Bits and pieces….

Aah tis the weekend and Saturday mornings are for relaxing, eating a healthily cooked breakfast, whilst watching Saturday morning kitchen and the bunnies playing in the garden. I have also been pottering around my vegetable pots and am amazed at how well they are doing. After my disasterous courgette plants that didn’t flower or fruit last [...]

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how the garden grows….

I haven’t had much time to potter in the garden lately as I have been in the studio so much but I am delighted to see things are growing and blooming and my efforts are bringing rewards. We have fresh salad greens everyday, the pea pods are getting fatter and now we just need a [...]

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a novice gardener …

a novice gardener, originally uploaded by gilfling. The last few weeks (crooked back aside) I have been spending lots of time in the garden, pottering around, planting seedlings and trying to learn the basics of creating a small vegetable plot in such a tiny space. I have bought a couple of books from charity stores [...]

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Mosaic Monday 11 April 2011

Mosaic Monday 11 April 2011, originally uploaded by gilfling. 1. untitled, 2. Sail Away Ladies, 3. Roger, 4. Náufrago em cores, 5. dreamers4, 6. Miniature Paper Ring Sculpture., 7. Everyday Objects Tell My Story, 8. A Whisper of Snow (detail 2), 9. *, 10. Wilfilda commissioned artdoll, 11. Mixed-media Calmer, 12. fletcher no.4 Another monday another [...]

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Bunny proofed fence

Bunny proofed fence, originally uploaded by gilfling. The sun has barely stopped shining here this weekend and as a pale as milk scottish lass I should stay out of the sun, but the new garden-lover in me cannot say no to spending as much time outside as possible (with a big sunhat and layers of sunscreen [...]

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daily sketches and sweet blooms

daily sketches, originally uploaded by gilfling. It has been so hot here the last few days and I am enjoying spending a wee while everyday tending to the garden with bunnies lolloping about the grass. A small budget and inexperience are preventing me from doing as much to the garden as I would like but [...]

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Sophie

Sophie, originally uploaded by gilfling. The final character now available in The Edge Gallery, Sophies story is below. Sophie – Amongst the ruins of her ancestral home there is one room that remains intact with hand painted wall panels and billowing velvet curtains. Candle-light cast’s soft shadows and appears to bring the illustrated birds and [...]

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