We had a very happy knitting group yesterday with lots of chat, lots of cake and a bit of knitting! Naomi is making these very intricate flowers. She is so clever and always produces brilliant things. I think the idea is to have a garland of flowers hanging in her home. A few weeks ago it was hearts - before that Christmas things - before that pumpkins! What next I wonder? Meanwhile I must get on and dye and spin some more wool.

Think I must be entering a 'green' phase....I guess it's all the new life beginning to spring up through the ground. I just love it when the daffodils appear. They always look so happy. The jacket pictured below has such an attractive style. It's the sort of thing I look at longingly, and wish I could win the lottery! (not much chance of that because I don't even buy a ticket!!!)

Jack in a bubble. Bubbles - circles..as I lay I bed this morning my brain ticked away and once again I was thinking themes and links and this was what I came up with! Today it is freezing cold and I have got to get my head around the fact that this time next week - hopefully - I shall be basking in the sun in the Canary Islands. I have got to get something to wear on my feet because at the moment I live in boots - and I think I only have an old pair of crocks left from last summer. It will feel very strange getting out my summer clothes - but I'm sure I shall manage it!

It looks as though I keep on doing the same thing with my journalling - but I do have a plan!! My thought is to make up a book and then use these pages as a background to anything that inspires me..
i.e collage, photos, drawing etc. We shall see ... but I am so enjoying the process. Spent a lot of yesterday trying to erect a football goal - without much success I'm afraid. Today is 'water walking' with a gang of 9 year olds..hey ho!

Themes and links fascinate me and I am discovering that in daily life it is often possible to spot them. Yesterday Jack was thrilled to discover our friend Simon Mayo's new book in W.H.Smiths. It has had fantastic reviews and certainly looks very exciting. ... we then went to a restaurant which not only had good food, but also a water fountain. Somehow the lighting and bubbles in the water felt a bit spooky - like the book. Then of course I thought of my textiles and felt that the surface created with the embellisher connected. Hey presto! Another day - have a good one...

By the way my computer still keeps giving the wrong date..it is Friday 2nd March!

Here's the creative birthday boy....9 years old today! Happy Birthday Jack. How time flies....it doesn't seem five minutes since he was born...and as for my eldest grandchild, he is about to enter adulthood and is already driving...help! We're off to collect Jack from school today and then out for a meal...and then a very birthdayish weekend. Probably not a lot of time for creativity - oh by the way, do you remember Mr. Puff, the collaged dragon? You'll be pleased to know that he won a headmaster's award!!