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Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Friday, 3 January 2020

2020 or is it SOSO?

Blogging has taken a back seat in 2019, might it return to the front seat in 2020? Catch up on Nov - Dec activities

Costume exhibition at the National Theatre, free, on until June 2020, 

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Panto making, production photos here

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Birthday flowers

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Contemporary drawing at The British Museum, very inspiring, free, finishes on 12 January

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Floods in Oxfordshire

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Last 4 Brexit journals, painted wadding background, decreasing influence

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Repairing the Xmas wreath, from Gina Ferrari, I think 

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Golden yellow winter jasmine, much needed colour

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Starting work on a bookshelf quilt for a baby due in March, some of which had to be sewn on the Singer 201k

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Will I take part in the Contemporary Quilt Group challenge for 2020, theme is Fragmentation? One metre by 60cm for 31st May? Gathering ideas

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Just for fun, a pen holder, using scraps from the panto costumes, using this tutorial.

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Trying to persuade my husband that even if we are trying to reduce, re-use and recycle, that a new nail brush might be needed, 

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Coming up:

New exhibition at Two Temple Place, “Unbound, Visionary women Collecting Textiles” free, on until 19 April 2020.

Alexander McQueen, “New Roses” how some of those astonishing dresses were made, 27 Old Bond Stree, free, until mid 2020.

 

 

Sunday, 16 June 2019

Poppies - promise, petals and pods

The rain has decimated the petals on  many of my garden poppies, but has encouraged the bursting buds and left behind beautiful pods.

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Saturday, 7 April 2018

Spring is here

The sheer pleasure in being bathed by sunshine, seeing colour everywhere

Peach blossom - in London!

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Roadside flowers

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Sharp shadows

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Seen at Ham House, where I went to see he beautiful stitching on display in the costumes from A Stitch in Time. There until 29th April.

Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Kew Gardens inspiration

Do go and see Life in Death by Rebecca Louise Law, a mesmersing installation at Kew Gardens, on until March 2018.

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

In, and out of the greenhouses, the light was wonderful

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017

Kew Gardens Boxing Day 2017