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A Liberty Rowan Christmas Present

 

Hello to all Resurrection Fern readers, I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays and they are filled with joyful and cheery blog posts. Some of you dedicated readers may know who I am, my name is Deborah and I am the youngest of Margie's four children. This year for christmas, my sister Rebekah and I wanted to stray from the usual scarf or gloves as gifts for our wonderful and caring mother. My sister stumbled across a vintage knitting guide on eBay, where the knitting company Rowan and our favourite Liberty had a collaboration. Various designers such as Kaffe Fassett designed chunky knit sweaters inspired by Liberty patterns. The book instantly sparked inspiration and Rebekah knew what she wanted to do for our mother's christmas present.

 

As I was visiting Halifax to check out universities, we took the opportunity to make this gift happen. She assembled looks using only vintage Liberty pieces she had collected through the years, and big chunky hand knit sweaters that were often found at thrift shops. Although it had been solid rain all week, the weekend I arrived Mother Nature seemed to know I had arrived with a purpose and the weather could not have been better on the day we ventured to Point Pleasant Park to do the photoshoot. The story is a young traveller, new to the East Coast and excited to explore with nothing but her Liberty, knits, and suitcase.

I hope you all have a very safe and happy New Year's Eve! With 11 being my lucky number I am eager to see what good things this year will bring. If you want to see more photographs from the shoot please feel free to check out my Flickr here :)

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty."

- Edmund Spenser, 1591 

me and my macro lens

I must have been a pretty good girl last year because santa (aka my husband) bought me a wonderful macro lens for my camera.  I am just starting to take it outside to see my natural world closer than was possible with my other lens. I realize that for the best , clearest images I really should be using my tripod but I just can't get used to the thought of lugging that around with me and I seem to have misplaced my light weight mini tripod. If I hold the camera very still and shoot between breaths while the light is still half decent it seems to take a decent shot. I did a few comparison shots for you to see the difference between old and new lens and then I just had a little fun with the macro lens on a very brief but absolutely delightful walk in the forest yesterday. 

can anyone guess what those red things are?

xo

last wordless wednesday of 2010

 

like mother, like daughter

It seems like I wasn't the only one wrapping in brown paper this christmas. I really loved my eldest daughter's take on it with the addition of kite paper snowflakes or "helm's" as her atlantic canada transplanted sister called them. 

Back to work today was a little bit of a challenge.

it just wouldn't be christmas without gingerbread cookies

The best olfactory memories of christmas are bringing the fresh fir tree into the house and the making and baking of gingerbread cookies. These are some pictures of this years batch. I think you will notice a familiar design or two.

The gorgeous feather cookie cutter is from nicole's shop , harriot grace and the mushroom one came from my dear friend sonia. The others were in my cookie cutter tin and the stone shaped one was custom designed by moi. I took a double take last night when my daughter shouted from the kitchen, "I am eating one of your crochet covered stones mom!" 

xxoo

margie

twas the day before christmas

and all through the house not a creature was stirring except fern and his elf.

Snail kisses and all our love from my family to yours.

Ps Edgar is doing fantastic so at least one of my christmas wishes has already come true.

lights, cranberry and popcorn, action

The order of affairs in tree decorating in our household. 

We enjoyed a pantomime in toronto today and a delicious meal at home. I can't believe tomorrow is Christmas eve already. 

xo

m

wordless wednesday

a nest in a snow feather tree

This morning, the first morning of official winter, the earth and I celebrated the sun with a clear blue sky and gorgeous sun kissed frost.

happy winter!!!

shhhhhhh

I hope you can keep a secret. This is a gift for someone special. It is hand stitched and quilted from little bits and pieces of hand naturally dyed fabrics. The last thing added to it was the embroidered maple key inspired by a beautiful photograph in sonia's flickrstream. 

xo

m