I can’t remember now how I got into hand embroidery, but I did quite a lot of it while I was writing my last essay. I found that doing a little bit of sewing each evening helped enormously to ease the tension which had built up over a day’s writing, so I could get a good night’s sleep instead…
Category: Arty Crafty
A corner shelf for my shed
Since this summer, I have been the proud owner of a garden shed which I use as a music practice room. (You can read more about my shed on Aunty Muriel’s Oboe here.) I spent quite a lot of time decorating this shed, and I wanted to add our little corner shelf to its interior…
Hand-painted tealight holders
I’ve been redecorating, and I brought home lots of tester pots from Homebase to help me decide on the various colour schemes for each room. There’s quite a bit of paint in these little pots, and I’d never just chuck them out because there’s always something that needs brightening up with a bit of colour. I…
Developing Your Eye, Day 10: Architecture
Last one for Developing Your Eye!
Developing Your Eye, Day 9: A Pop of Colour
I’ve used PicMonkey again to create a circle of colour in an otherwise black-and-white photograph of a wild flower… …although, if I’m honest, I prefer these pics of the same flower with all the colours kept intact (click on the images to enlarge):
