tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41091584280488054232024-03-14T14:37:39.723+00:00snoopysgranny...loves stitchingsnoopysgrannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344053399616604959noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109158428048805423.post-73283806237156413932016-09-25T20:03:00.000+01:002016-09-25T20:03:11.570+01:00Practising perspective.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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We were allowed to venture outside for my last day of drawing. It was a rare sunny day and not to be missed. </div>
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All that theory on perspective I'd been learning and now I had to put it in to practise. It's knowing where to start!? I started drawing right in the centre where the river disappears. I was sitting on some steps looking down on this scene. My river seemed to be flowing upwards! This first drawing took about 20 minutes so I felt I was quicker and more confident. Then I worked on it at home from the photo I took.</div>
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The river still looked like it was flowing upwards but overall I was pleased with my efforts.</div>
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Drawing class has finished now and it doesn't start again until September. I'm supposed to be practising drawing at home but so far I haven't lifted a pencil.</div>
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It was May Bank Holiday and time to get out. I'll have to try taking a sketch book out with me.</div>
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I'm sure that must be what Edith Holden did, I love her nature notes and drawings of the countryside.</div>
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For now I'll just record the nature with my camera.</div>
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You're very lucky here in NI if you get a good weather day for May Day.<br />
What did we get? Freezing cold wind and rain showers - but there was a bit of sunshine. </div>
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This time I ditched my proper camera in favour of some 'I phone' photography. My photos go straight on to my phone and I pad and then it's simpler to upload photos on to the blog. </div>
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We went for a walk in Moira Demesne. I <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">found it hard to see anything on the screen with the sun shining. I just guessed at what I was taking. </span>There were some nice woodland paths with wild garlic growing.</div>
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snoopysgrannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344053399616604959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109158428048805423.post-66730155784027564762016-03-23T21:37:00.000+00:002016-03-23T22:39:32.539+00:00The passage of time and a retirement hat.I've been reflecting on the passage of time again. There's been a reason that I haven't had time or inclination to write my blog.<br />
I've written about dealing with my mum's different problems over the past few years, and all the time it took up! My brother- in - law, my sister and me shared the load, but my brother - in - law did the biggest share by far.<br />
During that time, for the last 4 to 5 years, my sister was receiving treatment for cancer.<br />
Endless hospital appointments, operations, radiotherapy, chemo, hair loss - she went through it all with great dignity, not wanting people to know about her illness, she just wanted to live as normal a life as she could. So I respected her wishes.<br />
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I'd say she managed to mostly keep it to herself, the family and a few close friends. She kept going right up until last Christmas Day. Although she was exhausted, she made the effort. Then on Boxing Day it was almost like she'd had enough.<br />
I went over to England once again on the 29th January to help look after her. While I was with her there was never any talk of dying, we just got on with it, then on one of the last days she said, "I can't do this anymore".<br />
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She died at home, on the 6th February, 66 years old. One of my son's read a poem at her funeral. It reflects on how you live your life - <a href="http://www.linda-ellis.com/the-dash-the-dash-poem-by-linda-ellis-.html">'the dash'</a> between the year you are born and the year you die.<br />
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Another event that involves a passage of time is your working life. It seems like my husband has been working for almost as long as I've known him and now he's about to hit retirement age!<br />
Last year I made a <a href="http://snoopysgranny.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/thinking.html">thinking hat</a> for my son's 30th birthday. My husband was extremely jealous!<br />
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So I promised my husband a hat for Christmas. Well that didn't happen, I was worrying about my sister too much and couldn't settle.<br />
So this week he's got a big birthday coming up, he'll be 65 this Friday, and I've finally got around to making the hat.<br />
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I had this remnant, costing 1/6d in old money. I inherited a lot of fabric from my mother-in-law's stash and I thought it would be nice to use it to line the hat.<br />
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The braid also came from my mum - in - law's stash. It's old.<br />
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snoopysgrannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344053399616604959noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109158428048805423.post-73972211582199655442016-01-14T14:24:00.000+00:002016-01-14T14:24:15.994+00:00Where does the time go?<span id="goog_429341598"></span>The passage of time. I remarked upon this just this week when we had to say our goodbyes to the family dog, Snoopy. He wasn't my dog, he belonged to my son and daughter in law, but I looked after him quite a bit over his 14 years.<br />
He happily attached himself to anyone that would take him for a walk and all the family loved him. One of his favourite walks with me was <a href="http://snoopysgranny.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/over-fields.html">over the fields</a>. He knew the way there and he knew the way back even better and when it was time to come home he would lay down and refuse to move!<br />
