tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40718879480693882382024-03-06T00:22:36.228+00:00Poppycock & Other Creative NonsensePoppycock & Other Creative Nonsensepattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.comBlogger834125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-78480338368604072422018-07-17T18:15:00.001+01:002018-07-17T18:23:33.541+01:00My fabric - Swiss AlpineSwiss Alpine white<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178032440447410054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-26322938004265550962017-02-24T21:41:00.001+00:002017-02-24T21:41:40.175+00:00Blueberry Shed holiday cottage is open and new creationsI don't think I've particularly shown our holiday cottage on the blog, probably because it has taken so long to get going but we are open and taking bookings for 2017. It's a bit slow at present but I'm sure things will pick up and we are trying to get WiFi into the cottage this year, that has been an ongoing struggle from the start.<br />
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Here are some externals of the Blueberry Shed. A single storey, modern contemporary larch clad building located very near to Portree the capital of the Isle of Skye, with views out to sea and across to the island of Raasay.<br />
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Some interior shots of the kitchen area. I went for a German kitchen with mix and match bright coloured cabinets. We pretty much have the same in our kitchen.<br />
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The living and dining area, I've made quite a few cushions and other bits n bobs to go in the cottage and give it a unique yet cosy feel.</div>
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The bedroom featuring some of my art and craft work to buy<br />
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I have taken advantage of a bit of quiet time in there myself for crocheting when no guests are in, it's nice to get away from all my stuff and clutter in my own house!</div>
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It's really rather a nice place to come on holiday, lots of galleries and arty crafty things as well as the obvious outdoor spectacles Skye is famous for. It's that time of year when spring is about to spring into action and things start opening up again here so hopefully a good year ahead. </div>
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On the subject of making things, I have a few new creations to share which I know some of you have seen on my Instagram page, Twitter etc. I'm hoping to approach a gallery on Skye and see if I can get them in their shop this season, wish me luck.<br />
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Above was a needle case which I made my sister for Christmas, family photos of us are in it.<br />
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Some of my things are now available in my Etsy and Folksy shops.<br />
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<br />pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-51252502082805223272017-02-24T21:06:00.000+00:002017-02-24T21:06:21.777+00:00Been here 1 year, trip away to Culture CityGoodness, we've been living on Skye for just over a year, it was the 11th Feb the day before my 50th birthday last year when we arrived. We hadn't managed a trip off the island in that year so just before the anniversary of the year we decided to go mad and make a surprise visit back to Yorkshire to see family and a few friends, but also to visit the dentist as that was a task needing doing.<br />
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Very weird to book a holiday cottage back home just 10 minutes from where I used to live, in a cottage that I had driven past many times over my years of living in East Yorkshire. <br />
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It turned out pretty good, a nice spacious barn conversion which was close to getting to the dentist, family and friends and also pretty important, close to shops for stocking up on all those cheap essentials you can only get by travelling hundreds of miles from Skye and back amongst normal shops.<br />
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The first week in Feb when we escaped for this much needed break, my sister was also in the country visiting my parents, this allowed me to rope my sister into keeping the secret of my surprise visit. It was brilliant, I managed to facetime my parents on the friday night before the long journey, get up early on the saturday to make the 11 hour journey and then knock on the door to mum and dads on the saturday evening. The look of surprise and shock and working out how it could possibly be me was a priceless thing to see!<br />
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The week kicked off with me and my sister visiting Hull, our City of Culture this year and we visited many of the old haunts from our youth which have been given new leases of life as old warehouses and buildings are being turned into cultural hot spots and groovy spaces in the city.<br />
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My photos are mainly in the old town area around the marina, fruit market and dock side.<br />
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Special mention to Studio ten and a half, long gone now but a place where I started off my craft selling career. I used to make handmade cards in about 1982/83 which I sold here, the sign is still there, a ceramic one permanently built into the fabric of the building. They also had one of the first wholefood cafes above this gallery. a very groovy hangout for the creatives of Hull.<br />
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Here is the iconic 3 ships mural which lives above the old BHS shop and is currently in debate as to will it stay or will it be pulled down, lets hope the mosaic mural is saved.<br />
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Another favourite hangout of mine as a teenager, Hepworths Arcade, filled with weird little shops, Dinsdales joke & trick shop the place to spend your pocket money on silly things, I seem to remember buying lots of little packs of sneezing powder (still there), Beasleys alternative clothing (still there) and some fusty musty second hand clothes shops where myself and my best friend would buy our very trendy over coats (long tweed coats that old people deposited) for college!<br />
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In the wonderfully named Land of Green Ginger area we have this quaint building and Englands smallest window.<br />
