A Little Bit of British from Across The Pond

A Brit girl living in Penn's Woods, with an Off-Grid Cottage in the North Country. For lovers of gardening, books, crochet, teatime, travel, most of all kindred spirits.

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

The Oilily Jumper/Sweater

This is the jumper that I bought at the thrift an Oilily. As you can see I have unpicked the seams up the sides and along the arms. N...

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Cold Today

Last night it was down in the teens Fahrenheit, sorry we're terribly old fashioned over here in not using Centigrade, but the sun is out...

Mittens Made from Old Boiled Wool Jacket

These are the mittens that I finished, with some embroidery work; which I came up with. The stitches are herringbone, blanket stitch, ch...

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Cocooned

Thank you for the well wishes. Well I have been cocooned in bed for over two days. I thought this flu would be one really bad day but it...

Friday, February 4, 2011

Idle and Ill

Well it's Friday and I've spent the entire day ill in bed. This cold or flu, what ever it is, has been coming on for several days, b...

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Boosul Boy doing his personal Bible study, with his faithful companion Tink and a cup of tea. We have always studied the Bible with Rob...

Sunday, January 30, 2011

My Sunday

Well the sun is out and I was quite surprised to see that my Spring counter on my Blog says only 49 days until Spring. I must say I have be...

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Felted Quasi Norwegian Mittens

I felted these mittens out of two old Austrian jackets. they were past their best. One blue, one red. I'm going to have a go at embr...

Tinkerbell Snuggled In

Tinkerbell is pretty happy snuggled in here on the sofa. She usually sits on the arm where I keep a little cover for her, but if she can...

Friday, January 28, 2011

T.G.I. Tea On The Chinese Table

Tea on the Chinese table seems quite appropriate as in: 2737 B.C. • The second emperor of China, Shen Nung, ...

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Revamped Willow Pattern Cushion

I bought this cushion years ago. Eventually the silk just wore out, so I unpicked the seams, kept the centre panel and the backing and...

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

My Windows on the World Today

This is a wonderful cedar tree in the neighborhood, isn't it glorious? Makes me think of the Cedars of Lebanon I Kings 4:33 "and ...

Monday, January 24, 2011

Moonflowers

Here are some Moonflower seed pods that my friend gave me. She knows I love Moonflowers, their fragrance is heady and pungent, conjurin...

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Snow and Reason

Well yes we did have more snow and yes we will be having more snow next week or spelled backwards wons. In any case you may wonder ...

Carmine's New York City

Well Thursday was the big day a trip to Manhattan for a sales kick-off meeting. I was up at 4:30 a...

Friday, January 21, 2011

Morning Snow

If you live in the States and it's a Snow day, you will receive a phone call at 5:00 am when you are sound asleep and for an ins...

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