Flowers are beginning to pop out in any numbers of pinks, from softest palest pink to glorious shades of ceris. Buds are all over the bushes. We have had no snows this year and nature has been fooled. A great deal of my Design influences remain with me still. /as well as dye I embroidered scenes, which was something I had done in my childhood. Get your embroidery if you have no other jobs which need doing and stop listening to adult conversation, was said not once in my home. Actually I used to draw my dad's guests, as they chatted about politics as he was a well known journalist and some interesting conversations ensued./