by StaceyHB | May 9, 2017 | Life, Nature, Teaching, Weaving
May – and things are hotting up fast!! Firstly, may I introduce you to Bailey? He’s our poster boy today! Bailey is a labrador X (not sure whether with Beagle or with a spaniel of some kind!) and is just 4 months old. We had been missing Charlie, who...
by StaceyHB | Apr 17, 2017 | Art, Life, Nature
Just a week ago, if you had told me that Spring would arrive and transform our garden from winter’s silhouettes into verdant flower and leaf, I would have laughed disbelievingly! But this is just what has happened! Last week the trees outside our house were...
by StaceyHB | Mar 21, 2017 | Life, Nature
I have been told off! Not once, but twice and on successive days! What can I say but sorry, and I will try to do better!! First came the email from a weaving friend in the US – “Have you dropped off the face of the earth, or did you actually move to...
by StaceyHB | Jan 29, 2017 | Life, Travel
Every day is a really exciting day at the moment! Each day my workshop becomes a little more like a weaving workshop. But it didn’t start out that way! Our main move was on 4/5 January. All was going swimmingly. We had managed to pack the van (a transit)...
by StaceyHB | Dec 22, 2016 | Life, Travel
Have you noticed how many people now countdown days/sleeps before an event? It seems to be a marketing phenomena that has caught on with the general public. Generally I can’t stand the idea of people wishing away their lives through counting down one more day...
by StaceyHB | Aug 21, 2016 | Life, Nature, Weaving
Isn’t it funny how certain things make a house feel like a home? For me, as a weaver, it has to be a loom! The French house in Gascony now has a working loom in it, and the wonderful and familiar smell of wool yarn means that France is now home!! At the moment,...