As we dance by the moonlight, can't you see you're my delight?

Hello,

I am so happy that so many lovely ladies left a comment for my Needlecase 'Giveaway'.

Thank you each and everyone for your kind and very generous, sweet comments.  

I am so terribly sorry that there is only one winner...and the number generator has picked number 12, which I believe to be Lesley Hackney.   Leslie would you mind contacting me please?

Thank you again for all your kind and wonderful comments.

Thanks for stopping by. x

Modjo - Lady

Workshop update and a Hens Teeth Giveaway

 Hello,

 I have been making and framing these pieces in old cutlery boxes.  

Well...one half of a cutlery box, they make a really great frame.

 With these two pieces, I just wanted a simple look to them to appreciate the lovely old patchwork.

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On June 8th I will be holding at Workshop for hand stitched needlecases....

or you could bring along a project, which you would like to start or explore further.

Details of the Workshop here ... just a few places remaining.

Excited!

I am also very pleased to say that I will be at Hope & Elvis

for  

'Needlecases of Beauty' 

on the 19th October

Details here ... 

Thrilled to have been asked by Louise to hold a workshop at her wonderful Studio.  

Soooo to celebrate all this needlecase goings on...I thought it was about time I held another 'Giveaway'.

Below is the very one.

It's made from vintage embroidery linen, screen printed bird, hand painted and free machine embroidered flowers. Hand painted bizzy buzzy Bees.  So lots of work involved in the making.  

Finished with beautiful, old MoP buttons.

Just leave a comment and I will do the automated generated number finder thingy Sunday 12th UK time.

Thanks for stopping by. x

North Norfolk

Hello,

the current husband, two doggies and I, are just back from a few days in North Norfolk.

The sun popped his hat on especially for us and

we have fallen in love with a very special and beautiful part of England.

Here is the boy surveying 'his' beach.

 I managed to do a wee spot of drawing.

 We managed an Aperitif or two.

 This was our view from the house we hired.   We watched the tide come and go and the sun rise and set.

 We visited incredibly beautiful towns like Holt.

 Visited nature reserves on the Broads, like Horsey.

 We visited Hickling Church, which holds a very ancient Tomb,

 covered in graffiti.
   I could have stayed all day just looking at the marks made over the last four hundred years or so.

 This windmill, in the distance, is called Horsey Windpump

 and here is my old man with his doggies...on the beach at Walton, which had huge sea defenses.   

Can you see how the bank is eroding?

We did have a lovely few days.   
The weather was kind and it was a real switch off, which I suppose is what it's all about

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Finally, I just wanted to say that I will be holding a Workshop at Weston Park on the 8th June next.   

Details on my Workshop Blog, link just under the header.   More about that next time.

Thank you for stopping by. x

Sometimes you have to try to get along dear, I know the truth and I know what you're thinking ....

Hello,

here is our youngest baby girl modelling a beautiful pinny, made for me by my Swiss friend

Sapori Di Pina

isn't it gorgeous?

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Just wanted to pop a few of my recent makes here...

Wall hanging

Mixed media envelope artwork

Brooch

Brooch

 I love making these little artworks in tins

Thanks for stopping by x

Stone Roses :: Fools Gold

It worries me this kind of thing, how you hope to live alone...

 Hello,

our youngest girl had a Prosthetic makeup show to visit in London, so I went with her on the train and we stayed for two wonderful nights.   Our girl, on the Saturday went to her show and I had a day on my own around London.   I don't think I have ever negotiated London on my own, so I had to take a deep breath, give myself a strong talking to, grow a backbone and deal with London Transport.

Our Hotel was on Russell Square, just around the corner from the British Museum ... 
I particularly wanted to see the Exhibition below.

I managed to buy a tickets for this and Ice Age Art : arrival of modern mind.

Both Exhibitions were incredible.  (No photography allowed)    

Particularly, for me, the Pompeii and Herculaneum Exhibition.  

Each and every piece on view was exquisite and sometimes heartbreaking.

The Ice Age was equally fascinating, but I'm glad I didn't go specifically just to see that one.

Anyhoo, here are pics from around the entrance of BM.

 Getting on for lunch time, so nipped back to Hotel for a breather and
 then walked past Russell Square Tube Station and onto

Foundling Museum

for the Fate, Hope & Charity Exhibition.

I visited the Threads of Feeling Exhibition a couple of years ago.

Not a great deal here new to see, but very poignant all the same.

I then walked on, back past the British Museum and down to The Petrie Museum

Part of a University complex, the museum holds an estimated 80,000 objects from ancient Eygpt and Sudan.  

 Not sure if you can read the piece below, but I believe it refers to the garment underneath, which is one of the oldest pieces of textile in the world.

The place and it's exhibits were fascinating and mind blowing in their age, beauty and sheer number.   Absolutely exhausting!
Then onto a buzzing Camden and
spent the evening with my two girls.
Dropped into bed a happy mum and ever so slightly 'all Museumed out'.

Thanks for staying with me on this and thank you for stopping by. x

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