As a change from Blue, you understand. Although blue is still my favourite colour, and I am not suddenly going to get all orange-crazy in a hurry. But today was twinkly and orangey, and I made apricot jellies from dried apricots (see recipe section if you want to know how to do this too), and, beautifully orangily and rather co-incidentally, found some gorgeous orange gold vintage brocade fabric in a charity shop, too.
I made pomanders with the children yesterday (and Rosie took one in to ’show and tell’ school today), which are rolled in Orris Root (to help preserve the scent), and drying in The Boiler Cupboard in little paper bags. Then, when photographing the fabric in gloomy light, I noticed the orange glow of the kitchen, with its Christmas star lights, and thought I might add that on, too.
The fabric I will use to make some cushions, then sell the rest on Ebay, because although it’s rather lovely, I don’t really have the storage to hoard the tangible. If anyone reading this wants to buy it, then feel free to contact me.
I’m too busy to do much artwork at the moment, which is frustrating, because I’ve got a lot of ideas. But Christmas admin takes over, and I’ve stuff that I have to finish, before I can get on with new projects, so it’s just a case of hoard them in my head (goldishly) and wait. Perhaps writing them down would be a good idea, too, so I don’t forget them:
I want to:
Do some more photoshopping
Work on my website
Knit/crochet some long funky mittens
Work on my embroidered landscape
Contact The Lion Gallery with a view to having more stuff put in there
Make a freeform crochet bag
Finish the knitted socks I started ages ago
Use the store of old hand-embroidered table runners and the like that I’ve picked up over the years to make a camisole top for the summer (for me).
Tear up some old sari fabric I have, and do some crochet with it.
Work on some more landscape pictures.
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