Archive for the ‘crafty’ Category
Tweet :: we puzzled :: I’m not sure if I mentioned this last year – but last year’s advent calendar was a puzzle I made from 1 inch square blocks (bought as a long stick of one inch and chopped up with the jigsaw) and pictures from a thrifted copy of “The Little Donkey” (Bootville [...]
Tweet One week til Christmas! I so adore this time of year – a week ahead of us, full of making and singing and reading and cooking and preparing. Eeeee! The first sound that greeted me as I threw open the front door, letting in the sparkling blue summer morning – the young gas repair [...]
Tweet … and oh what fun we had! The day bloomed bright and hot and as I stumbled sleepily into the early morning kitchen, needing to bake and ice the birthday biscuits, the beauty of the world outside my window filled me with such anticipation. I LOVE birthday parties :-) By the alloted time, a [...]
Tweet :: an exquisite summer’s day … cerulean blue sky, the prettiest light that fills me with happiness and gratitude that I am right here, right now … driving around collecting last minute supplies and frozen cokes whilst John Mayer & Walt Grace remind me of summer afternoons on Nanny and Grandad’s porch listening to [...]
Tweet :: Saturday dawned early – there were last minute birthday gifts to paint (which then had their finishing touches embroidered on at 2am the following morning/night!) – good thing teenagers sleep late. :: doors were re-hung by she who is the most adept at wielding the screwdriver, glass was polished and polished and polished [...]
Tweet That would be Mr. Hayao Miyazaki – the Boot family’s absolutely favourite maker of films – My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Ponyo, just to name a few. He creates films of such beauty and truth – encouraging his audiences to care for the people around them – no matter who [...]
Tweet Don’t you think? Frankly, if a bag has no pockets, you may as well sling your belongings into an old pillow case and hoick that over your shoulder, ’cause that’s how useful a bag without pockets is. Plunging your hand down into the dark, cluttered depths, rummaging about in a completely ineffectual manner that [...]
Tweet We so look forward to Saturday & Sunday – long, wonderful days together. The to-do list is sometimes crazy long … sometimes there are surprising additions … somehow it all fits in. 9.15am The Haircut * could there possibly be someone else who has what I want? * that one! * the pre-snip jitters [...]
Tweet There’s some serious landscaping happening on the season’s table. As you can see, it has taken the residents of mushroom cottage quite by surprise. However, I’m sure they’ll be thrilled with the final result! It began with a duck. I have several books of patterns for felt animals and have seen felt ducks for [...]
Tweet It’s a blue sky morning, with a wind that’s blowing fair It’s a jasmine scented morning, there are spring buds in the air It’s a gold sky morning, with a sun that’s warm and bright It’s a heart glad morning, we are bathed in soft spring light Abby Boot, 10 years Oh, such a [...]
Tweet School free day today! Well, for the younger members of Bootville … this older one still had to dash into uni for a rural community nurse and adolescent pregnancy seminar. But when I arrived home, just on lunchtime, the girlie was still in her nightie – warmed up with the mushroom beanie and sheepskin [...]
Tweet We haven’t had a good, slow, cosy Saturday like this in a while … bliss! After some quick goings-out in the morning we embraced the cold, cold, bleak, rainy weather, closed the doors (locked the back door which kept blowing open!), stuffed the draft stoppers along the doorjambs, made hot drinks, gathered our supplies [...]