So I kept this rather quiet but I entered a photo into a contest…
The contest was entitled “The Sacred” and I entered this photo —

I came 82nd out of 165 so I am rather pleased. It’s not even that good a photo, a bit grainy/blurry so yay! You can see all [...]

I am working on some new christmas tree decorations, at the moment. You will certainly be seeing some bauble shaped decorations and maybe a reindeer decoration too… The new ones should be available from the beginning of October.
I’m having a week away at the end of September and my plan is to make more xmas [...]

So I wasn’t sure if I should write about the fires that are destroying the mainland since it is all over the news but a certain someone thinks I should so here goes…
Oh wait… Incase anyone doesn’t know and wonders why I should blog about the fires… I live in Crete…. That’s the Greek island [...]

So the knitting seems to be going ok, I’ve only learnt knitted stitches and purling at the moment, although purling seems to be a bit hit and miss, not sure why since it’s practically the same. I guess my hands got used to doing it one way and now trying to do it backwards I’m [...]

I think I fell in love with Photoshop. I had been using Paint Shop Pro before but when a friend told me it was like Frontpage versus Dreamweaver I hastily changed!!
Here’s what I did last night… The original flower photo first which I took on the Monastery Trip.

and then after photoshop (desaturate, history [...]

This week has gone sooo fast, once again I somehow lost a day as I thought it was still Tues/Weds when it was really Thursday yesterday….
Yesterday I went to the Monastery of St. George near to the village of Vrisses, Hania. I wanted to take photos of something “Sacred” so a church / monastery [...]

So I know i’m not supposed to start knitting til the winter cos I will get to hot but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to “practise” the stitches….. see if I can do it. Trouble was I didn’t have any knitting needles so I umm…… practised using pencils. Lol! Hey it seemed to work, I [...]