amazing hawkmoth just emerged from cocoon

via jago.posterous.com

stunning! jago found this is his garden!

photographer captures amazing underwater images of waves breaking

via telegraph.co.uk

beautiful. click link to see 17 more incredible images.

knitted boot

first attempt

sewn news

via hitherandthither.net

 

'make your own' martini bar

i love this idea. arrange all the ingredients and let people create their martini as they move along.

lavender lemonade

i plan to make this sometime soon...

as seen on the Sunday Suppers blog. the whole blog is well worth a look - creative recipes, delicious food and beautiful photographs

* 2 cups sugar
* 5 sprigs lavender (stems and buds), plus additional for garnish
* 2 cups fresh lemon juice (from about 10 lemons)
* 1/2 cup fresh lime juice (from about 4 limes)

Directions:

In a large saucepan, bring one gallon of water and the sugar to a boil. Remove from heat; add 7 lavender sprigs and lemon and lime juices. Cool to room temperature, strain, and chill. Serve on ice, with additional lavender for garnish.

what's the catch?

i think this is a fantastic photo. as seen on rob's food photography posterous blog (http://eatpictures.posterous.com/)

    rob says:

Not strictly food photography.  But you could argue it's about to be.

Took this photo on holiday this time last year.  We were on the harbour beach in Shaldon, at the mouth of the River Teign in South Devon.

At low tide a fisherman rows a boat out into the mouth of the estuary, paying out a long line of fishing net (possibly called a seine net?) in a huge arc, like an enormous circular curtain below the surface of the water.

Three fisherman then gather the ends of the net on the shore, and slowly draw the ropes in - hand over hand - one hauling each end, and the man in the middle pulling a centre rope connected to the bottom of the net.

Slowly, slowly the circle of net becomes smaller and smaller until they bring in a catch of wild salmon in the last pocket of net still in the water.

brighton

a few weeks ago P and i house sat in brighton. and the house came with a beach hut. happy days.

hovercraft

the weekend before last, P and i took a hovercraft from portsmouth to ryde on the isle of wight.

it was great fun and they call the journey a flight so, you could say, my boyfriend flew me to the island for lunch :)

a storm approaching ryde beach

 

apple crate storage

i love this way of storing things (as seen here http://www.baileyshomeandgarden.com/by-mail/storage/). i have two port cases i use as a book case but am inspired to collect more now.

red eye

a visual diary documenting a flight from new york to berlin (with a layover in london)

from this blog (http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/) as seen on A Cup of Jo (http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/)

winchester cathedral

june 2010

beautiful creatures - update

i found out where these are from - http://www.etsy.com/shop/Lemmikkiapina

beautiful creatures

unfortunately i have no reference for these beautiful creatures. i think i saw them for sale on etsy but forgot to note the source.

knitted fry up

while searching for knitted food patterns online, i came across this from a jackie annual, 1979. why not take a knitted fry up one step further and wear it? inspirational.