Winter cleaning.........

Starting with the hall yesterday..I am clearing and cleaning.....I would much rather be making things but I need to put a new coat of white lye on the wooden floor, so it has to be stripped and cleaned first ....yummy!!!

But then we are going walking with lunch in our tummy's and warm scarves, we are off to pick up pine cones, and fallen branches to make some kindling for the wood burner, there was a bad wind last night so there should be lots of twigs to harvest today.

I have tentatively added music back to my blog....please tell me if it is making it too slow to look at and I will remove it...I would so like to find some Gregorian Chants to play for Yule...........

Sorry if I cannot always reply, I really do treasure each of your comments.

Love and hugs Lynn xxxx

Cosy toes..................

The day is dark, a herald for the quiet sleepy shadows that fill November days
enabling me to sew and make my Christmas presents, while the dust falls hidden and undisturbed.

I am making aprons from vintage and home printed fabrics, and some 'Christmas Fairy' napkins, she just needs a star sewing on where she is reaching up...... and I have bought a lovely white cotton bag, and I have relined it and printed it for a present.
I can't face the shops yet they are too bright and too busy, they intrude on my thoughts, my purse needs to rest!! I love the coming of the winter, the dark soft days, I like to wrap up in soft warm clothes and light a fire, making small nests on the sofa with Adrian, or maybe battle through the woods in the wind and rain looking for beautiful fallen branches to hang my Yule decorations on....I think I like this better than summer............

Sweet Dreams and cosy toes my lovely friends

Lynn xxxxxx

Samhain....gossamer shadows to lead us home....

Let our dear one's that have gone before us.

Return this night and make merry with us

And when our time comes as it must,

Oh thou the Comforter the Consoler'

The Giver of peace and rest.

We will enter thy realms gladly and unafraid

For we know that ,

When rested and refreshed amongst our dear ones

We will be reborn again, by thy grace,

And the grace of the Great Mother.

Let it be in the same place, and at the same time'

As our beloved ones.

And may we meet, and know, and remember, and love them again.

May we all be blessed with happy memories on this eve
.

With much love

Lynn

Crows talking................

One by one each step draws us closer to our dreams, whatever they may be...........

Saturday was beautiful.

The crows whispered ancient secrets in the trees
rattling bare branches like bones, we saw a hind as if Diana gliding and leaping across the lowland meadows and later as we climbed high, the milky sun drew long pale shadows across the mountains. High up amongst the stones we saw a cloaked figure, hidden half amongs the ferns and heather watching us climb, when we reached him he was shrouded in the soft yellow lichen and granite stone, a watcher, a protector of the landscape from times long ago.

We dined on chocolate tiffin cake and hot teas, buttery toast and cinnamon sprinkles.

Then indulged in the exquisite inspiring gifts that this gorgeous shop stocks...
Wishing you a peaceful and happy week

Love Lynn xxxx

Sometimes I want to fly.....................

The wind and the rain lashed across the woods today, peeling the leaves and bright berry's from the bushes, and blowing into my arms as if it would lift me above the trees....how I wish I could soar right into the wind, swooping over the park, diving low over the river, spinning and turning in the chaotic fury of it all.

Wrapping up my dreams I tucked them close to my heart in my warm coat, and carefully spun them into my cooking this afternoon...that will spice meal time up I thought.

Have a lovely Sunday

Love and hugs xxxxx

Just got home.......

Just got home....we have been in America for a few weeks staying with my parents........sunshine and easy living, this is the lounge through to the swimming pool......lazy days just like holidays should be..

I wanted to wish everyone a lovely weekend, and thank you sooo much for your comments while I was away, any 'jet lag' tips gratefully received....

Lots of love Lynn xxxxxx

Lost in time.................................

The countryside is like soothing balm on the soul after a weeks work. All the inspiration I should ever need is there. The sun has been shining low and warm and feels so good through my clothes. We went picking sloe's to make sloe gin, ( a lovely liqueur yummy on a cold winters night)..and found this deserted wool mill,....... quiet, mossy, full of shadows and memory's, isn't it beautiful, I wondered about the mill girls working here so many years ago, and the sound of their clogs on the stones as they passed by the window on mornings like this..........

Have a lovely weekend.

Hugs Lynn xxxx