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Friday 16 July 2010

Back in Leeds

A lovely time away in Riseley and London.  We went to  an open garden:

and Marlborough Open Studios.  Fenella Elms' stuff (http://www.fenellaelms.com/) made me want to taste it!  Alison Edmonds (http://www.alisons-portfolio.co.uk/) in her shed was showing us how she does a piece a day along with a couple of friends and they have a format - 7"x5" - to limit it.  So I've started and done 3 so far.  Monday was London and Tracey to the Brit Museum to see the Drawing exhibition.  I got in as an OAP for half price.  The way they made me want to look and look is inexplicable.  So I got the catalogue.
I've not been away for so long for ages - 10 days including the time at mum's and all on 4 outfits and that includes the dress I took for mum's birthday bash, of which I haven't got a photo of course but it was rewearable though I carried the heeled shoes around for no reason for the rest of the time.
So bags bulging with clothes and then catalogue and the book they gave me for free and the paper I bought in the paper shop we found (http://www.bookbinding.co.uk/) and the book I bought cos Tracey said it was in her all time top ten and of course dog stuff.  Thank heavens one was on wheels and the other on my shoulder and Angel lived up to her name, trying to get on a 2 step up train with a coffee and warm ciabata too!
I have NOT yet followed up on the other bit of the visit to Tracey - she's in to crotchet, felting (http://www.knitting4fun.com/) and cross stitch - Paul is doing a beautiful copy of a madonna from Gent Cathedral with 2 threads - and a magnifying glass light!
Phillip next door looked after the garden really well and I came back to potatoes ready to tip out of the pots and the greenhouse:



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