trimmingthesails

Simply A Moment (April 2014)

Hello! and thank-you for your warm good wishes for my recovery and I am, I am pleased to say, feeling a lot better :). And also glad to be able to post my Simply A Moment from last Tuesday. If you have one too - or would like to add one for any day or date and would like us to come and visit and share your moment - then do pop it into the Linky below ...

It was indeed very enjoyable, and I'm hoping to share some peeks of my very first foray in the wonderful world of free motion embroidery in the next post. With warmest good wishes for the week ahead, and hoping you all had a lovely Easter ...

 

Apologies ...

Hello everyone, and many apologies for not having posted my Simply A Moment this month - I am fighting a lurghi :( but hope to be with you again very soon.  With warmest regards to you all, Alexa.

One Photo and Twenty Words (April 14)

It's a pleasure to join with Abi's lovely One Photo And Twenty Words today, where there are many wonderful visual and verbal storylets to enjoy - do call in! Here, we have blackthorn ...

                                                No leaves - but flowers.

                                                No voices - but birdsong.

                                                No warmth - but sunlight.

                                                No certainty - but hope.

                                                Early morning in Spring.

5 in 5, Wabi Sabi

Once a month, the talented Sandie over at Itchifingers offers us the chance to join in '5 in 5': five photos taken within five minutes. This time, my kitchen photos capture something of wabi-sabi. It's the beauty of things ...

... imperfect, impermanent, ephemeral - the last rose in the jug as it fades.

 ... natural, rough, unpolished - birch bark candle-holders.

 ... humble and modest - a stone on the shelf.

... unconventional, hand-made, one of a kind - a cup and saucer fashioned by my father-in-law in his seventies, from clay in his garden.

... organic forms, irregular, idiosyncratic - our burr-elm fruit bowl.

Wishing you a gentle wabi-sabi start to the week, wherever you are :).