A Bookish Week

A week of learning and sorting

Monday evening was fun

I attended a lecture on the history of sculpture.

Mid-week was spent sorting through boxes of old books

and discovering worn and tattered copies

of Winnie the Pooh.

I've been playing with a design of cracked tree bark.

I'll show you some sketches tomorrow.

Fourteen Days of Christmas

It's been a quiet Christmas

Just the two of us

Brett couldn't get time off work

So

all the kids decided to come in January

and have a family Christmas then

Good thing

the ice storm and snow 

have wrecked lots of travel plans

A star for Christmas Day

For the last few days of the year

I think I will finish up thready odds and ends.

I do like that higgledy-piggledy darning in the middle.

I should explore that further.

Let's Scratch Winter!

A snow week

Our song birds disappeared in the Spring

with the arrival of the falcons.

This week the cardinals finally came back to the feeders.

I'm a happy camper.

We travelled up the valley past fields of snowbound stubble.

Snow devils flew snow up into the air

and it snowed

and snowed

and snowed!

Old Man Winter must think it is January or February.

It's freezing.

Clementines are in the Shops

Hard to believe Christmas is nearly here again.

Handy Hubby flew back from London

Just scratching stitches

South Africa mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela

and celebrates his life.

Not pumpkins but  clementines!

Christmas is fast approaching

and I'm just not ready.

Dailies Doubled

Scratching a week of arrivals and departures

of scraggly dead spruce trees

and snowy days

My second week

this time all alone

The Rusty pups and I have walked in snow nearly every day

Visiting a friend who looks across the Basin 

at Annapolis Royal

Looking very grey 

as tiny snowflakes hung in the air.

Scratching With the Help of Bears

Sometimes a bear can be helpful!

It has been a busy week

with only snippets of time for my scratchings.

Trying out some loosey goosey stitches

for a project I have in mind.

On Saturday we were putting things in order

and on Sunday making lists of jobs still to be done

because I am expecting some lovely guests next week.

The Week in Review

Scratching Winter's Arrival

So busy stitching somewhere else not much time for scratching.

That is supposed to be a printing press because

Wednesday was spent at our new print studio

learning about how to use that press.

Flocks of robins have arrived from Newfoundland.

They love all of our bright red berries.

At the end of the week we celebrated Handy Hubby's birthday

as it snowed and rested on the ground for just a few hours.

Scratched Travels

Busy week.

Soo cold and windy outside so we lit our first fire of the season.

Then I snuggled in front of the fire and played with crochet.

On Wednesday a group of friends came and spent the day discharging.

On Halloween, Handy Hubby had to get a tow out of soggy ground!

And the Rusty pups turned six.

Then I drove up the province through wind and rain and past many a tamarack tree

for a SAQA weekend.

Seventeen of us spent the weekend learning more about each other
and looking backwards at what brought us to where we are
and where we plan to take our work and friendship in the future.

Scratched Scrolls

Scratched scrolls are piling up

Yards and yards of daily stitchings are accumulating.

This week included a visit to the dentist!

Row upon row of running stitch have been growing in the background.

Rows of daily scratchings mark the passage of time.

Do I carry on next year?

Do I change things up?

I will have to decide before the Holiday season.

A Thanksgiving Week

We Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving this week.

Our good friend Irene arrived from Montreal

We visited Mavillette Beach

and many other lovely Nova Scotian spots.

On Friday our friend caught a very lopsided plane back to Montreal!

That evening we went to see Lee Daniels' the Butler...

....one powerful movie.

Giving thanks for the glorious fall Mother Nature gave us this year.

Scratchings in a Wicker Suitcase

Now you see them...

Now you don't!

On Monday I was obviously getting myself all knotted.

On Tuesday Handy Hubby and I went for blood tests and then to vote....

....all before breakfast!

On Wednesday, Diane and I took some wrappings out of the stream....

some around rocks, some around rusty and some around a log.

The rest of the week flew by.

Tide and time wait for no man.

My favourite tiny wee stitching this week....

....and these two.

Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadians among you.