Interesting watching on BBC Ray Mears' Wild Food where he's working with some Australian Aborigines to see how hunter gatherers get food. Some of the tools are so temporary and would be dismissed as broken shells or would have rotted away, beautifully woven bags and everything. That fire was so important. Lends more credence to my idea that ( Read more... )

So I've cought up with my mail, am stitching away but I wish I was at home so that I could pick something else up. The Waistcoat I'm knitting is going to be beautiful but I really feel a need to stitch something simpler, so I'm crocheting squares again for a bedcover I've been working on for quite a long while, it's all in pastels, mostly ( Read more... )

Game tonight, good fun but three weeks to the next game. Crocheting a bright string for the tree. Dave is starting work late tomorrow and we're going shopping in the morning.

Chemo yesterday - came home and almost colapsed, I started at 9am and finished at 5:15, yes it was that long and yes it was that exhausting ( Read more... )

This is going to scare me....

Craft Works in Progress
* = current

Cross Stitch
* Elemental Cosmos from Witches Stitches
Peacock Rug from Barbara Hammett's book Art Nouveau Cross Stitch
The Storyteller by Teresa Wentzler
Mystical Dragon by Janlynn(yes it's the same as the one on the back of Dave's Tshirt - there's an error in it that Dave ( Read more... )