We weren’t actually around for Valentine’s day itself (more on that in the next post) so I searched around for something romantic we could do on a weeknight instead. Just up the road from work is excellent buy your bottle and fill it with lovely fruit flavoured booze or oil shop the DemiJohn. As I’m Read more about In the mood for love (and erm booze)[…]
Yesterday we set our alarm for earlier than usual on a weekend and drove up first to Newbury to collect Jam’s mum Gaynor and then onto Bracknell, where the Enchanted Market had touched down for a couple of days. The building it was held in is usually a school but it was transformed by some Read more about All aboard for a trip to the Enchanted Market[…]
A new exhibition of William Blake works has just opened at the Ashmolean Museum and so a Live Friday was held to mark the occasion, we met up with friends David and Yuan Yuan, first for a fantastic meal at Shanghai 30s and then to experience the late night delights. And what delights there were! Read more about Late with Blake[…]
For Age UK, they asked and I knitted, but alas not quite fast enough, so an emergency day off was needed to sew all the bits together and stuff it. I got there in the end however and headed into town to hand my beautiful crofters cottage in. This is the picture it was based Read more about I knitted a house[…]
So this weekend for Jams birthday we headed off on a wolf walk which was of the fantastic perks of the membership to the UK Wolf Conservation Trust which Jam bought me as a present earlier this year. I wanted to wait till it was winter to go and visit the wolves as I think Read more about Walking with wolves[…]
I took Friday off work and headed to the fantastic Ardington School of Crafts for Christmas copper foil. We were given a selection of patterns but the angel you see above was based on some inspiration on my glass Pintrest board. The Christmas trees were more of a traditional design but I decided to switch Read more about Christmas Stained glass[…]
On Friday night we met up with the lovely David and Yulan To check out the Ashmolean’s latest live Friday. This is a bit of a clue to the theme Yes to tie in with their latest Tutankhamun exhibition the theme was Egypt. There were allsorts of individual events including music There were games And Read more about Walk like an Egyptian[…]
I took Friday off to have a good look round Abingdon Crafts for Christmas. I go every year but this year I knew that Vikki Lafford (now Vikki Lafford Garside) and her amazing machine embroidery creations would be there. I had to find her! I first came across Vikki’s work in the Cornerstone in Didcot, we were Read more about Abingdon Crafts for Christmas Fair[…]
Wittenham clumps is a local beauty spot and one of Jamses Favourite places, I’ve borrowed a Canon EOS 1100D from someone looking to sell it at work so we thought this would be the perfect spot to stretch our legs and test out the camera at the same time. We climbed to the top of Read more about Climbing the Clumps[…]
A week ago I spotted a new post on Nell Giffords blog, in a joint promotion with Olympus Cameras they were giving 100 happy snappers (& one guest) a chance to test out the newest Olympus camera on some of the Circus acts. Expert camera guidance would also be provided by pro photographer Damian McGillicuddy. Read more about A photo trip to Giffords[…]