Illyria

In the midst of all the crazyness, I don’t know how I managed this, but one night and afternoon I responded to a sparkly urge from deep within my soul -

This isn’t a great photo bu I’m not sure the next is much better…

It was wonderful stress relief therapy at any rate and fun!

I have been considering these topics in a spiritual light for my Invest presentation on Friday, but here are some other senses of the words…

1. Family foundations. I love my families in the broadest sense - I even feel like my colleagues are family - sisters! Church family is blowing me away at the moment.  Mira has been so incredibly sweet and snuggly and kissy today - andI have smooched a lot of teddy bear fur! My sister came down to support me at the weekend and we will have a few very lovely visitors over the next fortnight.

2. Creativity  - both a foundation and baggage! Part of what I do is recycling, but I wanted to make hearts that would endure longer than card and I don’t have time to carve my own. These will be amazingly transformed when next seen…

However, to be honest, a lot of what I do is hoard  and collect, and stash reducing is a necessity. But I have bought this wire… so why? It is steel, and to buy this amount in sterling silver would have cost me over £200. The anitque colour is perfect , it cost me about £7 and should last for ages. So once my prelim marking is over, I hope to get started  - my head is buzzing with ideas. I also wanted some clear hard resin for jewellery purposes but that is proving harder to obtain.

Sorry I haven’t posted for ages - I’m afraid I have been ill and away. So belated Happy Christmas and New Year!

Mira had a great time and has developed an obession for tweaking the tree…

She was 21 months yesterday…

The real star though has been mrBen, who has held the fort while I lurked in bed. Thank you so much. Your homemade soup is wonderful. Love ya!