Last Mo of Movember….

For the last photo of Movember, I decided to knit myself another mo…..it’s rather like a Daley Thompson mo, if you can remember that! I shall have to send another invitation out for funds too…thank you to those who have already contributed and think that men’s health is important….we women have many campaigns to make us more aware of breast or ovarian cancer and we are more likely to see our GP when we feel there’s something wrong. Now it’s time to ‘stand by our men’ and help fund research into testicular cancer and encourage men to come forward as soon as they have a problem!

Please visit my Mospace here to rate my space and to donate funds. Thanks for visiting…your Mosista Irene aka Calendula 🙂

Paint & Chronicle….

…a new class by Suzi Blu 🙂 Here is my first attempt at drawing and shading a portrait using the lightest coloured prismacolor pencils I possess! Obviously, a work in progress 🙂

 

 

Journal your Christmas 2012

I have been joining in Shimelle’s class since December 2008 and have really enjoyed journaling, making plans and designing the pages. I didn’t finish last year, as I was going through a bad bout of depression…..my children came up on Christmas Day to make dinner for us all….so I didn’t blog at all and only made a few pages. Looking back at the other years, 2009 was the year I made the best record of what I’d actually done in my journal…two Smilebox presentations showing each page. I hope those of you who have shared your Christmas before will enjoy it and those who are new this year will find some inspiration. The layouts are all 8×8 inches, some double spread, most single. Thank you for visiting and ENJOY! 🙂

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London 2012. The Bus Tour.

The ticket for the bus tour lasts for two days and you can get on and off the bus where you wish to visit the attractions en route. We just wanted to get a general idea of the City because it was such a long time since we visited, so we stayed on the bus and just took a break at a pub along the way to break the journey. It’s not easy taking photos from the bus, as you’ll see when you view the slide show….lots of odd angles and blurred traffic lights!! There was a commentary over headphones, but I can’t remember what a lot of the places were, so I’ve just captioned where I could. I used my camera and my mobile phone and then I’d no batteries left…it was getting near the end of the tour and the light was fading, so it didn’t matter all that much! I feel really cheated though that we weren’t driven past Buckingham Palace and that my mobile phone re-started too slowly to take a photo of Eros in Piccadilly Circus! Hope you enjoy my photos as much as we enjoyed the tour 🙂

 

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Thanksgiving!

I would like to wish all my friends and followers in the USA a Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you are able to spend it with those you love 🙂

 

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Mossley Makes & Mos

Yesterday was a beautiful Autumn day in UK…a lovely day for getting outside and having some fun in the fresh air and sunshine. I did just that with a new crafting group I’ve joined called ‘Mossley Makes’…an extra from the usual once a month meeting, where we were going to make wreaths in preparation for Christmas from willow and decorate them. Setting off after the talk given to us by John one of the Tameside Rangers, we set off along the old railway track armed with loppers and secateurs in search of coppiced willow and hazel. We collected lots of these and together with foliage from members’ gardens and ribbon brought by another member, we fashioned our wreaths. It was a little more difficult than it sounds as although the willow and hazel were flexible they were also very springy, so just when you thought you’d formed a passable circle it started to unwrap! Everyone went home with a wreath or a collection of materials to finish it at home ….see the scrapbook below.

I also met some Mobrothers who were also collecting money for mens’ health by growing a moustache 🙂 I’ve just bought a lovely moustache necklace which I am wearing throughout Movember and I used this as a Mo for my latest photo on my Mospace here. Please visit, rate my mospace and donate…any amount will do 🙂

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Saturday with the family……

London 2012. Saturday & Sunday.

I don’t seem to have any photos of Saturday…we spent the day in Greenwich lunching, boozing and walking. I like Greenwich…I think if I HAD to live in London, I would live there or quite near.

The photos are from Sunday…we went out to lunch, following our trusty CAMRA pub walks guide and called in a few other places as well. The church bells were ringing as we passed Southwark Cathedral and I felt great sympathy for the actors at The Globe trying to perform their last matinee of Twelfth Night!  Loved Borough Market and would have liked to re-visit when it was open. Also the WW2 museum had some wonderful posters outside and I would like to have gone in, but they were closing. We passed The London Dungeon several times but I’m a very squeamish person so I don’t think I want to see torture as entertainment….so many more interesting places to go!

 

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Monday is Moday….

Hi everyone! It’s Monday again and time to show you the results of my moustache ‘growing’ for the week…when I say ‘growing’, I really mean knitting! This is a pattern from ‘All the Fun of the Fair’  and I stuck it to my face with sticky dots…they were rather painful when removed! I’m just sorting through the other patterns I downloaded,  to try and decide which one to knit for next week, so please watch this space for my next creation 🙂

If you like my Mos, please rate my space and donate some cash for this Mocause! Love, Hugs and Thank yous from Calendula 🙂

Knitted Mo…..

Wool and needles have arrived at last, so I’ve knitted my first Mo using a pattern from the internet which was very easy to knit 🙂 I need to knit them in different sizes so I have a different Mo for each week so I’ve collected a few patterns together. Some are free so if you have a few oddments of wool, you can easily knit them.

• Stitch London Tashtastic Moustache Patterns
•  All The Fun of the Fair,
• Untangling Knots
• Instructables

My FAVOURITE find when searching for all these patterns, was Mr & Mrs Tache (see photos above)  from Knitted Toy Box . They have felt Mos but they’re cute anyway!  All the patterns on this blog are delightful, so if you love knitting small toys, it’s worth a visit 🙂

Please visit My Mospace and look out for my photographs and updates. If you are amused by my photos, perhaps you could make a donation to my effort to raise money for mens’ health.