Josie with Ray @ James' Plate Final - Come on Curly :-)
Josie and Daughters - Just the one!
Fish n Chips please
Josie's Family (apart from her favourite son of course)
What a combo
Mummy - We miss you dearly
In the garden with her family around
Josie and Ray with Attenborough Nature Reserve centre
Josie
Josie
Ray and Josie at Beeston station
Ray and Josie enjoying the garden they created
Clare and Josie in the garden
Edwin and Zoe’s wedding with the cake Josie made for them
Josie and James
Josie and Natasha
Josie with Rebecca
Josie with Edward
Order of Service P1
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Josie surrounded by her family in February 2020
This was the exquisite cake that Josie created for Isobel and Ken’s wedding
A poor start to the capital J - paddling backwards with a grumpy swan worried me a bit !
Narrow part of canal, so heart is sideways on
This was after Josie’s stroke when she was in hospital
Something beautiful....my mother made this ring cushion for Isobel and Ken’s wedding. The pink and yellow roses were inspired by the colours of my bouquet.
Some photos Jayne has found from Pat’s albums
Another photo found by Jayne in Pats albums of a very young Josie
Added by niece Jayne from family albums
Page from nice Jayne’s 50th birthday album
Auntie Josie as a teacher from Niece Jayne’s albums
Paul and June Beddows’ wedding - Griffiths family on left hand side
Ray and Josie wedding day
Every image embroidered on the cake bands had personal significance; swan for the nature reserve, clover for luck, harebells and wild strawberries which appear on my dinner service and remind us of the golf course and garden in Chilwell.
Another detail from the wedding cake band: my mother created a monogram composed of an I and K surrounded by acorns (reminiscent of the Major Oak and trees I grew from seed)
Peter Beddows found an early picture of Josie when looking through his late father, Geoff Beddows’ things.
My mother made this shoe for my wedding to Ken (for luck) there are beads on this as well as the little silk roses.
My mother sitting in the garden at home wearing another of her beautiful creations: an Aran cardigan
Mummy found some extraordinary Autumn leaves and she decided to preserve their colours so she made a set of embroidered leaves using the originals as templates.
This is one of the amazing cakes that my mother made. This was for Clare’s birthday; after Clare acquired her grand piano.
My mother made this gingham skirt for me; I wanted a skirt I could twirl in which would spin out when I spun around. She made this beautiful skirt which I have given to Rebecca.
My mother had beautiful hands and loved to paint her incredibly long finger nails. She had lots of fun with them often painting each finger in a different colour. She painted her thumb with the Union Jack for the diamond jubilee
Josie with one of the outfits that she made for Rebecca. It has daffodils embroidered on it.
My mother made this tapestry of the galleon when she was very young. For years it lived at my grandparents’ house but now it is at home in Chilwell.
My mother was surprisingly adept at producing furniture covers. She made this one for a pouffe which I acquired from my landlord when I lived in my flats in London. My mother made this beautiful cover for it. It now lives in Edward’s bedroom.
A fabric brooch that my mother made for me. I am not sure how she did it: I think it must have been crocheted from ribbons.
I cannot remember when my mother made this cushion (and two others in different colours) for me. Note the even way in which the cushions are gathered on the edge. They are beautiful
Mummy sitting on Hampstead Heath having fun during the total solar eclipse in August 1999.
My mother with Rebecca.
Amongst all the beautiful things that my mother made me this is.the one I love the most. She made it for my 21st birthday. It s Wordsworth’s poem On Daffodils.
Zoe’s Wedding Bouquet painted by Josie measuring 45x35cm. Amazingly thoughtful gift from the day.
A close up of the Wedding Bouquet painting showing some of the raised detailing. A piece we will treasure forever
One of the many St David’s day gifts that Mummy made for me and my family.
My mother made this basket cover for me.
My parents with Rebecca who is wearing one of Mummy’s amazing creations; her Elmer jumper.
My mother made me a ball gown for my College ball but she surprised me when she also produced these shoes. She dyed them red and made the Christmas roses and leaves on the front of them.
Every Good Friday we (Mummy, me and Clare) used to compete to make the most delicious hot cross buns.Clare’s are invariably delicious but usually Mummy won.
Every year during our childhoods my Mummy would create letters themed according to our interests for our birthdays. This was dedicated to handicrafts and in particular to lace making
We painted pottery together in St Albans with the children. This was the dish Mummy painted with fushias inside and out. It is beautiful
Mummy in the beautiful conservatory that she and my father created.
At school I made the cover for a patchwork cushion. I had some fabric spare so I made this tiny patchwork. One day, after I left home Mummy gave me this pin cushion, she had made out of my small patchwork square.
It is difficult to take photographs of this which would do it justice. Mummy made this cross-stitch picture of a history of costume that she decorated further with beads. She translated the text to English and embroidered them.
Mummy made this tapestry of blue tits. Her father, Grandad, loved the little birds.
A ‘blackwork’ fuchsia completed by Mummy.
At the centre of the family (only Edward is missing).
Thinking about tomorrow a photo of Mummy with Natasha