Cupcakes for Clara and a lovely video

Please check out the lovely website and blog called Cupcakes for Clara and especially this post. It's lovely to see Laura in the video showing some of the products you can buy in her shop.

I've only recently found her work, but I am so pleased I have.

Happy Thursday - I can almost feel the weekend!

Helen xx

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I finally finished sewing the names on the stockings, adding sequins and jingle bells, and they have been hung up ready for Father Christmas to stop by.

I had great fun sewing these, especially to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers last week, where I successfully introduced the film to the next generation. It made my day.

I hope that you have a truly wonderful Christmas and that 2012 will be a great year for you all.

Thanks to everyone who has read my blog, commented and to those I have made friends with - you are all an inspiring bunch of people.

Next year will be amazing - I just know it. Merry Christmas

Talented people

It's Saturday morning, I do not need to get up early and commute in to London and here I am awake before 7am! I wonder if it's an age thing....needing to go to bed earlier so you are up earlier. Anywho I am browsing blogs through my google reader, drinking tea and eyeing up my sketchbook. I feel a doodle coming on.

I just wanted to share this post which I read yesterday. I absolutely love this brooch and it works so beautifully on this cardigan. I wish I had both of them!

You can read more about Kate here.

Well I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I shall be painting my hallway and stairs today, with my lovely Jim.

Have a great weekend!

Helen

Trying something new...

In my attempt to become more organised – and every now and then I have a real purge at this – I have started to use Google Reader.

It all stemmed from changing my personal email address to a Google one and then looking at all the things I can also do from my Google account.

To be honest at first I was quite sceptical, mainly down to the fact that I had never really understood RSS feeds (or just didn’t want to) and I quite liked having my ‘favourites’ tab on my internet browser where I could check out my favourite websites and blogs when I wanted.

However, the more blogs I found and liked and the more websites that interested me meant that my favourite list was getting longer and longer. And then there was the whole issue that these would remain on the one computer....which was quite restricting as I would have to try and remember them which is not ideal if like me, you have a bad memory .

So there I was looking at what Google Reader does and to sum it up, it allows you to subscribe to all your favourite blogs and websites, and provides you with a notification whenever new posts or content is uploaded. Perfect!

This means I can browse when I want, see what has been added, keep up to date with my favourite blogs all at my own pace.

And talking of favourite blogs, here are some of them:

The Dainty Squid

Ramblings of the Bearded One

Michael Gage: Work in Progress

moments of perfect clarity

Art of Wyanne

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

I can assure you Google haven't paid me to say this, although if those at Google are reading this, please feel free to donate to me.....I just really wanted to let you know that this is quite a good little gadget. My only concern is that just as I am getting used to this, a new, whizzy-wow tool will come out..........!!!!

Have a good week!

Helen