♥♥♥♥♥Happy Valentines Day for tomorrow!♥♥♥♥♥I have spent the weekend working on my Hearty Hexagon Pattern, hoping to have it ready for Valentines Day, and happily, here it is! I must say, that when y...
So today I opened my gmail and saw an email from Helen over at 26 minutes Past. She has awarded me a Versatile Blogger Award! Thank you Helen! Until now, I had never heard of this, being suspended in...
I spent yesterday morning experimenting with making liquid handsoap...yes, I was distracted by the allure of mixing and whipping and pouring and generally making a mess of things, and didnt complete ...
I read something hilarious today...I wanted to share it with you...go take a look :)♥Heidi
The Danish translation of the African Flower hexagon Tutorial is now up...initially I had lots of trouble editing the original post , with "Error 400" popping up frequently...not sure what th...
I want to say a big ♥heart thank you today to Irene Larsen , author of the Danish Blog Min Verden Af ILD http://www.ildverden.blogspot. com/ for the wonderful Danish translation of the African Flower ...
I have many "must-have" weaknesses, I will admit....but one of the biggest is pretty tableware. My path down this collecting road, started with me inheriting a Royal Albert Old Country Roses ...
We had a heck of a thunderstorm last night, which made its re-appearance this afternoon.Everything in the garden is soaked and sludgy. I shudder to think about what is brewing in all this water as of...
First off today , I want to thank everyone for the kind comments and thoughts (and messages left for the bad blogger!) after yesterdays post. I am happy to report that the tutorial was taken down and...
Well...I guess it had to happen. I have been seeing a lot of this going on in the Blogosphere, and was wondering when I would have to be the one to write rude comments and emails ...I received a love...
In the past I have tried to teach my girls how to paint, but perhaps they were too small and their attention span too short, so it came pretty much to nothing. With my decision made to try and spend ...
Yesterday afternoon was spent in the vegetable garden...depsite me feeling like I have shifted literal tons of weeds, bolted produce, dead leaves etc....it has actually gone quite well, and the first...
Today I am posting a tutorial on how to make a very simple crocheted bobble edging. I mentioned before that I wanted to play around with ideas for edging off Nanis Hexagon blanket and I wanted someth...
It may not come as a surprise to you if you have seen my Pinterest Boards, but I am fascinated by Origami. I have been constantly amazed at the degree of complexity that origami artists can achieve w...
Yesterday I made a berry crumble for dessert after Sunday Lunch. I will be the first to tell you that I hate cooking...at least the variety of cooking that has to magically materialize at 6pm when I ...
...Blogging!...putting my patterns and ideas on paper and uploading to my Ravelry Shop....dyeing yarn....learning to succession plant and keep my vegetable garden clean and organized....finish UFOs.....
What a busy day the last of 2011 has been! I woke up this morning to a garden gone absofrikinlutely wild. When we arrived home last night it was raining and dark and I didnt even look at the garden. ...
So today we bid farewell to our beloved Cintsa. It is always a bittersweet time, the longing to stay war-ring with the desire to see our other home and our Flashy... Cintsa has become such a special ...
Despite my love of for this area and my deep appreciation for the sea and the beach, I must admit to having less than stellar feelings about cold water, sea or not. Although we are on the East Coast ...
So...you may ask yourself....?Wild Coast....what is the Wild Coast? And what does that have to do with a sunny beach scene?We are on holiday in an area on the East Coast of South Africa called the Wi...
Blessed Christmas Eve to all of you who visit here! May your Christmas be happy, peaceful and filled with love from myself , Gerry, Aliki and Emmanuelle!We are spending tonight with dearest friends a...
Today the sea is grey and misty and there is a light rain falling. Although not cold, this is not a beach day, so I decided to make a vegetable soup and veg :)I love a random vegetable soup, made of ...
Christmas is my favourite time of the year! I love, love, love this time! We dont always manage to spend it at our holiday home, but this year we are here! I love the whole spirit of Christmas, the f...
Today is a glorious summers day ! It started out for me with a series of comedic events though... I slept like a log, dreaming wonderful dreams, happy and content, when, intruding rudely into my blis...
We had supper with friends (15 of us!) at our house last night. I havent seen my dear friend Debbie (who lives down the road from us) for a few months, so I was looking forward to catching up. Gerry,...
We arrived at lunchtime, to a warm but very windy summers day. Although the sea conditions are rough with white horses all the way to the horizon, Gerry and the girls were on the beach within 10 minu...
The holiday is finally upon us...the last two weeks have been very tiring on Gerry , with his ICU full of the very sickest of patients...the silly season seems to be in full swing, as we have seen a ...
I spent a wonderful Sunday dyeing sock yarn. After an initial dyeing disaster (in which I had forgotten to add some ingredients to my dye bath :( ...) I managed to get exactly the right rich red colo...
Today is a very quick post just to say "Hi", and let you know what Ive been up to...I have been a busy little bee in the last few weeks :) Still running a lot at work, but I have managed to s...
Hi everyone! This week has been really hectic at work...I had great hopes of getting through the have-to-do-stuff, so that I could go to our weekly knitting meet and blog a few times, but it wasnt to...
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