fond Farewell...I hope!




Our one Cornish day of very little snow seemed to give Clarence & Pecan something to think about. The very idea of swimming in an icy pond makes me feel ill, but they are ducks and care not a jot.


However, the hens had never seen snow & were thoroughly disgruntled, staying in their tree until hunger drove them down.


And then it was gone with not so much a a snow day off from school. Hey ho, I want spring now and the signs have been there, though this week has opened with the Arctic chill returning. So many layers needed to keep warm when sewing or indeed, for doing almost anything.



Whatever the weather, the beach calls and I love seeing all the moods from soft golden melancholy  



to bright & breezy. 



Of course, I also love coming home to comforting food such as Mr Davey's gorgeous meatloaf with all the trimmings,



followed by a slurp or two of something lovely by the fire.



The sun has made an appearance on and off, and even felt hot once or twice. The shadows remain long throwing deep contrasts onto river scenes.



Dear Castle Beach - what would we do without you? (Have now had a hair cut and can see without drawing the curtains)!



Isabella has already been in the sea. She just cannot keep out it seems. My little mermaid was always such a water baby.



Warmth and chill tied together in a dance of seasons. Spring will win out...eventually.



We can see the promise of it



Can you?



But for now, the fire draws me close in its warm embrace, crackling and hissing and sending wafts of scented smoke. 


Keep warm x





Monday, 12 October 2009

Autumn and Winter weekend



Well, that wasn't quite the weekend I thought it would be. A crashing migraine combined with the need to sort paperwork (ugh) and work on the business meant that I was hardly the light and soul of the house. Needless to say, everything I touched also seemed infected with some virus: the computer I am convinced hates me and showed it by going sooo slooowly all weekend that I despaired of ever being able to upload products and the camera batteries died on me...twice. Enough of this woeful tale and on to nicer things.



First up is my Little House Notebook in winter, a covered notebook in A6 size as I find this to be the most convenient to pop into a bag. I use notebooks constantly for sketching things which catch my eye or making a list - ahh, I do love to make a list! The 'winter' by the way, refers to the subject of the design and the tonal range in case anyone is wondering why there is a strawberry in the fabric border (global warming you know).



The notebooks have re-useable covers which I embroidered with a mix of freehand machine and hand embroidery, a style I am becoming slightly obsessed with as it allows me more freedom with my designs while still being able to use hand embroidery for embellishment. I suppose it provides the accent notes against the looser, more ephemeral machine embroidery. Oh I know what I mean, but am so tired today I can't express myself coherently..sorry!



The second design, Little House Notebook - autumn features a warmer tonal range more in keeping with early autumn, hence the name.


I really loved working on these, exploring the seeds and grasses imagery a little further and developing some of the designs in my own notebook.



Other than work this weekend mostly consisted of fires such as these:



trying to photograph a sock in the wrong light and on the wrong foot (i.e. mine, not Dave's much larger one) in bad light - Pomona it is a much nicer colour than this...honest!



and much moaning as my head tried to explode, thus freeing itself from the constraining bands that clutched vice-like around its poor girth. Oh and of course, the weekend also consisted of these:

Little House Notebook in winter



and a Little House Notebook in autumn.



Hope yours was good x