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A photo taken in the old market place which is a view I turned into a pastel picture 30 odd years ago at school.<br />
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And lastly in Hull, something new, a piece of sculpture called the Blade, a huge wind turbine blade manufactured in Hull and controvertially installed at great cost by having to remove traffic lights and things to get it into position. Quite a spectacle though, it looked a bit gloomy the day I saw it but I hear on a bright sunny day the reflections are quite superb.<br />
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My week progressed with a dental visit and then can you believe it, the day after I'd been to the dentist I went and broke a tooth off eating a toffee! What a nuisance as my dentist only operates 3 days a week, when I rang them with a plea for help my dentist had gone off sick. Complete panic on my part wanting this sorting before having to go back to Scotland with a broken tooth. Anyway the receptionist fortunately got me an emergency appointment at another dentist in Hornsea, cost a fortune just for one toffee!</div>
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The green cake above is fig and pistachio cheesecake with edible flowers, it was lovely!<br />
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I made fleeting visits to Bridlington and Driffield, mainly to visit bargain shops, Boyes, Yorkshire Trader, factory outlets, Lidl, Aldi, Morrisons oh wow it was great to find a choice in veggies and to stock up on some cheap supplies, absolute heaven.<br />
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Also made it to Ikea in Leeds, had a list of stuff which seemed to get added to once we saw all the fabulous things not on the list! Started to get a bit worried if all the purchases would stack in to the car for the journey back. It was potentially going to be a hairy ride back as the car dashboard was sporting 3 warning lights which kept coming on and off. Possibly faulty wiring, possibly a problem but it would have to wait.<br />
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This is the car being rammed with all our stash.<br />
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I did intend over the quiet period of Christmas & New Year to do a sum up of my first (almost 12 months) year on Skye, something which I am referring to as feeling a bit like a social experiment in the art of living without for a year.<br />
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Living without much money, living without many shops, living without hardly any choice in fruit or veg and don't even expect to find much organic produce here, living without friends or family for support, living without much heating due to cost of our mechanical heat recovery system, living without much chocolate or sweets (although I have lost a bit of weight by going without), living without being able to grow stuff like I intended (the soil is bad on our plot nd the weather worse), living without garden birds (really miss robins and great tits but there's nothing in our garden they want to come and eat), living without the confidence that if anything breaks down, like plumbing or heating, you have a selection of reliable tradesmen here to help.... oh no, they don't exist on Skye, maybe one or two but they are a rare thing, living without good coffee, we can't afford to have it delivered on subscription like we did in our past life, living without being able to buy craft supplies (it all has to come mail order if you can find the right places who will in fact deliver to the Highlands & Islands).<br />
There I will stop, my life is a bit like being on holiday but not a brilliant holiday and with no sight of it ending yet.<br />
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Perhaps I will return and give an update on life trying to run a holiday cottage and the 90% of dreadful guests we have had so far in the short space of running it for 4 months. The lovely guests have been incredibly lovely.<br />
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Hope it's a great year for everyone.pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-33353194236951465102016-06-17T23:46:00.000+01:002016-06-17T23:46:02.401+01:00Over 4 months offline but I'm finally back!Well it has been a very painful and frustrating time without a landline and the internet for just over 4 months. It's actually more than that given the time we had the old phone and internet line cut in Driffield.<br />
It was beginning to look like no one was bothered about us at Plusnet and BT Openreach and I started to think we wouldn't be hooked up this side of Christmas.<br />
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However I'm delighted to say that last week we got the line and the internet has been restored. I don't know how we managed looking back, I know most of us couldn't survive 4 days or 4 weeks without some sort of connection but 4 months is just crazy.<br />
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Like all things there's good and bad, I've gradually got a couple of my loyal customers sending me work again, such a joy to have a bit of money to come in. The bad side is back to bad habits of surfing the net until after midnight trying to catch up with so much I've missed, lack of sleep is not good though.<br />
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I can now order my Tesco food from home, I don't have to wrack my brains and head to the library with a food list and then realise I didn't order the essential stuff when I get back home and it's too late until the next fortnight order. I can go and add food to the virtual Tesco basket as I remember it at silly o'clock in the night when I wake up thinking about tinned tomatoes, this is a real joy! It could only be better if there was a real supermarket other than crappy Co-op less than a 3 hour drive away.<br />
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I am now overwhelmed with so much to tackle that I don't have the excuse of not having the internet. In no particular order of priority I have design work to do, I need to re-stock and list things in the Folksy and Etsy shops, I have our holiday cottage to get to completion for letting and bringing an income in, I have boxes still to unpack, the house looks like the same mess from when we moved in, too little space and too much stuff, I've been doing car boots to try and shift things, charity shops, had a good run on Ebay recently but I need to get rid of some larger items in the garage as it is full to then move things from the house to the garage. It's kind of an ongoing messy situation.<br />
