That's it ! The Christmas jigsaw is finished.. Every year we buy a 1000 piece jigsaw, the only constraint being that it must be finished before New Year's Eve. With all the stormy weather here it was nice to see a garden and colour emerge from the gloom. But just like last year there were a couple of missing pieces and we suspect Max the dog tried to join in the fun again !

A bright Boxing Day

After a very wet couple of days, Boxing Day dawned bright and clear, so chance to enjoy a walk down to Loch Maree - with a camera, of course!

Happy Holidays

The doors of the Shepherds huts closed yesterday evening and will reopen Easter 2013. Apart from some bread orders over the holiday season these next three months are our time in the studio and developing the croft. So first of all THANK YOU for visiting us and shopping with us this year - your support and the new friends made mean a huge amount to us. If you are back this way in 2013 stop by and say hello. Of course online sales will continue whilst the shops are shut.
Most of all we wanted to say have a great holiday season and a happy New Year.

For those of you who have been following the December crochet madness here is the final arrangement of the fireplace in the cottage - bunting, crochet lights and crochet pots to hold my painted seed heads in festive colours !!

Winter Dawn

With the short winter days, the arrival of the sunrise has extra significance. Even better if it adds some warm colours to the sky.

Winter Solstice

And crocheted light relief for the darkest day..........

Crocheting Carol

In the bleak mid winter the postgirl brought to me......

shiny coloured crochet hooks...

This way Santa.....

So we needed a stocking each (small but cute !)....

On the Beach

Firemore Beach

 This morning was damp and overcast when I took the dogs for  beach walk, so I nearly left my camera behind. Then the sun started to break through..... Paul

welcome to studio inscape

Getting to the heart of our lives together !

Welcome to our new venture in blogland. Esther has written a couple of blogs over the last year with news from Heronscroft in the N.W Highlands of Scotland and her ongoing creative journey in arts and textiles.


However as the year has gone on our creative journey  has grown together in an exciting way. So we are combining forces and creating just one blog for the year ahead. Thank you for following the other blogs: news.ongoing work  and Paul's photography will now be posted here, and we look forward to welcoming you to this new venture. Please sign up to follow us and leave us comments. We send you our best wishes for the year ahead...
Paul and Esther

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