Teach Peace from Hippie Peace Freaks with thanks
1 I just want to say how much I loved teaching and teaching peace is surely the most important thing we could all do…….
2 This is a delightful combination of colour, music and creativity. (Photo not mine, sent to me via Fb.)
Rainbow notes in crochet
Creating makes me happy, be it cooking a meal for family or friends, knitting or sewing clothes for little people, writings of various sorts, designing in the garden, playing music …….
3 These are the powder colours which I bought from a beautiful girl in Varanasi, India, on our way back from watching the sun rise over The Ganges. She made lovely patterns on my hand with them before we negotiated a price and she told me how she was selling things to raise money for her school books. She then walked beside me protecting me from the traffic (cows, cars, Tuktuks, scooters, coaches and cycle rickshaws) until we reached our bus. A beautiful memory.
Pastels and stamps for decoration
Beautiful young woman who sold me the pastels
Having my hand decorated
Tags: creativity, crochet, India, knitting, memories, memory, peace, Postaday, postaday2013, teaching, The Ganges, Varanasi
I’m lost if I’m not creating something – be that writing, cooking, gardening or knitting. Here are some of my knitting projects.
Orb made for the Wildworks project in Kensington Palace
Hoodie made for Grand-baby J
‘Made with love’ detail on hoodie
Hoodie for Grand-baby due this year – 6 month size
Scarf for Grand-baby J
Christmas tree hat
Tiny cardigan made for Grand-baby due later this year
Cardigan detail of flower
Curved front cardigan made for new baby due this year
Grandbaby T in a hoodie made for her big brother
Hoodies for both Grand-babies
Hoodie for Grand-baby T
Sally-boots and mini Goldenboots
Grand-baby J in his hat and scarf
Sally-boots for a friend’s new baby
Cardigan and beret for Grand-baby T
Shrug for Grandbaby T
My new project to start off 2013 is to make the Snowman’s Snowdog.
Tags: DPchallenge, Kensington Palace Exhibition, knitting, Postaday, postaday2013, The Snowman's Snowdog, Wildworks
1 Our first heavy frost rimed all the leaves this morning so that even the weed leaves looked beautiful.
Frosted leaves
2 The early morning clouds were so delicately coloured in soft pink and shades of blue with a touch of threatening grey.
Blue, pink and grey in the sky
3 I’ve finished the baby hoodie for next April’s arrival. This one should fit just as the Autumn comes in about September time. I’m stocking up on various sizes! These colourful buttons used to be on cardigans worn by the expectant Mum and her twin brother when they were very little. The elephants were his and the ladybirds, hers.
Baby hoodie to fit at 6 months
Tags: buttons, clouds, heavy frost, knitting, morning clouds, nature, Postaday, postaday2012, rimed leaves, twins
1 Yesterday’s post about Granny’s tablecloth brought some interesting comments, particularly telling me that it wasn’t tatting around the edge but Filet Crochet. This took me to Granny’s beautiful old sewing box to look more closely at the very fine metal crochet hooks which I think may have been used for this delicate work. I don’t know what each item in the box is used for so if you do, please tell me!
Inside the lid of Granny’s sewing box
Sewing box lid with Granny’s initial, T, embossed in gold
Close ups of nos 5 and 7, tiny crochet hooks
2 The Christmas Tree hat arrived safely and was immediately worn by T. Her Dad did a fine job of trying to capture her image for me!
T putting on her new hat
T wearing her Christmas Tree hat
T pleased with her new hat
3 It’s been a dramatic weather day with squalls of hailstones followed by sunshine. I love the drama of this sky behind our house.
Drama in the sky
Tags: beautiful sky, Christmas Tree Hat, crochet hooks, filet crochet, knitting, night sky, Postaday, postaday2012, sewing box
1 For those of you who love elephants, as I do, here’s a link to a beautiful episode in the lives of some elephants.
2 I’ve finished J’s scarf, made up of scraps of wool from many of the things I’ve knitted for him in his almost four years.
New Scarf for J
3 Christmas singing at The Countryman in Piece – a spirit lifter if ever there was one! They call it a Shout when it’s singing in the pub and but it isn’t shouting , it is singing!
Tags: Baby Elephant, Christmas singing, Cornish Shout, knitting, new design, Piece, Postaday, postaday2012, scarf, The Countryman
1 I finished, I think, the Christmas Tree hat for Grand-baby T. What do you think? Does it need more decoration, some sequins perhaps, some other coloured stitched baubles? Please advise!
