I love this recipe. It’s definitely not a vegan recipe, but it is vegetarian and loads of you omnivorous folks out there will love it too I assure you. I got the idea while roasting some of my favorite fall veggies a few years back. I roasted up some sweet potatoes; otherwise known more […]

I need simple in my life and I need simple in my creative life to really enjoy myself. So here is my approach to the simple, granny square. Firstly the granny square -at least my simple one, breaks down into corners, edges and spaces.
The corners of the square are made up of 2 clusters of […]

Ok -so I am getting the hang of granny squares. I was adding 2 single crochet between all clusters of 2 double crochet. The result was a bit bunchy looking. I ended up using one single crochet on the sides between clusters and then 2 between the clusters on the corners. I think I […]

When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
-Kurt Vonnegut
I enjoyed reading Breakfast of Champions when I was a young teenager and then read Galapagos . Both I found very […]

photo ftom: knitgarden
I am still learning to crochet. I am hummin’ along with my crochet blanket -but I am still dropping and adding the odd stitch at the turns, its good practice I keep telling myself, but dam it’s disappointing when ya hold up the thing and it veers off into oblivion. If I […]

I am really missing warm whether and being on holiday somewhere very warm recently –just makes this current cold winter-like whether, very torturous. This is where I was a week ago; Santiago de Cuba, where you have mountains and sea. It was heavenly. I spent many hours snorkeling, scuba diving, hyking, cycling and just […]