There has not been much activity on the blog for the past few weeks. The reason being that we were busy trying to get the furniture assembled and the packing cases unpacked in the house in Spain. I took my sketchbook with me – just in case. I did actually manage to do a [...]
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I woke to snow on the windows this morning. And it was still snowing. It soon turned to mostly rain though so the snow didn’t linger. It was the first snow of this winter though and for a while the trees and plants were dusted in white. I thought it was a good theme [...] Although these days I’m not really bothered about getting Christmas presents, I do enjoy getting Christmas cards and annual newsletters from all our friends around the world. All the years we lived in Schmitten we amazed the neighbours with the number of cards that we received. They knew all about them, because I hung [...] ein Lichtlein brennt. This refers to the candles lit each Sunday in Advent on the traditional Advent wreath. I actually made these entries into my sketchbook last Sunday – the second Sunday in Advent. It was a grey, windy, rainy day. I ventured out for a walk, but turned back when the rain got [...] I thought I should try and do a couple of pages in the sketchbook this weekend. It has been about a month since I did anything. I’ve not had many ideas really, being totally stressed out at the moment with work and the house in Spain project. I was clearing away a pile of [...] There wasn’t anything particular that caught my attention in the last week to merit a sketchbook page, so I returned to my roots as it were and made a little patchwork from paper. The design was inspired by quilt patterns that I have seen that remind me of pathways or trails. One was called [...] I’ve had an arrangement of nuts, picked up on one walk just up the road from us, sitting on the dresser waiting to be included in my sketchbook. I was actually thinking of doing something different this week – something more along the lines of a collage, but then I discovered Geni’s new blog [...] We used to do a lot of cycling when we lived in Munich. Then we moved to live at the top of a hill in Schmitten that meant every bike ride ended in a long slog uphill. About 10km uphill to be more precise. Bike riding didn’t seem such fun suddenly. I actually really [...] Walking to work one day this week I saw an interesting seed pod lying on the pavement. I stopped to pick it up and realised that there were plenty more under the trees lining the road. I wasn’t sure what the trees were as they are still quite immature. It turned out to be [...] It wasn’t hard to find a theme for my sketchbook pages this week. All things seem to revolve around Spain at the moment. We have been trying to choose tiles for the kitchen remotely. That is not all the easy as we were told to choose small format tiles and all the manufacturers seem [...] |
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