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We have had so many problems with the house since moving in, getting the builders back to sort things, other things getting damaged as they carry out repair tasks, money just going into a bottomless pit with issues to smooth over. I may have had the odd rant through other social media about should we stay or should we go back, it's all been so complicated and it hasn't really worked out as we planned so this is not a long term plan any more. It's an ongoing thing of lets see how it goes for a year or a couple of years as I need the time to sort out and we know we have to take a big financial loss when we do move. It's a bit like can't afford to go right now but the cost of living is making it not very cost effective to be here either the way it's turned out.<br />
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We've met some very nice people and of course existing friends I had up here but they are not near enough to see regularly, we've encountered miserable gits usually from the crofting/farming community who have caused us some grief and cost us more money enforcing fencing and the like on us so that there blooming sheep don't get on our land and 'injure themselves', we come across trades people all the time who let us down and say they will call and then don't show up, don't contact us or turn up when they want without saying. It's absolutely like nowhere I've ever known, they refer to it here as Skye Time or Island Time these people operate by. It's just a pathetic excuse to treat your customers like dirt. It seems plumbers have been the worst, we've got through about 4, or rather tried to contact and use 4 and all let us down. I don't just think it's us or the fact we are English getting treated like this, I've spoken to some Scottish incomers who get the same treatment.<br />
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It's challenging living here, it's not like the rosy dream we thought. Another example, a month ago I fell over, I didn't see a curb outside the Co-op, I flew over it and crashed to the floor, goodness knows how I didn't loose my glasses in this but I was flat out and as I tried to pick myself up saw lots of people about and no one,not one single person turned to look or help me. I got up, cut leg and my hand and wrist took all the weight which was in a support for 2 weeks and as I looked at a few people stood waiting outside the Coop they all looked away. I was just staggered by it.<br />
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I could go on but I have probably ranted on Facebook or Twitter and at the risk of sounding like all I do is moan I should definitely try and finish on a positive note but it's been a weird day.<br />
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After weeks of chasing our former landlords for our deposit back, just over a grand, which we thought they wouldn't cough up, blow me over they refunded the full amount. So the day started good, money we desperately needed back. However by the afternoon and more sheep had got on our land and another angry crofter has ranted to us we need more fencing and a full farm gate, well that is going to consume this little windfall easily.<br />
It's like chucking the money away, it goes in one hand and out the other, especially annoying as we have higher priority things to buy than stock proof fencing!<br />
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Anyway, tomorrow might be a good day, I think a few bags of our favourite coffee are on the way as a little treat and to cheer us up as we've not had our coffee subscription order for over a year.<br />
Caffeine and chocolate, always a good pick me up. I hope to have a better post in the future and some pics to show what we've been up to with nicer things.<br />
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All the best :)<br />
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<br />pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-2995369777498545242016-04-15T11:13:00.003+01:002016-04-15T11:13:29.523+01:00More delays getting online!Thank you for all the good vibes I received in the comments on the previous post. The nightmare of being offline continues, we had a date of April 11th for an engineer to visit and no one came.<br />
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After many snotty text messages to Plusnet this week I finally received the bad news that our local exchange has no capacity for any new lines to be connected. This means they will have to investigate another exchange as nearby as possible which will result in quite a bit of work and probably quite a lot of costs attached to it. We now hear the earliest an engineer can visit to just "look" at what needs doing will be the end of May at the very least (another 6 weeks :(. By then we will have been waiting three and a half months for anyone to even visit and take a look, it absolutely stinks. I'm just so frustrated and flabberghasted that this is taking so long and becoming such a nightmare and I can't get on with work, crafts and promoting the holiday cottage. I can see the summer will have gone and we won't actually get any bookings in our cottage for the prime part of this year.<br />
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I keep telling Plusnet we have no income until this can be resolved but they just keep apologising and saying there's nothing more can be done to hurry things along.<br />
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Oh well, such is life. pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-40969851559256680792016-03-30T14:16:00.001+01:002016-03-30T14:16:03.352+01:002016 saw the move to SkyeThis is just a very quick post if anyone still reads this because I don't currently have any internet access and I have to drive to the library for wifi.<br />
I finally moved to Skye 7 weeks ago, it was a heck of a hassle finishing off the packing and the stress of the actual move. We moved up the day before my 50th birthday and had only the belongings which would squeeze in the back of a Jimny to survive with for our initial fortnight. All our other stuff was set to follow 2 weeks later.<br />
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After the initial excitement of the journey through the snowy Highlands, and some horrible weather conditions in between, it took over 10 hours to reach the house.<br />
