Garden Charms

I saw a photo recently (which I can't find now :-/) I loved - it was a piece of doweling wood with five or so strands of hanging beads to be hung out in the garden.

It inspired me and I really wanted to have a go.  

Only I didn't have any doweling and didn't really want to go out and purchase some 

(bad fibromyalgia a the moment and am trying to conserve energy and lessen pain).  

So ... I thought I would just make single strands of beads with a bell and maybe a charm to add to it.

And then I re-discovered my letter beads and had a ah-hah moment ... 

I could spell something out and link it to the charm perhaps.

I had so much fun playing with the letters and colours and wiring them all together.

And here they are hanging up outside.  Aren't they pretty?  And don't they add a bit of colour to those bare branches?

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April?!! Already?!!

I really don't know where time has gone!

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It has just flown by and I can't believe that we are four months into 2018.  I seriously feel like it is still January or at the very latest February!  But no, it's April ... and yet again I have been so bad at keeping things up to date on here.

The worst of that is that I have made so many things and haven't put them on here.

So let me see if I can get busy and put some photos of things I have created since January.  I warn you though, it may take some time - and it is nice to put similar items in the same posts - so there may be several to follow!  

Hopefully!

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* The picture is by Mary Engelbreit ~ isn't it super!

De-Cluttering of 2017

De-Cluttering totals of 2017

6 x big boxes

4 x medium boxes

8 x bags

And would you believe it there is more stuff to be sorted through....?!

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Happy 2018 !

Happy New Year everyone!

But can someone please tell me ... where did 2017 go?!

I've been very lax recently in posting on here and I do feel guilty about that 

and hope that this year I will be much better.

In my defense we do sometimes have pretty bad internet connection here.  

The kids (especially my eldest son) find it very infuriating 

(and I confess the adults here do too ... especially as now it is effecting the telly signal...)  

It has gone incredibly bad recently, the weather conditions definitely do not help 

and at the moment we have heavy rain and high winds.  

My connection on my laptop is constantly loosing the connection .... arrrgh!

No pictures to show just yet this year.  

However I finished one special project I have been working on over Christmas.  

I will post a photo soon and you can see my first attempt at knitting with beads!

So ... here's to a great 2018 for us all!

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