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!