A tweetful journey...[BB]

I saw this on the front page of Esty today and the little blue bird reminded me of Helen - head above the crowd and tweeting. I liked it first off but its actually called a 'Tweetful Journey' and is by Tim's Sally - cute and very fitting.

a whole catalogue of ISTATOYs {HH}

When I opened my Coast magazine this morning a beautiful Cox & Cox catalogue drifted out from between the pages. A full version of the catalogue is on the Cox & Cox website: http://coxandcox-catalogues.s3.amazonaws.com/CC10_Spring_Catalogue.pdf

I could pick out at least 50 objects of desire that I know Liz will *love* but I've managed to whittle it down to three:

Jigsaw Cookie Cutter:


Lemon Drizzle Cake Candle:


Friendship Birds:

Button Tin - we do love a button...[BB]

View of front of kiosk
Originally uploaded by Sarah Waterhouse Textiles

Having spent perhaps too much of the morning looking for an online audio file of Mary Margaret O Hara's 'A New Day' - which if you can find it I promise, promise, promise you will love - I had given up. Aiming to return to work I happened upon these lovely photos of 'The Button Tin' - not only does it have the cutest sign but must be the coolest / cutest building in all Rotherham...

I would very much like to be sitting on a wrought iron chair, in the spring sunshine with a pot of tea looking at the textile loveliness... with HH, of course.

Simply Delightful Diaries {HH}

Oh what a joy to behold these Keel's Simple Diaries are. I am thoroughly convinced that we would both become goddesses of organisation if we had one ... I think I'd go for red :-)

"Your day was ( )Crucial ( )Open-minded ( )Immature"
"A secret passion you are dying to share with those who deserve it:__________"

Make sure you take a peep at the videos and also advice on how we can Be the Panda!

Love it, love it, *love* it!

Never ending or beginning {HH}

A strange serendipitous trail led me to this collection of three versions of 'The Windmills of Your Mind' ... Dusty Springfield, Dorothy Ashby and The Muppets ... enjoy the awesomeness: http://blog.discorocker.net/2009/02/windmills

I also love this version by Alison Moyet:



Actually I have a feeling that anyone could do this song and I would love it ... makes me feel like creating art when I listen to the lyrics ... expect to see lots of spirals, tunnels, keys, apples and footprints in forthcoming weeks and months ;-)

Live the life that I would love...{BB}

My first post to our very exciting collaborative venture is less an 'I saw this..' and more a 'I heard this...' so there you are - I haven't read the instruction book and I am going my own merry way already...

I've been pretty home based for the last 2.5 months after an accident and a badly broken ankle. I've done some thinking and some reading. I've kick started my 'Year of Knitting Selfishly' project and I've listened to a lot of radio at all hours of the day and (sleepless) night. On one early morning stint I heard the following on 'Prayer for the Day'. Now neither Helen nor I have a particularly religious bent, though we occasionally muse on our beliefs and ideas - but this seemed so very much a perfect thought and made me think of Helen:

May I have the courage today

To live the life that I would love.

To postpone my dream no longer

But to do at last what I came here for

And waste my heart on fear no more...

Many people postpone their dreams, and sometimes forget them altogether, under the weight of too many shoulds, musts, can'ts and shouldn'ts... I'm guessing it isn't easy but Helen is, I am happy to say, 'living the life that she would love' and (lucky us!) is cultivating her very special gift for helping others do the same...

So, here's to collaborations with your soul twins and to not wasting your heart, and your dreams, on fear...

A Place for Sharing {HH}

I have a soul twin, her name is Liz, I call her Lizbet (but, strangely, only in writing), on twitter she calls herself @betsybeth. We are each other's Anam Cara or 'Soul Friend' and, pretty much from the moment we met, we've been sharing things with each other: objects of delight, beautiful female singers, poems that speak our truth, how we see each other and the world around us.

This is a place to collect those sharings. I'm starting things off with a video which I know Lizbet will love ... mainly because she introduced me to the song in the first place ;-}


Johnny Boy - You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve on MUZU