Friday, 29 August 2014

new in my garden

Well it's almost the end of August and I realise that I have only posted once this month ! Must pull up my socks or , as someone who shall be nameless says, there will be consequences !
Anyway, lacking anything of interest to post, I thought I'd show you my new shed !
As you can see,it has been built behind my other shed so that it tucks in under the eaves.
Here it is painted!
There door to the right is my garden gate which leads out onto a paved area and the drive. I keep my compost bins out here too, to maximise garden space. My DH and his brother built the shed. My clever brother in law also made an end for my pew -
I bought it from the Methodist Church opposite us when they renovated. it was a 'middle' pew , fixed onto a post which had another pew on the other side, so was lacking one end ! He made it from bits and pieces
of softwood that he had in his workshop and I have stained it to get near the colour of the original pitch pine of the pew. All I have to do now is make a cover for the foam pads we have for it - those early Methodists didn't believe in comfort ! it is going to live in our sitooterie.


Monday, 11 August 2014

Another TJ

Haven't done much lately - or been anywhere very interesting. I have though finished my 'other' TJ - that is to say the one that is not Yorkshire. This is the last piece in the first round of the journal and is in my friend Sarah's book.
 She is inordinately attracted to poppies, despite being told by one tutor 'how obvious' when she had chosen to base her work on one. The ceramic poppies in the display at the Tower of London are for sale and I have bought one - it will be posted to me sometime after Remembrance Day, when the installation comes down. I hope to go and see it in situ before then !
I took the photo of the poppy field at Mickley, just outside Masham in June 2006 and printed it onto cotton fabric