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Sewing, Secret and Sea

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

Sunshine, Seeds and Pie

17 Mar

We’ve had sunshine today and at Roots I sowed seeds and more seeds, 14 trays of between 100 and 250 seeds per tray, kale, red cabbage, cauliflower, Romanescue and more. There’ll be plenty of potting on to do over the next few weeks.

I do love a good pie – tonight, Chicken and Sweetcorn Pie

Happy St Patrick’s Day to all my Irish readers and a nod to my Irish heritage on my Father’s side.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 17, 2026 in baking, community, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Clay, Sewing and Solidarity

16 Mar

I’ve done a bit more work on next door’s project, sewing the little clay creatures onto long strands of coloured fabric while Sue worked on the head. I thoroughly enjoyed my self. The opening night will be March 31st at Truro Museum and Art Gallery.

It’s only a few weeks since I shared the song, “Hold On’ which we sang in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. Life is still very difficult for them and we sang again for them today.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17nRsPprFT/

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 16, 2026 in America, craft, friendship, music, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Minnesota

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

Hail, Muscari and More Primroses

13 Mar

It’s been crazy weather today, wind, sunshine that actually gave warmth and many, many wild hail showers. I was delighted to watch a horizontal spider’s web outside the kitchen window act as a hammock for hailstones. If you look carefully at the photo, you can make out the strands of web holding the hailstones.

A bank of primroses

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 13, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Full Moon, Sunshine and A Robin

04 Mar

Last night’s full moon is known as the Plough Moon or Worm Moon, both signifying the coming of Spring. It is also called the Sap Moon indicating the time for tapping the sap from Maple trees.

The sun has shone almost all day once the mists had cleared. We went for a walk at Trelissick Gardens and the sun was shining right on the golden squirrel of the weather vane on the Water Tower.

We could hear the most glorious bird song and then spotted the robin singing his heart out.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 4, 2026 in Cornwall, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Curtain, Garden and A Poem

27 Feb

Having finished the curtain for the back door, I had reason to go to my box of bits to make something else and re-discovered a piece of the Laura Ashley fabric I showed you the other day. There was enough to make a curtain so I have made another one for the back door in a fabric we love more.

This was the view from the dining room window as I was sewing this afternoon.

If you have seen the film, Hamnet, you may have wept over the twins. Having twins myself, when I read the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, I found the chapter heartbreaking. One of our twins was very ill as a tiny baby and when we visited him in hospital every day, I always put his twin sister in the cot beside him. I love this poem by Helen Farish.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 27, 2026 in family, garden, poetry, Postaday 2026, sewing, Uncategorized

Tags: Helen Farish, Maggie O'Farrell., twins

Porcelain, Dumbbells and A Word

26 Feb

I have two beautiful little porcelain boxes. They were given to my parents on their Ruby wedding anniversary by the man who was their Best Man and who became my Godfather, Maurice Oldfield. These little boxes became mine in due course and I love them.

In November last year I joined an online exercise class designed for women over 60 and I am loving it! Feeling stronger and fitter and far less arthritic pain. We have just graduated from using cans of beans as weights to little dumbbells weighing twice as much and mine arrived in the post today!

We have rain again today, a soft mizzle and I turned to my beautiful book , Ninety-Nine Words for Rain and this one describes today’s drizzly stuff. I just wish I knew how to say these lovely words.

Sewing, The AGM and Reading

25 Feb

I’ve been curtain making today using some wonderful vintage Laura Ashley fabric from 1983. It’s fabric which we used for kitchen curtains in our penultimate home before moving back to Cornwall so it is full of lovely memories of our children growing up, family dinners and birthday teas in that kitchen. I’ll show the curtain in place when it’s hung..

This evening was the AGM for Community Roots which was full of information of what we have all achieved and what we will be aiming for over the next year. One of our directors is leaving and we were all asked to give one word to describe her. As you can see, she is much loved and will be greatly missed. She is the essence of Roots.

I spent the afternoon reading the latest book from The ShelterBox book Club. It’s both harrowing and full of love and hope. I’ll tell you more when I’ve finished it.

Raindrops, Primrose and Knitting – February 21st!

24 Feb

Just found in drafts! Whatever happened? Who knows, just forgot to press publish I guess.

February 21st
‘The rain it raineth every day’ as the Fool says to King Lear – and so it goes, but in a dry moment, I managed a photo of a primrose with raindrops.