The month of cold snaps..

November, the month of cold snaps, wooly hats and long trailing scarves.
It has been a busy month so far, bonfires with the smell of woodsmoke, jacket potatoes and roasting chestnuts, melted marshmellows and warm spicy cider. I am feeling a little more christmassy too, with plans for some certain handmade bits and bobs for people for presents (i shall have to keep quite incase certain people read my blog!) but i have been sewing, tacking cutting and crocheting to my hearts content.

I have had commisions for illustrations all of which are not set in stone yet so i shall tell you more when they have been approved (i dont want to tempt fate)

The lady above is called Winter Wind and she was inspired by me reading folktales and legends on my train to and from work which somehow seem more relevent in the winter than the heat of midsummer. I hope to have a print of her available in my shop soon so please pop by and take a look.

On an exciting note i shall be having a shed delivered to our allotment tomorrow, nothing amazing in fact it doesn't even have a window but it will be somewhere to store all our tools, radio, wellies and seeds which currently reside in the boot of the car!
We are also planning to have a little gas stove and kettle down there to make ourselves a lovely pot of tea whilst we work. it's going to be a palace on a minature scale haha!

This dear old chap is called The Green man and shall also be joining my shop as a print to hang on your wall. You may remember him from one of my posts last year but i thought it was time he was shared with the world through Etsy.

This weekend i have the Armistice day celebrations on sunday in central london in which one of our friends fathers will be proudly marching in his uniform to us cheering him frm the sidelines followed by a hearty meal in a good old london pub and a few tipples to keep us warm.

I hope you have a good wekend and don't forget to remember our heroes on November the 11th, i already have a poppy proudly displayed on my coat and one of these snazzy wristbands ...


I shall leave you with this beautiful song ... happy Wednesday.

xxx