our garden- for you both to see - Ant and Gemma.

It was the Bordeaux Methodist church Centenary celebration picnic yesterday at the field behind the Vale Douzaine room. It was perfect weather and lovely to see everyone. Mr Bugs, Me, Sam and Grandad above eating our lunch!!
There was a man making balloon animals, hats etc for all the kids!!
Alan and Julian - hasn't he grown and he speaks french and english!!!
General view!!
Barbeque food was also available!! Antoinette and Gemma - I have e-mailed you some other photos - hope it worked!!
This coming week I have to concentrate on making things for the wedding. I have been working a lot in the garden recently and will take some photos to show you.

mexican photos

These are a fraction of the photos I took in Mexico - now you can see where the inspration comes from!! I expect i'll feel the same when we go to visit Antoinette in Saigon!!! And there will be silk to buy!!!!!!

Mexican Inspired textiles

Our eldest daughter, Antoinette, lived in Mexico City for 3 years, teaching in an International school. We had to visit her whilst she was there and 2 year's ago we spent a week in the Yucatan Peninsular visiting the Mayan Sites - I took hundreds of photographs of all the buildings and came back very inspired to stitch!! Here are some Mexican inspited textiles - I dye my fabrics and layer them before machine and hand - stitching.(these are at your request, Mai-Britt)

I suppose I should really have put on some of the photos to show where the inspiration came from - I will try now!!