Busy Busy...

It's been a busy week or so.
Her Ladyship had just started making the stock for the Trade show in April when she put her back out, so I have been doing lots of extra fetching and carrying to help her out. Picking up things she has dropped, fetching things out of low drawers or off high shelves, making soothing cups of tea and ensuring the batteries on the Tens machine were fully charged!

It has been a busy few weeks what with the extra work but hopefully her back will be better soon.

The workshops are also in full swing with  people beavering away every wednesday making, drawing, painting and photographing.

His Lordship has kindly allowed me to sit in on his photography ones so I can learn how to take better photographs now that I am allowed to use the camera.I can't wait for the "studio photography" session when we get to play with the studio lights too!

Well it's past time for elevenses so I had better go and put the kettle on...toodle pip.

What a Motley Bunch...

Her Ladyship was playing today...she has now caught His Lordships cold and wasn't feeling up to doing any serious work so we spent the day finishing off the Needle Felting she has been experimenting with over the winter...they are a rather motley bunch.

They have been made using different techniques and with wool from different sheep to see which worked best, do you know you wouldn't believe how many different flavours of sheep there are out there and there was me thinking they were all white!

Aah...mint sauce.

Is it spring yet?

Yawn...stretch...hmmm...

I think I must have fallen asleep, I do hope I wasn't snoring too loud.

Apparently the snow that was here has gone and there is new snow here instead. I was not entirely convinced that I had been asleep that long but Bramling dragged me outside to see the snowdrops just pushing their little heads through the ground so I guess I must have nodded of for quite a while.

I also seem to have missed the first workshops of the year so I made up for my absence by helping Her Ladyship tidy up the last of the Christmas stock and dust the shelves before rearranging the shop display for spring.

It can be quite a dirty job especially when there's snow outside and the floor gets wet so all the dust gets wet and sticks to my feet as I pad about the floor. I shall have to fill the bucket with some warm soapy water and wash them later on.

His Lordship is snuffling away in front of his computer with a head cold…I do hope I don’t catch it…not with a nose like this!

Never mind the oil burner is steaming away in the corner with some tea tree and eucalyptus oil in it, so hopefully that will help, it makes the place smell lovely too…perhaps I could use some on that smelly old goblin.

“Bramling…oh Bramling…are you busy?”

Chilly for June...

I do like a good toddle along the beach but it's proving a little difficult at the moment...it's so cold the sea has frozen!

I do feel sorry for poor Heron...it must make it well nigh impossible for him to catch any fish.

I wonder if I should take him some hot chocolate and a doughnut?

Perhaps some sardines would be more appropriate...then we can have the hot chocolate and doughnuts ourselves.

I shall just go and put the kettle on...

A good excuse...

By golly it's cold out there.
There's not much doing in the Studio just now so He Ladyship suggested I put on my socks and wellington boots and went to play in the snow, so here is a photograph I took of my good friend Wheredid enjoying this frosty weather.

I'm not a great lover of snow...far too cold and damp for my old bones...however it is a good excuse for a steaming mug of hot chocolate when one returns indoors.

Hapy Crisymusses to yoo !

I is takin dis hopportunety To(*)^* wish all uvverworld beings (and yoo shoomans of couse) a verrry happy wotsitsname cos Elfypants is at 'er Ladyships house tooday wrappin up all the goodies 'n stuff and cant do 'is bloggy fing......little creep! So fr*m me...Bramling Leafmould (a nice, goodest goblin, I am) and Dauby and her Ladyship and Lordship I have to wishes yer an apppy Crissymus and grate Noo Year. So eer's a luvvely pikcha of my favey fings....

Luvverly mushrooomses!

I'm orf to get verry, verry drunk now......

"Twinkle Twinkle...

...little lights how the Fairy shines at night."

Oh we did have such fun last night.
After a hard days tidying and polishing Her Ladyship and I put up the Christmas Decorations at home and decorated the tree with lot's of sparkly things.I do love the way the lights twinkle (although I did get a telling off later in the evening 'cos I kept putting the livingroom lights off because the tree looked so pretty in the dark).
My good friend Farting Fairy is sitting beside the tree (the little motor inside her makes a rather unfortunate noise for a fairy) keeping an eye on the presents as Bramling has taken to poking, prodding, and shaking them quite violently to see if any of them may contain mushrooms of any sort!
It's very chilly here today so I think I shall go and put the kettle on and offer round the mince pies...