Photo a Day

I am still managing to remember to take a picture every day which is a miracle in itself! So here we are with another week.

March 8; I spent my evening running Katy to and from Lewes. She has orchestra practice and usually Ken and I share but he was working. This night the traffic was shocking.

This was Mother's Day March 10th but for some reason these two pics have swapped themselves around! Katy was leading East Sussex String Chamber Orchestra and I went to watch with my Mum and my Dad. It is the first time Dad has seen Katy play and he was very impressed!

March 9; Mum bought me these beautiful anemones. They are one of my favourite flowers but they don't normally last long as a cut flower. These are still going strong however and I love their jewel like colours.

March 11; Fast day and my breakfast was a boiled egg. Had to be a Welsummer one in my Emma Bridgewater egg cup! Just look at the colour of that shell!

March 12; We awoke to SNOW! And not just a little bit either! Enough for us to have a snow day, always a bonus but especially in MARCH!

March 13; most of the snow had gone apart from where it had been sheltered or drifted. As I went off to work I saw this poor little crocus. Having survived the hens it now had to deal with snow!

March 14; Fast day and my tea looked like this...now that is lentils and yogurt with poppadoms. It tasted a whole lot nicer than it looked!

March 15; Red Nose Day and we had a Mad March Hair day at school. Been a long time since I wore pig-tails!

Journal your Christmas

As we are having a snow day here I thought that I might do a bit more of my Christmas Photo Journal.I think you will find that most of the titles are self explanatory! They are super quick to do as I am still managing to keep them very simple.

A shot of the tree from my hall. We never use the front door so I would never view the tree from this angle but I saw a similiar shot on Linda's blog....so I pinched the idea!

Loved the pattern on the ceiling that my star made.

Now this was a new technique to try, where you cover the lens with black card and punch a hole in it. Then you take your photo and all the tree lights end up the shape of the hole you have punched! I had a snowflake shaped hole in mine.

For once Minnie was most obliging and posed beautifully. Might use this as my Christmas card next year.

Another chance to practise bokeh but this time I took a pic of this cute mouse that was a gift from a work colleague.

This beautiful star is made from Dartington crystal and is one of 6 decorations that came from my Mum. I remember as a child, going with Mum to buy these; we chose 2 stars, 2 angels and 2.....well my family call them ducks but I have always thought of them as partridge. Now Mum only has a small tree she has given them to me and they go on every, single year to provide sparkle.

This is a new decoration this year. I couldn't resist the simplicity of it and I bought 4!

Last for this batch; my freezer packed up just before Christmas so we had to eat up lots of frozen fruit. Katy made a "Gooseberry Gloop" pie, using blackcurrants. I don't know the real name for it but the recipe came from my Dad and is topped with marzipan strips. Mmmmmm!

Some more "Life"....

My life is still continuing in it's normal hectic fashion....

March 1; inputting things on the computer at work.

March 2; went to Brighton with Katy to buy her a concert dress as she is now leader of East Sussex County Chamber Orchestra and we saw this rather cool pie shop...

March 3; for my birthday in September Burnice and Linda made me this quilt and cushion which I have been saving until my room was decorated. As the weather has been much warmer this week I thought I would change from my wooly blanket to this rather sophisticated combo! Look like a hotel I think! 

March 4; today I began The Fast Diet. I will fast on Mondays and Thursdays and I aim to lose 1lb a week hopefully! I downloaded the book on my Kindle when it was on offer for just 99p.

March 5;Today I went for a run and it is the first morning that it has really been very light as I run. So I whipped out my phone, paused in my run, and snapped this atmospheric shot.

March 6; these beauties were right by my car when I got to work today.

March 7;...and when I woke up this morning the hyacinth in my bedroom came out. Oooo it smells delicious!

Photo a Day

Off we go again..

Feb 23; I woke to see a light dusting of snow from my bedroom window. It did thaw very quickly however!

Feb 24; my little tiny daffodils are just beginning to open

Feb 25; outside learning at school and we lit a fire to see how wood changed when it was burnt as part of our "Materials" topic. The children loved it!

Feb 26; I handed the camera to the children in my phonics group so that they could take pictures of me as evidence for my HLTA portfolio!

Feb 27; got a bit obsessed with these little chaps and made him tonight.

Feb 28; a very interesting discussion on stereotypes with the children at school..

Heart Bunting

After finishing my rainbow throw I have been left with lots of lovely colourful scraps of wool. So off I went hunting for a new project and came across this lovely bunting. Bit too plain, so I added my own picot edging in white and then a flower and some leaves.

Close up of the flower

And of course where better for it to go than in my new bedroom, across my blind!

 

More Photo a Day...

Feb 17th; Miss Babs and Miss Berta sitting where THEY think is a good place to lay me eggs!

Feb 18th; Mum and I went up to Somerset House to a Valentino exhibition and this was the "installation" advertising it. Amazing dresses but we weren't allowed to take photos and we decided that the 80s were definately the decade that taste deserted!

Feb 19th; decorated our bedroom and a lovely shot of me cutting in (I believe that is the technical term for doin' t'edges!)

Feb 20th; Ta dah...all finished (and yes I know this is a repeat!)

Feb 21st; went to my Dad's for dinner and he has a snooker table where everyone plays at some time during the evening....this is Jasper.

Feb 22nd; still over-run with eggs and bananas so Eliza baked more banana and chocolate cupcakes.

I can knit a rainbow.....

Well it's crochet really but I have FINISHED! I began this just at the end of November last year and finally finished it just last weekend. I was inspired by this and then gave it my own slant.

As this has been Half Term week I have also decorated my bedroom. All the walls have been shocking, raspberry pink for the last 17 years so we decided it was time for a change. Now we have this rather classy chocolate brown feature wall and cream on the other walls.

My new bedding is chocolate brown too which acts as a great background for all my quilts and throws that I intend to rotate throughout the seasons. Here is another view of my rainbow....

...and again in duplicate, reflected in the mirror! I love it's happy colours and it makes me smile every time I walk into this rather grown up looking bedroom that just looks way too classy for my house!

Just to finish, a close-up of the great design of the squares that magically change from circles to squares. A little miracle every time I crocheted one, that never ceased to amaze me each time I completed one!