cuppa?

also fun to cut out and use on birthday cards....(the pictures, not the tea)

clipper organic tea is my new favourite. i judge my tea by its packet and its taste. both are beautiful and make me go back for more. at present i have chai, peppermint and chamomile in my cupboard. I have a strange desire to collect the entire range and display them on my kitchen shelf. all flavours suit the banana bread currently baking in the oven. later i'm making the rainbow lasagna from the fabulous vegetarian cookbook, green. (I sometimes make this lasagna too). I'm adding fresh kale from the garden because my iron is a little low. Any iron enhancing tips would be appreciated! (I'm not vegetarian but please don't recommend liver).

Also, if you're a knitter, where can I find beautiful knitting needles?

complete

it was so long ago that i held each ball of yarn in my hands, knowing that one day it would be finished. And it is, just in time for our spring-almost-summer. So my timing wasn't ideal but it was one of those projects that i longed to get back to almost every day. And as claerwen said recently, the beauty of knitting is that feeling you get when you cast-off that very last stitch. It's complete. And can't be undone. I think as Mumas we spend so much of our time doing little jobs that in a matter of hours need doing again. So it is nourishing me to look at ché's blanket and be reminded of the hours of knitting through winter...and the knowing that it will be wrapped round him for years to come...knowing it's complete. Handmade. Mama-made.

And now I'm left wondering...what shall I make next?