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Just a wee post to wish our readers all the best for the new year, here’s wishing all your hopes and dreams come true. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day have a … … HAPPY NEW YEAR … … and have some fun!
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It all began yesterday, I had been chatting to the kids about our Christmas wreath … … when they decided it needed something, extra, “a drop of the snow spray”, they had pleaded and, well, it seemed like such a harmless idea. A bit of entertainment for the kids … … but they just didn’t [...]
I just found out about this great project today and had to share it. It’s certainly ambitious but I don’t think it’s impossible. Ola Helland is a guy from Norway who is trying to collect one million images of “hand made” giraffes by 2011. Besides a bet with a friend, he’s got a deeper reason [...]
We’re back from our holidays both refreshed and exhausted. There are almost 600 photos to sort through; it could be some time before we emerge from the digital darkroom! In the meantime here’s a picture of Stac Pollaidh at sunrise. The view from our holiday cottage to this hill was uninterrupted and seemed to change [...]
Over the years I have amassed quite a collection of vintage buttons. This morning I set out to sort my buttons, after all what else is there to do on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon? The following pictures show the results of a day of hard labour with the button tins. first I organised them [...]
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In the absence of any new handmade stuff to upload I thought I’d add another mini-series of photographs for your perusal and delectation … if exciting railway signage is your thing then you’ve come to the right place, if not check out the rest of our Stuff here! As I mentioned in my previous post [...]
This is just a small series of photo’s taken one foggy afternoon on the outskirts of the village of Leadhills, which is nestled in the Lowther hills in Southern Scotland. The village and it’s neighbour (Wanlockhead) have a long and rich mining history going back hundreds of years and each in it’s own time has [...]
When I’m not running around threatening perfectly good sticks with my whittling and wood carving knives or shredding newspapers and sticking them to unsuspecting moulds I quite often find myself taking pictures of a whole host of random subjects … I’ll maybe upload more in the coming days given that I’ll not be finishing any [...]
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We’d like to wish all of our readers a very happy and prosperous 2009 We’ll be back next year with more crafty goodness and perhaps a few tutorials.
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