May you be Creative!

May 16, 2020 / moragnoffke / 11 Comments

My grateful heart receives abundant creativity, It springs from the Well of Living waters. For the abundance to be available we must open our heart to kindnesses awaiting to be bestowed. Of creativity I can only say it is a wellspring of its own refreshing participants both giver and receiver. It's springs be flooding, I … Continue reading May you be Creative!

Trauma

May 6, 2020May 13, 2020 / moragnoffke / 5 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4U3OcHxY1A Last week I wrote about reflection in I turned around And I saw my reflection In it I explain about reflecting on several issues such as a conversation, a dream or an action. Today I want to reflect on Trauma. What is trauma? First let’s consider what the opposite of trauma is. That would … Continue reading Trauma

I turned around And I saw my reflection

April 22, 2020May 4, 2020 / moragnoffke / 11 Comments

... so long as I am being curious and asking the questions. So long as I am willing to learn and grow.

Victorian crafting Series with Ellie: Easter Eggs

April 21, 2020April 20, 2020 / moragnoffke / 11 Comments

... we scrapped dying and inscribing designs on the eggs and decided to draw designs on instead. This was a delightful solution and pastime.

Life is hard.

March 30, 2020March 29, 2020 / moragnoffke / 8 Comments

Life is hard

Please take a break

And breathe

There is so much information out there

you don’t need more

breathe,

What are you doing today?

March 28, 2020March 26, 2020 / moragnoffke / 16 Comments

I have discovered to my dismay, have to be washed by hand otherwise they unravel. It is therefore quite a palaver and they are heavy so I don't like washing them.

Victorian Craft Series: Monograms and Cyphers — xYOOPxz

March 27, 2020March 26, 2020 / moragnoffke / 12 Comments

Welcome to the first installment of my Victorian Crafting Series working with Cassell’s Compendium of Victorian Crafts. Morag and I decided to start off with the Monograms and Cyphers because we anticipated that it would be a relatively quick one and also because it would give us something to use as a cohesive image throughout

The Wintering Tree.

March 7, 2020February 28, 2020 / moragnoffke / 2 Comments

As I took my early morning walk and my feet crunched through the dry leaves that had fallen I thought about how it is Autumn for me - going on for Winter; while it is Spring - coming out of Winter for some friends of mine in the Northern hemisphere. I decided I would like to share with you my contemplative thoughts about Winter.