Mail at the Cottage

It is always such an occasion when the yellow post office car arrives outside our gate. We get very little mail at our cottage in France. No junk mail, hurrah, just the English mail our son forwards to us regularly and the occasional much loved little package from a bloggy friend. 

The first piece of mail to arrive at the cottage after our arrival was indeed such a package :-), a birthday gift from my sweet bloggy friend Marie of Lost Bird Studio! 

This sweetly decorated little bag...

contained these two little packages, beautifully wrapped - 

Oh my, just look at those gorgeous dangly bits, teasingly poking out of the wrap -

This is the most beautiful soldered charm I have seen Marie create, I really love the image she used and the soldering is so beautifully done -

She also sent me something to play with, some enamel tags, yay! -

I think I may use that beautiful charm to make an assemblage necklace with. I have some rosary chain bits and some rather lovely beads........

And because it kind of fits in with the photos of the beautiful religious charm and because it is Sunday, I thought I'd also post a photograph of a beautiful statue of Christ outside a home in Luzy, the closest town to us where we have a couple of supermarkets and a regular Friday farmers market -

Have a wonderful Sunday, toodlepip xxx