Cor blimey, it's September already and here we are with Ms Julia again and her WOYWW blog hop. Pop along to find out what I am on about. To explain it a bit more here is my desk, photo taken yesterday in readiness for the hoppity hop hop.
Yes, rather set up. It was Shaz mentioning those ColorBox tools (see the RH pot) last week. Those are mine. The pot is a can I made years ago when on a CHA workshop. It was using Lumiere paints and we painted the can first of all, then stuck some sand like stuff on to give it a bit of texture, a picture and some plastic buttons. I still remember it well. It is finished off with a piece of string tied around the top for a handle
Couldn't show you that one without showing you my funny faces. This was one I made with my friend, Liz Welch a few years ago on one of our weeks away crafting. It was not long after she had done a Nolitex exhibition where she made this HUGE pocket watch and covered it in faces for numerals. Well, she had me putting some gauze type fabric on a can, wrinkling it up and then painting it. It must have had some kind of stiffener in it before I coloured and draped it on. Next was to make those little faces with paper clay. Each one had to have a different expression so it was good fun making eyes, noses and ears in different ways. Wish I could find a photograph of her pocket watch, it really was something rather special. She had it on a wall in a spare bedroom later and I was thrilled one weekend to be sleeping in the bed by the side of it. Hard to believe she is no longer with us. Such a talented lady.
Well, this is turning into a lot of chit cat and, as it is Tuesday evening when I am writing this, I am falling asleep. Think I dropped off twice already! Just before I leave you, remember the little guy I asked you to identify a short while ago? Well here he is and as you can see he is a hand held fan - perfect for the hot sunny days we had. He came, originally, filled with sweets. Think he can go away until next year now though. Don't you?
Health Update:
Nothing to report really. My chiropractor is on holiday as I mentioned last week so no treatment until the 13th. Bad weekend but then Monday brought about three hours of 'no pain'. I was beginning to think something had moved in my back and it was over. No such luck and yesterday was a bad day again. Ah well, Rome was not built in a day. And there's a lot worse than me out there. I keep reminding myself - I have 'hope' and I have 'faith'.
