Month: October 2007
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Blog action day – October 15th
An international initiative of bloggers known as “Blog Action Day” has been launched with the aim of uniting thousands of blogging voices, talking about one issue for one day. This year it’s the environment – something I dreamt about last night. I woke up ready to race off to the Amazon to stop illegal logging.…
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Oooh yay! Anemone’s at Etsy!
Look everyone – my favourite local local makers of yummy girly kids things – Anemone Crafts – have opened an Etsy shop. Auntie Polly bought Astrid a kimono dress months and months ago and Astrid just loves it. They make fab skirts too – they’ve got such good taste in fabrics. It’s all super cute…
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The cuteness of the babychops
Now you may have noticed that I call Astrid “the babychops” quite a lot. Well, let me tell you, I call her that all the time! I have to make myself say Astrid every now and again just so she knows her name. I posted some photos to flickr recently of her and thought I…
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Happy birthday little blog
Well this little blog is one year old today. It started over at Blogger and moved here at the end of May. My first ever comment was from Juju (yay – thanks Juju) and then four months later I got my next comment! Hooray for persistence eh 🙂 I met Juju in London when I…
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Seeds glorious seeds
This afternoon Dad came over and helped build the teepees. We put in the potatoes, some cherry tomatoes, red onions and cabbages. The rest of the planting will wait until the seeds are ready to plant out. Ooooh this will be an exercise in patience for me. It’ll be weeks! I planted LOTS of seeds…
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Making the meadow (and vege plot)
Friday; Dad rotary hoeing the lower lawn. Below; still hoeing – the grass is all cut. And we still have the nice big shady lawn above. Saturday we dug, and dug, and dug, and dug. And sifted up the grassy clumps, shook the soil from them and threw them in the (now huge) grass pile.…
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Wall bags
When I was at the Steiner school many many years ago one of the first things we made in handwork class was a wall bag. I have no idea what happened to mine. It was made from beige cotton drill and I had embroidered onto it a green caterpillar – made up of ten circles.…
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I like purple and green
One of my favourite colour combinations is purple and green. So I am happy indeed about all the cinnerarias in the garden. Regardless of whether I can spell them or not. I made some more 70s purple flower bags this week for shop orders. Big, lined calico shoppers. Yummy! And look… they match my divine…
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Like the olden days
I’m sure most of you have noticed my life has been quite full on these past few months. In fact, it’s been full on since last October when we bought a house and had to sell one in a matter of weeks. And then move. And then have a baby. And all the stuff that’s…
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Just in case…
My friends asked me to make them an emailable gif which I spent all morning making. So on the off chance that any of you might like to send it to your friends I thought I’d put it up here too (just right click to download – it’s bigger than it looks).