Welcome to the year of the horse... 春节

Welcome to the Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, which begins on the second new moon after Winter Solstice, this is the year of the wooden horse.

Your sign is the horse, if you were born in or after Chinese New Year's Day in one of these years;

1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014.

So evidently that makes me the sign of the horse, being born in one of those years, (although I'm not saying which) in fact I must be a bit of a double horse as my star sign is Sagitarius, a centaur, half man half horse, strange, as I'm actually quite nervous around horses.

Any more of you horses out there? 

The colour of Spring...

photo - Magda Indigo

Today...

Twenty one years ago today my father died suddenly, just a week before our son was born.

Today, our buyers from hell again failed to exchange and as a result our house sale is off!
After checking if assassins advertise in 'yellow pages' (they don't) I thought, let's have something nice.

The last days of December 2013... mood board

A strange month for us, a month of disorientation, not being able to settle, not knowing whether we're coming or going and all with a continuous background of rain...  

  

  

   

    

       

   

    

  

     

    

              rain... rain...

         

        

   

         

    

         

  
 girl with umbrella - Maria Bashkirtseff / dandylion - unknown / trees painting - Piet Mondriaan / rain photo - adoreann.tumblr /  purple crysanthemum - unknown / papier mache girl - Rebecka Ryberg Skött / words - thefrogandthelionfairy.tumblr / church window - petitemichellelouise.blogspot / crochet - Sophie Digard / purple rose - unknown / trees - Ikbana jen / lavender sycamore bark photo -Asa Margrethe Hansen / print - glennisphotos etsy / painting of girl - Emilio Pettoruti / girl sitting on suitcase - browndresswithwhitedots.tumbir / writing - unknown / wool - holycrapyarnandstuff.tumblr / waves photo - Alessandro Puccinelli / coventry cathedral stained glass - unknown / trees photo - Robin Halioua / silver gilt embroidery - pillowcoversetc etsy / drawing of  big woman - Christian Rogers / bark - unknown / girl in red dress photo - BillyundHells / Ibaraki ceramics - craftslab / oranges - thisivyhouse.tumblr / gold dish - italiamedievale / girl with robin - unknown / silk threads - ravelry / diamond and ruby ring - deborahelvira / people in rain - Dennis Stock / candle - unknown / rain gif - unknown / photo of woman - Sarah Moon / gloves - artssake.tumblr / gold thread embroidery - Ehsan Khakbaz H. flickr / trees in fog - weheartit / detail of fabric from Madonna With Canon van der Paele - Jan van Eyck / clouds photograph - AnaPontesPhotography etsy / purple rug - Designers Guild / 1930's flower fabric - collection.cooperhewitt / red roses - travelingmama / Christmas tree illustration 1925 - Rie Cramer / children - unknown / linocut baubles - Printmistress888 etsy / doors - unknown / rain photo - Maximilian flickr / magazine cover 1985 - Charles Addams