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Unwanted visitors

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

If you happened to drop by yesterday you might have seen that I had some unwanted visitors. For the second time. Luckily for me I have Eric to rescue me in such situations and thankfully it wasn’t my blog that was hacked, but rather the server that the blog is on. At times like last […]

Brimming over with ideas

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Today it’s even colder – minus 17 this morning. Sounds terrible doesn’t it? Actually it’s glorious. I was out briefly this morning – the sky is blue, the air crisp with the cold, dry, mountain air feel that we don’t usually have in the lowlands and best of all, the snow is frozen so hard […]

My Day

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

  Writing invoices. House cleaning. Nursing a slightly under the weather teenager. Trying to gain enough momentum to force myself out of the door and to the farm shop for vegetables. Keeping cosy and warm. Helen

Reflections on Cabbages and Roses

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

I loved Northcote by Cabbages and Roses from the first moment I laid eyes on it. I didn’t jump right in and buy the fat quarters right away, because…well, you know the story…I’m supposed to be using up my stash and not buying new stuff. Anyway, at some point last year there was a weak […]

Cabbages and Roses – Comfort Quilting

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

I had almost made my mind up not to start anything new and only work on existing projects, but there’s something rather sad and not very creative about making a decision like that. It’s almost saying that my will-power should be stronger than my creativity – and I think that would be rather a bad […]