Hello! I hope you enjoyed your November and are ready to welcome December. We had a deluge of rain (102 mm) overnight so the garden is happy. Now it needs to soak into the parched ground to be truly useful. November is epiphyllum flowering time at my place. Look at these stunning blooms! They only […]

October is my favourite month of the year. When I lived in Sydney, I knew that October would be the last comfortable month before the humidity arrived and stayed until April. I struggled with the discomfort that high humidity brings. It’s different here and I love it. October has wildly fluctuating temperatures – last Tuesday […]

Are you easily distracted? I certainly am. There are so many activities that interest me and so many possibilities (too many!) that compete for my time. Making writing a priority is important to me but, if it’s that important, why aren’t I doing it more often? That has to change. I guess acknowledgement is the first […]

Hello and thanks for reading. I’m still hanging in there with Substack for these newsletters but it’s getting too noisy in that place for me. I guess that’s a sign of a popular site but I’ll be investigating alternative ways of sending newsletters by email. Does anyone have a recommendation for newsletter software? Quilts It’s […]

Hello! It’s early afternoon here and I’m gazing out my window at the cloudy sky and the trees moving in the wind. The weather app tells me it feels like 0.9 degrees outside so I won’t be venturing there. Yes, I’m a wuss. I like to stay cosy. We’ve had three frosts this month. Yesterday’s […]

Hello Creative Dabblers! Welcome to this month’s newsletter. Quilts As usual, I have several hand piecing and appliqué projects on the go. I’ve also started hand quilting one quilt. I like having several pieces to work on. As someone who gets bored easily, the ability to choose which project I stitch each time is a […]

Hello Creative Dabblers! February passed by with a whoosh; I didn’t mean to miss the month’s newsletter but here we are now in March. Surprising. My new keyboard is behaving nicely. I do like a full-size keyboard with a number pad. None of those small or on-screen keypads for me. This one is connected, along […]

Hello creative dabblers and thanks for reading (maybe that’s premature to assume you’ll continue reading since this is the first sentence). I hope, though, that you will carry on! I’m typing this with a keyboard that has certain keys sticking. It’s mildly annoying but it seems to give my keyboard a personality, as if it’s […]

Earlier this week, my Instagram feed was full of pictures of snow-covered landscapes, both country and city. Apparently, it had snowed in Britain while I was sleeping. I follow many IG accounts based in Britain, mainly to see photos of beautiful gardens and the work of craftspeople I admire. You know how it is on […]

Hello everyone, I’m popping into your inbox mid-week to share I few things I’ve found engaging. Please leave a comment if you find something of interest here! My garden is full of aquilegias at present. I love these dainty cottage flowers and wrote about them here. Are you watching Wednesday on Netflix? We are halfway […]