Style Imitating Art- Monkey trading cards
Greetings!Monkey trading from the Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen and Ginter CigarettesHere is another round of Style Imitating Art! The curator this week is new host, Daenel from over at Living...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday - Clara's outfit that never was- from the Snowman
Hello there,Greetings on this sunny Tuesday. I am really ready for half-term. I am finding my young charges increasingly irritating and a break from them would be good. I have a recorder festival...
View ArticleStyle Imitating Art outfit- “Papauer I ‘Morpheus’. [Memorial Day Poppy]”
Hello there!What a long hiatus I have had from blogging- practically two weeks! There are bonefide reasons for this. The last week of term was extremely busy. I had the Recorder Festival on that...
View ArticleMy garden at the start of June
I cannot believe how fast the plants in the garden grow in the kind of weather we are experiencing at present- it is crazy how much they have shot up in the last two weeks or so.As I mentioned in the...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday outfit- The Sarah Jane Adventures- Invasion of the Bane
Today, I thought I would cosplay a Doctor Who adventure from a Doctor Who Spin off.Sarah-Jane Smith was a companion to both the Third and Fourth Doctors (Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker). She was so popular...
View Article5 brooches and friends #68
Hi there,It's been one of those frantic, scrabbling catch-up weeks. Thus, I don't seem to have the brainpower for anything too thought-provoking or long-winded so I am sharing some recently worn...
View ArticleThe difficulties of going somewhere new
Hi there,Hope you are well. I am fine.I've talked about churches and trying to find one where I've moved to. I'm finding it a little hard so far.You see, when I first became an adult as a Christian,...
View ArticleTardy TARDIS Tuesday- Amy Pond- The Lodger
Hi there,Hope you are well.I apologise for this being a Tardy TARDIS Tuesday. I got home unexpectedly late last night. I had a feedback meeting at the Music School for our Albert Hall concert which...
View ArticleMaxi appeal
Greetings! Hope all is well with you!I am so glad it is another weekend! Particularly looking forward to this one as I going to my Dad's for his birthday tomorrow and then spending Sunday with my...
View ArticlePatience
Perhaps one of the hardest virtues is 'Patience'. Sometimes, waiting for something feels interminable. Those hours they just crawl by, those days, those years, perhaps even those decades for...
View ArticleStyle imitating art:
Hi there,Hope all is well with you.I'm back for another Style Imitating Art outfit with Salazar at 14 Shades of Grey blog.I'm not sure I've done an outfit based on a Picasso before so this is fun!This...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday - Clara's modern outfit from the Crimson Horror
Greetings!How are you? Well, I hope. TARDIS Tuesday is a bit harder in the Summer as a lot/most of the outfits I have are more Winter outfits. Nonetheless, I had a go at trying to wear one of them and...
View ArticleForgiveness each day.
Forgiveness is a hard one. It is the BIG point on which my faith is based. Jesus died to forgive my sins and calls on me to do that. I realised today, that I constantly have to forgive in my job....
View ArticleLeigh Art Trail 2018
Since CBC and I have bought our house, we were longing to buy some art works to adorn the walls. As artists ourselves (admittedly, we earn our money by teaching but we were originally musicians), we...
View ArticleA tale of two birds
Have you ever been in a situation where you don't know what to do for the best and you probably end up making things worse?CBC and I went to Lake Ullswater in the Lake District for May Bank Holiday...
View ArticleA motley collection of things I wanted to write about #3
Here are a few random moments that I wanted to write about over the past week or so:Do you know what? When I read old-fashioned school books, it always really annoys me when the characters in the...
View ArticleFloral fix
I've reiterated on many occasions that I love the fact that we have so many opportunities to purchase clothes second hand- it means that I can find things I really loved first time round but cheaper...
View ArticleMy garden at the start of July with extracts from June
Hello there!I feel like I have barely blogged this month. June was a bit of a whirlwind! So many things on at the weekends and weeknights and not so much time to sit down and write a post.I apologise...
View ArticleA simple Father's Day card idea
It seems an age since I made any cards or shared a crafty post on here. Despite having all my craft materials in one place (most of it has been sitting in my friend Nath's garage for 2 years), I have...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday- Clara's 1920's outfit from Mummy on the Orient Express
Hello there!Greetings folks. How are you?It's been 2 weeks since I did a proper TARDIS Tuesday. Somehow, times have been busy and I have failed to think carefully about what I could wear that is...
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