I dug out my old flower press last week and
started frantically trying to preserve some of my

lovely summer garden before the weeks of rain took its toll.

The result was this butterfly card which I was quite pleased with

I can see me doing many more.

My crochet birds are coming on and

with some brainy ideas from my other creative

pals I have started developing a label Woolly Soup.

Since I seem to have a thing for birds at the moment

I started playing around with sketches of birds for my logo.

Final result as shown above, let me know what

you folks think.

Other news, I have two weeks to go till due date, Cant explain
how excited i am, the belly now has a name (Merryn) as we have

been told it is a girl although I'm still not 100% this is correct

knowing my family history.

And Finley has decided that noddy lives in toy town

in Exeter, and that he has only just grown his nipples

(he wont believe me that they were always there) looks like

my baby brain is now a family thing not just me.

poor Merryn what is she being born into.

boxes of treasure

Finally we had some sun and so came the mad rush to the sea to get that summer feeling I so love about living in Cornwall.

I discovered a new section of beach in Looe previously undiscovered by me, and what a find for beach combing.

Thousands of mother of pearl shells, drift wood and some amazing plants hanging on to the cliff face.

I also found some ellusive burdock growing which I have been searching the hedgerows for to make a brew.

After gathering some seeds to sow next year and filling my pockets with beach treasure I left a very happy girl.

My other box of treasure, stock for selling, progressing nicely.

Its surprising what you can do in a few nights instead of cleaning

and house chores although I now live in a pig sty.

I also found a treasure in the local charity shop, the best book

with the best title, you got to love those vintage publications, they're so cheesy

chutney stock also progressing, Although our home grown chili stock was a bit disappointing this year with all the rain so we had to top up our supplies with a few extra shop brought chillies too.