Tag: gifts

  • correspondence

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    These are my pinboards at the Astley Ainsley Hospital, covered with the wonderful cards and messages you sent. Being in hospital is a difficult business. For me, the dissociating effect of being a patient in an institution was compounded by the fact that I was inhabiting a body which did not seem to be mine…

  • sixteen

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    help . . .

  • nessie

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    Just time to show you one more sort-of hand made gift. This is a calendar I’ve had made up for a few family members who like my photos. I am quite pleased with it — the whole thing looks much nicer than those wee pictures give a sense of. Some of you may recognise that…

  • oi!

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    No peeking! Yes you! You know who you are! You said you wouldn’t look! . . . Actually, those who I’ve placed under a three-day blog embargo are good at keeping their promises, and if I don’t blog this now I probably never will. The seasonal craft wagon trundles ever onwards. Very soon, it will…

  • ties

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    from Neckclothitania, (1818) Most of my evenings this week have been given over to cutting, folding, and carefully stitching neckties. Young or old, smart or casual, all the blokes in my family this year will be receiving a handmade tie. I can share this information with you because with one exception (my Dad) these blokes…

  • got

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    Among the lovely things I received: A ‘ballerina‘ kit from Hanne Falkenberg . . . . . . some fabulous vintage fabrics, of which these bellhops were my favourite . . . . . . coasters made of Japanese washi and shaped like wee kimonos . . . . . . and this wonderful quilted…