Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
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Believe me when I say Spring is really here this far north and I am enjoying it and the children are sooooo very keen to get into the pool as soon as possible. They look out the kitchen window each morning and just bask in the Summer possibilities.
Next week we are hoping to get started back into lessons, even though we are still not completely organised. In fact my desk and other lesson essentials are still in Melbourne waiting to be shipped here.
I am really looking forward to starting some Spring themed activities from the Spring book I had in my giveaway recently.
The younger children are really searching for some structure and the big kids are saying they need to do some more constructive work which to them means lessons.
They are starting some new English based work that we bought before the move and are anxious to get started on them.
With the start of new themes and chores next week I hope to get some more time for relaxation and crafts and perhaps some more blogging too!!
Linking to Nicole today
Blessings to you and your homes,
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Everything on the allotment is bursting into life which must mean that Spring is on it's way!
I'm hoping for sloes on this blackthorn bush this year..
I was worried that I may have planted this garlic a little late due to all the rain that we had last year but it's all sprouted, I love garlic!
The slightly warmer weather made the natural dyeing session we had at Sam's last week a lot easier - Jane Southgate is busy preparing for Rural Collusions and needed a load of stuff dyed blue with woad.Dyeing with woad is always exciting so we didn't need a lot of persuading to get the dye pots out again!
The dyebath is yellow and the blue only develops when the dye reacts with oxygen in the air. We were dyeing some of the crocheted puffballs along with some wool blankets and some cotton interlining. Jane uses the interlining to make the gills of bracket fungi!
After a great day of dyeing I paid a visit to another artist's studio My Red Studio is just up the road from Halfpenny Home and is where Amy Louise Nettleton is currently working - we were really excited to hear that she had found somewhere nearby and I couldn't wait to see her studio.
Red, red, red!
Jacqui very generously treated me to a glass workshop with Anita Honeyball for Christmas with the condition that she came along too! Jacqui has attended a couple of these sessions before and I've always been so very impressed with all of the things that she has produced and it's almost all made with recycled materials that would otherwise be thrown away.Jacqui and I were joined by our good friends Lisa and Gay as well as Maria B who organises the Ark and Craft Markets in Needham Market held on the 3rd Saturday of every month. Anita will also be at this month's event which will be on Saturday 19th February.
Anita's studio is a treat for the eyes - there are beautiful objects everywhere! These cheese plates are made from bottles that have been heated in a kiln.
You can't help but be inspired to create when you see all the pieces of coloured glass...
As you can see in the picture of the table below we were all very productive!
All that creativity can make you very hungry!
We even managed to make good use of one of the bottle cheese plates during lunch, I love glass so a whole day of playing with it was a real treat for me - I can't wait to see how all the pieces look after they have been fired!
Just look at the fantastic colours of the 'Stingray' glass bowls - I have a one in a kingfisher blue which I brought from Anita the very first time I met her at Treasures of Suffolk and I really love it! What a great way to spend a week, Nic x
