It's been done before.....

but not by me.  Tuesday was the last day of our sunny weather so I prompted by a picture in the paper I took myself off to the nearest place to find bluebells to photograph.   I was a bit early the Ranger said but pointed me in the right direction and this is what I saw.

This magnificent tree is about 300 years old

It is home to many I'm sure

and it holds onto the earth with giant fingers

Come back in two weeks they said

Ah! Spring.

When you least expect it.....

stuff happens.  Today I went to help  steward  The exhibition that the EG South East Area are mounting at Hall Place, Bexley, Kent. Weather wise a totally dismal day.


Whoops, I was interrupted and posted the above instead of saving it!!!!!


Yesterday was not a good day, after I left the exhibition I went to do my weekly shop and the clutch on my car snapped.  That will curtail my shopping at the Knit and Stitch this week.


Apart from the exhibition I was going to tell you about my visit to the British Museum this week.  I haven't been able to follow it on the radio but I have been fascinated by the idea of the BBC series A History of the World in 100 objects from the British Museum. Armed with my booklet and map I set off to find these treasures.  Here is the oldest object in the Museum

A chopping tool.  Nearby there was a lovely lady with a similar tool and you could actually hold it.  What an amazing sensation, to hold something that had been made and used nearly 2 million years ago.  It fitted the hand perfectly, I wanted to keep it but the lady said no.

This is a very poor photograph of textile fragments from Peru, dated about 300BC. Each one is only about 3 inches square

You can examine them closely here 

Again a not very good photograph of a double headed snake from Mexico, covered in a mosiac of tiny chips of turquoise.

again a better picture here..

I only managed about a quarter of the objects in my four hour visit.  Mainly due to th fact that I kept being side tracked by other wonderful objects.

 This beautiful gallery, The Age of Enlightenment, would take a day on it's own.

Great day, can't wait to go back and do some more. Here's a bit of ancient texture for you.

Ring out the old ...

Ring in the new! Here is the first card for my GG2009 collection. I love the way Sandy has caught the feel of the storm. A wonderful start to the year.

as a bonus it came wrapped in this great piece of vintage fabric.

And here is the Old Year, I have been wondering for some time how to keep and display them, and this is what I came up with. This is the cover, front and back


It is made from corrugated card covered in moulding paste, painted and gilded. The decoration is a collection of shrink plastic tags with the names of the girls.

It can be opened as a conventional book

or displayed 3D

and here it is in its full glory.

Thank you girls.