A slipping down life (by Anne Tyler) Anne Tyler always gets to me. I read quite a few of her novels and at some point there’s always a line, a sentence that just cuts through you and plunges you into the book so that when you read the last page you feel dazed and confused …
I love the idea of a Christmas quilt. A Christmas quilt means Christmas and sofas and hot chocolate and Hallmark Christmas movies (which I looooove but don’t tell anyone)… and snow… and children cuddling up to you and so on and on.. All that is well and good, the problem is that my children are …
What We Need Is Here (by Wendell Berry) Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ancient faith: what we needis here. And we pray, notfor new earth or heaven, but to bequiet in heart, and in eye,clear. What we need is here.
… and breath… inhale tomorrow…. exhale yesterday… …this motherhood stuff sure is complicated sometimes… If you try to protect them… you’re a fun-sponge, if you let them be… you’re ignoring them. You need to be ‘there’ but not ‘there there’. It’s high diplomacy, iron fist in velvet glove, it’s heart breaking and life affirming …
Is it me or it’s absolutely freezing out there? Today is one of those days I wished I had a rewind button, to start over, to shout a little less (although if you could see No 3’s bedroom you would actually give me a medal for my restrain… but still) and smile a little more… …
I ask you (by Billy Collins) What scene would I want to be enveloped inmore than this one,an ordinary night at the kitchen table,floral wallpaper pressing in,white cabinets full of glass,the telephone silent,a pen tilted back in my hand? It gives me time to thinkabout all that is going on outside–leaves gathering in corners,lichen greening …
Carrying on the blue theme… (raise your hand if remember ‘colour of the week’ in the old glorious days of blogging?)
I did, I collected all mismatched napkins and made them all part of one big blue family. I used this little tub to dye 600gr worth of fabric and the colour is really intense, I’m really really happy with the result. All you do is wet your fabric – I ran a short rinse cycle …
One of my favourite craft magazines is Koel… the photography is incredible, the styling impeccable… it makes me feel calm and peaceful… and makes me wants to be surrounded by handmade objects and live slow. Which is something totally ironic if you just knew the pace of this family. It ain’t gonna happen. BUT, one …
Non-combatants (by Evelyn Underhill) Never of us be said That we reluctant stood As sullen children, and refused to dance To the keen pipe that sounds across the fields of France. Though shrill the note and wild, Though hard the steps and slow, The dancing floor defiled, The measure full of woe, And dread The …
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