Crafting, de-crafting and Crunchy Leaves

Emily — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:01:54 +0000

My little one and I did some crafting recently… yes, you read the clock correctly, and it wasn’t early afternoon when that photo was taken let me tell you….

After being roused from my bed by a teething baby we decided to continue making the corsages and brooches for our shop. I crafted, she de-crafted… Note the scattering of pin backs… labels everywhere…. crochet flung…. ah, yes, we bonded.

Almost literally as I had to wrestle the strong adhesive from her steel grip….more than once…

We eventually retired back to bed at around 4.30 (AM!!) and were up again at the usual hour in the morning. I had a crafty plan (pardon the pun!!) to let her run around the garden and between fresh air and exercise she would become ultra-tired and go for a lovely long sleep… I would have a quick nap while I nursed her, and then do lots of all those things you can’t do with a (silent-but-deadly) baby running around. So out to the garden we went…

Stomping through crunchy leaves is so much fun when you are 1… or 101…!

Where ever are those cats???

On the trail of the cats… through the small woods… (a bit of an over-statement there)

Aha! Do we spot something?

Come on Tabby!! You are about to be dragged out from under the fushia!!

A little helping hand to get moving…

Down to Tabbys level for a quick rub…

…and a quick chat….

Okay, enough of that, off we go again…!

A quick spot of pruning… badly needed as you can see…

The last flowers of summer

Thank goodness geraniums are so hardy!!

Autumn leaves are beginning to fall….

The good news is, she slept after all that… whew!!!!

As an adjunct, a friend and Homeopathic colleague of mine, Joan, recently lost her husband, Dave. Dave, a diabetic, was to run the Dublin marathon later this month, and now as a tribute to him, his friends and family are to run it as a relay in his memory. You can read about it here : http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2009/1013/1224256500024.html.

Joan, you are an extraordinary woman xxxxx

Naked leaps, crochet and hairy dogs

Emily — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:25:32 +0000

There is simply nothing worse than being in the shower and realising when you are thoroughly soaked that you have no shampoo-or soap- or anything bar water for that matter, and you have to take a naked wet leap across the bathroom (can’t find glasses so blind as a bat) to find something to clean yourself with. Toilet cleaner? ah, no, I’ll pass. Body Lotion, goats milk bath soak, Gaia detangler… AHHH!!!! at last, a bar of soap, and YES!! A bottle of shampoo (do they have an expiry date? Oh. They do. Couldn’t see under the inch of dust. After I have washed my hair. Thought it smelled dodgy.)
So I have now a full stocked shower cubicle. Should an entire army ever land on my doorstep, there are enough sweet smelling bottles up there to clean them all. But moving swiftly on….
Inroads have been made into the yarn stocks, and plans are afoot for further cushioned delights for the pub (most of the cushions and a few stool covers we made previously were stolen- I’m swinging between outrage at the theft and being chuffed that someone would like them enough to walk out with one stuffed up their jumper).

I have one doll almost completed, with 2 more sewn and ready to assemble (In the photo, note: evening light denoting the late hour)(and the many cups of tea). I have made little cloth nappies and oooh, the dolls are simply lovely to hold. They are stuffed with sheepswool, as is in the Waldorf tradition, which absorbs the scents that baby is familiar with; these type of dolls are often called “bonding dolls”. I am crocheting little caps that will be their hair, and have made little velvet clothes. My plan is to crochet little vests too, to make them ultra-cute!!

But the hour is late- Again. I have to prepare the porridge oats for breakfast, feed our hairy bundle, a.k.a Pebbles the dog, most of the neighbourhood cats, and a couple of hedgehogs. and then, at last, I think it is time I went to bed…..

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Crafting, de-crafting and Crunchy Leaves

Naked leaps, crochet and hairy dogs