wow, this made me smile a lot -
1 because it has some of the best etsy bits on there
2 because the wonderous Heidi Burton made it, she from an inspirational family and lovely artist herself
3 because it features two of my favourite UK'ers Lupin (as mentioned previously here) and Bombus
4 because Heidi made it inspired by the lovely Henrik, who once wrote me a lovely card for some gloves I made him
5 because a pic of my son is on it, modelling a moustache for Lupin
I think I pass the six degrees of separation to heidi test
So whirly is at her friends and there is just Louie and me here, we are rambling through our normal conversation:
* What's your favourite playstation game Mum? * which do you think is better DC or Marvel? * If you could be any superhero, which would you be? If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be? * And now we are both here, I am writing this, he is chatting in my ear and we are laughing and no matter how many other things I have to do, I remember that maybe soon he won't want to do this with me so I will leave and savour this moment a bit longer.
*yarn by the amazing skeinqueen
the picture, a small snippet of our home - my sanctuary bit
brown paper package tied up with string????
Almost, something I have made but I can't tell you who for - it's a secret.
My swap partner decided in the UK swap organised by the lovely and talented Charlotte Narunsky, yes her, queen of the tag game.
It's a brown box from Reading Museum and if I told you what it was called it would give the game away or the colour of the object inside...so you will have to be patient and wait and see...bah humbug!
I was tagged three days ago by the talented Lotte, and please forgive me for almost dropping the tagging ball (sounds like a forgiveness ritual!) but there have been so many balls too juggle. Now I must share with you seven random facts about myself, as well as posting the rules of the game, which are:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.
My random facts are:
1. I don't like the bathroom at night, in fact to be honest I don't like it in the day - I pull the flush and run, you know the toilet-flushy monster might get me.
2. I once shared a dressing room with Johnny Ball and David Essex, firstly that will show how geriatric I am but secondly I was only 14 and dancing on Saturday Superstore.
3. I am so unmanageable in a job that I have always had to invent my own job and like to employ equally wayward (I like to call it inspired) people
5. And talking of jobs, do you know that I have the best job ever invented (well, ever invented by me)
6. I love people coming round, just dropping by any old time so come on round.
7. I am slightly obsessive about palindromic numbers or connected numbers, only slightly, but had to be married on 20/6/02 at 2pm and then eat at 6...LMAO... it is only a slight obsession. Oh yeah, and did I say that 2's and 3's and 6' and 7's are some of my favourites.
Now I get to tag people in turn:
1. iant - because he has such interesting headgear
2. monkey - because I really want to know 7 random facts about him
3.yumptatious - because I love what she makes
4. urbanknit - because I am still thinking about the ice-cream on her blog and she makes beautiful things
5. feltbug - because I love her blog and flickr page
6. makelondon - as they are so inspiring
7. RE:form - because she is the exact little sister I would want to have and so talented...RAWWRRR
Today I made this, the new gallery and agreed plans - today was the day (I must give JA credit too, thanks Jim)
Day 4 in the crafting 365 house
So I was making up all the gloves I had knitted in preparation for the Outcast stand at South Hill Park , yes I know it is over 2 months away but I have a lot of other things on too, including the Affordable Art Fair, jelly and more... and listening all the while to my fidelity old record player.
Breaking out some old faves from my youth including The Fall, Velvet Underground when the Sex Pistols delivered a new energy to the finishing of my gloves. Who'd have thought it??? So these little union jack gloves (in the making) are a homage to The Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, God Save the Queen and being able to finish off work in this century!
So the lovely lupin invited me to join the crafting365 pool over on flickr. (This should be okay as long as I remember to photograph my work!)
Here is day 1 in the 365 pool for me - this is a piece of work that has been flipping around in my head for a while but there have been so many projects on the go that I have kept it to one side. It is a handknitted and crochet mohair and merino spoon, inspired by a very old forum post at the beginning of 2007 regarding strange punishments (don't ask) - this also led to the pants competition, which you can read about at the uk etsysellers blog updated by the fabulous lupin, how does she do it??
Venturing into the uk forum is a strange array of delights, you will never know what you might read about from hairy spoons, to pants to so much worse and sometimes it can be distracting away from the real job of making but I love it to bits
So this piece of work is a homage to the uk sellers
The spoon comes in a Reading Museum box which once held a spoon, but never one quite like this.
another day at the seaside.
Talent is seeping through their veins, Louie loves his board, both surf and skate, playing his guitar and generally looking very rock *starry*
Whirly sings, makes and takes good pictures. She loves it, picking the camera at any opportune moment
So this is us.
It has been a little while since I wrote anything here but many things have changed, been happening and are up in the air so it is hard to know exactly what to say.
We have been travelling, visiting, seeing, doing, filling days. My parents left and we miss them, the weather changed and the river flooded. The water broke the bank, the children were stuck at school on the last day and eventually they got home after almost 7 hours.
It could be that the weather was a metaphor for what has been happening in our lives but it is not, it is a larger global travesty making people homeless, under threat of disease and causing long term suffering and death.
We are lucky and we have been living our life to the full: playing in the woods, building dens, skateboarding, surfing , camping in the mud, being with friends, being with family, playing in the Hyde Park , going on a pedalo, going to the sea, loving a rescue dog, eating lovely food, blackberrying, taking a Shetland pony to the pub.
We only wish we could all be together more.
So today my mum and dad have moved, sold everything, packed away the things they want to keep and they are driving across Europe to start a new life
