finished

Knitted for little friend E.

One ball cardigan (FF08)Designed by Frances Fletcher

4 ply Opal wool.

last camping trip

Friday afternoon I said to my family: "Let's go camping!" and so we did.

This time we went to the Norfolk Coast stunning seaside, so different from what I was used in Italy.

We pitched our tent in a camping site in Stiffkey (a lovely little village with red bricks and flint houses, narrow streets and antiques shops), just above the salt marshes. 
You can adventure there and after a long walk you'll reach the sea. 
In the late afternoon we went to Holkham beach, where you have to do...guess what? a long walk in the mud before you make it to the amazing sandy beach, quite rewarding I say. 
Back to the tent: a barbecue in the dark, star gazing with a cuppa and a nice sleep with concerto for oboes and trombone (lots of snoring people around, the down side of camping even with a bell tent!). 
The next day we went to Blackney and then followed a route to Wiventon Hall tearoom&farm for raspberry picking and dinner "al fresco", where I had the best Summer pudding of my life, sadly no pictures of the pudding.

Wells beach was our final destination, there was such a wonderful light, I took some photos on film, dunno about the result but that is what I love with film.

Sadly, this, was our last camping trip of the year, unless the weather goes completely crazy and give us more sunshine and hot days...mhhh I doubt it.

Talking about film, please, have a look at my contribution at Nancy's: get it on the neg.

it looks like a land of desolation!
but with the high tide all this area is covered in water.

I try not to use plastic, I'll  keep my plasticized tablecloth for ever, see the horror we are creating.

the tomatoes are the heirloom I planted ages ago, they were delicious.

 in the mud.

These are the kind of raspberry we picked and also the ones used for the summer pudding I ate with gusto. Behind the t-room kitchen hens were roaming free, the eggs come from them for the cakes and delicious food served there. This is my ideal way of living: being able to pick up and grow your own food... a dream.

In Wells, another long walk before you reach the sea.

hello fog!

I woke up this morning looked at the window and saw fog, here we go with endless foggy days (but fog can be beautiful and mysterious too).

Anyway, if you don't like fog, a foggy mind can always find some inspiration from Intelligent Clashing which, luckily, has a magazine now. Clever and good looking that you can use the pages as posters too.

Thank you Rhiannon.

My desk is beginning to look like a working desk, finally.

Today I start my new volunteer job in a very, very nice place. I'll tell you more another time.

Have a good one.

HELLO FOG!

a new camera

my monday started with very burnt toasts for breakfast and cold coffee, 
but never mind.

Last week find is a camera, a Zenit 11. 

I found it rummaging at the local antique shop for £8 and I decided to buy 
it just to experiment a bit more with film.

It has no lenses and no manual but I'm bidding on them, that's why I burnt 
the bread this morning.

white VS cream

I have a pet hate (well more than one) which is: magnolia or cream walls. Hence, every time we move to a new house (which inevitably in this country has magnolia walls) I, after a couple of months staring at those walls, can't take it any more and so I head to a DIY shop, buy my favourite kind of white and start to paint ONE little room (this time is my studio) and then the white fever spread and I re-paint the whole house white...only that as soon as I finish we eventually move again and I have to re-paint the house with that magnolia colour! How silly is that?

Changing subject, my shop is still closed but if you like you can order my dolls or little clouds (the fabric ones not the wool ones) just contact me via email.

Thank You, Merci.

Now off to finish that blissful white room ;^)

Cambridge

on film

Some photos from the holidays on film or "pellicola" 
(I find the Italian word much intriguing).

Fuji S400

Bournemouth Air Festival

at the beach

Isle of Wight 

camping

cats

I've started to work on new cats and Anita has made hers.

Hers is nicer I think.

for a wedding

Tomorrow I'll go to an informal wedding reception. 

It's a bit special to me because I sing in a choir, the reception is for my master of choir and her partner which also sings in the choir. Not only we will celebrate with them but we will perform for them. 

I have butterflies in my stomach, because although I'm now used to perform in front of a public I know it will get a bit emotional.

A dress to wear with a cashmere cardigan, a vintage bag made in Paris and the shoes I wore for my wedding which are pink of course.

I think that should do.

Dreaming

video from mina perhonen 2011 autumn winter collection

London NW3

We went to Hampstead, it was a beautiful sunny day.
The hill is a great place, one of my favourite in town.