Oh dear goodness. It looks like my blogging life has been reduced to four times a year!!! Usually in and around equinoxes, and now the summer solstice! Phew. Turns out that’s what moving house, having a new baby, trying to run your business and a billion other things means when you try to do them all at once.
I did so much want to come back with declarations of new lovely sciorta for you all. But alas, I am just not getting there at the moment. Sometime soon I’ll get back in my groove. But for the moment, I need patience with myself as we negotiate new pastures and paths, that are exciting, but that mean that my sciorta designing is limping along sadly behind. However, rather than whinge about what I can’t get done, I’m choosing to look at what I have been able to get done.
- spending time with our delightful baby who is now 6 months!!!
- spending more time with my 2 other children after what was a long and rather anxious pregnancy which meant I couldn’t run about with them, play tag, or kick a football. We have been doing a lot of that!
- learning to feel comfortable in our new home.
- looking dreamily at new fabrics (usually cos I’m up feeding in the middle of the night)
So hurrah for 6 months. And when the time is right, I’ll be back designing.
jx
Yes tis true. We are heading off to Teapot Lane (isn’t that such a great name?) to sleep in a yurt. Yurts are portable felt covered structures mostly used by nomads in Mongolia and other places, but they have been gaining popularity as semi-permanent structures all over the world. I just finished a book called A Handmade Life by William Coperthwaite. If you haven’t read this – do. It’s an excellent book. If you have read it, have you made the peanut butter/honey/oats crunch thing yet? Let me know how that worked out. William Coperthwaite has been perfecting the art of yurt building, and now lives in a lovely wooden one in Maine. He has adapted the yurt to his climate and as a structure it’s quite incredible. I love this guy’s philosophy and one day I will learn to make his democratic chair!
Teapot Lane looks like a total delight and I am looking forward to many things – mainly the bed and not having to deal with broken tent poles in a howling gale. See, normally, we camp – in a tent, and with a few airbeds and the odd pillow. But in my current rather precarious pregnant state, that kind of camping was not an option. But I love camping. I love the freedom, the air, the pootling about, the walks at dusk, and this delightful place seemed to fit the bill perfectly. There are beds for everyone, and I don’t have to actually put a tent up – hurrah! The yurts are already there, ready and waiting for us, all clean and dandy. There’s even a Fairy Garden. Sigh. So, I’ll be gone a few days, dreaming up new sciorta to keep us toasty as the nights get darker and the days get shorter.
Homeschool is something I have never done, but am leaning more and more towards. But I just don’t know whether I am the right person to do this.
I know this has nothing whatsoever to do with skirts, but just in case there are others out there looking for good homeschooling links, here are the ones I follow:
simple homeschool – based on the premise – ‘never let your schooling interrupt your education’ – which I’m afraid it does – only too often. Encouragement, ideas, support. It’s all here.
Soule Mama – I guess these guys more unschool than homeschool which is a whole other dimension – treating the world as your classroom rather than following a set curriculum. Interesting reading.
Natural Suburbia – based in South Africa and homeschooling four little ones.
Quite a few of my friends blog. Some for fun, some because they are writers and this is the way to get their thoughts out there and some just because they want to record and document what is going on in their lives. I love what they do.
Here are some of my pals who blog
Gareth Davies-Jones - well actually this is my brother, he’s a singer songwriter based in the beautiful Northumberland. His music is beautiful, and he does a great series of living room gigs. Check out his blog for gig dates, news, new albums etc.
Placed – this is my pal Rene who makes gorgeous products using select words from the Irish language. Not a Shillelagh or a leprechaun in sight. Check out her etsy shop .
My pal Janine writes over at Its all good – she has great images and funny words!!
Flowers for Rifles is the blog of Shirley, a wonderful writer, great discussion starter and marvellous challenger.
Pals, if I have left you out, please don’t be offended, just kick me up the backside by sending me a link. : )