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Time can be a healer too and just before Christmas I was back over to England to visit my mum. </div>
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Between Christmas 2014 and Christmas 2015 my mum was lucky enough to be given two new knees! So with time, and healing, I saw a good improvement in her overall health. Not bad for 90!</div>
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I don't seem to get much done in class and I find it difficult to concentrate. I end up taking a quick photo and then working from it at home. There's a whole lot wrong with this drawing and I need help!<br />
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snoopysgrannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344053399616604959noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109158428048805423.post-43404542113061878782015-11-27T11:52:00.000+00:002015-11-27T11:52:07.364+00:00Is art for everyone?I particularly liked Richard Branson's blog post this week, <a href="http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/art-is-for-everyone">Art is for everyone.</a><br />
He has such a positive attitude and inspires you to 'just go for it'.<br />
He drew a simple little self portrait and, with just a few lines, had captured his likeness so well.<br />
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Last week I was drawing the bust of an African woman in class - and yesterday I continued on with it. We have two hours and it takes me half an hour to settle in to it. My head is scatty and maybe if I could concentrate more on what my tutor is saying it would help!<br />
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I really think some people are born with a real talent for art, they're gifted.<br />
Others, like me, just like to 'go for it' even though we may never be like Picasso.<br />
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My drawing is overworked, I would say, but I am just a beginner. Some of this is also done at home, from a photo, and that's not ideal.<br />
To me, the shading is all looking dark and much the same all over. I didn't mind the look of the headdress so much. Anyway, here she is.<br />
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On the other hand, my husband can sit on the sofa reading for hours, and doesn't seem to feel one bit guilty that he hasn't talked to me all evening!<br />
When he starts reading a book he can't put it down. Whereas the books I read, they can be dipped in and out of anytime.<br />
Books are great for keeping you occupied but they can be anti - social too!<br />
I'm looking forward to reading my books. My husband said, "Why is your pile of books always heavier than mine?"<br />
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Here are a few of the reasons why I chose them.<br />
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<li><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Art of Mindful Walking</span> by Adam Ford. Because I've always loved walking. My mum tells me I always wanted to walk, while my sister, who is four years older than me, would climb in to my pushchair at any opportunity. I don't know what the book is about and doesn't that word 'mindful' seem to be cropping up all over the place? I think it means that when you're out walking you should be mindful of all the things that can trip you up. On the road and in life.</li>
<li><span style="color: blue;">Little French Kitchen</span> by Rachel Khoo. Because I like cooking but I don't like recipes that have great long lists of ingredients ( I'm thinking Jamie Oliver here). Rachel cooks in her tiny Paris apartment with few ingredients.. I first saw her on BBC2 in 'The Little Paris Kitchen'. What's more - she has an arty side to her and is a graduate of Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London. </li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">the modern preserver</span> by kylee newton. Because I grew up in a country village and we had a garden where my mum and dad grew fruit and veg and preserving was a way of life. I love making chutneys and pickles. My husband hates the smell of boiling vinegar with a vengeance, <a href="http://snoopysgranny.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/sweet-cucumber-pickle.html">see here</a>, so for now I've given up making chutney and just read the recipes and make jam instead.</li>
<li><span style="color: #674ea7;">Compendium of Drawing Techniques </span>by Donna Krizek. Because I wanted to learn the basics of drawing - what pencils to use, or how to draw a line or even hold a pencil. I didn't know there was more than one way.</li>
<li><span style="color: #a64d79;">Drawing Nature</span> by Agathe Ravet-Havermans. Because she is a botanical illustrator and her drawings of nature are exquisite. I want to be able to draw like that!</li>
<li>Handmade Interiors, a DK book. Because I've got a bare window that's been waiting ages for a new set of curtains.</li>
<li><span style="color: red;">The Fundamentals of Drawing Still Life </span>by Barrington Barber. Because he has a brilliant name and for last Thursdays drawing class the scary subject was the bust of an African woman. I need inspiration.</li>
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The dreaded basket that went walkabout the week before last was back at my drawing class last Thursday.<br />
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It had taken on a new appearance.<br />
Sadly, some flowers had died and some were droopy.</div>
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This was my un-finished drawing.<br />
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We asked our tutor to demonstrate how she would go about drawing the basket and, starting with an oval shape and very light pencil marks she mapped out her drawing. It was quite mesmerising, watching and listening to someone as skilled as her putting in the different shapes, shading, making marks and chatting about life in general as the drawing gradually formed. </div>
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More than an hour had gone by before we knew it, but it was a worthwhile hour and I learnt a lot and also have a lot to learn. When I look at my drawing I can see <u>some</u> of the things that are wrong with it, but I don't have enough (or any) experience to know <u>all </u>that is wrong with it or how to correct it.</div>
