miss marie's miscellany

3 good things - day 2

1) Planning the Christmas dinner with my sister; all the party this year are all vegetarians, so we have much fun drooling over recipes and deciding what to eat. I think we are veering towards Chestnut and parsnip roulade with all the roasties to accompany and to follow ginger and white chocolate cheesecake. Yum.

2) One of my piano pupils get a great result for his first exam; I am delighted, so is he (although he tries to be super-cool about it!)and  his mum is relieved and very happy :-)

3) I got fed up sliding around in the snow and ice, so I ordered these snow boots which arrived today. They are a funky gold colour, fabulous and very festive, and they keep my feet cosy, warm and dry, in fact it's the first time for a month that my feet haven't been like 2 lumps of ice. Result!

Magical mist

It's good to get outside when there's a danger of cabin fever, so I went for a snowy walk in the park yesterday. I could see the trees on the hill in the park bathed in sunlight, it all looked very inviting. And even better, when I got down to the park gates, this was the mysterious scene that greeted me.

Thick mist swirling around the trees

This was the view from the other side, lovely warm(ish) sunshine, a completely different climate!

It fair took my breath away, because it was so magical and also because it was f-f-f-freezing! 

Snowy crochet day

 

I woke up today to find it snowing again, and so it has continued all morning and into the afternoon, only stopping at about 2 pm. It's up over my ankles now! Still, it really does look beautiful

I have a few days off work, so I can enjoy pottering around at home. The house is getting a thoroughly good clean, I have sorted out piles of papers and books, done several batches of washing, made soup and cake, been out for a walk, well, more of a snowy scramble, dug a path AND have spent some happy hours doing a little hooking. A friend asked me to make a hat for his 4 year old daughter, so this is what I came up with

The effect I was aiming for was a 1920's cloche style hat - what do you think?!

I'm also making a new festive garland, Christmas roses.

These are just being blocked, then tomorrow I'll join them together and let you see them finished off.

This corsage has been a winner, I made some in this multi-coloured chunky wool for the craft fair a few weeks ago and they sold like hot cakes and I was asked to make a few more on commission too. 

It looks pretty sitting in the snow :-) 

Quiet night tonight, I think!

Blue sky day

It has been lovely here in Glasgow today, my favourite kind of winter weather, cold and sunny. 

The sky hasn't been this beautiful colour for some time

The sun makes all this snow look lovely

And the snow is a perfect background for some new crochet items :-)

A little reminder about the giveaway I posted about a few days ago, you still have time to get your name into the hat before Wednesday. I've had lots of visitors over the last few days, but everyone is being very shy!! 

 

 

The snow has arrived

Up till now we seemed to have been getting off lightly weather-wise in Glasgow, it's just been cold. Not a drop of the white stuff. But it snowed a bit yesterday and a bit more during the night, and a lot this morning.

I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get to work later :-( .......but it is very pretty :-)

Edited at 2pm to add; work has been cancelled, hurray, and there has been loads more snow falling, so I may just go out and build a snowman to celebrate!

 

September collage

September has been quite a month ; hot weather, cold weather, stormy weather have turned into autumn with the leaves already turning, a fair bit of hooking and some wool purchases, the garden is still blooming with lots of beautiful autumn shades and some delicious fruit and veg........oh, and there was a certain visitor from Rome across the road in the park!

Hope you have a happy weekend, whatever it brings :-)

The longest day

The longest day ended with the most brilliant sunset

 

A glorious sky

 

 with rich and vivid colours

 

You have to stop and look at such a beautiful sight

till it's almost gone. 
 
 
 

Washing line blues.....and whites

 

Fantastic blue skies and sunshine yesterday;  perfect drying weather, it seems like forever since I was able to do so....... long may it continue!

 

More of the white stuff

When the sky looks like this

and the leaves have an icy coating like this

 

You know what's coming!

 

It does look magical, but I think I'm done with the snow now. 

 

 

January collage

The first half of January seems to have been dominated by the snowy, icy weather which was lovely to look at........sometimes! And the results of staying in the house have been much yarny goings-on. Then there was my birthday and my trip to Liverpool. So all in all, a pretty good month to reflect on.