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We were too tired to take it all in really but the next day we started to spot problems in the house, damage to my beautiful new kitchen and other areas of poor workmanship. This took the shine off arriving at a new house on my birthday, it is an ongoing battle trying to get the builders to come back and sort things out.<br />
Our little holiday cottage also has problems and will be some time before it is available and ready to bring us some much needed income in.<br />
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We have a very wet plot of land which is an issue and will take some drying up before we can lay grass seed. We have no landline or internet, the delays here are horrendous to get hooked up so I can't do my work, we can't order stuff online, we can't get our holiday cottage web site going and it's causing much grief and delays.<br />
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Things are basically not going to plan one bit and you do begin to wonder whether we have done the right thing moving here, or should we have left this as purely our holiday destination. It's complicated, everything seems difficult to sort out and everything is very expensive to sort out.<br />
It's not looking like this is a long term proposition.<br />
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We will continue to press on as best we can and see how things progress through the summer.<br />
I am still trying to unpack boxes, the house was filled when the removal company brought over 200 of them and I think I still have about 50 to unpack, the house is much smaller so I am selling stuff, giving more to charity and doing a car boot sale soon in order to get this house sorted and looking less like a storage container!<br />
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Sadly I can't post pictures with my limited internet access in the local library but hopefully one day I will be back online in my own home.<br />
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All the best to my bloggy friends for now :)pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-39261507827972907862015-12-22T08:41:00.000+00:002015-12-22T08:41:11.241+00:00Happy Winter Solstice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If any bloggy friends are reading then I'd like to wish you a fabulous festive season whatever you celebrate and I hope for a happy and peaceful 2016 for everyone. x</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I will be having a non existent Christmas, other than a few nice bits of food it will be the same as any other day right now as I'm in the full throws and mess of packing. It's a bit of a nightmare, I forgot how awful packing was and having aquired more stuff over the years it's not a nice experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We are moving our belongings into storage until moving in January and living with the essentials until then. Apparently the average house will have about 100 boxes for a move, I've already done about 110 and still have my office and kitchen to dismantle amongst other things. However, I do feel that us creative types have more 'stuff' than most people. Had I been a person who didn't do things then I wouldn't have nearly as much stuff, but I do, and where I'm moving to I won't easily be able to buy wool or fabric or the like so it's important I salvage what I can. That said I've taken sacks of stuff to the charity shops, the tip and I suspect I might need a clearance place to remove the final bric a brac and the washer as it's too heavy for us to lift out of here so it will have to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I will take a break from packing tonight as I'm doing a farewell supper with a couple of friends at one of my oldest and favourite veggie restaurants in Hull so that will be nice and I hope to get some pics.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I will sign off now and wish you and yours all the best.</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-31945850212833233112015-11-21T20:12:00.000+00:002015-11-21T20:12:35.664+00:00A catch up post<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Life is moving at quite a pace now the countdown is on to the great escape and I have not had the chance to blog but have favoured the quicker option to document things via Instagram. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today I've started some packing so I'm just taking a break from the dusty task of rummaging through some of my stuff to write this and post some photos of things from the last month or so, it will be stuff my IG friends will have seen already so apologies for it being a bit boring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">First up, an interesting sculpture in a field in Holderness not too far from where I grew up. It's the gunpowder plotters, 2 of which, the Wright brothers, where from Welwick which is the location of the site in E. Yorkshire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The monument celebrates the defeat of the plot to blow up King James 1st of England in the House of Lords on Nov 5th 1605.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Continuing my theme of farewell visits, I made one last trip to the Hornsea Museum to see the pottery collection, there is always something fresh to see and inspire. I love the colours of the 1950s/60s pots in the cabinet below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Below are pieces I hadn't seen before, the dove grey Jubilee pieces created for a development range in 1999-2000, however the pottery went into receivership around this time and these pots didn't make it into production. I love the simple grey, black and white design, it was a nod back to the hugely popular Contrast range in brown and white from the early 80s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lovely little muramic pin dishes below, rather like catherine wheels.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Food out with Bob. We met friends in Bridlington for a "last supper" a few weeks ago and we went to the Mexican / Hawaiian restaurant appropriately called Aloha. It was great fun and we had non alcoholic cocktails and delicious veggie food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One of our party was celebrating a birthday and once you alert the waiter to this, the lights are dimmed, they bring you a courtesy cocktail and they play the Hawaii Five O theme tune and everyone joins in :) such fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bob was along for the ride when I took my sister for a birthday trip out. Sister was back in the country to help take my dad for another operation so I decided she needed a treat out for her birthday. We were again in Bridlington and had this very nice cake at the Spa, it was Angel Sparkle cake and was absolutely lovely tucking in looking across the bay and with the Spa cafe pianist playing too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We did a drive past the Hockney house and then a quick tour of the Old Town. Some of the shops on the High Street were still blacked out from the filming of Dads Army.