ice cream and snow

Well I admit I haven't done any sewing, more packign and cleaning and researching and reading books and watching movies and ... but well even I need to go shopping for food once in a while, the are tearing down the supermarket across the street so I had to walk a bit to the next one and came by those huge windows in the new addition to the National Library and as some people have been hinting they would want to see a picture of me ... well there you go:

Much of the snow has been thawing away the alst couple of days, with high temperatures of +2°C. Well I couldn't resist some ice cream for the way - I mean after all I was carryign all my shopping home .. . well just me - ice cream and snow are the perfect combination.

Leo

snow angel

Well it has been snowing a lot lately here and not much thawing for the last few days - so I figured I got myself a great huge white playground ---

I told Janet the other day that I love doing snow angels - I had noone with me, so there was noone being embarassed if I did one. Well I made the angel in a beautiful spot in the botanic garden ...

(sorry I had to play aroudn with the exposure time to make the angel visible, it got a little dark)

Well of course I did a lot of sewing too - it's amazing how much time I suddenly have - I got my 10 pink and brown stars done ... now I have no idea what to do with them. Can I set in huge hexagons? but then what colours? Or set in more parallelograms? and end up with a small quilt?

Ohh and in an attempt to throw things out that I don't need anymore I had a go at my scrap box (it's just one box, without any order, I just stuff anything in there that's "small").

(that's a pair of the fabulous knitted socks from my mum)

 Leo

busy weekend with snow

I haven't really been dedicated to my flowers last weekend, but there was a SWAP to be posted on Saturday, a birthday card to be sent, 2 letters to be written, and the general Saturday shopping and cleaning. And on Sunday I woke up to London covered in snow - everyone here has kept telling me it never snows in London. And I had already come to get used to the though of living through a winter without snow - now that there was some snow I can cope with not having created any snowmen

(that's last years .. well one of them) 

So I used Monday to get going on my hexagon border for the hexagon quilt, 1 sides completely done, one side halfway and one started, so I only have one  without any sign of a border.

SNOW

It has been unusually warm this year instead of several degrees below zero we got some two digit degrees above zero and tons of rain - but the one morning I woke up and it was snowing and my trip to cut my grandma's hedges turned into a nice snow walk ... 

the train station in the middle of nowhere

extra high road side poles to make sure you find your way in deep snow - seems they won't need them this year.