Breakfast like a Queen, Lunch like a Princess DInner like a Pauper !

I love breakfast! A cup of earl grey tea (with soya milk) cinnamon and apple porridge, Bon Mamam Blackcurrent jam on toast! Delish! But the best breakfasts are when sometimes, I have a a letter to read like this one from my friend Charlie, that has an Beatrix Potter illustration! I wish more letters were sent, emails are sort of impersonal, like kindle vs books - I much prefer the hard copy, but for practicality ICT often prevails.

Breakfast at Tiffany's Sleep Mask!

Beautiful Teapot

It has to be said this is the most superfluous teapot I have ever seen and looks fit for a crazy green queen! Teapots are not only lovely but economical and ecological! One tea bag brews far more than one cup of tea but today it only serves one! The tea pot brings about an ancient british ceremony lol! It is about sharing and not being wasteful! A teapot is the ultimate socialist kitchen appliances next to the giant soup pot! I love mine in all its greeness! 

Drinks anyone?

Why would anyone drink out of plain glasses? The fun is when they are a pretty colour of have something quaint about them! I love my little selection of glasses that I have picked up from here and there and I love them all! Sometimes its quite hard to chose which one will contain the delicious liquid which goes into them because they are all so lovely - sounds a bit crazy but hey my name in gaelic means little rose and as the post previously explains flowers need their juice! 

Spring is on its way ...

A gift from my mum! Paper whites have a beautiful fragrance delicate a first then more buds open the greater the perfume. I find the way one stem and seemingly one flower gives birth to several individual white flowers. The glass jar show the wonderful root system... my mother noted than all they need is water and sunlight ... so often do we mistake soil to be the only anchorage for the absorption of minerals all they actually need is water. But what a lovely chance to see roots - why aren't all flowers in transparent containers?

Physalis Fruit Garland

 Fruit and Veg are a big part of my life as a vegan! I really love physalis :) especially when they are only £1 in Waitrose! They first came into my life in primary school in a lesson on tropical fruits. This lesson has stayed with me all these years and I hope others have had similar lessons as children. Tropical fruits are a wonderful thing when tried for the the first time as you have no preconceptions of taste, smell etc. When I was little the most exciting fruit supermarkets had were strawberries but now you can buy kumquats, dragon fruit goji berries and many more! But physalis is what I remember being most excited about! The little tent/cocoon/flower/leaf hides a little golden nugget with a sweet yet bitter flavour. On the string they flutter and shimmer even though there is no window open or draught very strange but beautiful!

Wade whimsies/ Kitsch glorious Kitsch

I have a fascination with Wade Whimsies I LOVE THEM! ... My mum gave me one when I was about 6 and it was a dolphin I put it in a little wooden box (a sort of wade reliquary)  that I cannot at present find! But these are the ones I have found in chazzas and carboots! I have x2 swallows, an owl (of course), a whale, polar bear, chimp, bunny, turtle! hopefully I will find more... but I never see them in london only in Cardiff so when I am home the whimsical wade whimsey hunt begins :D xxxx p.s. the shelf they are on cost me 10p ... just saying lol

Sing when Sewing on your Singer!

For Christmas,  my mum gave me a sewing machine! Its wonderful and I am over the moon about it! But this Christmas was wonderful because I was home with my family enjoying good food and their wonderful company so this is the first thing sewn on the machine and its for my mum to say thank you for such a wonderful holiday!

Owl tapestry

I have a little bit of a thing for birds in particular owls! This was a christmas present from my family (Mum and Sister). My mother is always on the look out for 'owl things' and one of the members of staff in her local charity shop, Velindre Cancer Research in Cardiff,  even keeps an eye out and lets her know when something 'owl' comes in! Its something about the large starry eyes and regality of their posture and pose that is so alluring to me. The magical connotations and implications of wisdom gives them a high status in the bird world! They glide silently due to their feathers being light and fluffy to air passes by them without sound! The way they sit up in trees and their talons grip the branch, the 360 degree turn of the neck and the heart shape face! I am spoilt rotten with kindness and love that someone knows me so well as to know what I love and to endeavor to find things for me that will make me smile! thank you momma and bride!

more ceramics

RO'C and Clay

In September last year I started a course in ceramics at a local college and I have never looked back! When I was very young my mother took me to ceramics classes (I was a few years younger than the minimum age) but my mother new my ability was high so took me anyway for which I will always be grateful! She new that this was how I communicated and expressed myself and spent a lot of money making sure I could do it, so now I continue what she started by enrolling on the local ceramics course :D I was quite rusty but after one term this are a few of my favourite pieces of stoneware glazed works! On the wheel I know I have a lot to learn but it's such a wonderful ART form that it is worth the time and effort honing skills!