Someone's on my roof without a permit!

Change in the weather?

Classic bank holiday weather.

Grandmother's bonnets, dandelions and a goose called Glenda

Life is what happens when you are making other plans....

This bag started life as a wall panel in the shape of a kimono and then suddenly it spoke to me and said: "I think that I would rather be a bag - that way I will see more of the world than I would just hanging about looking at the opposite wall!" Well - how could I resist a plea like that. This bag is lined with dancing monkey fabric - so I hope that the bag and they have lots of adventures together!

Life is what happens when you are making other plans....

Thought that it was about time....

that I posted some of my stuff on this blog - or should I say my 'creations'?

The first is a detail of a wall panel using vintage kimono fabric as a background on which I have embroidered fans using threads and yarn scraps to create the shape. The panel is called 'Fantastic' - well what else would it be called?

The second pic is a detail of a crocheted bag which is one of my first pieces. The bag is embellished with buttons and glass beads and embroidery and hand-made beads. The shape of the bag is triangular and is probably more suited to be displayed as an objet d'art rather than a handbag. It is lined with silk.

The third piece is an elaborately decorated handbag, lined in silk style fabric and heavily embellised using the sewing machine in addition to hand embroidery....
and last of all is a small embroidered panel using the same technique of building up a surface with machine couching and embroidery.

On your doorstep........?

Monday Morning Menu

Saw this snail feasting off the bramley apple tree in my garden early this morning

dotted silver threads dropped from heaven....

It's raining....it's making the roofs shine and sparkle....it is making familiar patterns on the windows keying into memories of watching as it runs down the classroom window trying to blank out the droning voice of a teacher bent on improving young minds with information about logarithms or wheat distribution in far off lands - geography's not like that anymore is it? But back to the rain - it sweetens the earth - even makes the concrete jungle of the town sweeter for a few moments....we should rejoice in the rain. One of my favourite poems is 'Song of the Rain' by Kahlil Gibran......
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven by the gods....
I am beautiful pearls, plucked from the Crown of Ishtar by the daughter of Dawn to embellish the gardens....

Look at the rain on the slate roof...
Just look at that droplet on the leaf - how beautiful is that?

The morning after.......

My cat was found sleeping in this morning. All the evidence points to the fact that she invited a few friends over for a rave in the early hours of this morning - what I want to know is...'Why wasn't I invited?'

SECC & Clyde Auditorium aka The Armadillo

getting mixed up on the bus........

Through the long narrow window

What do you think this is?

I think the mundanity would spoil the magic - just let your imagination fly.....

Wild garlic in Burrell Collection gardens...

Wouldn't it be great if this were chocolate.............?

......but it's not - it's the facade of a building in Glasgow - Sorry I can't say which building and where - but that's the kind of photographer I am....just enjoy.

Station for the Burrell Collection

Taken on the first day of our visit on our walk from the hotel into the city

Blossom in the park

Pictures from the park

The world is so full of a number of things.....

....not sure that I like the remainder of that quote but certainly believe in the sentiment behind it. We need to stop and stare more often and appreciate what is around us - under our very noses so to speak....and that applies to people as well as to things and nature and gorgeous mountains and sunsets and rainstorms and things.

If you ever find yourself in Derbyshire - just look at the walls!