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I wish I did, it's frustrating!</div>
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Anyway, after watching the tutor, I attacked the basket again. We're all a bit scared of it. </div>
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As we ran out of time at class I worked on my drawing at home and tried to remember all the things I had been taught. I found the leaves difficult, working from my photo wasn't ideal, but I persevered and here's the finished result <i>below</i>. Another challenge awaits tomorrow.<br />
<span style="text-align: center;">Here's </span><a href="http://lindakemshall.blogspot.co.uk/" style="text-align: center;">someone's drawing</a> and work<span style="text-align: center;"> I admire. I'd like to get some drawing in to my stitching and that's one of the reasons I signed up for this class.</span><br />
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A shopping trip to Rushmere Shopping Centre on Saturday, then a stop off at <a href="http://www.oxfordisland.com/discovery-centre.asp">Oxford Island</a>.<br />
I was reluctant to get out of the car. Do we have to? It was wet. Can you see Lough Neagh?<br />
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Looking the other way towards the Discovery Centre and the berries were dripping wet. </div>
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The wet afternoon was brightening up. This wall mural was amazing.<br />
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The texture of the wall made the butterflies and bees look almost real.<br />
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I bought this old book for ÂŁ1.50, published 1958.</div>
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This was the subject, the week before last, at my drawing class. A basket of cyclamen. </div>
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But somehow, once I started I produced something that resembled a basket. </div>
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I'd hoped to continue last Thursday but the basket went walkabout.</div>
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Instead, my tutor brought in this Aloe in a pot to scare me off drawing even more.</div>
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My drawing <i>below</i> after two hours of concentration.</div>
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<br />snoopysgrannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10344053399616604959noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109158428048805423.post-86532136206441396882015-11-04T14:56:00.000+00:002015-11-09T22:08:31.634+00:00Halloween.I went to see the parade and the fireworks in Derry this Halloween. The 'grandwains' dressed up as Lego characters. It was buzzing, mad, grand, flat to the mat, the craic was 90, Happy Days. Just some of the colloquialisms I hear when I'm up there.<br />
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I thought the bark might make a good subject for practising my drawing. I've been going to a drawing class for 5 weeks now and it's challenging. When I signed up for the class I assumed I'd be starting from scratch.<br />
It's not quite like that because, although I'm a beginner, some of the class have experience.<br />
So I'm just getting on with it. Looking. Listening. Learning.<br />
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We went for a walk on the beach at Kinnagoe where I collected some shells.</div>
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Then I drew them for this week's homework.<br />
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A little while ago I wrote a post about <a href="http://snoopysgranny.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/two-stratton-compactsand-start-of.html">Stratton compacts</a> and I was reminiscing about how my mother always used <a href="http://www.bourjois.co.uk/home/the_story_of_a_brand/brand_history">Bourjois</a> rouge.<br />
Because I've just started a drawing course I went searching for charcoal. I thought I might have some in this box <i>below</i>.<br />
I didn't find charcoal, but I found a pot of Bourjois rouge.<br />
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I'd forgotten, that in my box of art stuff, there was some old make-up and a little box of Bourjois rouge that used to belong to my mother-in-law. I'm not one for wearing make-up every day. In fact, I think that some of the make-up attempts I'm seeing on girls nowadays is plain weird!<br />
But what I do like is the make-up packaging, and the names.<br />
There's Cover Girl and Miners and Outdoor Girl.<br />
Turquoise, Sky, Lavender Mist, Pastoral.<br />
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Yardley lipstick, Gay Crimson. Not PC these days, I'm guessing.</div>
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Bourjois 'Evening in Paris'. I love the thought of that. So romantic!<br />
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Unfortunately the box has been dropped and the casing is broken.<br />
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I like the little Bourjois puff and the powder underneath.<br />
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What a lovely name, Rosette Brune.<br />
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It's the first hat I've made so it was all trial and error. My husband is <u>SO</u> jealous of this hat I've been commissioned to make him one now. I gave my son the hat along with the little 'Studs' box I found in an antiques shop when I was over in England recently. I hope he liked his presents.</div>
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Then my daughter-in-law outdid my creative efforts with this Showstopper 'Tour de France' Birthday cake worthy of the GBBO!<br>
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Now I've finished with thinking and moved on to something else ending in 'ing'.<div>I've signed up for a draw..ing course.<br>
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So, in my previous post I'd cut out the tweed band and crown for the thinking cap.<br />
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It looked ok after a press and I was pleased that the lining seemed to fit well. Not sure about the finished width of the band yet and I'm playing around with it to see what looks right.<br />
