Happy Christmas!

I seem to have fallen into once a month blogging!
Anyway, here we are near to the end of 2011 and looking forward to Christmas and then hopefully a good New Year. My life is quite repetitive, most of my crafting and photography goes on the Flickr site (linked at the side here) so there is not a lot to add here.
Many thanks to friends who pop in, your comments are always very welcome.
Happy Christmas to all and all good wishes for 2012, Connie.

Roses in November

No blogging for some time - I have mostly stayed at home, making small cross stitch motifs for Christmas cards and wondering about a possible spinal op next year - quite a lot to be thinking about.
Today I had a phone call to see the consultant on Thursday, so decision time is soon!
It's a strange month - unsettled in many ways.
The weather has been cold, warm, dull, sunny, each day different. Yet the roses still bloom, beautiful for a few days and still beautiful as they dry out (as in my new header ..) - we are lucky to have roses in November!

October

What a wonderful Indian Summer we are having to take us into October.
Do share my calendar and a big thank you to so many friends here and on Flickr for all your support and lovely comments.
It has been a difficult year for me so far and I'm sorry that I do not comment regularly on all the lovely blogs and photos I see. As always I look to the future and now await a consultation about a possible spine operation.
I long to get things sorted, to walk, have less pain, and more sleep!
In the immediate future we are visiting family in Spain for two weeks, back on 18th October. We will be well looked after.
Again, many thanks good friends. Connie.

September Notecards

It's time I dropped a line to one or two friends so I wandered into the garden to find some nice flowers to 'snap' to make notecards .... we bought a number of inexpensive bush Fuschia from a fruit shop earlier in the year - they have bloomed for weeks and now have a whole new crop of lovely buds and flowers.
Even the wild strawberries are still cropping for the birds, and there was one delicate white anemone - so now I'll make a few cards.
It's time I did something instead of sitting and looking into space - though I have done a little stitching for Christmas cards. It has to be stitch a little, rest a lot, as Arthritis rules!

The good .....

... two weeks ago my OH was 80 and we had two lovely sunny "garden party" days for about 50 family members and friends, John's sister and husband came from Spain for two weeks and we all enjoyed this special time.
The pebble owl was a gift and has pride of place in a border.

The bad ... a few days ago my back took a turn for the worse, so more pain and hardly any walking again, but ...

The beautiful ... I hobbled into the garden yesterday, early Autumn blooms are rich and vibrant, the gorgeous cream/lime/pink hydrangea, a birthday present, is doing well and as always flowers worked their magic therapy for me ... I'll soon be hobbling better!

More Coat Hangers

I'm still recycling old wooden coat hangers, using fabrics from stash, and happily stitching - but I have weakened and bought two lovely new fat quarters - I can't resist fabrics!

Recycle Project

This morning I came across several wooden coat hangers that have seen better days,(like me!!)and decided to give them another chance, as I really like them better than the many plastic ones I've accumulated over the years.

So I found a few pieces of fabric, wadding, a needle, and thread.
With a bit of wrapping, stretching, and runnung stitches large enough to be tacking stitches, I recycled four hangers.
One fabric used to be a kitchen table cloth, the blue striped was a dress, long ago, and the other two materials are scraps left over from fabric art some time ago - many times I wish I wasn't such a hoarder, but at times old stash comes in handy!