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Sculpture, Blue and A Pie

Our eldest daughter came today to help my lovely Mr S move our very heavy Finger Labyrinth sculpture a few feet. It has been tricky mowing around it so now it’s at the edge of a flower bed and a new lawn will be sown where it was. It looks much better where it is now.
My next job will be to find plants to grow at the base that won’t grow too high to obscure the carved words. I shall start researching an evergreen, low growing shrub that has flowers, maybe scent……

Ars brevis vita longa

Amor vincit omnia

Blue skies and a temperature of 21C – perfect!

Chicken, leek and bacon pie

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 23, 2026 in art, baking, environment, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, sky, wood carving

Tags: Peter Boex sculptor

Solar Energy, Cake and New Sculpture

05 Jun

It’s Redruth Market tomorrow and I’ve baked a cake as usual but today, we used no power from the grid but just power from the sun!

Sue-next-door, her brother Pete and their friend Hal, have just installed Twigmaid (a smaller, travelling Mudmaid) into the courtyard behind St Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, for the Lost Oasis. This Heligan-in-the-City is a beautiful green retreat in the heart of London with a bar, guest chefs, music and events. If you, Dear Reader, if you are anywhere near, do go and visit. Ute, maybe?

https://www.thelostoasis.co.uk/

Isn’t she beautiful? Made by Sue Hill and Pete Hill

Here is the original Mud Maid to be found in The Lost Gardens of Heligan here in Cornwall.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 5, 2026 in art, baking, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Uncategorized

Tags: Heligan-in-the-City

A Night at the Museum

30 Mar

Tonight was the opening of the exhibition, Cornish Myths and Legends, at the Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery.

Arghans by Sue Hill and Pete Hill (with a little input from me!)

The hair and little creatures

Discussing the creation

Sue and L, in a very beautiful coat, talking about the exhibition

On the ride home

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 30, 2026 in art, Beauty, Celebration, Cornwall, craft, embroidery, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture

Sewing, Secret and Sea

18 Mar

There are now 30 little creatures on the long fabric strands.

I’m being allowed to show you a little more of the project. The whole piece remains secret until the exhibition starting on March 31st. I wonder if you can work out what it is.

After sewing and my lovely Mr S working in the garden in sunshine, we decided to go out for lunch at the Falmouth Hotel and have a walk by the sea. It really does my soul good to see, smell and hear the sea. The blues were so beautiful today.

Out for lumch

Our next treat was a trip to Falmouth Art Gallery for a wonderful exhibition of automata which I’ll show you tomorrow.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 18, 2026 in art, Cornwall, craft, environment, Falmouth, Gyllyngvase, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Uncategorized

Shop Window, Clay and Tulips

14 Mar

I may have been at this workshop if I hadnt already made plans to be creative this afternoon.

Yesterday I helped make some little clay creatures for a new project being created by my lovely neighbour and today I coloured the ones that were dry enough, ready for tomorrow.

All our lovely white tulips are now blooming.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 14, 2026 in art, craft, flowers, friendship, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Uncategorized

Spaceman, Flowers and Cathedral

28 Feb

We loved the Spaceman in the Lemon Street Market in Truro today.

In one of the shops were these lovely felt flowers.

I love Truro Cathedral in all weathers but on a beautiful sunny Spring day like today, it’s even more lovely.

Today is our last official day with an allotment. From tomorrow it will be cared for by a lovely young family.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 28, 2026 in allotment, architecture, Cornwall, craft, paper, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Truro

Scarlet, Yellow and Rain

16 Feb

The flowers on the first stem of the Amaryllis have finished and the second stem is so top heavy we’ve had to put it on the floor to lean against the arm of the chair! It is still remarkably lovely six weeks after planting. I’m hoping there’s at least another week of loveliness in it.

The Tête à Tête miniature daffodils are appearing all over the garden. I love the ones in the monkey planter.

Photo from 2018

I’ve been browsing again through an old paperback about life in Cornwall 100 years ago and was amused by the description of the wet weather in Cornwall – plus ça change!

From “Exploring Cornwall 100 Years Ago” Selected and Edited by Stuart D. Ludlum

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 16, 2026 in art, Cornwall, flowers, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, sculpture, Uncategorized

Tags: Exploring Cornwall 100 Years Ago, Stuart Ludlum

New Topper, Shadow and A Poem

21 Sep

There’s a new postbox topper on our street, four frogs fishing.

The evening sunlight lit up our lovely boat sculpture and threw a pleasing shadow.

I came across this poem, Rhapsody by William Stanley Braithwaite, today and wondered why I had never read it before. It’s in the book, A Poet for Every Day of the Year edited by Allie Esiri.

By William Stanley Braithwaite 1878 – 1962

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 21, 2025 in art, Cornwall, craft, Happiness, knitting, Postaday2025, sculpture

Tags: A Poet for Every Day of the Year, Allie Esiri

The Lost Gardens of Heligan and Lowarnes

11 Sep

Regular readers will remember the fox sculpture being built next door. Tonight was the unveiling of the remarkable sculpture in the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Even having watched ithe sculpture being constructed in the garden next door over months, to walk down the path and come across the wonderful 6 meter high fox was amazing, a breathtaking moment that actually made me weep. Here she is in her new home where she truly looks as if she has landed in her rightful habitat.

First view as we came around the bend

Crowd in awe

Some sense of scale with the children underneath

Close up of her head

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 11, 2025 in art, Celebration, Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday2025, sculpture, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Uncategorized

Fox, Day Lily and Dessert

06 Jul

The beautiful fox next door is now a “Flat pack fox’ as one of the makers described it! The pieces are going to be galvanised and then they will go straight to Heligan to be re-assembled in its permanent home. The wood pieces are all numbered and bagged up ready for the re-make..