Wintery Wonders

Winter. Love it or hate it, there is an undeniable beauty about it and all that comes with it.

I love it and it often sees me out and about with my camera or my phone in my pocket capturing the beautiful light or my cosy creations.

I hope that you are keeping warm if it's winter at your house!

Kate x

Flour and Fire

I have challenged myself to do some study  so I can use my camera on some manual settings this year, and start to better understand the multitude of buttons and settings it has. I have managed to take some good pictures in the last few years with very little knowledge so imagine how dangerous I could be...



The Shady Baker, Jane at work

An invitation arrived from the lovely and talented Jane from The Shady Baker to attend her annual Flour and Fire at her home. On offer was the chance to learn the basics of sourdough and hands on bread making as well as making beeswax candles with Zara from Zaranne Handmade.



ready for some baking and making action

A perfect photo taking opportunity as well as lots of fun and new friends...



beautiful homemade happiness by Zara



The swap table.We all contributed something home grown or homemade
then got to take treasures home



beautiful morning tea that greeted us on our arrival



me hard at work creating sourdough bread

Summa from one of my favourite haunts, The Caff, working on her day off to create pasta



this was our goal...these beautiful loaves of crusty goodness

it was like an Insta-meet or a bloggers convention, maybe both! Poised ready for bread action Zara, Sophie, @shell_mcclure (and me!) plus partners and friends who have not heard the call of social media!

lunch...it was good!



making beeswax candles. So much fun




What a wonderful day with great food, new friends and skills, goodies from the swap table and lots of photographic practise under my belt.

Do you wrangle with the manual settings? Do you use your phone? Hands up who remembers the days of film and dodgy school excursion photos when you recorded every detail in wonderful blurry glory!

Kate xx

Linking with Trish for Wordless Wednesday

In the Neighbourhood

We all know that exercise makes you feel good...maybe not thinking about it but certainly doing it!

I have slipped sideways on the waggon as I have let a few things get in the way and not only are my scales and my jeans telling me, but so is my head!

So this is me putting my walking shoes back on. My head is moving on from its Eeyore state to a more Tigger-like state again...

source

While I walk I snap what I see!

sunrise

weather watching

wet morning

Happy Tigger thoughts to you too.

Kate xx

Linking with Trish for Wordless Wednesday