a lovely brooch

I am still learning how to take good pictures so you'll have to forgive me that. However I learned how to make this brooch this week and I have absolutely loved making it, its called dimensional bead embroidery. I treat myself to a book for my birthday , it has some fantastic projects so I hope to be making some more similar things. I have also sold 2 bracelets wow I was thrilled.
My next discovery is a type of yarn called zpageti. Its really thick material to crochet bags etc, so I can't wait to get started on that too. So much to do , so little time.......
The next bit is just a comment on the younger generation. My friend Mandy has recently bought the book called 50 shades of grey, my daughter Eloise was reading it last time she came home, I told her I was going to read it after Mandy but she thinks it will be too rude for me! The mind boggles.......

How was the week ?

Well this week was odd, I was really poorly on Tuesday with a migrane type headache. In fact I bought some really strong tablets with the warning that if I took them for more than 3 days I should seek medical help as they were addictive, (you would think they were morphine or something from that warning but they didn't touch the headache). I can't see me being addicted to them anyway as I am really not good at taking tablets. Had the runs a couple of days too. The weather has been atrocious so all the poppies are wrecked. Sold TWO bracelets one to my friend Miriam who makes the most wonderful quilts, and one from a web site called Folksy which I had forgotten I had used. At my beading class I learned to sew beads round a cabousion ( I have spelt that wrong but I can;t spell it right ). My friend and beading teacher Dot and I went for a drive on Wednesday but I wasn't well so I had to come home to my own toilet (you get my meaning I'm sure ). Then at 11 o'clock in the evening I had to pick my beautiful daughter up in L**ds as she was coming home for a funeral on Thursday. I am hoping for a better week next week, I have a cardigan to finish knitting and two other knitting projects which aren't particularly urgent to get on with. ttfn, Beverley

Here's one I made earlier

Ava wearing a jacket I knitted earlier this year, isn't she gorgeous !

Two more bracelets made today unfortunately the picture doesn't do them justice.

The poppies are coming

These lovely red poppies are new this year, The colour is much deeper in real life !

These are really big when they are properly open but the rain has spoiled them this year !

bracelets ala shambala

The first one took 2 hours, it's got tiger's eye, moonstone and goldstone, the majority of beads are hematite.

This one has 'disco' balls and hematite, I took less time due to the fact I was improving my technique with macrame.

my first blog

aged 53 and 90/100ths my first blog!

My cat puss, we have another called kitten, she's younger than puss.