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I won something, a little competition to design cut and sew Christmas decorations, I revamped my nutcracker kits for this and added a sugar plum fairy cut and sew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I also entered this calendar tea towel into a comp and I came second.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've been working on my Dorothy Doll cut and sew kits which I probably won't have chance to sort out for my shop until next year now. I'm getting very near to having to stop making things and put my craft things away. I'll go mad if I put it all away so I reckon I will keep out something easy like crocheting stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Something I bought recently which I have never owned before, a pair of DM's. I have always wanted some but I fear the stiffness of the leather is something my feet would not get along with. However, they have started doing softer ones so I am giving it a go and I hope I can break them in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In all the sorting out we have dissected an old G5 power Mac and salvaged the case which will be made into a little stool, it's very sturdy so will be fine. Also I just love the brutalist design of the heat sink CPU's which are the pics below, I think they will be recycled into a piece of sculpture at some point!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think that's me caught up for now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I will have to stop work next week and turn my attention to packing, what a horrible task and it's blooming freezing cold now too. Such bad timing having to pack and move in the middle of winter but it was bound to happen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">When I started this blog over 6 and a half years ago it was going to be about my journey of changing the life I currently lead in East Yorkshire for a new life in Scotland. For many years, since I first visited the Isle of Skye in 1997 I felt a major pull towards wanting to be there full time. With each holiday up there Skye felt more like home and 'home' felt less like home when we returned.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">But back to trying to escape from this house and we looked at every option and decided we had to make an opportunity ourselves and we could just about afford to either find 2 small houses and make a living with a holiday cottage or we have 2 houses built. We found an option to build and set about finding some land. A few options fell by the wayside but we finally bought a plot just over 2 years ago. Then came the battle obtaining planning permission and lets just say the first year of owning the plot and employing the services of an architect practise to create our dream went totally pearshaped and cost us dearly as we tried to stabilise from a problematic situation. </span></div>
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pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-52093905898484227342015-10-13T08:32:00.000+01:002015-10-13T08:32:43.068+01:00York fabric printed<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think the York fabric was one of the most time consuming I've created, what with all the individual illustrations but I have some printed samples and I'm happy with the result. There are fat quarters and a teatowel which I had samples printed of.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This week I've been putting together some fabric kits for my Etsy shop. The orange and brown patchwork kit below went quite quickly which was brilliant. The packs feature a large centre panel of my Scandi Birds and Flowers fabric.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's a project which I got stuck into rather last minute and I've been beavering away creating digital illustrations for the last few days.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I spotted a fabric design competition on PrintMePretty to design a fabric to illustrate 'My Town', in my case I've taken that to mean my favourite local place which is York.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This has been a great excuse to do some illustrations which may have use in other projects too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">King's Sq below</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The legend that is Guy Fawkes!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bootham Bar</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can't mention York without thinking of it's chocolate heritage!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The city walls</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are a few more illustrations of notable landmarks which I have now thrown together to create my York fabric for the competition.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It looks like this, the white background version is the one I have entered. If you felt inclined to fancy voting for my design I believe there are 2 ways to do it, either by leaving a comment on the PrintMePretty blog post when it goes live in a couple of days and you would find the blog page from this link</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.printmepretty.co.uk/">http://www.printmepretty.co.uk/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or the other way is to look up the Print Me Pretty page on Facebook and when they show the designs in a couple of days you can like the ones you fancy :)</span><br />
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I created some different colour versions in small and large repeats. I'm thinking the pink one might make a fun table cloth in a vintage style tea shop in York.<br />
