A winter walk.  The girls enjoyed time in the woods yesterday but wherever we are poor old Jazmine is always focussed on her ball......she just gazes at it until I throw it.....By the way - good news about my niece's cat.  She was walking the streets calling him, and heard him miaowing like mad - he was locked in a neighbour's camper van!  I'm so glad this story has a happy ending!

I made these pages into a collaged frieze.  I think this could be a good way to encourage people to add photos or their kids' drawings....of course it could also be framed.  Anyway - it's quick, easy and fun to make.  Today I am going over to help my niece search for her missing siamese cat.  She is absolutely distraught(this is the last in a line of disasters for his this year)....but we all fear somebody has helped themselves to poor little Dave.

The long, dark winter evenings are a great time to knit.....so here is the latest in the line of production....I still have to make a strap, felt and line it, so still a long way to go.  Also...this is now definitely glove time and this pair is the only one I have left.  I just can't knit quickly enough!!!  This morning I heard on the radio about the dreadful storm in the north of the country.  Luckily I live in the south - all is calm at the moment ......

They were going to be trees but as my friend suggested, they have ended up looking more like toadstools!  Anyway, it doesn't really matter.  I set myself the task of whizzing through a sketchbook page as I wanted to see how much can be done in a short space of time.  So often I am frozen by wondering how and what to do.  My motto for next year will be "just go for it and see what happens!!"  I shall be running some time limited workshops and I want people to be able to get the most out of the time....talking of which, I must go!

Warm and cosy

Enjoying a winter's evening .

Stitching on to paper is extremely satisfying...I like the solid feel of paper and of course at the moment I am thinking about paper and pages..   Soooo piles of paper on my desk at the moment and more splashing around with paint is required!!!  Lots of dog walking to do today before I get around to creativity.  Which reminds me - yesterday when we were dog walking our girls started staring up in to a tree.  So clearly there were squirrels.  I said I thought we'd better remove the girls because they were getting extremely excited.  Emma, meanwhile was getting her camera out and said "don't worry the squirrels won't fall down!"  What happened???  The next second a squirrel fell out of the sky into a pile of dogs....panic all round - and we did manage to disperse our girls and let the poor, terrified little squirrel zoom up the tree...it's all caught on camera!!

I can't even remember when/where I took these pictures but I thought they would cheer up a rather dull and dreary December day!I'm running late this morning .... and must now get off for my swim!  Have a good day x