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This may or may not post! I’m flirting with the internet, and not enjoying it. I have good reason to believe that the problem WILL be sorted this time – but we wait to see. If it is evasive today this will post as I meander past a helpful signal. Please don’t hold your breath – no guarantees how long it will be.

There’s nothing like working with colour to cheer the spirits!

  This has grown a…

  Each side is different as you can see. It’s whitework – on off-white linen. A City and Guilds sample saved from the ‘bin’ by making something ‘useful’!

Not quite white

This is somewhat more formal than you might expect – and from a long time ago. It’s a scissor’s holder, and I don’t use it.

The wonderful thing about creativity is that there is something out there for everyone! None of us is good at everything all the time, and that is certainly true for me. There are two things which I only touch under great pressure.

Knitting makes me tense beyond measure. I will share an anecdote with you on another day when I have photographs to back it up, but for choice I will avoid it at all…

Try combining elements that are unexpected.

In this work in progress I have combined canvas work with lace

What could you combine that is unexpected?

Be Creative – February – Prompt 23

It always seems a waste to leave a design before it’s full potential has been reached. Sometimes our efforts look a mess, or don’t seem to be going anywhere. This week we will look back at some of the steps we have taken during the rest of the month and see how we can change them. They may still need taking further – but our opinions of the originals may change……

Remember drawing lines?

Take a…

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! I hope that everyone has a safe and wonderful night and that we all take a few moments to reflect on our past year, absorbing the good and shedding the bad. I think that this is important so that we can embrace the New Year lighter and with open minds and open hearts.

Historically, I have never spent a New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day not deeply depressed. I have…

Grover Norquist Calls Out Republicans For Not Taking Credit For Economic Recovery

Grover Norquist misses the forest for the trees in all things economic. I have to say that he is proud of the fact that at the tender age of 13 he had his epiphany under Reagan, but unfortunately for us he has never evolved and holds incredible sway politically in the background. The economy is improving DESPITE the republicans horrendous strategy of obstruction that has been in effect for a…

This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It

I think that this article is important because it highlights the diferences between conservative and progressive mindsets when it comes to basic human nature, society’s responsibilities towards its own well-being and what words such as success, welfare, responsibility, luck and self-sufficiency really mean. Words have subjective and contextual meanings; I believe that we all need to agree on that…