The Alchymyst's Study

Spent this morning getting caught up on the Temperature SAL Don't all those lovely warm colours around the outside make a differenc...

Welcome to day 22 of the on-line advent calendar, as organised by Jo of Serendipitous Stitching For your advent picture I'm sharing thi...

It was the annual village show last weekend, and I thought you might like to see some pictures. Prize winning vegetables:- Not that ...

Yesterday was our Annual Village Show. Here are couple of snaps of some of the flowers and vegetables. And these are some seriousl...

Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know I'm all about the Pinterest. I'm always finding ideas, projects or recipes on there t...

Yay! I finally did some stitching. This little Holly Girl is part of a design from a French cross stitch magazine (De Fil en Aiguille - Nov/...

Given the one-woman campaign of genocide I wage on them in the garden I seem to have quite a soft spot for dandelions as a decorative motif....

Thank you for all the kind comments on my Grow Your Blog post. There were 47 in all. Mr Random.org picked out a winner for me and that winne...

I do like me a bit of a brooding pirate. Here is Colin O'Donoghue as Hook from Once Upon a Time. I make no apologies for having shared ...

Here are some fresh and fruity felt coasters (ooh the alliteration, my English teacher would be SO proud) I made in the vain hope that we mi...

Fun and games for all the family on Saturday, rigging up the float with a generator and lights for Launceston Carnival. (Eagle eyed readers...

We went to the Eden Project yesterday, because Naomi wanted to see "Bulbmania". The place was packed, but we had a lovely day out....