...although the weather is of course now going to be hot and sunny in typical contrary and wonderful fashion... and as it is supposed to reach 22 today I am back in summer clothes.... just because I can! Every time I go out of the house I am bathed in blissful warm air and sunshine....a memory to treasure in the long winter months to come...
dare I mention the word C-Art...ooh I think I may just get away with it. What a joyful success! Ian and Steph and myself have been Open Studioing for 2 weekends with one still to go and it's been fantastic - lots of lovely people have visited and loved our work and talked and shared what they do and we've had a poet and a Benedictine nun and a musician and an actor and all sorts of folk, and a lady who just came and sat and drank a cuppa tea and watched us working in a very peaceful way...and although it's been exhausting we've just had a wonderful time and have hatched all sorts of plans for running workshops and sharing what we do and helping others to get in touch with their own creativity...ooh and did I say I was interviewed on Radio Cumbria and had a bit of a public moment on a local News website...sorry just have to make something of my starring moment!!
...have managed a little making too... in between the tea and chat and I'm loving the feel of more earthy fabrics and colours, fitting in with nature all around slowly moving towards autumn sleep...conkers and berries, the glorious browns and reds of leaves, the trees becoming more refined and skeletal in form...
we have new hens too, a trio of big and beautiful Welsummers from a local rare breeds auction so daughter is soo happy and they look utterly at home in the orchard...just got to introduce the 'old' girls to the new, probably this weekend...
and husband is relaxing into a new way of working...4 days instead of 5 means Friday is a 'working by choice' day and then a whole weekend for what he wants to do...already his shoulders and stress levels are lower after just 2 weeks (money isn't everything) ...and he's signed up for a willow weaving workshop with the wonderful Phil so he can understand working willow better when he makes hurdles for us to use like the lovely circular one in the picture here...
loving the vibrant red of this tartan bag - and you should see the lining...
1 comment:
Nice tweed! I really like the colours - and I like Autumn too.
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