Handwoven Coverlet
Squares
Our friend “up the hill” dropped off four handwoven squares for me to make a blanket for the Hittys…
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Snowdrops and Aconite
Almanac
After days of pelting rain, Henrietta saw that the weather forecast was for mild and pleasant weather …
Scrap Happy – Some Uses for Cardboard
Gingerbread House support
January 2020 has been quiet and sluggish, but we have developed a weekly pizza porch party tradition with our granddaughter and family, and have kept it up for the last year! The greasy side of a pizza box is not a very useful raw material so it gets rolled up and used for kindling. The top of the box could go into the municipal recycling, but we have found a few uses for cardboard scraps including laminated foil-wrapped cardboard bases for our gingerbread houses…
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Happy Ninth Birthday Girl Dear
Fancy Dinner
Hittys Henrietta, Rose, Arianell, Willa and Perdita went out to celebrate a special meal while Esmeralda held up the chandelier and Lady Frances did a stint of babysitting…
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Tidying the Raspberry Patch
Sunny moment
We have been having Very strange weather these days…but during a sunny interlude Henrietta and I went out to the raspberry patch…
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