Inspired by Kimmeridge

I have been working on this wallhanging, it's about A4 size and based on the picture below of a coastal village not to far from where I live. I haven't yet put Clavel Tower on, which is the small building on top of the hill. I started to embellish the sea but am having second thoughts and may change that and embellish the fields in the foreground of the picture instead. I'm slightly worried that the hill jutting out into the sea looks like a hedgehog!....but hopefully I will be able to change that with a bit of nifty sewing! The thin green hedge is made using a bit of an old chiffon scarf and the sea is satin with netting and fancy wools on top. You can see more if you click to enlarge the picture. I will put it n again when I have finished it.

This is the inspiration for the picture, it's a beautiful area which we have walked many times. If you are looking on a map it is on the Purbeck coast in Dorset between Swanage and Weymouth.

A much better cake!

A couple of blog entries ago I put on a cake I had decorated for my son's birthday but I wasn't that pleased with it compared to the picture I had seen originally. Yesterday my daughter made this beautiful cake for her colleague at work, helped by our lovely neighbour over the road who is a bit of an expert cake decorator.

I think A may do a course in cake decorating now, she has so enjoyed creating this work of art. I have tried for years to get A to be creative but she has shown no interest in sewing, art or anything like that but now she may have found her niche!......By the way A, don't forget my birthday is next month!

Smoothie hats!

I know this is very sad / mad / or perhaps both! I was told about this idea by someone and decided to make all the young people in this house a mini hat for Easter! The two fluffy ones are for the girls, my daughter and my son's girlfriend who is staying with us this weekend. The bobble hat is for my middle son and the green one with the badge is meant to be a green beret of the Royal Marine Commandos which my youngest son has been in training with recently. Just a bit of fun!

I have been fiddling with this one card for about a week now trying to get it right. I haven't stuck it down yet as I'm still not sure! It was an experiment using netting to denote reflection in the water. I got 7 different coloured nettings to use on the cards to make a misty feel, blues and lilacs for bluebell woods, greens for trees, and I just need to experiment now to see what can be done. Netting is really cheap too and I got half a metre of each so it will last years I think!