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I've been spending a lot of time thinking back about nice trips recently.

Exactly one year ago tonight I landed in Melbourne for 3 week dream holiday - it doesn't seem that long ago at all.

In July we went and stayed in an old romany caravan surrounded by poppies and foxgloves in a very sweet garden in Cornwall. It was a perfect summer weekend.

Although we could have done with a tiny bit more leg room.



I do love to holiday.

must draw more. must knit (slightly) less.

Yesterday I bought some water soluble pastels in an attempt to encourage myself to do more drawing.

I drew a Hellebore (which looks very different from the crochet variety).

hellebore, buttercup, meconopsis

I had a surprise day without work today, which gave me some time to really get onboard the flower crochet bandwagon (see here & here) and learn some new skills.

Cats & crochet & charity shopping + lunch with family = a successful day off.

out of sorts

It's been almost 5 months since I moved in and I'm still in the process of deciding where things should go. I also still have one box remaining to unpack. I'm not sure that one will ever get done, although there's nothing like an unsettling week to make you want to sort things out.

Oh well.

garden

I don't think my seed distribution was very even.

how does your garden grow?

I'm excited about the thought of having some outside space at our new house.
I'm also planning a garden for a bookshop window display at the moment.
Plants and trees and honey bees.

square one

This last few days I have:

• Finished my mum's blanket.

• Made many cheese straws and eaten almost none quite a few.

• Cried in too many places: in pubs, in cafes, in cars, on peoples shoulders, in front of the man who came to fix the boiler. It really must stop soon.

...or maybe I can find a career that utilizes this newly found skill?

• Walked and cycled and swam and walked and cycled and walked some more (and still found myself waking at 6am).

• Welcomed a cat into my home, and let him leave again (that last bit was hard).

• Made a plan. A plan to stick to.

Now my head feels like my desk looks - a bit messy and mostly empty.
Hopefully next week will be different.

an afternoon in a graveyard

Today I went drawing at Woodvale Crematorium with Yumi. It was very beautiful there - the sun was shining and we saw lots of wildlife (including some butterflies, woodlice & a fox). We weren't very impressed with the pond but we did rather like the wide selection of trees:


The blossom smelt lovely!
Yumi drew some wonderfully colourful flowers & I drew some of the chapel spires which I could see above the tree tops.


Next week we are trying to recruit some fellow cyclists for a trip along the cuckoo trail.

lovely new things

This weekend I was especially busy dashing around Brighton.
On Sunday I managed to attend the market at the station, the brighton zinefest AND the frock me vintage fashion fair at the university.

Here are some nice treats I picked up.

SUNDAY MARKET:


desk lamp = £1
flowers for tiffany = 50p

ZINEFEST:


I drew some pigeon badges and a kind fellow made them for me!

FROCK ME:


tartan skirt = £5

And they weren't the only nice things I've acquired lately, pop over to my pigeon blog to see some more lucky finds.

today is sunny & nice

a silk flower i picked up at a vintage flea market.

i posted out my pay it forward packages yesterday. i hope they arrive ok.

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