Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

Introducing - Daisy Fae, who is very pleased to meet you all. This is the mark one version, the photograph is a little pale in colour, she is much more vibrant than shown. Changes I have decided on for mark two are keeping her body white or pale, making it with the same fine material, I did consider making her out of felt, but it was too clumsy looking, she is quite a delicate soul. The hair is embroidery threads, I had a shopping expedition, yesterday and I have found some other materials that might make very good tresses for her, still keeping the multi-coloured hair though. Her face needs more work and I have now got the necessary equipment to define her features better, although she is not going to have a shaped face. She stands roughly eleven inches high, I must measure her and be more accurate. Her skirts especially, will probably not always be the same colours and maybe her hair may change colour occaionally too. I am pleased with her for my first attempt and she is near to what I envisaged. I also received my delivery of toy filling yesterday and so everything is there ready for me to begin making more. The only thing about the toy filling is that I think I underestimated the amount, thinking it was quite lightweight I thought the amount I ordered would have been larger, so must put another order in and source some other bulk supplier for it.


Now please allow me a proud mother moment. As I mentioned a few posts back, my daugher came up from London one weekend to go to her friend's wedding and I just wanted to post these three photographs that I took in my main living room of her in her 'glad-rags' before she went off to the wedding. The dress was chiffon, and the photograph does not really do justice to the fine variations in the depth of the pink as the dress flared. She wore the little black lace shrug for the actual wedding and then removed it at the reception. Although I say it myself I thought she looked stunning. I can never get a good photograph of my son he always manages to pull a silly face just as the shutter clicks. He has done that since he was a child and you would think that by the age of twenty-eight he might have learnt to stand still and have a proper photograph but no, then he laughingly complains I have more photographs of my daughter. The only good photographs of him are when he is in the midst of a group of his friends and just looks totally natural.



I have been tagged for a meme by Sandy of Vintage Collage and Quilts. This is where you grab the book closest to you [no cheating], open it at page 123. Scroll down to the fifth sentence, then copy out the next three sentences. Here goes then:-

I take her arm, and away we go. When we get to the edge of the Meadow I say,'Shade or sun?' and she answers,'Oh, sun, to be sure,' and so we take the path that cuts through the middle of the Meadow, that leads to the clearing. As we walk, I describe.

The book is The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I am now supposed to name three more people to do this. Hmm now who do I know that might like to do this sort of thing. This is the first time I have done a meme.


I think I will pick Janet from Just bee-cause..... just because I know she does these things ha ha, Tea from Tea and Margaritas, I think she would enjoy doing it and maybe a new blogging commenter, Gardengirl from Paper Lanterns, and in doing that I have covered three countries. Don't worry if you don't want to do it, and if anyone else wants to try it please go ahead and do it.

After my last posting about the joys of autumn that was rapidly approaching, would you believe it has been really warm today and I spent a delicious two hours sitting in the garden this afternoon, sipping a cup of coffee and reading my book, enjoying the flowers still blooming. Speaking of that last posting, I was talking about the disappearance of the swallows, they have not been flying in the sky for some days now,I had watched for them, all I could think of was that they had begun their journey to their winter quarters and I must have missed them setting off. Today the sky was full of swallows again, so where have they been this past few days? I always understood that swallows were constantly on the wing and didn't park themselves in trees like other birds. Has anyone any ideas or has anyone noticed this sort of behaviour before? I also meant to say that the picture of the girls standing round the pile of leaves is by John Millais.


I have done another drawing in felt tip and watercolour pencil. I am trying to keep myself drawing again, after finding the courage. This one is a nature faery and the title is Nature's Helper. She is one of the faeries that flys around our gardens casting her magic dust to encourage our plants to grow, our flowers to bloom and to make sure that the eco balance of our garden is secure, she will make sure that friendly bugs such as ladybirds are balanced against the pests they eat, so all can live together in harmony. She hates chemicals that people sometimes use in their garden, as they make the colour of her wings fade and she is very proud of her vibrant delicate wings. If you sit very quietly in the garden on warm day as twilight is beginning and you do not make any sudden movements but watch carefully you may be lucky enough to catch sight of her wings fluttering by and see tiny motes in the air as she throws her nurturing powder around. Try it and see if you can spy her?