Hearts and Flowers

The weather has been mixed, strong winds and rain with the occasional dry day. I have spent this last week making things to sell in Ravenbridge Stores in Kirkoswald. As Valentine's Day is approaching I took that as my theme.


These are examples of my paper flowers.

Variegated shades

Bright and cheerful

They are designed to hang or can be laid flat

A string of flowers

I have made one of my flowers into a birthday card.

The removable peg allows the flower to be used as a decoration

I have made hearts from a variety of different papers.

Candy colours

These are made from tissue paper that I have dyed and patterned.

Pretty in pastel

Some hearts I decorated with beads.

Seed beads and threads

I also decorated with a variety of threads.

Decorated with variegated threads and beads

I also made a selection of pottery hearts.

Valentine heart

Bonny flowers

Pretty in shades of yellow and pink

Shades of green

A selection of hearts

On my last trip to Hexham I took photos of some of the interesting buildings.
This bank had a beautiful copper dome.

A verdigris dome on the bank

This is a guild mark.

How many sheep can you see?

Sometimes it pays to look upwards.

A lovely building

I have now bottled my Damson wine. It is smooth, dark with a hint of autumn and has a 14% alcohol volume!

Glug

I was given these as a present, they add humour to the kitchen tasks.

Watch out mate it's red hot chilli in there, that's why I have turned bright red!

 dyed and patterned nrer