Frozen tears...

I caught the drops just before the snow came. Now they are gone...

The mahonia has got some icy lace on its leaves.

Pictures from Hurghada

We spent a week in Hurghada, Egypt in January.

It is nice to get away from the darkness and the chill...

Put some colour on your silver!

The enamel I have used is one that only has to be heated to 100 degrees to melt.
That means no oven needed. It's tough work to get the powder where you want it and not beside!

Heuchera - Alunrot

I like the leaves of the Heuchera. They come in many different shades of green and red.
And they also come in silver actually! I made the earrings from silverpaste applied in several layers directly on to the leaves.

Kissing party!

Not a very good photo technically - it was getting dark, and I didn't dare to use the flash...
They do eat a lot in the garden, but the calves are still very cute...

More flowers...

Today I took a closer look at the garden - one flower here, one there -

I got a pretty bunch of flowers in the end!

Click on the picture to enlargen - it's worth it!

Still bright colours in the garden.

 
But for how long?
The red bush in the background is a blueberry bush the blue is an October "stormhatt",
aconitum carmichelii. Below a close up of the blueberry.

Our cedertree has been shaped up. Some twigs pointed too far out and we also have to keep it down.

I could become 30 meters... We don't want that!

Amigurumis

Now that autumn is here there will be more time for crocheting amigurumis. My grandchildren adore them. Below two films from Youtube showing how to make amigurumis.

New favourite...

Rings made from silver clay with oxide to bring out the pattern.

Bikes

We were in Amsterdam in May. We knew that the Dutch like going by bike - but not to what extent...

                                                                             

Near the railwaystation there was a huge two-storeyed garage for bikes. How on earth do they find their bikes, when they want to go home? Lots of bikes were equipped with boxes of different kinds. The big long boxes were used for transporting children. I met a father with the box filled with kids, but I didn't have my camera ready! Pity. It was such a sight...
The last picture shows my husband with our bikes. (In Maisons-Lafitte outside Paris). We had helmets of course! We didn't see many helmets in Amsterdam...

Autumn flowers... and grapes!

The grapes grow in the greenhouse, and they are really good, sweet and quite big. There are still flowers in the garden. Thank heaven we had no frost yet... Today, Saturday September 24 has been a wonderful warm and sunny day, almost like summer...

Harvesting time!

                                                                           Lovely welltasting peaches... mmm...

                                                           

 

The peaches (Frost) are coming on fine now in the middle of September, while the late raspberries and the beans are over.

We have quite a lot of American blackberries - we put some every morning in our youghurt/porridge and we also freeze them in small packages.

There never were many beans - some animal - probably a rabbit or a hare - ate the tiny plants, so they really had to struggle to survive at all.

Some new silver jewellery...

................................................................... Pendants and earrings in silverclay/finesilver. Sterling rings for Maria. Lovisa's weddingpresent for her cousin: Champagne glasses with sterling spiral silverrings that bear the names of the couple and the date of the wedding. We have had some cold and rainy days this summer too...

Hållö

The island of Hållö in Bohuslän, outside Smögen. Dramatically beautiful, not a bush to be seen, only a few houses among which a nice youth hostel... And clean "greenish-turquoise" water! We climbed the lighthouse - what a view!