I’m all for celebrating the seasons through craft. I love to embrace the colour, themes and light throughout the changing year, but….you could hear that coming, right?……mud season really challenges me. There is less light, there’s bare earth, bare sticks… and mud. Brown seems to grab more of its share […]
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Spinning it on its head
My favourite places for spinning are sitting outside on a warm, summers day, or in front of the fire when the skies are clear and promising a morning frost. I need the warmth. Last year I didn’t spin much. I was working my way slowly through a bag of beautiful […]
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A while back, a friend gave me a bag of alpaca fleece. His boss’s wife keeps alpacas. He informed me, in that I-don’t-know-what-I’m-talking-about way, that it was suri alpaca. Suri alpaca is reputed to be one of the softest alpaca fleece, so I was intrigued. For later reference, the friend […]
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A Slice of life: rhythm-seeking One photo. One word. (….almost) A photo that doesn’t show everything. Just a slice of life. Time taken to notice the moment and how it makes me feel. A reminder to live in the moment and savour it with all my senses. Being present in […]
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