Family ties and celebrations

This year is a bumper year for family celebrations in my family.  My father recently celebrated his 80th birthday, and he is a very young 80 – more like in his 60s, mentally!  It’s wonderful to see him so enjoying his life and being really active in many...

How a hunch can be right…..

Hunches and instinct are quite often dismissed by people as not important.  If you are an emotional sort of person, and you believe in hunches and instincts, do you find, as I often do, that more left-brain types look down their noses at you, believing you to be in...

Weaving Volcanoes

You’d have thought we’d all have had enough of volcanoes just recently, wouldn’t you?  But it seems I just can’t help myself!  I’m now weaving them!  Yesterday it was dunes and waves, today it’s volcanoes!  I was watching The...

Fashion & Textiles conference

Apologies for sending this out again, but there was a technical problem with the links which has now been solved.  Do check out the links as I think you will enjoy them….. This weekend, I represented the Midlands Textile Forum at a sister event in the eastern...

Spring-cleaning, gardening and weaving….

Spring has an incredible effect on everything, doesn’t it?  If you look around you, people are happier, more relaxed, smiling and laughing a lot more, and more willing to help each other.  It also has us putting our house in order!  I’ve been...