Have been working with HUGE Photoshop files today - 4GB each - I could hear the Mac creaking! These are the images..... Blaewearie or Blewea...

I’ve been accepted! Into the Crafts Council Directory of Makers that is. Whoo hoo and happy dancing. You can see the full page here

I have almost finished the sketchbook! A huge A3 Moleskine hardbound type, I can hardly lift it now. Just one more page to go. (P.S using ...

 After leaving the fabrics in the dye pans overnight it looked like this (sorry for the blur - must have been taken B.C. (before coffee)...

Todays recipe; Ingredients Pre-washed cotton muslin, about 3 metres x2 Selections of rusty nails Logwood in muslin bags Old pot and j...

At Guisborough EG. A lovely group, friendly welcome and interesting questions afterwards. Thank you for inviting me. If your group is inte...

If you’re in Northumberland and visiting Wallington (NT property) you’ll see my table runner in the dinning room. This is my second commiss...

Playing with colours and circles. A lot of the textile work I have planned is very muted, so its good for the soul to play with bright pain...

Over the winter we have replaced the bathroom suite (I now have a lovely little P-shaped bath to fall asleep in and because its small i don’...

New post on my photography website Land of the Far Horizons - a walk to Twizell Castle C13th original build with C28th “folly” attachments....

One of four rusty trays sitting by my back door. Who cares what visitors think! Cottons and silk, with rusty things and a touch of cheap b...

The garden in early April on my gardening blog; http://foxglovesandpoppies.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/early-april.html      

"To create is to breathe… live a life inspired". I went completely off piste with the suggestion for this weeks Inspiration We...

Detail from one of the spreads from the 48 weeks course - of which I am almost finished!

To keep the witches away….?

Thinking of Spring… Planning the garden in my head and have opened the Sarah Raven catalogue for seeds and seedlings…. But haven’t found tim...

 Lindisfarne - always beautiful, whatever time of the year you visit. Even on a dull day in March. An iconic view of the castle, with a han...

First gardening update of the year can be found here. You can see and read about 2014 on my gardening website   here.  

More fun with the 48 Weeks course by Donna Downey. This is week 45 and as usual I put my own spin on things. Can’t beleive I have almost fi...

Could be the name of a pub don’t you think? “The Shift & Kirtle" This is first view of some new work and not a corset in sight. We...