The Quilt Quine

I have really fallen out with my domestic sewing machine this time. I don't think our relationship will ever be the same. It just isn...

The mid-term break was grey, wet and cold so I decided that the children could do with a dose of culture at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Although t...

I was determined to make significant progress on writing some projects to go in the Yurt book. I wrote instructions that I think are simple ...

I flew down to London this week to be at the APQS technical training course in Surrey. Despite being "Europe's Oil Capital", A...

  I expect that I really do have plenty of time for writing a book except that I have a tendency to get a little side-tracked. I have just ...

I had a birthday this week and celebrated in style with my friends and family, surrounded by pink balloons; the lucky recipient of a retro p...

January 16th - text got lost so I'm reposting...   I really felt that I got some things done this week as I worked my way through TO ...

As the holidays drew to a close, I felt compelled to reorganise everything that I could think of that required sorting. Shelves went up in t...

I cannot believe that it is now 2011 and that two weeks of holiday have sped by...   The week before Christmas was hectic with snow and ic...

I attended Freya's first secondary school Parents' Evening after she gave me a stern warning not to stand out too much; she even t...

Despite there being no fresh snowfall, there was severe ice which meant that there was still no school on Monday. There were no mail deliver...

We had such a lot of snow and ice all week that there was no school, and according to the BBC News, the entire country ground to a standstil...

Brrr! When snow is forecast before Christmas in Scotland we don't usually pay much attention since it is usually only a short-lived dus...

It was not until halfway through Monday morning that I finally realised that I was a week ahead of myself again and did not have a visitor c...

I deliberately left the Landy encrusted with mud when I took it to the 4x4 garage to be valued for a possible sale. Despite it looking well ...

After another week of crossing things off a list that never actually gets torn up, I think I am finally getting back on track. The Purposele...

It has been an odd sort of week... I felt compelled to sort out my studio shelves, fabric baskets, drawers, files, boxes, scraps of wadding,...

We had a smooth train trip back North despite the mad dash to catch our connection at Edinburgh and the SNOW had all melted by the time we r...

People probably don't usually start decorating when they should be packing for a week away with 3 children. I bought a tin of light refl...

  The Pink Project was completed last Sunday night, quality control checked for threads and wrapped up on Monday morning. There is always a...