New Adventures!

So after much playing about and casual makes for friends and fair-ees, I took the advice/nagging/encouragement of many people and decided to actually try and sell what I do. 

(Making a little cash from doing something I love to fund yet more doing stuff I love - how cool would that be ? !!)

So I can now proudly present .... *drum roll* 

Marigold Green   

Just a facebook page for now so apologies to anyone not using the book of faces - grand plans for a proper website/world domination in the future.

Come and have a look at my scrummy things ! 

so long, Imaginary Readers ! xx

p.s. for anyone who's wondering..

"Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people call her Bilgewater"

Pride and Cake

That I think was the planned sequel to Jane Austens better known book..?

Pride - 
My wonderful son Ethan, took part in the gruelling Ten Tors event this weekend, trekking across Dartmoor for miles and miles, hours and hours (and hours) boggy terrain, rough underfoot and steep hills.
Sadly Ethan (and LOTS of others) had to leave the Tors event after the first day, to quote his team manager "his feet fell apart". After a debrief we think he was actually suffering from a combination of heat stroke and exhaustion too. Slurred words, unable to put one foot in front of the other and the evidence of a lot of sun exposure on the back of his neck seem to now point to that as well as the terribly blistered feet.

I am SO SO unbelievably proud how of how far he did get, the wonderful team he was chosen to be a part of  - there were no casual entries but months of hard training and you had to be selected. I know he's feeling a bit glum about 'dropping' out but I think it shows great courage and maturity to know when enough is enough and admit you ought to stop.
He says he knew he was slowing his team down, they were all struggling to various degrees and if he'd have continued the pace of the team as a whole would have meant they may not have finished in time and therefore be disqualified.

Isn't my boy just AWESOME ? !!
(that's him 3rd from the front)

and Cake - 

and dressing up to look daft cos your 2 year old wants you to be in a band ;-)

My partner Paul turned 46 on Sunday! - I said to him in the small hours 'ooh I've never slept with an old man before'

I'd attempted to make a swanky cake with my new bundt tin that turned out to be a deformed, charred disaster.. so enlisted good old Nanny Jean to make her famous chocolate creation.

This is  utterly and definitely THE best chocolate cake ever in the creation of cake creations.  (Sorry, seem to have been possessed by the voice of Lola there for a minute)

nom nom!

Adieu Imaginary Readers ! x

Blogging what your mum made..

...is probably cheating, no ? (I love the way my German friends and family say that using 'no' rather than the 'yeah' ) 

I'm off any sort of crafting this week apart from the little edge I added to this pretty cardigan my mum has been making for The Pumpkin. Gorgeous huh ?

Stupid pulled neck has rendered me immobile to anything much at all so any pain free time I have is used doing houseworky type stuff *sad smilie*

I am however crafting in my head already for something for a friend... *mysterious smilie*

Vaarwel Imaginary Readers ! x

Sumo Winding and Hairpin lace

2600 yards of lace weight yarn to wind from a skein... Eeek! 

With the help of Becky and her swift and some very sumo-esque straddling of the swift we got most of it done in a few hours.

Assisted of course by yoghurt munching and light sabre (cheese string) wielding toddlers. Aren't they gorgeous?

So then the hairpin malarky could start.. 

I've never tried before, but after a few false starts of turning the loom thingy the wrong way and dropping it a lot, I'm now getting there! It's so lovely to have crafty friends to help out and motivate me. 

This whole project is going to take a loooooong time but I hope I'll get faster and I think it will be worth it.

So long Imaginary Readers. X

Getting over it

After last weeks photo disaster I couldn't face this blog for a few days. I would click on the link, shudder, get cross and close it again.
I'm over that now and just here with a little finished object - A longer blog post planned for tomorrow when I have more time!

details of what it is and the yarn etc. are HERE

(but no pictures !!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!!!! - Ok not over it at all - hmpff!)

so long Imaginary Viewers of my Imaginary Pictures x