~catching up~

 

things have been a bit slow since my last post, my lingering cold has hit my fibro quite badly and i have had a lot of pain in my arms and hands which means typing is painful.

today it is a smidge better and i just had to get here and pour out more words for those of you who read this blog regularly...i wish i know who you all were!

 

 

the weather has been quite rainy and again the forest is water logged, although yesterday we saw the first foal on the forest...the first foal we have seen. it must have only been a day or two old and was a dark one. every year in april we say to each other 'i wonder when we will see the first foal?'.

seeing the foals is a real indication that the great wheel has indeed turned and spring is here.

yesterday i also saw a few black lambs in a small field we pass when going shopping which resulted in much squealing!


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next day

my hands and mind gave out at that point so here i am again to try and finish this post.


there was much excitement yesterday as my copy of pagan dawn was delivered...with my artists profile in!

 

i am so honoured to have two pages of my work for all to see.

 

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our garden is slowly coming to life and is just bursting with green and early flowers which is attracting so many bee's~i have even had one angrily buzzing as it became caught in my hair as i passed under our clematis covered archway!

 

 

i met this little person sitting in my nook and it looks live he loves the garden enough to stay...

 

 

 

 i even sat out there one sunny morning to blend my Ritual incense (now for sale...sorry advertising!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and i even had a 'green boot day'

 

 

last week we stopped on our way home from my appointment at the pain clinic to look at the utter devastation one area of the forest suffered from the valentine storm

 

 

 

everywhere we looked here there were huge trees down, we tried to count and worked out there must have been way more than 60~just total devastation.

 

well, i have finally finished this post~i am still debating my move over to solsticedreamer.com and figure out how to have my own blog roll there.

 

anyway i hear coffee and toast calling me...have a good day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

~crafting~

well we have had none of the heavy snow that most of the country has been having~we are at the southern most point of the country and so tend to have rain instead of snow.

however it is bitterly cold and damp...oh and grey.

i don't think i would mind the cold if we had some sunshine with it.

i have spent the day in my room having fun with some new ceramic beads i ordered a few days ago for the wylde apothecary.

i love ceramics of all kinds and one of my greatest wishes is to have a small kiln...one day maybe!

anyway this is what i have been making...

i love the big round ceramic bead...

this picture shows the lovely shades of green...

i also experimented with a much thicker wire...

yesterday i ordered some more ceramic beads which i hope arrive soon as i have so many ideas and keen to get the all up for sale.

~snow~

 

as i sit here i keep looking to the window where snow is falling silently to the ground in our frozen garden while i dream of the few warm days we had last week...hoping they come back again soon.

 

it started to snow earlier and stopped after a few moments and already this flurry is easing a little and so i keep in mind the warm days and know they will be here to stay very soon.

 

i had to see my doctor last week because the increasing pain and stiffness in my hands has now moved to my feet and an ongoing pain i have had with my 'tailbone' for months has now also become worse.

i have been diagnosed with coccydynia...

 

'Coccydynia, commonly called tailbone pain or coccyx pain, is a fairly rare and relatively poorly understood condition that can cause persistent pain at the very bottom of the spine. This part of the spine is the coccyx, or tailbone. Coccydynia is felt as a localized pain and will generally feel worse when sitting or with any activity that puts pressure on the bottom area of the spine.

 

and tomorrow swampy is taking me to have x rays to my hands and feet and blood tests looking for inflammatory markers.

 

ever feel like you are falling into pieces?!

 

surprisingly i do!

 

i had two days last week where i could not do any crochet at all and this morning i have been struggling to hold my hook and crochet (i decided i need a hook case to keep my hooks apart from my tape measure, stitch markers etc) but being bloody minded i kept at it for a few rows.

 

i am struggling to type this and it is giving me pain...but if i stopped doing anything i would go off my trolly

(is this a particularly english turn of phrase? i would be interested to know from my over sea's readers!)

 

i was very excited yesterday as my copy of

sew what! skirts

was delivered.

 

as you know my style is very eclectic and i have a strong very strong aversion to mainstream fashion and what is available in the shops.

plus i hate the whole 'clone' thing...i was like it when i was a teenager and it has never left me.

so to discover a book that gives simple directions in making patterns for assorted different style skirts using your own measurements...and even better a skirt can be run up in only a couple of hours...well i just had to get a copy.

 

i cannot describe the excitement i felt as i leafed through, checking out the pictures...especially for a classic A line (with simple elastic or tie waist), wrap skirts (they have a picture of a most gorgeous wrap skirt made with a loose woven fabric with a fringed bottom *sigh*) and the most wonderful layered skirt made up so two A lines skirts...layers...i love layers.

 

so my plan is to buy some cheap curtain lining to make an A line and a wrap skirt as a trial run, to get the measurements right etc...but what i couldn't resist in doing was tracking down some glorious...yes glorious fabric

 

...link heavy but they all open in new windows ;)

 

just have a look at this loveliness from...

 

dragonfly fabrics

 

this one i can see made up into the loose weave wrap skirt

and these linens...*sigh*

and these wools have me thinking how to make waistcoats or bags...or a winter skirt with this maybe? and the name...

montparnasse green...utterly, utterly gorgeous.

 

needless to say i am super keen to make the measurements, whip up a couple of practise skirts and then go wild...the trouble is how may skirts can one girl have?!

 

but the joy of being able to make the style skirt i love in the fabric i want and embellish it and know it highly unlikely anyone out there has the same skirt is a joy!