Little time for Blogging

 My first attempt at making fushia flowers with Silk Ribbon Embroidery, I used white silk and dyed the colours I choose for this satin pouch.

Satin Shoe clips with gorgeous embellishments

 Have a few more cushions to finish using this huge bird pattern

Two custom orders for jewelery pouches which I love making

I used to wear Peter Pan Collars years ago so I made this to dress up a white t-shirt, really makes a difference. On my list to do to make a few other colours.

A laundry bag which is great if you don't have the space for a laundry basket. 

So all in all I have found it a challenge to find the time to blog these past couple of weeks and I bet I am not alone in this, 

Happy weekend xx

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In Love With May

What's not to love about the month of May? The garden just seems to suddenly burst into life and colour where just a few days ago there were just a few buds to be seen here and there, then boom they are all trying to outdo each other waving at you saying look at me I am back...

You don't need me to tell you what this is

 Black Sambucus with delicious pink flowers

Clematis 

 David Austin Rose

Standard rose is full this year

 Weigela

 Afternoon snooze if I am lucky

 Glass of wine later under the shade perhaps 

 At 10am this morning the temperature was sitting at 25c and now at almost 6pm it is 29.7c in the shade. I spent less than 30 minutes in the garden as it was just way to hot for me to do anything. But despite the heat I love May. Do you have a favourite month?

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'Fairy Tale Wedding' by Krishenka

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May Day Giveaway - Silk Jewelry Pouch - Handmade

Well here we are on the 1st day of May and have to say that it has not started well here in the South of France in fact it has been raining for most of the day. So, I thought I would do a little give away to cheer us me up. If your lucky enough to be having an upcoming holiday then you can enter my give away to win one of my jewelry pouches to take your treasures safely on holiday with you.

This is a Toile De Jouy cotton print with a delicious dusky pink pure silk interior, with eight compartments to hold your treasures. Bottom is padded and has the Toile De Jouy base inside, and pearl beads on the cord for closing.  For more pictures click HERE. Competition is open world wide and you don't have to be a follower of my blog to enter, great if you do though. Any shares always much appreciated but not mandatory. Good luck and I look forward to sending this to the winner soon. xx

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Box Hedge Caterpillars...

Talking with my girlfriend the other day I happened to mention that I was more than sad to see that my box hedging seemed to have been badly scorched while we were away for a few days, I know it was hot but they have never shown any problem of drying out before. Have a closer look she told me as I bet you will find caterpillars on them. 

She was right if I had my glasses on the first time I looked I might have spotted them. The  Box Hedge Moth is indeed  the culprit.

I spent hours picking them off with tweezers and I kid you not picked over 1,000 the picture above is about the third of the amount collected. I have now sprayed the plants and will be watching very closely to see what happens over the next day or so.. There is a good chance that I may save my hedges but only time will tell. Have a look at this link for treatment.
Box Hedge Caterpillar .Treatment.

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Madam Picasso

A friend lent me a book called Madame Picasso and so I took it with me on holiday to Seville, it amused me that I was reading this book only to discover that Picasso was born in Malaga approximately 200 klms from where I was sitting reading it. I really enjoyed the book although found it a bit over romantisied  in parts but it left me wanting more information on Eva Gouel and  Fernande Olivier which thanks to the internet my appetite was sated. But it didn't stop there!

I saw the above  poster and his cheeky face made me want to go see this exhibition also because Picasso was menetioned, so the following day  headed off to go have a look. I was not disappointed works by artists as Diego de Siloe, Luis de Vargas, Murillo, Joaquin Dominguez Becquer, and of course Pablo Picasso.

I have to admit that only the name Picasso and Murillo was known to me and to be frank Picasso's style doesn't do much for me...  when I came across Francisco de Zurbarans art it took my breath away he is primarily know for his religious paintings which depict nuns, monks and martyrs, his still-lifes are truly exquisite.
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   So all that because I took Madame Picasso to Spain with me, and I have my lovely girlfriend to thank for this journey and I got a little culture inside me xx....

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