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<br />pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-29586896341048037622015-09-07T09:13:00.000+01:002015-09-07T09:13:11.830+01:00A week of digital doings online<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A number of things which I've been meaning to do do for a while, and I've probably been saying that for a few years now, have finally been done last week which feels quite satisfying.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This year has been very slow with my Folksy shop, I think I've only had 3 or 4 sales all year and I had been curious about joining Etsy although I always wanted to wait until I move away and have a new address to embrace it afresh. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However, just recently I have heard so many encouraging stories from other arty crafty people who are doing pretty well with Etsy, it convinced me to get organised now ahead of Christmas crafting.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thank you so much to Vivienne from Green Rabbit Designs who has given me some valuable advice and info to help me get my shop up and running, much appreciated :) Vivienne has a wonderful shop of knitted bunnies and animals which disappear as soon as they are listed so there might not be any right now!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So here is my shop and there are some brand new bags which have not appeared on Folksy and which have been finished recently and I'm in the process of adding more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To run alongside the Etsy shop and to attract some attention as textile things are in the process of being made, I have started a Facebook business page for Fabric Mountain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do pop along and give it a like if you fancy, thank you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And lastly but by no means least, my graphic design business, Wicked Poppy Designs, finally has a new website. This has been a job which rather embarrassingly needed doing for over 10 years and like a lot of things for yourself, it never gets done.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The old site and work samples were so out of date that I was at the stage I didn't even tell people I had a website if they asked. Anyway, it's only simple and made with some Wordpress theme we bought but it looks a lot fresher and I've been able to show new work on it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Phew, it feels like I'm finally up to date with some long awaited tasks on the to do list!</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-13015391937006750412015-09-01T14:05:00.000+01:002015-09-01T14:05:03.966+01:00Hornsea pottery and Hornsea Station<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I made my usual bank holiday pilgrimage to Hornsea for the Nostalgia weekend and huge sale of pots. Lovely to catch up with society members and see the fabulous range of pots they bring to sell every year.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's always plenty of information posters to read up on rare, unusual or popular pieces in the Hornsea range.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love the cruet sets from the 1960's and I didn't realise until I read this poster that they were sold through Boots the chemist.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whilst looking and drooling over the lovely pots, I took the decision to only buy something if I wanted it, needed it and would use it. So I bought a couple of the slightly more rare lidded soup dishes in the Contrast range, I make a lot of soup and it seems to make more of a meal when presented in a lidded container.They are beautifully designed, they wash well and seem very robust.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And these 2 pin dishes which are in a muramic style with the high gloss decoration. I have none of these in my collection and I shall use them as olive dishes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was pleasantly surprised to find the station very much in tact, looking quite lovely and I believe some or all of it is now housing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Most interesting and a nice day to start the bank holiday weekend. Shame the weekend ended with a day full of rain!</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-2044941798062320862015-08-28T19:59:00.002+01:002015-08-28T19:59:49.120+01:00My fave veggie cafe is closing and other bits<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The end of an era looms as my favourite veggie cafe in Bridlington, The Little Organic Bakery (formerly Bean There), is closing sometime in September. My friends who own it are going in to semi-retirement and looking forward to doing other things now they have their first grand child.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a real shame but nothing stands still and I have some lovely memories of happy times with friends and food from my trips to the cafe over the years.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today was such a day, I met up with two dear old work mates and we went for one last pig out with Bob in tow too. We basked outside in the garden for a while until it got a bit breezy and then moved inside for food.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Followed by a chocolate slice and a few things to take away in a bag for supper!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The good news is, the cafe is being taken over and going in to safe hands with a couple who are going to carry on with veggie food so I will probably get to try that before the year is out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bank holiday is nearly here and I have the annual Hornsea Pottery Nostalgia day to attend tomorrow. All weekend rows of tables piled high with vintage Hornsea will be for sale, I can't wait to see if any rarities appear.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shocked to see Christmas fabrics have already appeared in our local Boyes shop, actually I think I've seen a few Christmas things popping up in the shops this month.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lastly, we had a fox visiting recently, this was my best picture looking out of a grubby window at him, he usually comes when it's a bit darker so I never manage a shot but I got a really good view of him this time, looks in great condition. Hope he survives with all the idiots round these parts shooting who would probably take pleasure in putting an end to him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Keep safe mr fox and have a good weekend everyone.</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-16284704816614141302015-08-15T17:20:00.001+01:002015-08-15T17:20:39.299+01:00Bag making, Spiralising and Instagram<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The sneak peek of my fabric designs for bag making on my previous post has slowly started to turn into bags, they are shaping up as cross body purses.