Showing posts with label franceshousehospice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label franceshousehospice. Show all posts

Friday, December 4

Blogging, followers and friends!!


I've been posting blogs since March 2010...I can hardly believe that!
 But in all that time I've not personally met a single blogger friend. Well all that has changed! 
The timing was exact...the place was right ...the conversation started...and lo and behold...someone who actually had read my posts...finding them on the sidebar list of the wonderful Pen Wilcox. Stunned ..we both were.
I was standing by the Pithoi pots at The Beetham Garden Centre near Milnthorpe in Lancashire when as I was ringing the rims to make sure that the pot was whole..as.any little crack or flaw will not give a bell-like sound. (This I know from the potter himself!...he had rung one or two before going off to buy a pot for our Christmas present to one another.)


It's big!...some in the Tuesday evening ceramic group that he teaches wondered why he didn't make it himself...well...it's bigger than the kiln for a start! And pithoi from Crete are famous for their shapes and traditional decoration.
So now I'm a follower on "woolywanderer" on Instagram...I'm G Snape there.."Documenting the Mundane" by the way. And also a follower on multicolouredmadness.blogspot.com .

We hugged with laughter and tears and hugged again...two grown women who had never met but had so much in common! 
Well that's blogging for you. You wait five years and along comes a follower and then a friend. We shall plan to meet up again I'm sure of that as we both have homes around that glorious Bay I talk about so much.


Thankyou Blogspot...thankyou daughter amelieshouse.blogspot.co.uk for getting me started...thankyou senior grandgirl troase.blogspot.co.uk for encouraging and quietly showing me techie things!!

Saturday, June 4

Bienniel Garden Party




Well two years have come and gone since the last Garden Party extravaganza.
That was the 40th wedding do...
and people came from far and wide...it was a great weekend.


...dancing...



...eating...



...and music.


This year we will once again be holding it for Frances House Children's Hospice in Didsbury.
But the format will be the same or nearly the same as the wedding bash..
I have a few little extras up my wide sleeve,
 that I hope will add a frisson of excitement to the proceedings!

Well for a start I was inspired to make some more bunting
 after seeing the article in this month's Country Living Magazine,
about the allotment owners Jazz Tea Parties each year.

I like creating atmosphere,
 but I'm not so great at taking the time to make it perfect...
....so I was encouraged to see that they had made their bunting pretty randomly.



Last evening, I cut up lots of bits of the past  for the bunting...
sewed them quickly on to a green ribbon...


...trimmed off all of the loose ends...



...and strung it up on the swing to get an idea of the effect....I like it!

So, now I can mark that off the list of "things to be done"!
for Saturday 9th July
at The Potters House Penketh.