For our sixth (!!) wedding anniversary (in 1994!!!!) husband bought me an iron candle stick. The arms spiral from an iron plate and it held 6 cobalt blue pots which held tealights. I love it! It lives in the garden
Over the years three of the blue pots have broken and some years ago Jackie and I found some glass yoghurt pots that were a good size. We forced ourselves to eat the yogurt (!) and I glued rope around the tops to stop them falling through. Not as pretty, but did the job
Over the last few years the rope has started falling off, so I needed a plan C
I found a pack of solar garden lights in Aldi (funnily enough the same place the yogurt pots came from)!
I pulled off the stakes and slid the lamp part into the iron ring at the top of each arm
and I have a working garden light!!! I am delighted!!
I have done a bit of sewing too - I appliqued the final scraps of rainbow onto some spare denim, and I gathered up all the rainbow cork scraps and after a bit of playing managed to fit them into a jigsaw puzzle that gave me almost a rectangle almost the same size as the denim. Not sure where this is going but I hope to have some inspiration soon
I've also been embroidering for the local Scout packs, and for a museum exhibition about pleats and drapes
I have plans that may see more crafting in the future - wish me luck!
I started this blog for me - it expanded to show BFF Jackie what I was doing - and a few others have invited themselves too - everybody welcome! Mostly about patchwork, with random comments about embroidery, family and life in general, come on in, put your feet up, and I'll put the [virtual] kettle on.
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Sunday, June 30, 2019
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