</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This has been the week I joined Instagram as Fabric Mountain, I must admit to having no interest in it before. It just seemed another thing like Twitter, Pinterest and all the other social media to take up more of my time in front of a screen and less time making and creating. However I've recently heard good things about it helping to promote crafts peoples work as it's mainly a visual medium and hence I threw the towel in and joined. Having been warned by Green Rabbit that it can be addictive, I can confirm it is now that I've got going and I'm starting to find my way around!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Other new things this week. Spiralising! I've wanted one for a while, I did a lot of reading of reviews to which one I wanted only to find it was out of stock everywhere I looked. Anyway Amazon reckoned they were back in stock at the end of July so it was just a few days later than that when I ordered and here it is.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I very quickly (hence the hand scribbled look) knocked up this 'transport' theme fabric design for a competition Print Me Pretty are having next week, I've called the design Motoring Sing a Long as I've popped some song titles onto the design. I've snook my own car on there and a few classic shapes, I always wanted a Citroen 2CV or a Morris Minor van so they are on but I did have an old purple Mini Clubman van at one stage which I loved, I realise now that I like vans better than cars!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had some designs printed on to thick canvas as I'm making some mini messenger bags although they will probably be a bit more simple and like cross body purses when I get chopping and sewing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's fairly quiet on the wildlife front here, most of my bird friends have moved on or cleared off for a few months to do whatever they do before returning for food in winter. I only see one robin now and again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However we did have something exciting a fortnight ago, a family of shrews. It was as if they had just popped out of the nest for the first time, tiny little velvety things sniffing around and hiding in the dead leaves. They were quite unafraid of us and standing on the patio they would run around your feet before taking cover again. You need to look closely on these pics as they were amongst a pile of rubble and wouldn't stay still for long. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We had about 7 of them scurrying all over for a few hours one afternoon and the next day they were gone as quickly as they appeared, never to be seen again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The strange summer weather has not made it very appealing for evening strolls this year. Probably only been out about 3 times but here are a few pics of Flamborough Head the other week and the lovely wild weeds and grasses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I hope everyone has a lovely August and it turns out to be a good late summer.</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-59966986894856968492015-07-25T12:14:00.000+01:002015-07-25T12:14:11.585+01:00The Farewell Tour #2 - 140th Driffield Show, 2015<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Looks like this year was my last chance to visit the Driffield Show so as I haven't been for a few years off I went last Wednesday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I made an early start and I actually only live about 2 miles from the showground so I had considered walking but it's usually so hot and exhausting wandering around the show that I didn't fancy the 2 mile walk back. With hindsight maybe I should've done because despite my early start, traffic was building and the 2 miles took me 54 minutes in nose to tail traffic!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was hoping to arrive in time to see my friends cow, Bronte, on parade. I was too late, Bronte had already strutted her stuff in the arena and had been awarded second in her class. This is Bronte.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> She is a really lovely cow and seemed quiet natured in the somewhat busy livestock areas with bulls mooing loudly and some other lively cows kicking off.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bronte is going to have a nice life out in the field after her show appearances this year and as far as I know she will not be eaten.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bob and I were quite freaked out with the proportions and muscles on some of the bulls, it was actually quite unpleasant to look at because it was like looking at all the different joints of meat on parade, not exactly the best environment for a vegetarian but I had to look as I walked past them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I realise I didn't get any corn dolly pictures but they were making some lovely things and amazing brooches and corn dolly beads which I would've loved but couldn't afford. I did try YouTubing such things when I got back but I only found simple corn dollies to make and not jewellery.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To change the subject slightly I did find corn wands and lavender wands to make on YouTube and as I had been picking lavender the other day I made these wands, very simple so I will put the link to the video if you fancy a go.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A pleasant day out and not too hot and overwhelming on this occasion despite having one of the highest turn outs in a few years, supposedly nearly 30K.</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-78358230800107016652015-07-18T15:37:00.000+01:002015-07-18T15:37:28.772+01:00Not the summer I had planned & open to improvement!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm sure in the months to come I will look back at this summer and notch it up as one of my worst. At the moment I'm just plodding through it as best I can. Since losing my Gran my OH has been ill and my dad has been ill and then fell and made the existing problems 10 times worse.</span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've just reached the end of the week which saw me being a taxi service transporting OH and dad to 5 different hospital and doctors appointments between them. I had absolutely dreaded taking my dad to hospital because there's the hassle of parking and hardly ever any spaces and then I have the joy of searching for a wheelchair to get him inside. On one occasion I was very lucky as an ambulance man assisted with the wheelchair pushing. We went to another hospital the next day and the lifts were a nightmare, it's like a scrum to get in and out, rather like getting on a London tube.