Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

Woke up to the beginning of a beautiful morning. As the sun rose higher, the morning warmed up and I could see it was going to be a stunning autumn day. I decided on an early morning trip into the local town, as there seems to be so many glittery projects and swaps in the offing that I can see mammoth supplies of glitter will be needed. Thought I would buy it early before all the children get involved in glitter tasks for Christmas, at school.

I caught the country bus into the town and enjoyed watching the autumn countryside as we trundled along. The trees are still green, but there are hints of turning leaves in very small clusters. The rowan trees are packed full of berries, I can't remember if that is supposed to be the sign of a harsh winter, I think it is. As we left the village and crossed over the river, I noticed Mr.Heron was perched on the rock in the middle of the river looking for his breakfast. As I had started out early the town was quiet when I arrived there, as it had not reached its Saturday fever pitch yet.

As I passed one of the charity shops, I thought I would pop in quickly and have a look. I am glad I did because I found a lovely hand thrown pottery casserole in a beautiful pale blue colour, which will blend in with my yellow kitchen perfectly. Next stop the discount stationery store where I bought, glitter pens, glitter in the pot, a big bag of coloured feathers, new felt pens, various colouring pencils and some fine looking gel metallic pens, that were jostling each other and shouting 'buy me Daisy, come on you know you need me' Never one to ignore a wheedling pen I gave in. Then popped into Poundland where you can often find some gems among the dross and stocked up on fat church candles. There is nothing like a room lit by candles on a dark evening, much nicer watching a dvd or TV in the soft glow of candlelight. Found some bits and pieces that might be useful for altered art projects and decided to finish off with a cup of coffee sitting al fresco in the pedestrain square, then hopped on the bus home. A lovely way to spend a sunny autumn morning.


My very faourite jewellery stone is a moonstone. Moonstones are very female stones and work in conjunction with the moon. The power of the moonstone can become too much for some people to wear when there is a full moon. It is a stone that calms you, opens you up to inspiration and to your psychic capabilties and I believe it empowers you. If I ever have to do something difficult where I want a positive result I wear some moonstone jewellery. When I went to seek the grant for the Local History Group, I wore moonstone, earrings, ring and bracelet to fully empower me. I always feed my moonstones with the moon's rays. This means on the night of the full moon I lay them out on my bedroom windowsill so they can soak up the moonshine. When I am wearing them I can always tell how much power is in them by the degree of flashings of blue they emit when they catch the light. If you want inspirational dreams or dreams of the future, or answers to questions try sleeping wearing a moonstone or putting one under your pillow. What are everyone elses favourite crystals and stones?


This picture opposite, is my piece For the Friendship Piece Project. It is going to Robyn, in Australia and I hope she will like it. Sorry about the quality of the picture, I was in a hurry the other day because I wanted to get it posted and just quickly scanned it into the computer. Some of the shiny fabric has not reproduced too well, it looks slightly better if you enlarge it. There are seven people doing it including myself and we each make one 6x6 inch piece for each other, so we all end up with six pieces from people and then we do with them what we will. Such as we can make a mini quilt or a wall hanging. The pieces that I have seen on people's sites so far are really exciting and I think we are all going to be thrilled with the end result.

I have decided after being encouraged by a GPS to put my Daisy Podlings up for sale, I was thinking of sending them out with a notecard that explains their beginnings, and my GPS, well it was Judie actually, had the great idea of sending adoption papers with them. So I can combine their origins and adoption sheet. I will probably put the next batch of Daisy Faes up as well. Not sure yet whether it will be ebay or Etsy. I have my son, sorting it out over the weekend for me, as I am rubbish with these paypal online stores. I will add a bit of altered art and a couple of other things I have been busy with and take it from there. Fingers crossed I can get it all sorted out.

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