Christmas Tree hat for T
2 I went with my good friend M to a lecture lunch at Trelissick today. The lunch was delicious, the lecture about Cornish customs at Christmas fascinating, and spending time with my friend just lovely.
3 Tonight I was all dressed up (best American long dress in green and black and my gold Doc Martens, the ones that gave rise to my nickname by the pupils at school of Goldenboots) and ready to go and it all went pear-shaped. The lovely Mr Smith stepped in and suggested we go out for a meal instead to take my mind off things so we did. We’ve just returned, all dressed up, and, as it turned out, we did have somewhere to go!
Tags: all dressed up and nowhere to go, American dress, Christmas customs, Christmas Tree Hat, disappointment, Doc Martens, Docs, Goldenboots, knitting, pear-shaped, Postaday, postaday2012, Trelissick
1 This lovely little model of a Mandarin Duck was made by our youngest daughter many, many years ago for her Dad. It has been treasured ever since.
2 I have finished the tiny cardigan for our Grand-baby due in April. It has some very special buttons on it.
Tiny cardigan, 20 cms from top to bottom
3 These buttons are part of a collection that I have inherited. My Grandfather was a button salesman in and around Manchester and these are his sample cards which have been used gradually over the years. It really pleases me to think that the new baby will be wearing a cardigan with buttons belonging to her/his Great Great Grandfather!
Very precious Mother-of-pearl buttons
Tags: grandchildren, Great Great Grandfather, knitting, Mandarin Duck, Mother-of-pearl, Postaday, postaday2012
1 A lovely gas man has spent the day with us as he has been tracing the gas leak that we smelt last night. He is building his own Eco house and was fascinating to listen to as we waited for the other gas men to arrive to start digging up the front drive to find the source of the leak. The house is now clear but the men were working until 6.30pm, digging in the dark! They have enjoyed the bacon sandwiches and multiple coffees we made for them.
2 The anemones that friends brought us on Friday night have all opened up and are such beautiful rich colours. They remind me of my Mum who particularly loved anemones.
Jewel like anemones
3 Unable to go out or do much else today, I’ve been knitting and sewing up baby cardigans. I love this magic wool that makes its own pattern as I knit.
Back of new cardigan
Baby hoodie ready to sew up
Tags: anemones, eco-house, emergency, gas leak, gas man, knitting, magic wool, Postaday, postaday2012
1 I hadn’t had a piano lesson for over six weeks for one reason or another and have been very bad about practising! My teacher, always encouraging, was so lovely and praised me for what I had remembered and pushed me on again.
2 I’ve finished knitting a cardigan for our 4th Grandchild due next April. If it turns out to be a boy, I shall have to find someone else to give this one to! The one I’ve now started is more neutral!
Latest knitting
Cardigan detail
3 While looking through my boxes for a piece of fabric this afternoon, I came across this little present that I made for my Mum more than fifty years ago! She treasured it all those years and now it’s mine again.
Little treasure
Tags: baby, knitting, piano lessons, Postaday, postaday2012, treasure
1 A seasonal cook-up today! First a beautiful cake, Plum, Almond (should be hazelnuts) and Chocolate Cake, that came to me via the BBC Good Food site today. I couldn’t resist it! My version is full of the amino acid tryptophan which helps to make us happy! There are ground almonds, almond slivers and lots of good dark chocolate, all good sources of tryptophan hence its new name of Happy Cake.
Doesn’t that look delicious?
And it is!
2 While the cake was cooling and waiting for its glaze, we went to the Post Office to post off the two hoodies by the fastest post possible though I could hardly bear to part with them. If the hoodies themselves don’t keep the Grandbabies warm, then the love they’ve been made with will surely do the trick.
Hoodie parcels
3 While we were out we found big Cornish cauliflowers at a good price so I have made an enormous batch of Curried Cauliflower Soup, one of our favourites for cold winter days: 3 pints in the freezer and one for tomorrow. Two servings go very nicely into a one pint milk carton and they stack really neatly in the freezer.
Curried cauliflower soup
I’ll put both recipes up soon.
I can’t post large photos at the moment, they stretch and go out of proportion so these are all medium. Do click on each one for the large version.
Tags: Cornish cauliflowers, Curried Cauliflower Soup, First Class Post, freezer, happy, hoodies, knitting, Plum Almond and Chocolate Cake, Postaday, postaday2012, seasonal cooking, serotonin, tryptophan, weekly photo challenge, winter soup
