One Frosty morning: the amazing beauty found in a simple frost

Sometimes it's the simple things which excite and amaze. Something as everyday as a frost can give one such wonderful ideas that you are filled with excitement for the day. Frost creates some many amazing textures...

Like a soft fuzzy coat everything was covered in one way or another.  Once again in the dawn I am a child smiling and happy that a new day has found me alive and well enough to enjoy the frosty light and the quiet that seems to have fallen, muffling the sounds of busy life. A frosty quilted blanket of joy and beauty.

If you'd like to see how these pictures inspire my weaving pop over to LoomyBin or my Etsy Shop

Getting Ready for a Strawberry Tea... (Preparing for special auction to benefit Breast Cancer awareness)

A group of us are making up a few items to auction off to benefit Breast Cancer Care.

So many of us have been touched by cancer of one kind or another. As we all know it's important to do a little something now and again to help those in need. After chatting with a few of my friends who also create beautiful items we decided to run a little auction. Link to the online event.

This is one of the items that I have made for the auction....

A woven jute square with crocheted edges.

I tied the corners up with bright red coarse wool and added a heart.

White spotty heart as made by JellyBean Home Gifts

 This is the finished basket. 

5x5x1.25inches. 

Ideal for keys, buttons, change, and other small bits and bobs.

Finished little basket.

 If you'd like to see other trinket baskets and scarves I've been making pop over to LoomyBin. I have lots of lovely woven items to inspire and delight.

Enjoying Life: A walk in Cefn Onn

Out for a walk in Cefn Onn park

There is little I enjoy more than being out with my girls in the woods on a sunny afternoon. Lush scents of damp earth and growing things. Sounds of birds and laughter and splashing. Rich deep greens and browns paired with the bright flash of color from flowers. The soft mulch giving ever so slightly underfoot or a hand in mine, warm and little wet and gritty from the stream .... mmm so much to love and appreciate and enjoy

In the Silence I've Been Gathering... (flowers and textures)

(all of these pictures are currently on sale 3for2 at LoomyBin)

In the silence I've been gathering... 

Flowers from a woodland walk...

Lovely textures from Caerphilly castle.

To check out more of the prints for sale check out 'Photos for Sale' album on LoomyBin. 

With every purchase made this weekend also receive a voucher for 10% off a handwoven item.

June 10th: You!

 I am the sum of my parts. Some parts are my girls, but the parts that are more me then them...

June 5th Environment: Surround yourself in love.

en·vi·ron·ment [en-vahy-ruhn-muhnt, -vahy-ern-]
1.the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
2.Ecology . the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
3.the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.
4.Computers. the hardware or software configuration, or the mode of operation, of a computer system: In a time-sharing environment, transactions are processed as they occur.
5.an indoor or outdoor setting that is characterized by the presence of environmental art that is itself designed to be site-specific (dictionary.com)

Life is a crazy thing. It is and is not what you plan. It is and is not about what you hope and dream. It has limitations which sometimes you can break through and sometimes you cannot. You have to make from life what you can of it while imagining an ideal which may or may not be achievable without a Transporter or a Replicator. The best thing I can suggest to you is to surround yourself with as many things as you love. There will be bits you'll learn along the way (like not to get so distracted that the spaghetti burns)...but as long as the majority of the things surrounding you are loved then life will be good too.

June 2nd A Moment (after the rain and before the last drop falls)

So the other evening the girls went to bed before it was properly dark (yeah!). I was sitting weaving listening to the rain and then suddenly the view out the window brightened...

One of my favorite moments is when rain clouds break at dusk... the light is always amazing and since it's the early Summer with everything growing the colors are even richer giving everything a lush Art Nouveau feeling.

May 30th Tool

See my lovely new tool? I just got it in the post today.
A gorgeous handmade little square weaving loom. EEEeeeeeEEE!
I got it from Planengrain who has lovely weaving items as well as some other really beautiful items...https://www.etsy.com/shop/Planengrain
Guess what I'm doing tonight...

Pop around and see what fun things I make with it at LoomyBin.