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Showing posts with label blankets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blankets. Show all posts

Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Aesthete's Alphabet - K is for Knitting

 

 
 It has been a cool and rainy day here in Cape Town and I'm settling down to put this post together after a long lunch with some of our favourite friends and a few too many glasses of wine. The dishes have been washed, the house is tidy and I am sitting on the sofa under a blanket feeling very relaxed, but also very lazy and can't really think of a whole lot to say about knitting, other than as much as I love hand knitted blankets, scarves and so on, I am far too impatient to ever take it up myself,  so I will have to content myself by admiring other people's beautiful handiwork. (Whew....that was a really long sentence! Clearly wine doesn't improve my prose.)


























Wishing you all a lovely week. We go away on holiday on Friday so the "L" post might only happen when we get back. I'm nearly half-way with my alphabet and haven't yet run out of ideas, but I'm sure that the Q, X, Y and Z are going to be tricky. If you have any fabulous ideas, send them my way please.
 
Till next time
 
Sharon x
 
All pictures via Pinterest and Tumblr

Friday, February 25, 2011

Waiting for Winter

We have been having sweltering hot days in Cape Town. The kind of energy-sapping, temper-fraying heat that makes the days hard to bear. So I am waiting and wishing and watching for signs of winter!



   Winter means I can have my morning coffee in front of a roaring fire....






 Winter means the whole family can snuggle up with blankets and watch a DVD....


 
Winter means freshly baked banana muffins and steaming mugs of hot chocolate for the boys after cold, wet rugby practices.....






   Winter means sitting in front of the fire playing board games .....





Or simply curling up in a comfy chair, with a blanket and a good book.




Winter may be grey, but it is grey in a good way!


Till next time


Sharon x