Enjoying
Firstly, thankyou so much for all your wonderful encouraging comments about my jewellery recently. They are so helpful with keeping my confidence up and spurring me on. I can’t always answer because it’s such a busy time of year but rest assured that every single one is read, appreciated and contributes hugely to making me feel like it’s all worth while.
Recently I have been tagged by Scented Sweetpeas with the Beautiful Blogger award and Tess Driftwood with the Versatile Blogger award.
Thanks so much, Zoe and Tess.There is a general theme of seven for the latter, so I thought I’d share seven things I’m really enjoying at the moment:
Combining a farm shop haul with the last of our tomato harvest and making passata with our lovely new gadget.
The little shop itself is literally just down the road. It’s beautiful shelves of produce (see above) are manned only by an honesty box.
Little P’s latest drawings:
Custard
Owl
A beautiful, hymn-like song by one of Mr P’s latest discoveries, The Avett Brothers:
Finding a tiny, broken, vintage filligree bird brooch and converting it into something wearable again.
Unexpected October sunshine.
Sharing my favourite childhood programme with the little ones and finding that they’re transfixed, just as I was at their age. I adore this episode about a ship in a bottle:
Finally, the fact that I’m still managing to pick posies from the garden. The image at the top of the post was taken this afternoon. I blogged one of my first posies of the year here. I think I’ll record these little bunches of flowers more regularly next year and mark the changes in season.
There’s always a dilemma in passing these awards on but in case you fancied sharing seven somethings, I’ll pop it over to Cathy at Menopausal Musing, Harmony and Rosie, Anne at Andamento, Coffee Lady (who may well have enjoyed the ship in the bottle) and On a Branch, but if you don’t fancy it, not to worry!
October 17th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
lovely post!
and lovely posy!!
clare x
October 17th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
What a wonderful bird! And so lucky you had the skills to rescue him. K x
October 17th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
love the little drawings very cute
October 17th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
i love Bagpuss!! Lovely flowers!
xx
October 17th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I thought it was a duck but custard makes soooooooooo much more sense. I love it.
October 17th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
The owl picture is my favourite - what a creative little Pebble!
Lovely post too - aren’t we lucky having such lovely autumn weather today!
Celia
x
October 17th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
I’m singing the Bagpuss theme tune…..
October 17th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Love the posy, love the little bird but I especially love the custard!
October 17th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Oh. How you love me.
October 17th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
The music was lovely, I really enjoyed it. Your garden must be beautiful and Little Miss P is a superb artist! What a gorgeous owl and custard! My favourite
October 18th, 2010 at 3:25 am
I love that she draws custard! So cool.
October 18th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Super post! Mine will also include the little bunches of flowers. I am adoring still being able to pick them. Love your little girl’s drawing of custard in a jug!
October 18th, 2010 at 9:27 am
custard - sooooo sweet xoxo
thanks for joining in. I’m intrigued by your new gadget. !
lovely posy, I managed to pick a tiny one yesterday too, my roses are having a second bloom, I’m not complaining xoxo
October 18th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Love those drawings, especially the owl! Clearly inherited talent.
October 18th, 2010 at 11:55 am
It looks like you’re going from success to success, it’s marvellous and well deserved. I love the acorn and oak leaf, they’re just gorgeous, and I always think they’re very symbolic too. So love the custard drawing! And the flowers, joyful! Love Vanessa xxx
October 18th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I love the new life you’ve given to that vintage brooch, but more than that I adore the drawing of custard. Brilliant!
October 18th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Bagpuss. Bagpuss I love, love, love Bagpuss - did you know Oliver Postgate lived in Broadstairs??
A beautiful list and I\’m wishing for some October sun though to be honest I\’ve just gone and bought snow boots and ski jackets - I have a feeling!
take care,
Nina xxx
October 18th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
What lovely happy things. We loved Bagpuss too but sadly he was on a video not a DVD and so had to be parted with once our video player finally gave up the ghost. Locket xx
October 18th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I’m loving the late season tomatoes also, they are so full of flavor.But your garden flowers are so much prettier than mine-lucky you.
October 18th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Well done on the awards and I love the custard, sooo sweet!
I sold a peacock brooch today in the same style as your bird, nice coincidence!
Enjoy your lovely flowers and autumn days.
October 18th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
ohhh Bagpuss ship in a bottle is my fav too, heeve ho, heeve ho - such cute mousey voices
October 18th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Well done on your awards! The drawing is lovely and what a great re-use of the brooch, very pretty!
x
Your tomato haul looks fantastic, we didn’t get anywhere near that amount, but then I don’t think they got enough sun here really!
October 19th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Those look like very happy days indeed.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:15 am
I\’m sorry, I had a hard time concentrating on what you were saying with those adorable little pebbles staring out at me. (They are staring out at me, aren\’t they???) They\’re sooooo cute!
October 21st, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Ahhhh Bagpuss, one of the best programmes ever.
I love those drawings, kids pictures are the best aren\’t they.
That song is great! Thanks for sharing and thanks to Mr P for the discovery, I need some new music in my life.
x
October 21st, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Oh my goodness - that’s my very favourite Bagpuss episode ever!! I hadn’t even thought to look on Youtube for it. I’m going to have to share this with the naughty people in the morning - thanks Emma :o)
Fabulous drawings from Miss P - she obviously has her Mum’s artistic talent.
xxx
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:42 pm
How lovely to find your beautiful blog and jewellery. The earrings arrived safely are I’m so pleased with them.
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:44 pm
oops sorry I meant to say ‘AND I’m so pleased with them..’
October 23rd, 2010 at 8:30 am
Looks like you are passing on your artistic talent! I do love the nature table bracelet, all my favourite things. Penny x
October 24th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Hello! I did visit earlier but was too much in a rush to leave a comment. Thank you for tagging me, it\\\’s nice to be picked and it\\\’s a lovely topic for a post to share seven things you\\\’re enjoying, though you may already have picked the best! We love Bagpuss too, and that\\\’s also my favourite episode. On the subject of Oliver Postgate I remember also enjoying the Clangers when I was little but I prefer Ivor the Engine now (though Bagpuss is still the best!). Off now to see what kind of posy I can make from our garden, not feeling terribly optimistic…
October 25th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
ooh I\’m flattered you should put me and \’versatile\’ in the same sentence and please don\’t think me ungrateful for not popping in sooner, I\’ve just returned from holiday. Yes, I shall endeavour to play along but it may take me a while to think of something interesting!!!
Love your birdie!
Kate xox
October 27th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Such an enjoyable post. Drawing custard, that’s rather fun! Oh and your ‘phoenix’ bird, what a lovely thing to have done.
I couldn’t believe it when I came home on Sunday and could pick a small bunch of sweet peas still. The aroma…they are by the bed. Also a small portion of raspberries for Mr B. I love my garden, it has been a life-saver and brings so much delight!
Z xx
October 27th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
What a superb subject for a portrait….Custard!
Excellent work.