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I took this photo <i>below</i> in daylight and it shows the true colour much better.<br />
The braid is vintage, I'm just using up whatever I have in my fabric stash. I put my son's initials in.<br />
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This button is really old and it's going on the top. And I'm starting to think about making a tassel with the braid.<br />
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My son has a birthday coming up and he's just the sort to wear one, I thought.<br />
I texted his wife and asked her to measure his head. A reply came back straightaway, she was curious!<br />
59. 5 cm. I trawled the internet looking for ideas.<br />
I didn't have a pattern so had to make it up out of my head. There was going to be a lot of guesswork!<br />
It's a straightforward shape, but I'm not too confident when it comes to pattern making. I cut a piece of card for the band, adding an extra 1cm, I thought I'd need to allow for his hair. Then I stuck it together to make the circle.<br />
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I had some pure silk samples, given to me from a soft furnishings shop. I cut the band for the lining on the bias, I don't know why but I thought if it turned out to be too tight it would give a bit of stretch. I also thought it would be better to make the lining first and get that measurement right.<br />
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I used some natural cotton wadding and quilted the lining. Then I fitted it it round my card circle and pinned it before stitching the seam.<br />
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My next task was to make the pattern for the crown. I just used my card circle as a template, placing it on to another piece of card and drawing round. Then I used the compass to make sure it was an accurate circle. Complicated, this hat making business!<br />
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Yay! It worked. Lining done.<br />
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As well as the ad in the paper M&S are also running a mouth watering TV ad to promote their Moroccan tagine. Yum!<br />
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The circle in the middle of my front cover was made with spices dropped on to PVA glue. It's got a rough feel to it.<br />
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And the inspiration for my book came from one of my favourite television chefs, Rick Stein.</div>
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This page was all about the saffron that grows in Morocco.</div>
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I saw star anise in the M&S newspaper ad. I also used a star anise for some artwork on a page of my book and made a little printing block. The chillies were made by a cool iron melting a plastic ribbon, the sort that florists tie round a bouquet. It bubbles up nicely.<br />
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This was my favourite page, orange flower and rosewater.<br />
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Pomegranates.<br />
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Tagines.<br />
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Dates.<br />
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Aubergines.<br />
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Fish, of course.<br />
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Goats that climb trees.<br />
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I had enrollled for my C&G course and was undecided on a country for my main research and design when Rick Stein's programme came on the TV - 'Mediterranean Escapes'. It must have been 2008, I think, and once I saw him smelling the spices and wandering the souks of Morocco, well I was entranced. My choice of country was decided.</div>
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Who needs expensive diamond rings? I really treasure this collection of seashells.<br />
The tiny, tiny ones <i>on the left of the photo below</i> come from Hawaii.<br />
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My son brought me the shells. When he was at university he spent a summer on a work placement in Canada, and after all that hard work he met up with friends for a holiday in Hawaii, as you do!</div>
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And I treasure this shiny blue piece of abalone that a college friend gave me.</div>
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I wasn't very confident with the art side of things - much preferring the stitching - but it was a required element of the course. Now, when I look back, I can remember working on this book mostly at night, as I was looking after my granddaughter part time, and worrying about finishing the course within the two years.</div>
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Well, that's enough of that. I'd like to be catching a wave but instead of that I'm catching a plane.</div>
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Well, if you thought my mum was an old doll at 90, my brother-in-law's mum can beat that at the grand old age of 94. Her birthday was the day after my mum's 90th. My mum and his mum now live in the same care home. Last year we had to clear my mum's flat to sell and this year he's been doing the same with his mum's house. It's not much fun.<br />
So when I was over in England recently my sister and brother-in-law gave me two vintage <a href="http://www.strattonofmayfair.com/history.aspx?pg=3">Stratton compacts</a> that had belonged to his mum and I think they are lovely.<br />
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My mum's generation would have used a powder compact whereas now we prefer to use foundation.<br />
In those days it was Max Factor Creme Puff. I saw my mum powdering her face on her 90th birthday, although she doesn't bother much with make-up nowadays.<br />
I remember her rouge as it fascinated me when I was young. It was Bourjois, in a little round cardboard box and I think it had blue and white fancy writing. You can still buy Bourjois but the packaging is nowhere near as nice.<br />
Her lipstick was always bright red!<br />
I cleaned up my Stratton compacts and I've put them on the pine chest in the spare bedroom.<br />
I call it 'the old fashioned room' because that's how it looks.<br />
