We were in an antique / curios shop in Hayle recently and found two boxes of very small figures, some fifteen or so minutes later I managed to find a couple to take home. They are French cake decorations, about an inch high and the ages of the ones in the box varied from antique to modern day. Everything from French workers (baker butcher etc) to Krampus and Shrek.
I eventually found what I was looking for.
Yes, the spinner complete with distaff, I also found her twin sister :-) and another one who looks like she has a distaff and maybe an old style French spinning wheel beside her? maybe I'm completely wrong.
for reference, this is the type of wheel I'm referring to
This week I'm stitching in Cornwall, this piece of work has certainly travelled a few miles during its creation !
A slow start to the week, taking time to recover from our journey and explore our new surroundings. The Manor house stands in the centre of a holiday village however everything is closed for the winter season so its just a few residents and visitors who are staying in the privately owned cottages and apartments.
As the place is so quiet, nature is slowly taking over and on my walk around this little fellow was following me.
The view from the driveway is quite spectacular as we are only 1 1/2 mile from the sea but we are quite high up.
We the spent the first day driving the few miles over to Mousehole and had a wander around the lanes of this now quiet fishing village . We saw miles of traffic queues yesterday as all the holiday makers headed back home at the end of half term leaving much of the coast to the locals and occasional visitor
The harbour entrance is now closed, the main fishing town is Newlyn, just up the road and the harbour there had quite a few large fishing vessels in as we passed by.
We then made our way to levant mine to see how much remains to this day, the option to see the beam engine in steam has been cancelled due to damage from the recent storm but we were still able to wander round the remains of the buildings.
Its Sunday morning and I'm taking time out to chill with a coffee, the sun is trying to break through and I can hear seagulls in the distance.
Its been a bit of a hectic week, we started with putting our partnership on a legal footing with our Civil Partnership Ceremony with a couple of close friends as witnesses . Its only taken 38 years to get around to doing this.
Of course, I had to mark the occasion with a band on my sampler.
Then the next night we had a very loud banging on the door and we were told to evacuate our house ! Apparently next door's boiler had started smoking and the worry was that it would set both houses on fire,
Two fire engines arrived and sorted things, we were allowed back in but dinner was cold haha
Saturday morning we were back on the road, heading south and hoping for some sun.
The trees are changing colour nicely but it was misty and murky for the first 250 or so miles.
But eventually the sun broke through and made it all worthwhile.
On Thursday I headed over to lincoln, to raid the charity shops and take some photos. I did score in one of the shops, a hand knit cardi in what we think is wool.
