Q. What have I done all summer...?

A. Not a lot.

J, T & I have been enjoying quality time together, catching up with friends & family & holidaying.

However, I did re-decorate the kitchen. Inspired by our beautifully decorated holiday cottage in North Norfolk...I came home and painted the kitchen using my most favourite paints from The Little Greene Paint Co.  I even painted the nasty dark brown/orangey (not at all original) ceiling beams, which are now fresh, crisp white. J thinks the kitchen now looks like a Gastro Pub. I love it!

I've also worked on a new little range of Greetings Cards for family & friends. Having caught Olympic Fever over the summer and fully embracing 'Isn't Britain Great..', I thought I'd use some photos I've taken in the UK to celebrate our beautiful countryside, featuring them on birthday cards, thank you notes etc. Here are a few of my favourites.....

My friends & family with birthdays coming up? You'll know now what to expect!

The card is 100% recycled, so we're doing our bit for the trees when we give these.

Why the name...?

So, the decision made to start a blog....it was time to embark on the actual process of setting it up & choosing a name for it.

However, it appears that everyone and their quirky, vintage, crocheting Aunt has a crafty blog and it was impossible to find an available name that had any relevance whatsoever with what I am (planning) on doing.

Therefore, I decided to go with the obscure. Yet, even obscure has pretty much been done.

Then, a conversation about favourite fictional characters with T, following yet another episode of Scooby Doo (his is Scooby, mine is Daphne), reminded me of what fantastic (obscure) names some of the characters had from my own childhood, and so I came to Binkle (a very naughty, mischevious bunny rabbit from the Enid Blyton stories 'Binkle & Flip'), and Bungo (the rather over-enthusiatic & bossy Womble, of Wimbledon Common fame). 

That'll do I thought....and so it will.....

Here I go

So , my first post on my very first blog. I have to admit that I am rather embarrassed (feeling like a bit of a T**t, as my friend, Shar, might say) about  all this but I'm told that it is the best way in these modern times of ours, to show others what I'm up to ( & to justify my time at home whilst The Son is at school). Gosh, you never know, I could even be 'tweeting' next..!

Having re-kindled my creative flame at the start of the year when I enrolled on a 'Beginners Ceramics/Pottery Course' (something I am now ever so slightly addicted to), I've spent the last few months compiling pages of sketches and ideas of things I'd really love to make....sew, print, paint, sculpt, photograph. 

Pages & pages of ideas, no time or focus to actually create.

Therefore, I hope this blog with provide me with a direction and structure to record what I am making/trying/learning and perhaps in the process of it all, someone, somewhere, might just like something.......