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway the end of this difficult week has arrived and generally things are picking up for the poorly ones however my dad will be going for an operation next week which my sister will come over for and organise. Hopefully that will be the start of getting him mobile again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've called this post The Farewell Tour #1 and it starts with my old high school. With all my fingers crossed, touching wood and all that sort of thing I will hope to have moved from this miserable hovel of a house within the next 12 months. I won't tempt fate with any other details at this stage but I always knew that when the countdown to a move came, I would start visiting places on a tick list for one last time and record them as my Farewell Tour.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So we start what will be the odd, occasional Farewell post with a definite never to be visited place again, my old school. Basically the place is being demolished in it's 60th year for a new academy so the doors were flung open for one last time for ex pupils to visit yesterday. I guess this post will pretty much be of no interest unless you also knew Withernsea High School so it's a purely indulgent collection of pictures for myself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wasn't sure about going as I only have a few happy memories but circumstances this weekend of visiting a sick relative meant my sister was over from Belgium so we decided we would go for a wander round the corridors.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I met some lovely people who visited my workshop and we ranged from the complete crochet beginner to a couple of ladies who knew the basic stitches once we got going and just needed a bit of a refresh. The comments from the beginners were along the lines, they persevered but found it a bit stressful although they did say i was very patient! And the ones who had a refresher I'm delighted to say were very enthusiastic to get stuck into crochet again and went off inspired to make more flowers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I even had Linda visit me when it quietened down in the mid afternoon for a one to one crochet session, we got there with a flower but I think she had the common problem which people have for starters and that seems to be too tight with the stitches.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well done to everyone involved and all who came to support it.</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-23697901352199587122015-06-26T14:08:00.004+01:002015-06-26T14:08:55.177+01:00Almost ready for Let Hope Bloom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've also been making some wearable things to inspire the crochet flower makers what they could go on to make if they master a few basic stitches.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've made a scarf with dangly flowers which I was going to wear but I think it will be too warm.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Time to bag it all up now and get organised. Happy weekend everyone.</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071887948069388238.post-58145426287986219272015-06-15T17:39:00.002+01:002015-06-15T17:39:23.804+01:00Let Hope Bloom<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm happy to be involved with the World Vision charity as one of a bunch of volunteer crafts people. I was approached to do some very basic crochet flower workshops as part of a whole day of crafty activities for Let Hope Bloom. This is all in a run up to Floral Friday which is raising funds for vulnerable children in Cambodia.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The event is on June 27th 10 - 4pm at Ellerton Village Hall in E. Yorks and we have Linda Barker who promotes the charity giving us an opening presentation. Linda's sister Jill Ford who is a wonderful local ceramicist has organised this event.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Should be a fun and creative day in support of World Vision.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's very typical to get a rush of bad things but I suppose that is how life treats us all at times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I started June with a very bad back which made the stairs and moving about quite uncomfortable, fortunately a week later this has eased away with some tablets. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had the sad loss of my Grandma just over a week ago, she was just 2 months short of her 105th and we'd been looking forward to our gathering at her birthday party. At that age every year was a bonus and fortunately she had not suffered a long illness, a recent small stroke and then only days after coming out of hospital and back to the care home the news they didn't think she'd have long and that was about right. Expected in a way but odd to think she's been around forever and now she's gone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I'm pleased to have so many happy memories from childhood jaunts with my grandparents. It is certainly the encouragement of my Gran that I got in to baking, sewing, crochet and foraging with our legendary trips with sticks and buckets to the secret & best bramble bushes in our village. Summer bicycle rides with picnics, strawberry picking and jam making, happy days indeed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Below, wedding day for Violet & Ted (Grandma & Grandad) 1930</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our clan after my christening. Back row L to R, mum, grandad, dad,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">front row, my sister chomping away, grandma, and great grandma holding me!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Days after that news another family member was taken into hospital, out now and hopefully settling down a bit. And then almost hospitalised was my nearest and dearest who seems to be slowly returning to normal.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I hope good times are around the corner, just getting back to a normalish routine is something to be thankful for.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I shall move swiftly on to a charity event I'm involved with.</span>pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078109396850536408noreply@blogger.com3