Water Feature

The dog was not a scrap metal piece, however, there are lots of water features around the gardens and many are inhabited by newts.  The gardens were full of birds and planting was beautiful.

Artists Garden

We visited a fantastic garden at the weekend called Bryan's Ground at Stepleton near Presteigne.  One of the owners is an artist and the garden is full of very wacky sculptural pieces made from bits of scrap.  The watering cans above had been cut in half and applied to a door and the numerals appeared o have been taken from a large clock face.  Bicycles hang from trees as do shoes in a shoe tree.  There is an old bedstead in a meadow with grass growing through it.  Very thought provoking.

House Move

I must say reading Maggie Grey's blog cheers me up no end.  It is reassuring to know that I am not the only one suffering from the joys of a house move.  I spent the best part of an hour looking for basic sewing things, after having carefully kept my sewing machine and its associated bits and pieces somewhere safe, I then could not find things like pins, bondaweb, sewing machine needles, etc.

The kitchen is even worse. We had visitors and I decided I would make some chocolate brownies and a cake in a loaf tin.  But which box were the baking tins in?  You guessed  .... anyone but the ones I looked in.  At least I knew where my baking parchment was - in with my sewing materials of course!!

Mural

Until today one of the bedrooms sported a lovely mural along one wall.  Apparently it came like wallpaper and appears to be in at least 4 panels.  Alas it is currently being stripped, along with the woodchip wallpaper, to allow for repair work to be done.  I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it before.

Bathroom Delights

This is the towel rail-cum-radiator in the main bathroom in the house.  It has huge pipes.4 inches circumference (or 10 cm).  You can also see the black tiles, but what you can't see is the pink walls, bath and washbasin.

House Move

After 7 weeks of living here I finally got round to completing and taking this piece of work to the printers to get some "We Have Moved" cards printed.  Hopefully they will be ready next week and then all I have to do is get them posted.

Newent Bookcover

At long last I have actually finished the bookcover started at a workshop at The Patchwork Basket in Newent with Helen Keenan.  It holds a small Pink Pig sketchbook.  Not my greatest piece of work, but at least I did get round to completing it!!