Continuing from Part 2 So, we've started some of the flowers, the blade is complete and now we are working on the hilt. Which also means, back to working with shiny things! But before I get carried away I needed to do a spot of padded satin stitch in silk thread... I had an idea… Continue reading Embroidered Fan Art: Part 3 (Hilt and Fiddly Detailing)
As I turned another year older, the UK went officially on lock down. My heart sank and the world seemed just that tad more darker and scary. Reality struck and needless to say my mind went through all the emotions and I hit a dark place for a while. Not quite the way I wanted… Continue reading A little cheer in a scary world – Competition
It's high time for me to write part 2 of my trip to Bergerac (read Part 1). I've been a little bit caught up with decorating and other stuff, and I'll get to that another day. One of the excursions from the chateau was of my choosing, so during the hotter part of the day… Continue reading Return Bergerac – Part Deux
An opportunity presented itself to spend a week in France and I took it. I was returning to the little village of La Force, just outside Bergerac, and I couldn't wait so much so I opted for an earlier flight from London City. The journey itself was unremarkable, the flight is over in a blink of… Continue reading Return to Bergerac – Part 1
It's been a while since I've penned/typed a blog post due to a rather busy August. I had to get a lot sorted out ahead annual leave. Two weeks off, WOOT! Yesterday, I got back from Naples, Florida. Staying in the exactly same place as I have done for the past three years, I love it.… Continue reading Sunshine Adventures – Florida
To say that we were lucky with the weather this weekend, is a bit of an understatement. We had gone from a mini heatwave to weather more a kin to late autumn. Grey, wet and cold. Then it was if Mother Nature had decided that we all needed a spot of sunshine to brighten our mood.… Continue reading Mini Adventure to Jane Austen Country
I crossed something off my imaginary list of things I would like to experience. What did I do? Where did I go? (Feel like I am about to start an episode of Playdays....shout out to anyone who remembers that kids show). Well, anyway, I didn't go anywhere on the playbus, I instead hopped on the less than… Continue reading Mini Adventure – Anyone for Tennis?
On a rather dreary, Monday morning, in Blighty I headed off to London City Airport, feeling a tad underdressed for venturing out at 6:30 am but dammit I was heading off to much needed sunshine and I'll be buggered if I was going to take a coat. My destination was Bergerac in the Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes… Continue reading Mini Adventure to France
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