S carved a pretty pumpkin:

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Yesterday I found this piece of almost done work from last winter. It was lying by my yarn stash, and I decided to finish it and give the fingerless gloves to S on her 15th birthday on September 1st.


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M came home for the weekend, and I spent a little time drawing her in J's old armchair today, while nursing my cold on the couch.


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S was home sick today for the second day in a row - she has a severe cold/flu.


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M knitting her third pair of woolen socks. Yes, the yarn is called BIMBO - this is what happens when you post about stuff in other languages, the meanings of words tend to undergo weird, laughable or embarassing transformations.

Ink pen in small Moleskine sketchbook.


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I went to City Vest shopping centre today, as the weather was cold, wet, windy and grey - the other kind of typical autumn weather. They'd taken down the escalating stairs for repair work, so I thought that would be fun to sketch:


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Last week my dad brought his sturdy Polish apple press over, so we could use it to make an incursion into the vast quantities of apples that keep falling off our trees. It's a handsome press:


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We spent last Saturday evening at the house of some friends, and I managed to sneak a quick draw of S reading to their daughter:


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I went gift shopping with the girls today - Saturday is R's birthday so we wanted to get him some things. After walking around, for far too long in far too many shops, we stopped at a café for tea, and I did a sketch of the girls:


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