~off again~

 

well i have enjoyed a fairly peaceful week and today we are off to the huge show that is busfest at the foot of the Malvern hills. we have been going to this event for about 13 years now...not as regular festival goers but as crew and it just seems to get bigger and bigger every year.

i no longer have any 'doings' as crew anymore because of my m.e and fibro but swampy organises all the site signage and since last year organises the charity auction, which involves him working for a short time alongside the famous auctioneer james lewis.

 

so yesterday we spent getting pretty pagan tidy and packing up all the essential and today we shall be driving up to the three counties showground at the foot of the malvern hills for ten days and i decanted a small bottle of my own raspberry vodka for the odd tipple...

 

...see the music case in the background? its my new instrument...a concert ukulele :)

 

 

hopefully i will be camped up at a little area that is a little grove of trees and standing stones and if so i shall be camped up so when sitting with my book or crochet to hand...i have my pink wool against weapons section to complete, i will be facing the hills.

 

i have packed up my bag with books, journal and crochet, put some more music on my ipod and i plan on a nice relaxing week. i am even taking Evangeline so that during the week, before the festival is open to the public on Friday, i can spend some time having a nice cycle around the huge showground.

when the show is open i shall be taking my pennies and see what i can find~last year there was a lady selling lovely clothes in the style of magnolia pearl style clothes so i really hope she will be there again!

 

i wont be able to blog but if you go to instagram you will hopefully be able to find picture 'posts' from me over the week

 

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the turn of the great wheel has once again made a very distinct move towards the darker days.

this morning when i woke i felt decidedly chilly under my duvet and when out in the garden at 6.30 it was the most chill the morning has been for a long time.

 

i am so embracing this change, as i always do, but this year i seem to be embracing it more...i have spent a lot of hot days sheltering from the heat and it seems to me i have not been out in my sacred garden as much as i would like...my nook is presently home to small branches i foraged from the forest, my log pile and a huge drift of falling rambling rose and climbing jasmine leaves and petals.

so that will be my first job when we are back home and pretty pagan is unpacked.

 

since may and the moongazy camp we have had 'something' on each month that took either time, energy or money and especially with the run up to the fairy festival i have been busy and as is the norm my spiritual path took a step back away from it all.

 

so now its time to get back onto my path and see where it leads me over the dark months...

 

 

 

 



~crochet & yoga~

 

its been a week of mostly crochet and yoga here.

 

i have not been feeling 'right' so been listening to that and doing little.

 

today that feeling was gone and as a result spent a good time in my room crafting-i had some ideas for necklaces i really wanted to try and i am very happy with the end result so i shall be putting them up on my website tomorrow.

 

a day like this, where the things in my head work out, always gives me an essential boost.

 

yoga does the same-gives me a feel-good head rush, which is why i try to do even a little yoga when i am not feeling great. it just gives me that little extra when i am feeling rotten.

also gentle yoga is one of the things as being suggested as good for fibromyalgia as it is important to keep the joints mobile.

 

my crochet is slow because of the pains i get in my hands, arms and shoulders and for a year now i have had soft tissue swelling in the joints of my hands so things like crafting, writing and typing is not easy...but i do it.

can you imagine not doing it?

i would go stark raving bonkers...

so i think a bit of pain comes out tops over going bonkers!

 

however i had made myself a nice cowl with patons colour works aran in 'orion'which is the darker yarn i showed you in my last post.

 

and i started my part of

 

wool against weapons...picture to come!

 

 

 



~wool against weapons & mug~

 

you will know from my post yesterday that i was feeling a tad stir-crazy with the utter need to get out and buy yarn to start my small part of wool against weapons so i had swampy take me out for a bit of yarn buying and this is what i came home with...

 

 

i aim to do a sort of striped 'patchwork' type piece with swatches of the pink and single rows of the oatmeal.

but i also came home with this...

 



 

to make a 'cosy' for this...

 

 

i have to say my photo does not show just how beautiful this mug is, it doesn't show what a gorgeous green glaze it has nor how wonderful the shape and feel.

 

this was actually a commissioned piece based around a mug i saw on the crafter, dave green, site.

 

i wanted something very specific...a good sturdy mug but without a handle that would be good for either hot or cold drinks...the image i had in my head, and one that i sent him in an e-mail (the poor man must have thought he had a loon contacting him!)was sitting around a campfire outside of a thatched roundhouse with a mug of something in my hands...now my older readers will not be too phased by this idea, they know me too well now.

 

it is oh so perfect and the yarn is to make a little 'cosy' for those drinks that are too hot to hold or to keep them warm when i am sitting around a camp fire.

 

i actually have it sitting here beside me as i type and i keep taking little surreptitious glances at it instead of typing because i love it so much.

my plan now is to keep adding pieces of his work to my stoneware collection...but not so much to have it as part of my collection to be looked at but a living, working collection of plates and bowls.

 

i like love...no adore anything that is rustic, organic, sturdy, mis-matched, things that make me think of the ancient ancestors and how they might have crafted drinking vessels and how they might have sat around a fire listening to stories of their ancestors.

 

so i am a happy happy soul right now...lots of new yarn, a gorgeous mug and now i am waiting for the delivery of my cloak...

 

 



~freeeezing~

 

the snow vanished over the night hours but it is, i think, colder than ever.

 

we popped out today because i had to have the wool to start my part of

 

wool against weapons

 

i also bought (encouraged by swampy!) to buy a couple of balls of something to make myself something...you see i am awaiting the delivery of a custom beaker made by a very talented potter (check out the link page over at my website) and wanted to crochet a 'cosy' for it...well now i have enough for a 'cosy' and a hat...i am on the lookout for a nice crochet hat pattern now...ravelry here i come!