What Katie Did

Camera Mended. Big Happy Weekend. Lots of Pictures.

My camera developed a fault and was away being repaired. The last two weeks posts have been the result of me digging into my past photos, of which I have thousands. It was interesting posting like that rather than taking photos as I live my life and deciding what to write - the other way round for a little while. But now I am back on track with the weekend just past recorded in detail!
Lovely weekend too - a Family Skill Sharing weekend at my friends community nearby. Turn up for the weekend, bring a tent and sign up for workshops - or ... offer to lead one - I offered felt making on Saturday and making little books on Sunday. There was kite making, dry stone walling, bread making, blacksmithing, cob building, more I can't remember and fairy buns - a good way to start
lets have a closer look
ginger and orange - very sophisticated!
Lovely food. Russell is a raw food cook and uses this book as his own personal guide. He made food for us all weekend, mostly raw and delicious and sometimes cooked and delicious too

pizza for about 60 folk with a bit of dough left over for these dragons eggs
this is a marvellous way to cook!

Notices like this here and there in odd places - this one in the communal bathroom. Right next to the answer!

Camping fun, dancing to the wonderful ceilidh band, chatting round the bonfire, little children, 

 

friends from near and far
 
All working together to complete the heavy tasks - here the framework for a green roof over the clay oven - all hands required

blacksmithing while the baby sleeps
So for those of you who wanted sunshine after that rainy sitting down cow, can you feel the sunshine here?

40th anniversary of the moon landings this week

I watched it all every inch of the way. I was 13 and it made a huge impression on me.
so much in fact that I named my two homing pigeons after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. I think it is cool to have a pigeon called Buzz, but Neil?
This is felt made using ... can you guess?
no cheese involved at any stage.

'What's Daddy doing Hester?'
'Working'
I know some interesting people.

We have been good vegetable gardeners this summer, but not so very good at the flowers. My theory has a lot to do with time and the fact that you can eat the results of Geoff's gardening efforts. So the flowers have to come from the shop. Flowershop ... Flowers hop.... did you know that? have you ever seen a flower hop?
 

We have had rain, thunder and lightening and then blue skies. It's quite exciting weather! But not if you are planning an outdoor dance production. Like my friend Tim. The sun shone on the righteous. And the sun set on the lake outside my house.
 blessed

a proper collie!
Poppy came with me to the MENCAP college when I did a workshop for their festival last week. Really though, she was running her own workshop - 'can I take your dog for a walk?' she obligingly trotted beside countless kids that day. She had more takers than me. I'll split my fee.

'Lift me up Nana and I'll show you where a white foxglove is growing'
Happy Birthday Mum

experimenting with felt, a soapy wet tree here to be a series of Nursery Rhyme panels

and some more of the laminated pre-felt thing that I tried out earlier this year. The scale of this one is hard to work out - each little square is less than two inches. This might be a cushion cover?

New dolls come to join the party
I have had such fun making these, I can't bear to part with them!