.....Floras cousin........'Mabel'...

.....'Mabel', finally arrived from deepest darkest Peru today, and the chatter of tiny voices has filled the house, Flora now has a friend to share her adventures with................................


.........Welcome Mabel........

 

 

....'Aunties old dress'...

 

 

 

.....off course we all know who her creator is.....

 

 

 

.....Julie Arkell will be at the Selvedge fair on the 10th of November.....

 

.....I'm going to make sure i get to this one this time.....

 

 

 

.....Hugs to you all my bloggy friends....

Pixzie

x

 

 

 

....There is a place of wonder.....

.....a unique place.....
.....a place that is wild and beautiful.....

.....it is a place on our Kent coast line that i love to go to.........to be blown by the never stopping winds that buffet the shore line, and to just be completely enveloped in its wild unstoppable fury.....


.....This place is called 'Dungeness'.....

.....This wilderness is one of the longest shingle beaches in the world, and it is a national nature reserve and a special protection area.....

......When you are there, standing on the edge of the world you cant help but be transported......

.....And the only way to see this place is when the weather is at its absolute best,, Armageddon one side, and heaven the other......

....This wilderness here has been slowly shaped by time, and also shaped very gently by human hand......

....every boat here has been left to naturally rot and decay, yet an artists hand has made these corpses seem like the heart beat is still faint......

 

.....the intestines of the boats lay strewn around....

 

 

....and the once beating hearts are mounted on plinths as pieces of sculpture....

 

 

 

 

 

 

....wood...iron...and stone....

 

 

 

.....your emotions cannot help but be stirred here....

 

 

....there are a few small wooden houses barely bigger than a large shed that artists and writers live in.....to be inspired by the scenery and the weather......

 

 

......this was also the home of the late Derek Jarmen, he was an English film and music video maker........and many people come to see his home and photograph it as it has a beauty all its own....

 

 

....there is book available about 'Derek Jarmans house and garden' if you want to know more......

 

....The poem on the side of the house is by John Donne, and is called 'The sun rising'....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....my heart is home in wild places....

Pixie x

 

 

....Here is lovely video of Derek Jarmans garden....

 

 

 

 

.....Sketching trees.....

 

 

 

......Pixzie....

x

 

.....An Autumn hedgerow hat....

.....an Autumn 'Hedgerow hat' for picking blackberries and collecting acorns whilst wandering through secret woodland pathways and spying on fairies.......


....... (though trying to take a photo of ones self, in said hedgerow hat did prove a tad difficult.......so sorry for the awkward photo shoot) ......

 

 

.....good grief....how on earth are you supposed to take a photo of the back of your head !....

 

 

 

 

 

.....do you know...i have thoroughly enjoyed knitting this easy peasy quickity quick hat......

.....it took me only a few evenings to do, and now i have visions of other ones in different colours ,with maybe leaves and acorns embroidered on or crocheted flowers.....

 

......all knitted on a sixteen inch circular needle, with 5 size 3.5 dpn's and knitted with lovely scrummy super soft 'Louise Harding, alpaca yarn'.....£4.95 a ball, i used  two balls......

 

......now I'm off to catch me a fairy.....

 

x Pixie x

 

 

 

....The simple things.....

.....the new magazine by the team at Mollie makes......


.....i just love it..........filled to the brim with oodles of eye candy........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.....yes indeed.....the simple things.....

 

x

 

 

.....Floras cousin......

.......Flora here......

 

 

......received a postcard from a long distant cousin who lives in Peru to say that she is packing her suitcases and making the long winding journey down the Pervian mountains to hitch a bus to the airport, where she will be  bound for England, and wondered if she might come and stay with us for a while.....

 

......Flora is most excited, as am I, as she will now have a friend to sit and talk with......

 

 

......she should be arriving here in a week or two......

 

 

.....Pixie....

x