For those of you who don’t know, this is my swimming pool. Shamefully it has been quite some time since I last went in, but I think you’ll agree, on a day like this the water is just shouting “COME IN!!!”; and it won’t be long until I do.
This is Frankie. Frankie is a green woodpecker who visits our garden regularly, to feast on the ready supply of ants. Today I thought Frankie had brought another woodpecker along; I was wrong. The friend – and I do mean that, as they wandered side by side and behaved in the same manner – was actually a jay. I’ve often seen jays around here, but never in the garden. And never on the ground.
This one did keep flying off to hide in a nearby tree, before returning to the ground to behave like a woodpecker. As I say, curiouser and curiouser.
*Apologies for the poor picture quality, but it was a fair way off and I was in a hurry!
I never have finished reading To the Lighthouse, but today the family and I took a windswept walk along the gorgeous beach at Godrevy (Virginia Woolf’s inspiration, apparently), marvelled at the life of a lighthouse keeper (after last week’s trip to a lighthouse exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall), and ate cake in the divine cafe.
So here are a few of Folksy’s lighthouses to get you in the mood too!
All items are available from Folksy shops, just click on the image to be whisked there!
Cornish Crafty Made Paul Bailey Art
Love Textiles Sew Happy
Urban Poppy Sulwen Arts
I also made a lighthouses Etsy treasury this week – do take a look.
And I couldn’t resist a little Waterboys magic to go with the lighthouses… especially for Mr. Magpie.
As ever, enjoy. xx
As a quick follow-up from yesterday’s post, I have a few photos of my first ever crocheted jewellery.
As usual, the sit-infront-of-the-TV-and-do-nothing thing didn’t happen, but I did get creative with the silver wire and some garnet chips.
I’m quite pleased with it, for a first attempt. Today I added a clasp (unfortunately just a silver-plated one, and slightly too large for the delicate nature of the wirework) and turned it into a bracelet; I think it looks rather pretty, especially when the light catches the gemstones, or filters through them from behind.
What do you think?