Autumn's definately arrived

So on Tuesday my lovely friends at www.fromthewilde.com had got my Autumnal cushions into Great British Life, and today they're in NorthEast Life ,   http://northeast.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/autumn-interiors--ten-great-ideas-for-revamping-your-home-43272/   At a loss to know how to celebrate (doing something Autumnal?  making cider with the windfalls maybe, going for a walk in the woods, or then again maybe making some more Autumn cushions) I just texted my sister to let her know the good news with the message "I'm in North East Life!" and she's texted back "Where? Newcastle?"  .... Hope I never get in to "The Mail" she might think I've got stuck in a postbox......

Man with a Van

I'm getting to quite like driving Colin's van, and thinking it has much more use than my car for moving stock around especially to craft fairs and the like, and it's even better now it has a handbrake again!  Poor Colin was very distraught all today, missing his van, at least they're reunited again, for now!

Thank you for being my friend

Thanks to my friends at the very lovely www.fromthewide.com, my autumn cushion has been featured in       "Great British Life" magazine

http://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/editorial-image/id/180347/?qid=0 

Walks away with big smile on face :o) but now, like a small child, too excited to sleep!

                                      



Cosy on the inside, wet and wild on the outside

TreeHuggery has been out to the Moorgreen show this weekend, and the wet weather didn't seem to put off many people at all, everyone was out in their muddy boots, and when cars got stuck in the mud, they were just pulled out by tractors. We were in the art and craft fair so we were really sheltered from all of the wet weather, but the drawback was that I didn't get to see the racing pigs, the dancing diggers or the sausage catching competition, and I didn't get chance to weave a fish or have a go at water divining (although I'm sure Col, and our plasterer (who usually gives the divining demonstrations there) will be able to show me how to do that.  The upside of being at my stall, and not walking around the show, was, apart from being dry, meeting all of the lovely people that come by, and receiving all of the lovely comments.  Its quite insular working on your own, and its difficult to know how your work will be recieved by people who don't know you, and so its always really nice when people come over and talk.  This weekend has been particularly lovely for that; one lady came over to tell me that she's seen my bags before, and we found out, that (small world) she saves onion skins for me to dye with, she gives them to her Nordic Walking instructor, who is my running buddy, who then gives them to me.  Another lady, has taken the time to email me after the show, to tell me that she liked me work, which was lovely to recieve.
 In a world where so many people shop over the internet, and scan their own goods at check outs, we're in danger of missing out on interactions, and missing out on so much more, its a bit like my descripition of the Show "cosy on the inside, and wet and wild on the outside" we're in danger of creating places where we don't leave our houses and if we do, we just hurry on by in a souless experience.

From Holloway to Botany Bay

Well not quite Botany Bay, but to Australia!  I've had a request for my silver birch prints to be sent to Australia, - I'm hoping that hand delivering them is tax deductable!

Divine Inspiration

Col's been learning how to use divining sticks with expert tuition from our Plasterer friend (is it any wonder our house is taking so long to renovate, when they're both engrossed in this!)  and the other question I should be asking, is "how come there a set of divining sticks, readily to hand, in what is esentially a building site?"
Actually though its really interesting, apparently the idea is to concentrate on a specific question, with a yes/no answer - such as "Is there a well in the garden?"  (we think there is under the old garage base), or even is "there more than well  in the garden"  - apprently the divining sticks can do more than follow water, they can follow boundary walls, or pretty much anything, and diviners follow a trail with only one of the sticks, not two. The two are used to get a yes/no response to a specific question, and they'll eitther cross each other or repel far apart. (Apparently Col is a "negative deviner" his go outwards (or repel), whereas most peoples cross (go inwards)  You can find out which you are by asking the rods a yes/no question that you already know the answer to.
The diviners were at the Moorgreen show today, and it would have been interesting to have seen them, but I was busy hosting my TreeHuggery stall, and as always chatting to some really interesting people, finding out about other peoples arty passions, and hearing about the poor little pup who came third in the cutest dog competiton - competing against two other dogs - aaaah!

Moorgreen

i'm taking some of my TreeHuggery collection to a stall at the Moorgreen show tomorrow, and am really hoping that the weather is kind to us - otherwise I might need to get one of the steam engines to pull my car off the field!