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This cheeky papier mache bird was a present from my mum.<br />
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Here's another glass vase and I love it. It was also my Grandmother's.<br />
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Reflected in the compact mirror you can just make out a shelf that houses another collection.<br />
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Now I've inherited the Stratton compacts I can feel another collection coming on!<br />
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My mum had her 90th birthday on the 19th August. The following day she had her operation for a knee replacement. Trying to get my mum anywhere on time is very stressful but amazingly we did arrive on time and it was some craic with all the form filling that had to be done.</div>
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I bought this kit when I was on a visit to the Waterways Museum, <a href="https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/national-waterways-museum">here</a> at Ellesmere Port. It's a bookmark and the 'Spider Web' stitch was traditionally used for making the canal boatman's belt.</div>
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I don't think my husband is going to need a Boatman's belt anytime soon. If he had his dream he'd own a canal boat, if we lived over there, and I would love to take <a href="http://www.waterwayscraftguild.org.uk/">a course</a> with the Waterways Guild and learn some of the traditional crafts to decorate our boat! <br />
I'll just have to make do with stitching this bookmark instead. It's not as creative a project as I would usually undertake but sometimes it's good to have something small to just pick up and do.<br />
In the kit there is a sample square to make before I move on to the serious stuff.<br />
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While I was making the owl I was thinking about how I could best display him for our craft group exhibition. I wanted him to be attached to a perch with a leather anklet, how you would sometimes see birds in captive at a game fair.<br />
Somehow things got in the way and I didn't get time to make the perch and display him as I would have liked.<br />
I didn't stitch anything for a long time after that. For most of last year I was back and forth to England to help look after my mum, she was unable to cope at home and we lost count of the numerous falls she had. My sister and brother- in- law, and me, were finding it all too much!<br />
We tried out a 'care at home' company for a while, my mum didn't like that and decided she would prefer a care home. That meant spending time looking for a home that we were all happy with, moving my mum in, then the task of clearing her flat and putting it up for sale.<br />
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Over the summer we got the flat cleared and sold. Gradually my mum's health improved. The situation wasn't perfect, but it was better than before. Then she fell again and spent Christmas Day in hospital. My mother can pick her moments. This time, at age 89, she was given a new knee replacement (I think the previous one was about 19 years ago).<br />
This August 19th she will be 90 and she's been given a date for a knee replacement in her other leg - just right for her birthday. The surprise family celebrations we had planned will now have to go on hold and in a couple of weeks we'll all be visiting her in hospital instead. Yes, my mother can pick her moments, but I'm grateful she's having a new knee.<br />
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I left my craft group when the new season began last September. Time for a change, I thought.<br />
I was a member for 7 years and loved my time there, but I couldn't see myself continuing on with the same thing year after year. Now I'm looking for something else to do!<br />
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So what have I stitched since the owl? Wedding bunting.<br />
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My son's fiancée asked if I could make her some shabby chic bunting for the <a href="http://www.rossahillyhouse.com/barn-wedding-northern-ireland.php">wedding venue</a>. She wanted the occasion to be more informal and 'home done'. So for their wedding this June I cut 144 triangles, 288 if you count both sides. Then I stitched and stitched.<br />
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I cut most of the triangles using fabric from a sample book and also used some floral patchwork cottons. Pinks, blues and yellows.<br />
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I spray starched an old linen damask tablecloth and stitched on strips of hand-me-down lace across the triangles.<br />
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Then I bought an inch wide cotton bunting tape from Amazon, pressed it in half, then stitched. I liked doing that simple stitching and as the triangles were all different patterns and colours it never got boring.<br />
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I made five pocket squares for the men, hand sewn rolled hems, fiddly!<br />
When I told my mum what I was up to it reminded her of an old friend from years ago who used to stitch the rolled hems on silk scarves for Jaeger!<br />
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The flowers came from a l<a href="http://www.foliageworks.co.uk/">ocal florist</a>. They were hand tied and in Kilner jars and looked lovely on the tables.</div>
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The weather has been really poor this summer and on the actual day.... well, the photographer said the Fermanagh winds were mental!</div>
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It didn't stop us from having a good time though. It was a happy, very smiley day.</div>
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The bride <u>is</u> smiling under all that hair!!</div>
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I love the look in his eye, he's a bit 'put out' by the presence of 'Gary the Gargoyle'!<br />
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The Harmony Hill Craft Group Exhibition is on in the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, until Saturday 24th May.<br />
We are open 10am - 9pm weekdays and 10am - 4pm Saturdays, closed Sundays.<br />
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