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loveheart pixie ::
Posted by vicki brown on
I have been admiring Meg's lovely version of the stella pixie hat on her boy for a while now. But somehow it didn't seem right for Milo, plus I think that boy has quite enough hand knits for his head for the time being! But when my step sister went in to labour a little earlier than expected with her baby girl, I knew that this would be the perfect little hat for her.
In retrospect I should have...
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hello ::
Posted by vicki brown on
welcome to my little (new) creative space. I have been blogging in various places for a few years now, but I wanted to set up a new place to write about and share my knitting, crochet and sewing adventures.
You can mostly find me over here. I've been making beads, buttons and ninjas from polymer clay for about 3 years now and selling them over on etsy, but I have been knitting and crocheting for...
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January 05 2011 ::
Posted by vicki brown on
So I've been a little rubbish at keeping this blog updated, but I haven't really been doing a lot of gardening, so I guess that makes it sort of OK?!
There isn't much happening yet either it must be said, but will a haul of new gardening books from christmas and the promise of spring, very slowly, approaching, I will gradually be sowing some seeds and tidying up my new out door space ready for...
Trusses and violas!
Posted by vicki brown on
I have some of my first trusses appearing on my tomato plants!
So exciting!
I also bought myself a few violas today.
I am completely in love with the black molly sanderson's.
Johnny feels growing flowers is wasted time and space (which is of course nonsense) so I am restricting myself to only edible flowers!
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April 26th 2010...
Posted by vicki brown on
...today I have...
Planted some new potatoes and earthed up the old ones which, from above the soil at least, look like their doing really well.
And discovered a little yellow flower on one of my cucumber plants!
This is very exciting indeed, especially as two of my cucumber plants were moved outside when we literally ran out of room inside and unfortunately have not survived.
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