Wednesday 30 September 2009

A few words from Neil on a special day

It is 13 years today since Angela & I found each other. There have been ups and downs of course, but she has always supported me in everything I do (especially the businesses) and I am very proud of what she has achieved with Art and Stitch.

She is untidy, impatient, forgetful, aggressive and forthright but I love her more and more every day and cannot imagine being without her.

Happy Anniversary!

Slow Work and A Welcome Home

The wall hanging has not progressed very far, certainly not as quick as I would have liked. I had no idea that using the embellisher could be soo tedious. But I'm going to stick with it and keep my fingers crossed that it does turn into a beautiful piece of fabric which I can then turn into a field full of poppies. You have to use your imagination.



Last night we fetched Sparky back from doggy hospital accompanied by this not so small bag! It's a nightmare trying to get all of these into him. One of the capsules he has to take three times a day.


We still don't know exactly what is wrong with him. He has had an MRI Scan a Spinal Tap more X Rays and lots of blood tests. One of the blood tests has shown that there is a problem with his Thyroid. He hasn't got any medication for that yet because the vet is waiting for the results of some of the tests. Some samples of blood and spinal fluid have been sent to a lab some where in Europe and may take another week before we get the results. So fingers crossed we will get him better soon.

Sunday 27 September 2009

More Homework

This was the give away prize won by Louise. She has now received it and I hope she likes it.



I have made a start on another piece of my homework. I am making a wall hanging inspired by a picture I have of a field full of poppies.

I started with a piece of green felt and laid wool rovings, threads of various kinds and cut up ribbons on top.

The next three pictures are close ups of the various stages.





The next picture shows all the mess covered up with dyed cotton scrim. This was then tacked down and I attacked the piece of fabric with my embellisher.
Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo but as I haven't finished with the embellisher I will do that tomorrow.
We still don't know what is wrong with Sparky. We took him back to the vets on Friday. The blood tests they had carried out were inconclusive. He had a pain killing injection and they referred him to a specialist. Neil took him yesterday afternoon and he was very impressed the set up and the vet. He said it looks just like an NHS hospital. Tomorrow Sparky is going to have an MRI Scan. The vet thinks it could be a slipped disc in his spine or a tumour. We just want him to get better and come home the house is so quiet without him.


On Friday we took part in the biggest coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan. We had a great time and chatted to a lot of nice people and mananaged to raise £304. We really enjoyed the morning and would like to say a big thank you to all those who attended and helped us to raise so much money.








Wednesday 23 September 2009

Finished Homework And A winner

As picked by my dad at 6:45 this morning.

And the winner is Miss_Oakden, if you could email with an address I will get your parcel in the
post.
Finally I have finished the cat shooting gallery and I am really pleased with it. I hope teacher is.









Sunday 20 September 2009

A Lazy Sunday

We took advantage of the glorious weather today and went for a trip to the coast.

This is the ford at Great Walsingham. Beautiful isn't it.





We found a lovely little shop called B T O I It's full of nice goodies that you may not need but still end up taking them home.


Neil treated me to this book. I love beach huts.



And then there was this tea towel. Well- if I have to spend time in the kitchen I want some thing nice to look at!



Tomorrow I have got to take this little fella to doggy hospital. He really wasn't very well on Friday so I rushed home from work and took him to the vets.
He has an ongoing back problem that meant he needed some pain killers but whilst we were there they did some blood tests. The results of these mean he may have a liver problem so he is also taking a liver supplement and needs to go back for more blood test and an ultrasound. We took Sparky with us today and you wouldn't have thought there was anything wrong with him.



And before you ask yes that is a Ben and Jerrys ice cream tub he has got his nose in. He loves ice cream.

This is my 50th post, so in keeping with blogging tradition I am having a give away, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post before Wednesday and you will be entered into a draw.

Monday 14 September 2009

A Visit To Cambridge

Yesterday we went to Cambridge to see the Moving Forward exhibition. I don't have any pictures to show you as photography wasn't allowed but if you have the time then go and have a look for yourself. The work on show was fantastic. It is a small exhibition but well worth it. While we were there we bumped into Sarah who had gone to Cambridge just to see the exhibition.

I was really pleased I had taken the camera with me because I can share these pictures with you.

Aren't the gates wonderful and this window just appeared at the right time because Neil was having a grumble at me for getting us lost (which I hadn't, when we went back to look at the street map the 'you are here' sticker was in the wrong place- see it's never my fault). I was looking every where except at him and I just happened to look up and see the window. Obviously I had to take a picture and by the time I had finished so had he and we were on the move again.

Saturday 12 September 2009

Tyvek Day

Gina came to the shop today and gave a workshop using Tyvek.
All the ladies produced some fabulous work. There was some very quiet moments during the day because they were all concentrating so much and this shows in the high standard of their work.



They made some beautiful flowers and beads.





Also some lovely Seed Pods.


And the mess on this desk, well I'm sure you can guess who sat here and it wasn't Pam.


Well done ladies.